Person:Sarah Bliss (19)

m. Oct 1644
  1. Elizabeth Bliss1645 - 1689
  2. Sarah Bliss1647 - 1730
  3. Mary Bliss1648/49 - 1718
  4. Thomas Bliss1651/52 - 1681/82
  5. Deliverance Bliss1655 -
  6. Samuel Bliss1657 - 1729
  7. Anne Bliss1660 - 1714/15
  8. Rebecca Bliss1663 - 1737
m. Dec 1668
  1. Sarah Sluman1669 - 1703
  2. Mary Sluman1671 -
  3. Thomas Sluman1674 -
  4. Elizabeth Sluman1677 - 1741
  5. Abigail Sluman1679/80 - 1748
  6. Rebecca Sluman1682 - 1758
m. 8 Apr 1686
  1. Solomon Tracy1688 - 1751
Facts and Events
Name Sarah Bliss
Married Name Sarah Sluman
Married Name Sarah Tracy
Gender Female
Birth[1][3][6] 26 Aug 1647 Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
Marriage Dec 1668 Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United Statesto Thomas Sluman
Marriage 8 Apr 1686 Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United Statesto Lieutenant Solomon Tracy
Death[1][3] 29 Aug 1730 Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 11. Thomas Bliss, in Bliss, John Homer; Sylvester Bliss; and Oliver Bliss Morris. Genealogy of the Bliss family in America (1881): from about the year 1550 to 1880 ... including the compilations of Judge Oliver Bliss Morris ... and Sylvester Bliss. (Boston, Masachusetts: The author, 1881)
    35.

    "25. Sarah (Bliss), b. at Saybrook, Aug. 26, 1647, m. Dec. 1668, Thomas Sluman, Norwich, and had six children. He died in 1683, and she afterwards m. April 8, 1686, Dr. Solomon Tracy, of Norwich, by whom she had one son. She d. Aug. 29,1730. Dr. T. died July 9, 1732."

  2.   Saybrook Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
    8.

    "Bliss, … Sarah [d. Thomas & Elizabeth], b. Aug. 26, 1656 [1:27]"

    If she were born in 1656, she would not have been married in 1668.

  3. 3.0 3.1 Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States. Vital Records of Norwich, 1659-1848. (Hartford, Conn.: Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut, 1913)
    1:12, 32.

    "The names & ages of children of Thomas Bliss are as ffolloweth …
    Sarah Bliss was borne in Aguft Anno 1647"
    "Mrs Sarah Tracy, ye wife of mr Solomon Tracy Died the twenty ninth Day of august in ye year 1730:"

  4.   Sarah Bliss Tracy, in Find A Grave.

    This burial is not documented in the Hale Collection. There appears to be no evidence of the actual place of burial.

  5.   Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. (1963)
    1537.

    'TRACY, Solomon (ca 1650-1732) & 2/wf Sarah (BLISS) SLUMAN (-1730), w Thomas; 8 Apr 1686; Norwich, CT {Waterman (1939) 1:698; Granberry 174, 314; Tracy (1900) 24; Upton (1893) 161; Hyde 1:26; Hyde-Dana 40; Huntington 420; Booth (1910) 97, 235; Wethersfield 2:709; Bliss (1881) 35; Williams (#16) 55, 165}'

  6. While it is tempting to assume that the Barbour Collection has only 1 incorrect digit in her birth year (1656 instead of 1646), it seems more likely that there were 2 incorrect digits (1656 instead of 1647). Two other sources give her birth year as 1647, including a transcription of the Norwich records (which appear to have been written after the family moved to Norwich). Also, Aug 1646 is only 9 months after the birth of her older sister Elizabeth, while Aug 1647 is 21 months after Elizabeth's birth and 18 months before Mary's birth.