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Hon. JOHN (Bliss), of Wilbraham, Mass., (son of John Bliss and Lydia Field, of Longmeadow, Mass.) born Feb. 1, 1727, was a man of great influence, and of high natural talents. He was a self taught man, an ardent patriot during the Revolution, and held numerous offices of trust and responsibility. He was representative from the town of Springfield, (then including Wilbraham) in 1773, and continued a member either of the House of Representatives, Senate, or Executive Council of Massachusetts, for thirty years, - two years being excepted. He was a member of each of the three Provincial Congresses held in Massachusetts in the early part of the Revolution; was for many years a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Hampshire; and was a Colonel of the First Regiment of Hampshire Militia. In all these stations he was an exemplary professor of the Christian religion. He was married Nov. 8, 1749, to Abiah dau. of Josiah and Margaret (Pease) Colton, of Enfield, Conn. She was born in 1718, and died September, 1803....
The father was afterwards married, Sept. 10, 1804, to Mrs. Sarah, widow of Isaac Morris, and the mother of his son-in-law, Edward Morris. He died Nov. 3, 1809.
