Person:Timothy Bliss (2)

Bliss, Timothy
Service: Vermont Rank(s): Private, Quartermaster
Birth: 3-22-1745 Lebanon New London Co Connecticut
Death: 5-3-1817 Essex Chittenden Co Vermont
Service Description:
1) Col Allen
Residence: City: Essex - County: Chittenden Co - State: Vermont
Spouse 1) Zeriah Williams

Original Source: "Genealogy of the Bliss Family in America", Aaron Tyler Bliss. 3 Vol, published by author, Midland, Michigan, 1982.

Timothy Bliss
Birth: Mar. 22, 1745
Death: May 3, 1817
Burial: Essex Common Burial Ground, Essex Center, Chittenden County, Vermont, USA
Inscription on stone: "Sacred/to the memory of/TIMOTHY BLISS Esq/who died Mar 3/1817/in the 75 years of/his age"
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Family links:
Parents: Pelatiah Esq Bliss (1725 - 1808)
Spouse: Zerviah Williams Bliss (1745 - 1823)
Children: Samuel Bliss (1767 - 1832); Elias Bliss (1772 - 1858); Amos Bliss (1774 - 1857); Ira Bliss (1784 - 1846)
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Additional information below was supplied by: Jim Monical, Plymouth, Minnesota

Timothy Bliss, b. March 22, 1745, d. May 3, 1817. He was the son of Pelatiah Bliss and Hepzibah Goodwin. He married Zerviah Williams She was born March 24, 1745. d. 6 Mar 1823. The Bliss genealogy had no information on her other then her birth date.

"He removed to Vermont in 1780. Both were constituent members of the Congregational Church in Essex, organized Oct. 3, 1797. He was a justice of the peace for many years. [A Mr. Timothy Bliss was in the Vermont Legislature in 1783, 1788, 1799, and also in the convention called in 1791, to act on the adoption of the American Constitution.] " –Bliss genealogy,

He was a selectman of Essex in 1788, along with Col. John Childs, and Captain John Noble.-History of Chittenden County, Vermont.

Ref: John Homer Bliss, Genealogy of the Bliss family in America from about the year 1550 to 1880, Boston, Mass.: J.H. Bliss, 1881, pp. 169-170; History of Chittenden County, Vermont : with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers ,Syracuse, N.Y.: D. Mason & Co., p. 571.

Bliss, Timothy, s [Peletiah & Hepzibah] b. 22 Mar 1745, Vol 1, p. 39

(The Bliss Line).
(VII) Timothy , son of Pelatiah Bliss , was born March 22, 1745 , died May 3, 1817. He removed to Vermont in 1780 and was a soldier in the revolution in Captain Thomas Bull 's company, Colonel Ira Allen 's regiment, in October, 1780 (Vermont Revolutionary Rolls); also in Captain Thomas Barry 's company, same regiment, March, 1783 , on an alarm. He was quartermaster in Major Ormsby 's detachment sent to suppress an insurrection to the westward in 1781 .
He settled in Essex, Vermont , and was a leading citizen there, a constituent member of the Congregational church, October 2, 1797 ; justice of the peace many years; representative in the legislature in 1783-88-99 ; delegate to the state convention to consider the federal constitution.

Freemen of the town as of 2 March 1780 inc. Timothy Bliss
Meeting 1781, Timothy Bliss was a Selectman; Major Gideon Ormsby was Moderator, Capt. Thomas Barney and Capt. Thomas Bull were Listers
Meeting 1782 - Timothy Bliss was grand juror
Meeting 1783 - Timothy Bliss was a Selectman; that Fall he was chosen as one of two representatives to the General Assembly
Meting 1786, Timothy Bliss was Moderator

Timothy Bliss, Esq., 4 males 16 and older [Timothy, (Timothy jr.? or Samuel?), Elisa, Amos], 3 males under 16 [William, John, Ira], 3 females [Zerviah, Polly, Zervia]

Essex, Vermont, 1817
Will of Timothy Bliss, signed 31 Aug 1815, with Hannah Lamson, Andrew Morgan, Richard Lamson as witnesses
Will mentions
son Ira
wife Zerviah
son Amos
sons Billy and John
daughters Polly Lamson and Zervia Partridge
son Elias
sons Samuel and Timothy Jr
Names Ira Bliss executor
Rec'd in probate 20 May 1817

p. 626
Pay Roll of Capt. Thomas Barney and 16 Volunteers that marched agreeable to Col. Ira Allen's Orders, received March 18th 1783
Timothy Bliss, 2 days 2/8, Travel 16 miles, 5/4, [Total] 8/0
p. 793
Timothy Bliss - act dated Manchester, Dec. 21, 1781, for 5 days service "as quartermaster in Maj. Ormsby's Detachment in going to the westward to surpress an insurrection."

Peletiah Bliss and Hepzibah Goodwin m. 19 June 1744 by Col. [T]rumble
Timothy Bliss b. 22 Mar 1745
Betty Bliss b. 16 Nov 1747
Peletiah Bliss b. 3 April 1749
Bethia Bliss b. 27 May 1752
Esther Bliss b. 28 Dec 1755
Hannah Bliss b. 3 Dec 1757

Timothy Bliss, Admitted unto Baptism, 24 March 1745

Membership List
1797 - Timothy Bliss, died 1811
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