Nathaniel Bliss1,2

M, b. circa 28 December 1622, d. 8 November 1654
FatherThomas Bliss b. c 1593, d. c 1639
MotherMargaret Hulins b. c 1605, d. 28 Aug 1684
     Nathaniel was born circa 28 December 1622 in Rodborough Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England. On 28 December 1622, he was christened in Rodborough Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, England.3 Nathaniel married Katherine Chapin, daughter of Deacon Samuel Chapin and Cecily Penny, on 20 November 1646 in Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts.4 Nathaniel departed this life on Sunday, 8 November 1654 in Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts.4

Family

Katherine Chapin b. c 1626, d. 4 Feb 1712
Children

Citations

  1. [S1711] Nathaniel Bliss - Catherine Chapin: Nathaniel was born 28 Dec 1622 in Rodborough, Gloucester, England, the son of Thomas Bliss and Margaret Hulins. He married Catherine Chapin 20 Nov 1646 in Belstone, Devonshire, England. She was born about 1626 in Berry, Devonshire, England, the daughter of Samuel Chapin and Cecily Penny.
    They immigrated to the American Colonies immediately after they were married. Their first child was born the next year in Springfield, Massachusetts.
    Nathaniel’s family was perhaps a little better off materially than the Puritan society approved of, as on occasion they were among those families chastised for dressing too extravagantly as follows:
    ..the following persons were: vizt "presented by ye Grand Jury to ye Courte at Northampton March 26, 1676 some for wearing silke & yt in a flonting manner & attire for Long haire & and other extravagancies,Contrary to honest & Labor Order & Demeaning not Becoming a Wilderness State at ye Profession of Christianity & Religion."
    In the list of ye offenders were the followeing from this village: "Wife of Henry Rogers, Lidia Excile, Hanah Morgan, Sally Gilburt, Hanah Leonard, Nathll Bliss, Thos Stebbins & his wife, John Bakers wife, Jonath Stebbins, Henry Chapin, Coporal Holyoke, Mary and Sarah Colton, Sarah Cooley, Mary Holyoke, Meriam Merricke, Sarah & Mary Dumbleton."
    Reference: Springfield, 1636-1886, History of Town and City by Mason Green. Published 1886 by C. A Nichols & Co., Publishers, Springfield, MA, page 137-139]
    Nathaniel died at the early age of 32 in 1654, leaving a widow and four small children. Catherine married again the next year to Thomas Gilbert, having another four children by him. After Thomas died she married Samuel Marshfield in 1664. - transcribed by anonymous - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lcowen/…
  2. [S1715] John Homer Bliss, Genealogy of the Bliss Family in America from about the year 1550 to 1880, page 36 - Nathaniel of Springfield, Mass., was born in England, came to America with his father in 1635, and removed to Springfield, Mass., with his mother in 1643, about seven years after that place was purchased from the Indians by Pynchon. Three years later, when they were well settled, he m. Catherine, daughter of Dea. Samuel Chapin, of Springfield, Nov. 20, 1646, a few days before his sister, Mary, was m. to Joseph Parsons. Children: ... Widow Catherine Bliss, about 8 months after her husband's death, m. Thomas Gilbert July 31, 1655; by him she had 4 more children, when he died June 5, 1662, she soon m. her 3rd husband, Samuel Marshfield, Dec. 28, 1664, and by himshe had her usual number of 4 children, making 12 in all. Not much time lost in mourning her widowhood; but times were hard for a widow with little children, and men at this time out numberer the women in the colonies, and there was no lack of suitors for single women. She d. Feb. 4, 1712.
  3. [S1718] Myrtle Stevens Hyde, The Marriage of Thomas Bliss & Margaret Hulins, Nathaniel, baptized, on 28 Dec. 1622 at Rodborough, 11 miles south of Gloucester, was surly the first child of Thomas & Margaret. Frequently first children were baptized ineir maternal grandparents' parist even tho the young parents resided elsewhere.
  4. [S1699] Willard S. Allen, Long Meadow [Mass.] Families, page 320.