From Plymouth Eng.1635 to Braintree MA then Hartford CT Norwich. He married in, England about 1612-15, to Margaret, and had ten children, of whom six were born previous to their removal to this country. Daughter Mary aquitted of witchcraft in Boston. Apparently considerable confusion about Thomas Bliss's that may have been in Hartford.
On arriving in Hartford they laid out the land there in " lots" and " tiers," and apportioned it among the settlers. The lot assigned to Thomas Bliss, sen. was "No. 58," and that to Thomas Bliss, jr. " No. 59," on what was called the "Tenth Tier," south of the Little River. They lay on the east side of a street now discontinued, which extended north and south, a short distance to the west of the present Lafayette street, and south of the old State House. The present Trinity street was one of the original streets of Hartford, and was known as Bliss street from the first settlement to about 1855. It was probably so named from this family, and was then described as extending from " George Steele's to the Mill." Note that Thomas Bliss must have known Andrew Warner, another ancestor and founder of Hartford, coming from Cambridge with Thomas Hooker.
Map of 1640 Harford, see Thomas Bliss and Andrew Warner:
