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Thomas Albert Bliss (born December 13, 1952) is an American motion picture producer and executive producer. He is a founding partner at Strike Entertainment. From 1984 to the present, Bliss has been credited with producing more than 30 productions (including The Hurricane and Air Force One)
Founder of Playboy Magazine. 9th great-grandson. Ancestor charts showing the family relationships of Thomas Bliss (c1590–a1650/51) to other famous people. Includes citations for all sources. (#20397)
Who was Thomas Bliss? Thomas Bliss was a Great Migration immigrant who arrived in New England by 1639. The Great Migration includes immigrants to New England who arrived between the Mayflower in 1620 and the beginning of the English Civil War in 1640.
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In Hale, House and Related Families Jacobus analyzes the available information and concludes that Thomas was born between 1590 and 1595, location in England, unknown, but possibly Painswick, Gloucestershire. Another researcher Myrtle Stevens Hydeadds Rodborough, where Thomas was married and eldest son Nathaniel was christened as a possibility. Pare...
Thomas arrived in Massachusetts after the 1637 baptism of son Samuel, but was present in Hartford prior to 1640.
Thomas Bliss married Margaret Snowe, as his first wife, 14 April 1616 at St. John the Baptist Parish, Gloucester, England. Margaret was buried 4 June 1621 at St. Nicholas Parish, Gloucester.They had three children. Thomas married October 18, 1621, at St. Nicholas Church, Gloucestershire, England Margaret Hulings, born August 9, 1601, in Rodborough ...
Thomas' public life in Hartford was fairly uneventful. Both Thomas Bliss Sr. and Thomas Bliss Jr. are on an early list of inhabitants granted lots by the towns courtesy, with liberty to fetch wood and keep swine or cows by proportion on the common.This early list gives them status as Founders of Hartford, with their names on the Founder's Monument....
Thomas died February 1650/51, as indicated by his inventory and the appointment of his wife as estate administrator.
”Bliss, Thomas, Hartford. Invt. ₤86-12-08. Taken I4 February, 1650, by Nathaniel Ward, Joseph Mygatt. Nuncupative Will. Testimony of John Pinchon & Hen: Smith gives property to his wife. Mary Parsons, a daughter, of Springfield, doth Testify to the same. ”Court Record, Page 17 – 20 February, 1650-1: Adms. to the Relict, She to keep the whole Estate...
Children listed following generally Jacobus,The first three Thomas, Ann and Sarah by first wife Margaret Snowe, the remainder by Margaret Hulins. Thomas Blisse, was baptized 23 Jan 1617/8 at St. John the Baptist. d. at Norwich, Conn., 15 Apr. 1688; m. at Saybrook, Conn., 30 Oct. 1644, Elizabeth [?Birchard], b. [say 1622], d. at Norwich, 28 Feb. 169...
Mother of Children:Disputes over whether Thomas had one wife or two and questions of which children if any belong to a first wife are now solved by finding a record of his first wife and her burial.
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Apr 15, 2024 · Father of Elizabeth (Bliss) Wilmarth, Mary (Bliss) Harmon, Jane Bliss, John Bliss, Martha (Bliss) Ide, Thomas Bliss, Jonathan Bliss, Margaret Bliss and Amity Bliss. Died before 21 Oct 1647 before about age 59 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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- October 21, 1647
Thomas A. Bliss. Producer: The Last Exorcism. Born in Hollywood, Thomas Bliss made his first (8mm) film in junior high school. After graduating UCLA Film School, Bliss served as Dean of Students at USC's Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts, returning to UCLA to pick up a law degree.
Thomas Bliss, was b. in 1585-88 in Daventry, England, and d. about 1649, in Rohoboth, Mass. Thomas Bliss m. 1st, in 1614, Dorothy Wheatlie, who d. before 1646; he m. 2d, before 1647, the widow of -- Ide, in New England.
