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976 SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS
Fraternally he is a member of Massasoit Lodge,
No. 69, I. 0. 0. F., of which he is past noble
grand. Mr. Kingman and his family are members
of the Porter Congregational Church.
On Sept. 27, 1887, Mr. Kingman was married
to Mary D. Ames, daughter of Charles
P. and Harriet E. (Howard) Ames, of West
Bridgewater, and a descendant of several of
New England's earliest settled families. Seven
children have blessed this union as follows:
Mabel A.; Howard, who died in infancy; Lawrence;
Forrest E., who died at the age of four
years; Zilpha; Paul generations in detail follow.
(I) Thomas Bliss, born in England, son of
Jonathan and grandson of Thomas, both of
Belstone parish, in Devonshire, and both of
whom were Puritans and were presented and
imprisoned
F., and Constance.
on account of nonconformity and
opposition to the iniquitous practice that had
obtained in the dominant church party, on the
death of his father in 1635-36 came to Amer-
BLISS (Attleboro family). For now approximately
two and three quarters centuries
the Bliss name has had an identity with New
England — since the coming hither from old
England of the immigrant settler in the person
of Thomas Bliss, the progenitor of a numerous
and respectable race of men and women
whose descendants are now in all parts of our
country, and many of whom, too, have given an
excellent account of themselves in the varied
activities of life. But in this article we con-
fine ourselves to some of the descendants only
of the late Jonathan and Hannah (Kent)
Bliss, farming people of the old home town
of their forefathers— Rehoboth ; one or more
of whose sons, however, took up an abidingplace
in the near-by town of Attleboro, where
some of the grandsons and great-grandsons
have long been among the substantial men and
leading citizens of that town and city, notably
the Bliss brothers, Messrs. Charles Edwin and
Everett Bradford Bliss, manufacturing jewelers,
whose success was pronounced.
It may be here added in a general way that
the late Hon. Cornelius Newton Bliss, former
secretary of the Interior, springs from this
Rehoboth Bliss family and is only a little removed
in kinship from the immediate family
under consideration; and that George Bliss, a
Bliss, U. S. A., of Providence, and does Maj.
George N. Bliss, of Civil war note and since
prominent in professional
Providence.
and business life at
The Attleboro Bliss brothers before alluded
to are descendants in the eighth generation
from Thomas Bliss, their American ancestor,
from whom their lineage is through Jonathan,
Jonathan (2), Lieut. Ephraim, Capt. Jonathan,
Jonathan Bliss and Zeba Bliss. These
ica, landing, at Boston, whence he removed to
Braintree, thence to Hartford, thence back to
Weymouth and Braintree, from which place
with others he removed in 1643 and began the
new settlement called Rehoboth. Mr. Bliss
was made a freeman in Cambridge in 1642 and
in Plymouth Colony in 1645. On June 9,
1645, he drew a lot on the Great Plain at Seekonk.
He was appointed to public office in
1646 and 1647 and died in 1649 in Rehoboth.
His children were : Jonathan, Mary, Nathaniel,
and a daughter whose name is unknown.
(II) Jonathan Bliss, son of Thomas, born
about 1625, married about 1648 Miriam Harman.
Mr. Bliss was of Rehoboth, and was
made a freeman in Plymouth Colony in 1655.
He was appointed to public office in 1652, and
in 1655, was accepted a freeman Feb. 22, 1658,
and drew a lot on the north side of town June
22d following. He was one of the eighty who
made the Rehoboth North Purchase in 1666,
and on May 26, 1668, drew a lot in that Purchase.
His children were: Ephraim, born
Feb. 5, 1649; Rachel, Dec. 1, 1651; Jonathan,
March 4, 1653; Mary, Sept. 30, 1655; Eliza-
beth, Jan. 29, 1657; Samuel, June 24, 1660;
Martha, in April, 1663; Jonathan (2), Sept.
17, 1666; Dorothy, Jan. 27, 1668; and
Bethiah, in August, 1671.
(III) Jonathan Bliss (2), son of Jonathan,
born Sept. 17, 1666, married (first) June 23,
1691, Miriam, daughter of William and
Miriam (Searls) Carpenter, of Rehoboth, and
was a resident of Rehoboth.
Mr. Bliss became a man of standing and influence
in the. town and held various offices. It
wealthy merchant and banker, as well as philanthropist,
of the banking house of Levi P.
Morton & Co., New York, and Morton, Rose
& Co., London, also springs from the Rehoboth
is said that he gave ground for the old burying
Bliss family, as did the late Gen. Zenas R.
ground two miles south of Rehoboth village.
He died Oct. 16, 1719. The children of his
first marriage were: Jonathan, born June 5,
1692: Jacob, March 21, 1694; Ephraim, Dec.
28, 1695; Elisha, Oct. 4, 1697; Ephraim (2),
Aug. 15, 1699: Daniel, Jan. 21, 1702; Noah,
May 18, 1704; and Miriam, Aug. 9, 1705. The
father married (second) in April, 1711, Mary
French, of Rehoboth, and to this marriage
came children as follows: Mary, bom Nov. 23,
1712; Hannah, Jan. 7, 1715; Bethia, May 10,
1716; and Rachel, Aug. 10, 1719.