Myers-Snell Family

Thomas Bliss was a blacksmith in England and was a Tanner and Surveyor while in Rehoboth, MA.Brother Nathaniel and sister Miriam, chidlren of Francis and Elizabeth harmon, married brother and sister, chiren of Thomas and Dorothy Bliss.

NOTE: WHEATLIE is sometimes spelled Wheatley on both sides of the ocean.

REFERENCE:
GENEA. BLISS FAMILY, 3rd generation, VOL I, p.44-45.

!Source: Gen. of The Bliss Family by Aaron T. Bliss, p.32-36.
@ Genealogy of Bliss Family, Vol I, pp.32-35: Thomas Bliss, blacksmith, farmer and surveyor, of Rehoboth, MA, was born in about 1588 probably in the village of Preston Parva, Northamptonshire, England (the son of John Blisse of Danentry, andlater of Preston parva, Northamptonshire). He learned the blacksmithing trade and practiced it at Daventry. He was married Nov 22, 1614 at Holy Corss Church in Daventry, by Thomas Mariott, minister, to Dorothy Wheatlie (dau. of Frank Wheatleyand mary Fienes of Tingsboro, Somerset, England). Frank Wheatley was born in aboaut 1562 *son of Capt. John and Mary Wheatley). He was married to Mary Fienes of Maiden Newton, Dorset, England and had seven chidlren: Dorothy (baptized August12, 1591 at Maiden Newton and married Thomas Blisse), John *born 1593 at Maiden Newton and married Leah Sanders), Richard (baptized January 4, 1595 at maiden Newton and married), Edward (born about 1598, resided at Maiden Newton and marriedElizabeth Piper), Prescilla (born about 1600, married Alden Mervin and resided at East Knoyle, Wiltshire, England), Zachariah (born about 1602, married and resided at East Knoyle) and Magdalen (born about 1604, amrried Charles Polden and residedat hastings, Sussex, England.)
Footnote: Information here about the Wheatley family was reported to have been taken from the Maiden Newton Parish Register and the "records of H.P.Wheatley" (which the compiler has not viewed, and cannot guarantee the veracity). THE BLISSBOOK, by C. A. Hoppin, recorded Dorothy's father as John Wheatley, who was a mercer, and also a master warden of the "Company of Mercers, Woolendrapers, Taylors, Innkeepers and Fullers." In 1619 said John Wheatley was the bailiff of the Boroughof Daventry, Northamptonshire, a position similar to "Mayor".

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