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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)
Thomas Bliss, Sr., Hartford Founder | Founders of Hartford. ‹ Back to The Founders. Compiled by Timothy Lester Jacobs, SDFH Genealogist. THOMAS 1 BLISS, HARTFORD FOUNDER was born abt. 1590 in England, and died bef. 14 Feb 1650/51 in Hartford, CT. He married MARGARET HULINS bef. 1618 in England.
Mar 5, 2024 · Thomas Bliss was a founder of Hartford, [1] he is called "Sr" in town records. Barbour who based his work on the Genealogy of the Bliss Family in America [2] mingles the lives of Thomas Bliss of Hartford and Thomas Bliss of Rehoboth and treats Thomas Bliss, Jr. as his son.
Jonathan Bliss, son of Thomas Bliss, of Belstone, was born about 1580, at Belstone, died in England, 1635-36. On account of his non-conformist views he was persecuted and suffered heavy fines, eventually dying at an early age, from a fever contracted in prison.
When Thomas Bliss was born in 1588, in Northamptonshire, England, his father, John Bliss, was 26 and his mother, Agnes Ould, was 18. He married Dorothy Wheatley on 22 November 1614, in Daventry, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters.
Thomas Bliss was a prosperous landowner of the parish of Belstone near Okehampton in Devonshire, England, about 195 mile from London. Though a Puritan, he and his family were happy and prosperous on their farm for years This ended with a wave of persecution of the Puritans by civil and religious authorities.
