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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)
TV & Film Actor and Director. 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)
The ancestry, origin, and when and to where Thomas Bliss, Sr. emigrated to the American colonies is unknown. He was in Hartford by 1638, for his house was already constructed by the time that he was noted as being one of the proprietors “by courtesie of the town” in 1639/40.
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.
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.
May 17, 2022 · Born in England around 1618, Thomas Bliss became a founder of Hartford and Norwich, Connecticut before passing away in 1688 in Norwich. His name is marked along with several others on a lone stone obelisk in the original Norwich Founders Cemetery, erected in the nineteenth century.
Thomas Bliss, the progenitor, lived in Belstone Parish, Devonshire, England. Little is known of him, except that he was a wealthy landowner and was a Puritan, persecuted on account of his faith by both civil and religious authorities under the direction of the infamous Archbishop Laud, that he was maltreated, impoverished and imprisoned.
