THURBER, Patience

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Patience married GOFF, Joseph on 1 Oct 1748 in Rehoboth, MA. Joseph was born on 12 Dec 1725 in Rehoboth, MA; died on 18 Jan 1820 in Rehoboth, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. GOFF, Sarah was born on 19 Jun 1751 in Rehoboth, MA; died on 19 Mar 1847 in Guilford, VT.

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Jonathan married BULLOCK, Mehitabel on 11 Mar 1724 in Rehoboth, MA. Mehitabel was born on 1 Apr 1701 in Rehoboth, MA; died in 1744 in Richmond, NH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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James married BLISS, Elizabeth on 25 Jun 1684 in Rehoboth, MA. Elizabeth (daughter of BLISS, Jonathan and PUFFER, Rachel) was born on 29 Jan 1657 in Rehoboth, MA; died on 19 Jul 1723 in Rehoboth, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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John married ALDEN, Priscilla in 1648 in Rehoboth, MA. Priscilla (daughter of ALDEN, John MAYFLOWER and MULLINS, Priscilla MAYFLOWER) was born in CA 1630; died after 1688; was buried in Duxbury, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Jonathan Timothy Bliss
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In February, 2002 Eugene Cole Zubrinsky posted the following on the Bliss board of GenForum:

Given the ease with which genealogical inaccuracies take on a life of their own, robustly surviving in the face of corrections, I hope that by posting this online, it might have a chance of supplanting the error with which it competes.

JONATHAN2 BLISS (1626-1687) was the son of Thomas1 and Dorothy (Wheatlie) Bliss of Braintree and Rehoboth, Mass. The oft-repeated claim that h is wife was MIRIAM HARMON is false. She was, in fact, neither a Miriam nor a Harmon; there is no record of a Miriam Harmon in New England during this period. Jonathan2 Bliss's wife was almost certainly a daughter of George PUFFER of Braintree, Mass., probably named RACHEL. For a complete discussion of the factors that led to this misidentification and the evidence supporting its correction, see NEHGR 151(1997):32-37.

Eugene is a respected and reliable genealogist and his article in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register presents a pretty thorough look at this matter.

Florence Thurber Gargaro

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Some trees show "Timothy" as his middle name, this is unproven.

Jonathan married PUFFER, Rachel in CA 1648 in Rehoboth, MA. Rachel (daughter of PUFFER, George and Elizabeth, daughter of PUFFER, George) was born before 1634 in England; died before 1734. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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(Ed. Note: It is supposed she is a daughter of George, but no proof exists)

"JONATHAN BLISS (1626-1687) was the son of Thomas and Dorothy (Wheatlie) Bliss of Braintree and Rehoboth, Mass. The oft-repeated claim that his wife was MIRIAM HARMON is false. She was, in fact, neither a Miriam nor a Harmon; there is no record of a Miriam Harmon in New England during this period. Jonathan Bliss's wife was almost certainly a daughter of George PUFFER of Braintree, Mass., probably named RACHEL. For a complete discussion of the factors that led to this misidentification and the evidence supporting its correction, see NEHGR 151(1997):32-37."

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It is assumed that she came over from England with her family ca 1635-1639. Some trees have her married in England to Jonathan Bliss, ca 1648, however she was in MA, by that time.