Notes
Military Service:
Bliss served in several companies for various periods of time between 1776 and 1781. Click here for a complete transcription of his pension files. Below are excerpts of various documents detailing his service.
Served in Hoisingtons Rangers (on muster roll)
Served in Capt. Jesse Stafford's Co. in 1780
'Bliss Hoisington (1750-1810), served as a private in the Vermont
volunteers. His widow received a pension for eleven months' actual
service as private, Vermont line. He died in Massena, N.Y.'
'Bliss Hosenton - a private in the 'Rangers' 1777, under Zebulon Lyon's
Co.' ('History of Roylaton, Vermont: with Family Genealogies, 1769-1911'
by Evelyn M. Wood Lovejoy (1911), p. 103)
"Bliss Hoisington enlisted Aug 1776 Capt Benj Wait's Co. Aug 1777 was in Zebulon Lyon's Co. employed by order of the Committee of Safety of Windsor. He also served in a company raised for the defense of Northern Frontiers, the Barnard Alarm and the Royalton Alarm." (p. 19, Bridgewater)
From "State of Vermont Revolutionary War Rolls":
"Bliss (Hoisington) srv in Warren's 15th Regt of VT Mil." (From Virgil White's transcription.)
"Muster Roll of Capt. Waits Comany:"
Bliss Hoisington (When enlisted) Aug 7, 1776
NOTE: He was amonth the first group to enlist, along with Isaac.
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Bliss Hoisington was paid 2.5.10 for service in 1778 in John Benjamin's company.
"A Pay Roll of Capt. Thomas Sawyer's Company of Militia, raised for the defence of the Northern Frontiers of the United States, June 29, 1779."
Name: Bliss Hoisington
Entered: June 20 (1779)
Discharged: Aug. 20 (1779)
In service (mos/days): 2/2
Pr Month: 2
Travel out 30 miles: 5
Total: 4.7.8
"Pay Roll of Capt. Jesse Safford's Company of Rangers, Maj. Ebenr Allen's Detachment, raised for the defence of the State of Vermont, commencing Jan. 18 and ending the 1st of December, A.D. 1780, both days included."
Name: Bliss Hoisington
Commencement of pay: Mar. 5
Time of service (months/days): 8/25
Pay per month: 2.0.0
When discharged: Dec 1st
Total: 17.13.4
"Pay-book for the year 1780
This is a manuscript volume, found among the before-mentioned Vermont Papers, but without further indications as to what State or Regiment the six Companies belonged [to]. A comparison of the names contained in it with names in the U.S. Pension Rolls has convinced the Editor that these troops were of the Vermont Militia."
Privates
Bliss Hoisington
Vespasian Hoisington
..........
Line Hoisington
Name: Bliss Hoisington
Miles: 75
Per Mile: 0.2.0
Total: 7.10.0
"This may certify that this is a just and true account of the traveling money due to my company as specified within. Witness my hand this tenth day of April, 1781 Jesse Safford, Capt."
"Pay Roll of Capt. Jesse Safford's Company of Militia for their service in the late alarm and their allowance for travel from their respective homes to camp."
Name: Bliss Hoisington
Commencing: Mar. 9
Days: 4
Pr day: 1.7
When discharged: Mar. 12
Amt. pay: 5.4
Miles: 20
Pr mile: 4
Amt. pay: 6.8
From CT Men in the Revolutionary War:
This section is indicated as 1770, but this refers to June/July 1778, per "arrival in camp" of the officers.
"Captain Bray's Company."
[Muster roll of his "Company in the Regiment of Connecticut State Troops in the Service of the United States of American commanded by Col. Roger Enos, engaged for three months."]
Men's Names
.....
Job Hoysington
Bliss Hoysington
Rev. War Service Records, 1775-93"
Name Company Unit Rank - Induction Rank - Discharge Roll Box Roll Description
BLIFS HOYSINGTON PRIVATE 26 CT
JOB HOYSINGTON PRIVATE 26 CT
Served in Capt. Jesse Stafford's Co. in 1780
'b.c.1750 d 2-6-1810 NY m. Phoebe Hawkins Pvt VT WPNS' from DAR Patriot
Index - Centennial Edition, p. 1452, 1990 G973.3/D73.3
'Bliss Hoisington (1750-1810), served as a private in the Vermont
volunteers. His widow received a pension for eleven months' actual
service as private, Vermont line. He died in Massena, N.Y.'
Ibid. 'Bliss Hoisington enlisted from Woodstock, 1780, in Capt. Jesse
Safford's company and served several enlistments under different
commands. '
'Bliss Hosenton - a private in the 'Rangers' 1777, under Zebulon Lyon's
Co.' ('History of Roylaton, Vermont: with Family Genealogies, 1769-1911'
by Evelyn M. Wood Lovejoy (1911), p. 103)
May have been a lieutenant at some time, as he is given that designation in a petition dated October 1792.
Marriage:
"Bliss Hoisington married Phebe, dau of John and Sarah (Emerson) Hawkins in 1781/2 and they lived on the North Branch in the early years. In 1803 Bliss Hoisington was listed as one of the first settlers of Massena NY where he died Feb 6 1810"
From 'Towns of Windsor Co.' on the Windsor County USGenWeb page:
'The first town meeting [Bridgewater VT] was held on March 30, 1785. Asa
Jones was chosen moderator; John Hawkins, town clerk; Richard Southgate, James Fletcher and Isaiah Shaw, selectman; Joseph Hawkins, town treasurer and constable;
Bliss Hoisington, James Fletcher and Joseph Boyce, listers; Richard Southgate,
grand juror; James Boyce, Amos Kendall and James Topliff, surveyors of
highways.'
Census:
Bliss HOISINGTON : 2 * 1 * 5 * 0 * 0 * 8 (p. 6)
1. Free white males of 16 years upward, including heads of families
2. Free white males under 16 years of age
3. Free white females, including heads of families
4. All other free persons
5. Slaves
6. Total
Transcribed on http://www.rootsweb.com/~vtgenweb/vtwindsor/1790BridgewaterVT.html
Listed on Ancestry's VT Early Census Index as:
1791 Horsington, Bliss.
Windsor Co. VT 310 Woodstock
Residence:
'The first settlements (at Massena) on Revolutionary grants were made in
1798, by Amos Lay and others. ' 'Among the first settlers were Mamri
Victory, Calvin Plumley, Bliss Hoisington, Elijah Bailey, David Lyttle,
Set Read, and Leonard Herrick.'
According to 1800 Census, he was in Bridgewater, Windsor, VT, 1 male
under 10, 1 male 26-44, 3 females under 10, 1 female 10-15, 1 female
16-25, 1 female over 45
Sources
- NEHGS Register January 1987, vol 141:39-55.
- Bridgewater Vermont 1779-1976.Gladys S. Adams. Bridgewater, VT 1976.
- CT Men in the Revolutionary War. ancestry.com.
- Revolutionary War Service Records. Direct Data Capture. Revolutionary War Service Records. [database online] Orem, UT: Ancestry, Inc., 1999.
- Index to Revolutionary War Service Records. Transcribed by Virgil D. White.
- History Highlights of the Town of Bridgewater, 1779-1959. Published Pursuant to Request of the Champlain Festival Committee.
- Bridgewater Vermont, 1779-1976. Gladys S. Adams. Bridgewater, VT 1976.
- St. Lawrence Co. Gazetteer. J. H. French. 1860.
- Abstracts of Rev. War Pension Files, transcribed by Virgil D. White. National Historical Publishing Co. GS973.34/W58.
Unless otherwise indicated in the text, data is from "Hoisingtons in America" by Harry Hoisington, privately published 1935 and on file at NEHGS, Boston.
