| 4. | Mary Madelia Bliss  (3.Ichabod3, 2.Thomas2, 1.Mehitable1) was born on 26 Oct 1814 in of, Brimfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts; died after 1835. Notes:
Genealogy and family history of the state of Vermont, edited by Hiram Carleton
pg 601
(following bio of William Northup Sherman, contiues with profile of his wife Mary Bliss)
Thomas Bliss, who was born October 26, 1742, was one of the ancestors of Mrs. John A. Mead (Mary Sherman, daughter of Wm Northup and Mary Bliss). He was sergeant in Captain Chapin's company, Colonel Woodbridge's regiment, in Gate's Continentl northern army, in 1777. He was a descendant of Thomas Bliss, who was compelled to leave England on account of religious persecution, and embarked with his family at Plymouth, for the wilderness of America, in 1635, and whose father was Thomas Bliss, a weathy landowner and staunch Puritan of Devonshire, England born in 1550.
Judge John Holbrook (great grandfather of Mrs. Mead), of Abington, Connecticut, fed the patriot troops while they were n on their way to Boston to engage in the battle of Bunker Hill. The elm tree under the shade of which the citizen soldiers e their food, became historic, and still guards the old Holbrook mansion as it did more than a century and a quarter ago.
Mrs. John A. Mead is a member of the Colonial Dames, through her lineal descent from Hon. Phillip Sherman, who was a commissioner of bondaries, state recorder, member of assembly many terms and a noted man of affairs in the colonial period of ode Island. Upon her mother's side, Mrs. Mead belongs to the Choate family, and has in her possession an immense pewter platter (the silver of olden times) with the coat of arms and "R.C." (Rebecca Choate) engraved thereon. Hon. Rufus Choate, the distinguished jurist, and Hon. Joseph H. Choate, the present American ambassador at the court of St. James, are relatives. Mrs. mead says, "I am sure we are not proud to be the descendants of Henry VIII, but such we know is a fact." Mrs. Mead was prsident of the auxilary to the Rutland Young Men's Christian Association for seven years, is ex-president of the Progressive Shakespeare Club, is a member of The Fortnightly, a church organization, and has written many papers for it and served on its committees. She is a treasurer of the Ladies' Aid Associtiaon of the Rutland City Hospital,and is also a member of the Oread Association, composed of the alumni of the Oread Collegiate Institute, located at Worcester, Massachusetts.
Dr. and Mrs. mead are the parents of one child, a daughter Mary Sherman, born October 12 1878 in Rutland Vermont. She was educated at the Orgontz school for young ladies, near Philadelphia, and at Miss Anne Brown's school on Fifth avenue in w York city. She has been for several years secretary and treasurer of the Progressive Shakespeare Club and chairman of the membership committee of the auxiliary to the Young Men's Christian Association and a member of the Fortnightly Club. She was one of the charter members of the Mercy Holmes Mead Chapter of the Society of the Children of the American Revolution, and its name is that of her ancestress. She is also a member of the Ann StoryChapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. She was married June 25, 1902, to Carl Bingham Hinsman, vice president of the Howe Scale Company, and director in the Borden & Selleck Company, Chicago. Mr. Hinsman represented ward nine of the city of Rutland as alderman on the municipal board ni 1901, and 1902, the latter year being unanimously elected president by the council.
Mary married Hon. William Northup Sherman on 26 Apr 1834. William (son of Nathaniel Sherman and Elizabeth Northup) was born on 19 Feb 1809 in North Kingstown, Washington Co, Rhode Island; died on 02 Mar 1882 in Rutland, Rutland Co, Vermont; was buried in Evergreen Cem, Rutland, Rutland Co, Vermont. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 5. Mary Madelia Bliss Sherman was born on 29 Dec 1844 in Wickford, Washington Co, Rhode Island; died on 27 Feb 1923 in Rutland, Rutland Co, Vermont.
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1709 - 1790 (81 years)