Men of mark in Connecticut; ideals of American life told in biographies and autobiographies of eminent living Americans . support the government atSpringfield. He enlisted in June, 1782. Elijah Bliss, father ofBenjamin, was a shoemaker and a farmer in West Springfield, Massa-chusetts, who married Lucy Van Horn, and it is through her andthrough his grandmother, Hannah Van Horn, that Benjamin Bliss wasa descendant of Christian Van Horn, who, with his brother Barent,came to Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1704. This gentleman wasbaptized at Hackensack, N. J., Feb. 16th, 1683, the son of JohnChrist
Men of mark in Connecticut; ideals of American life told in biographies and autobiographies of eminent living Americans . support the government atSpringfield. He enlisted in June, 1782. Elijah Bliss, father ofBenjamin, was a shoemaker and a farmer in West Springfield, Massa-chusetts, who married Lucy Van Horn, and it is through her andthrough his grandmother, Hannah Van Horn, that Benjamin Bliss wasa descendant of Christian Van Horn, who, with his brother Barent,came to Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1704. This gentleman wasbaptized at Hackensack, N. J., Feb. 16th, 1683, the son of JohnChristeson Van Horn and wife Elenora. The grandfather ofChristian Van Horn was Christian Barentsen Van Horn, who, withhis wife Jennetje Jans and some of their children, emigrated fromthe city of Hoom in Holland to New Amsterdam (New York City),before 1653, where he resided at what is now the corner of Broadwayand Wall Streets. Dirck Van Horn, maternal grandfather of Benjamin Bliss, servedon the alarm of April 19th, 1775, and also in 1777, 1778, and 1782 inthe War of the Kevolution. Another of Mr. Bliss noteworthy an- 262.
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