Israel was the son of John Bliss and Hannah Tickner.
Israel married Mary Stiles 28 Apr 1763 in Lebanon, Windham County, CT.
They had 5 children: Israel, Solomon, David, Oliver and Calvin.
It is related of him that on one occasion during the revolutionary war, being in a public place or inn where "flip" was the fashionable beverage, one of the king's press-gangs slipped a piece of the king's money into his pocket and claimed his service on board a man-of-war; but he seized the hot iron used for heating the flip and kept the gang at bay till he had burned a hole in his pocket through which the coin dropped out and thus avoided touching the king's money.
Israel married Mary Stiles 28 Apr 1763 in Lebanon, Windham County, CT.
They had 5 children: Israel, Solomon, David, Oliver and Calvin.
It is related of him that on one occasion during the revolutionary war, being in a public place or inn where "flip" was the fashionable beverage, one of the king's press-gangs slipped a piece of the king's money into his pocket and claimed his service on board a man-of-war; but he seized the hot iron used for heating the flip and kept the gang at bay till he had burned a hole in his pocket through which the coin dropped out and thus avoided touching the king's money.
Israel was the son of John Bliss and Hannah Tickner.
Israel married Mary Stiles 28 Apr 1763 in Lebanon, Windham County, CT.
They had 5 children: Israel, Solomon, David, Oliver and Calvin.
It is related of him that on one occasion during the revolutionary war, being in a public place or inn where "flip" was the fashionable beverage, one of the king's press-gangs slipped a piece of the king's money into his pocket and claimed his service on board a man-of-war; but he seized the hot iron used for heating the flip and kept the gang at bay till he had burned a hole in his pocket through which the coin dropped out and thus avoided touching the king's money.
Israel married Mary Stiles 28 Apr 1763 in Lebanon, Windham County, CT.
They had 5 children: Israel, Solomon, David, Oliver and Calvin.
It is related of him that on one occasion during the revolutionary war, being in a public place or inn where "flip" was the fashionable beverage, one of the king's press-gangs slipped a piece of the king's money into his pocket and claimed his service on board a man-of-war; but he seized the hot iron used for heating the flip and kept the gang at bay till he had burned a hole in his pocket through which the coin dropped out and thus avoided touching the king's money.
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