Sarah Bliss

Josias Bliss married to Sarah Collins, born August 13, 1690, daughter of Arnold & Sarah Collins of Newport. She was the 2nd wife & surviving widow of Benjamin Belcher. She married Benjamin about 1715 and Josias about 1720.

2 Belcher children: Arnold b abt 1715; Sarah (perhaps), bp May 17, 1717.

6 Bliss children: Elizabeth, Sarah, Amy, Henry, William, and Martha

Will of Arnold Collins

Abstracts of Newport Wills, in Rhode Island Genealogical Register. (Princeton, Massachusetts: A. G. Beaman), 8:314.

Proved Newport Aug. 4, 1735 Vol. 7, p. 252-3. Mentions: [possible son] to ____ Collins & his heirs; daughters Mary Wilcox wife of Jeremiah, Sarah Bliss wife of Josias Bliss, Elizabeth Wickham & unnamed daughter mother of grandson Arnold Belcher. Witnesses: Sion Arnold, Jonathan Weeden & Josias Lyndon.

Citations

• page 133 of The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. “The Belcher Families”
• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Arnold_Collins_%281%29

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GEDCOM Note

Biography ==Children of Benjamin Belcher and Sarah Collins are <ref name="Belcher">User Home Page Genealogy Report: Descendants of Gregory Belcher Genealogy.com </ref>:

1. Arnold Belcher b. 1715. <ref name="Belcher"/>
2. Sarah Belcher <ref name="Belcher"/>

Sources

<references />* Sarah Bliss