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  Title

  Papers, 1825-1878

  Author

  Bliss family.  

  Pages:

  4

  Item info:

  3 copies available at New York State Library and Manuscripts and Special Collections.
  

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  • Holdings			Change Display
    New York State Library
    	Copy	Material	Location
    970.00497 B55 99-18504 RL 1	1	MICROFILM	MB
    970.00497 B55 99-18504 RL 2	1	MICROFILM	MB
    Manuscripts and Special Collections
    	Copy	Material	Location
    SC18044	1	MANUSCRIPT	N (nocirc)

• MARC Record

  Papers, 1825-1878
  Bliss family.
  

  Control Number:

  (N) SC18044

  Author:

  Bliss family.

  Title:

  Papers, 1825-1878.

  Quantity:

  4 boxes (1.25 cubic ft.)

  Quantity:

  2 microfilm reels.

  Additional phys form:

  Also available on microfilm.

  Historical/biog note:

  Asher Bliss, son of Simeon and Lucy (Southworth) Bliss, was born in West Fairlee, Vermont 20 February 1801. After graduating from Thetford (Vermont) Academy he earned B.A. and M.A. degrees at Amherst College in 1829 and 1832 respectively. Prior to 1832 he was graduated from Andover Theological Seminary. He was ordained as a missionary by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions at Post Mills Village, Vermont, 25 September 1832.

  Historical/biog note:

  From 1832 to 1851 he served as missionary to the Seneca Indians at Cattaraugus, New York. He continued in the same capacity for the American Home Mission Society at Corydon, Pennsylvania, 1851 through 1854 and back in western New York, 1854-56. In 1856-57 he served as "stated supply pastor" at Stockton, New York. From 1856 through 1867 he was stationed at "Alleghany Mission, New York". He was "without charge" from the latter year until his death in Onoville, town of South Valley, New York, 23 March 1881. Further details concerning this pastor-missionary and his family may be found in the "Amherst College Biographical Record," 1963, page 9 and in Aaron T. Bliss' "Genealogy of the Bliss Family in America," 1982, volume 1 pages 294-296.

  Abstract:

  This collection is composed, primarily, of the papers of Asher Bliss, a Congregational missionary to the Seneca Indians of western New York State. The collection also contains a limited number of letters from the Bliss family members including Porter C. Bliss. Included in the Asher Bliss materials are his diaries, common place books and journal of visits with the Indians.

  Indexes:

  Unpublished guide available in the repository and on the Internet. There is a separate reel guide for the microfilm.

  Preferred citation:

  Bliss family Papers, 1825-1878.

  Personal subject:

  Bliss, Asher, 1801-1881.

  Personal subject:

  Bliss, Porter C.

  Subject:

  Indians of North America--Missions.

  Subject:

  Indians of North America--New York (State)

  Subject:

  Indians of North America--Pennsylvania.

  Subject:

  Seneca Indians.

  Form/genre terms:

  Commonplace books. ftamc

  Form/genre terms:

  Diaries. ftamc

  Occupation term:

  Missionaries. lcsh

  Electronic access:

  Finding aid: http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/msscfa/sc18044.htm