Daniel Bloss ¹

  General Notes:

Per History of Lehigh County
The Tax list of 1781 shows him to be a property holder. Again in the Federal Tax list of 1785, he was assessed one pound and four shillings on fifty acres of land, one horse, and one cow. On April 21, 1795, David Bloss bought from John Longstreth, Joseph Longstreth, and Abraham Duffield two tracts of land consisting of 421 acres, together with a grist-mill and a saw-mill located on Mahoning Creek, Penn Twp, Carbon county. After residing here six years he sold this property Jan 1, 1802 to Joseph Mathews and Benjamin Mathews.
On June 20, 1809, there was surveyed unto Daniel Bloss 176.166 acres of land, located in Westmoreland county. Daniel Bloss took an active part in the military affairs of Northampton county during the Revolutionary War. In the years 1780 and 1782 he served as a private in the Third Class of the Sixth Battalion of the Northampton county Militia.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Alternate Spell: Blose.

Daniel married Sara Elizabeth Brazil. (Sara Elizabeth Brazil was born in 1748 in Northampton Co, Pennsylvania ⁴ and died in 1835 ⁴.)