1William Richard Cutter and William Frederick Adams, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts, Vol. 1, p. 170 (1910).
"(III) Nathaniel, second son of Thomas (2) and Margaret Bliss, was born in England, came to America with his father in 1635, and removed to Springfield, Massachusetts, with his mother in 1643, about seven years after that place was purchased from the Indians by William Pynchon. Three years later, when they were well settled, he married, November 20, 1646, Catherine, daughter of Deacon Samuel Chapin (see Chapin I). Mr. Bliss died November 8, 1654. Widow Bliss married (second) July 31, 1655, Thomas Gilbert, by whom she had four children. He died June 5, 1662, and she married (third) December 28, 1664, Samuel Marshfield, by whom she had four children--twelve in all. She died February 4, 1712. The children of Nathaniel and Catherine (Chapin) Bliss were: Samuel, Margaret, Mary and Nathaniel.".