An American Family History

"[L]iberty must at all hazards be supported.
We have a right to it, derived from our Maker.
But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us,
at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood."

Daniel Bloss (Blose)was born in Heidelberg Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. His parents were Johann Conrad Bloss and Anna Magdalena Reber.

Daniel married Sarah Elizabeth Brazil who was born in 1748 in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. Her father was Michael Brazil.

Anna Maria Bloss (May 26, 1775), George Bloss (1778, married Sarah Walton), Michael Bloss (June 9, 1781, married Sarah Waugaman), Anna Magdalena Bloss Walton (May 6, 1783, married Joseph Walton), Daniel Bloss (August 13, 1787, married Martha Walton), Bernhard Bloss (August 30, 1789), and Elizabeth Bloss Schuster (December 9, 1792, married Isaac Schuster).

The Washington County tax list of 1781 showed him to be a property holder.

In the federal tax list of 1785, he was assessed one pound and four shillings on fifty acres, one horse, and one cow.

According to The History of Jefferson County Pennsylvania

About 1790 Daniel Blose came to Westmoreland Co., with Boaz Walton, and he and his family lived in a round log house without any floor in it except the ground. . .

On June 20, 1809, Daniel Bloss had 176 acres in Westmoreland county surveyed.

In 1780 and 1782 Daniel served as a private in the Third class of the Sixth Battalion of the Northampton county militia.

Daniel died on March 15, 1803 and Elizabeth followed in 1835. They both died in Manor, Armstrong County, Pennsyvania.

from "Bloss Family" from History of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania compiled by Clinton J. Bloss.

Daniel Bloss, son of Conrad, was born in Washington township, this 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 township, 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. Daniel Bloss was married to Elizabeth. The records of the Heidelberg Church record the birth of the following children:

Anna Maria born May 26, 1775.
Michael born June 9, 1781.
Anna Magdalena born May 6, 1783.
Daniel born Aug. 13, 1787.
Bernhard born Aug. 30, 1789.
Elizabeth born Dec. 9, 1792.

Genealogy by William James McKnight, Troy Genealogical Research Associates, Summerville, Pennsylvania

The family name originally was spelled Bloss, in which form it appears in the Pennsylvania Archives. Daniel Blose is the first of the family that the descendants have been able to trace. He came from Germany, and was living in Northampton county, Pa., Sept. 13, 1778, when George Blose, the grandfather of George Ament Blose, was born.

"A number of families of this name came prior to the Rev. Conrad in 1752, etc.; but no Daniel. This shows that Daniel came as a minor with his parents. Northampton county is full of Blosses."

About 1780 Daniel Blose came to Westmoreland county with Boaz Walton, and he and his family lived in a round log house, without any floor in it except the ground, with Boaz Walton and his family, about eight miles north of Greensburg. Daniel Blose, whose wife's name was Elizabeth, was the father of seven children: George; Michael; Barney; Mary, married to Joseph Walton; Daniel; Ann, married to Isaac Shuster; and a daughter born in 1783, whose name was Magdalena.

George Blose, son of Daniel, was married to Sarah Walton previous to 1800. and to them were born ten children: Polly and William died in infancy; Josiah died in his youth; John George was the father of George Ament Blose; Boaz was next in the family; Emily married George Schrock; Sarah married Thomas Sharp Mitchell; Daniel and Elizabeth were twins, the latter marrying Charles Redding and moving to near Elizabeth, in what is now West Virginia, where she lived till her death; Rachel Maria married John Niel.

According to the most recent information obtained. George Blose, the grandfather of George Anient Blose, came to Westmoreland county with his father, who located some eight miles north of Greensburg about 1780. He continued to live in Westmoreland county till 1831, when he removed to Perrysville. Jefferson county, residing there to the time of his death, Aug. 31, 1849. His widow, who died in Jefferson county July 10, 1860, was born in Northampton county. Pa., Jan. 3, 1779. She was descended from an old American family which came to America from Scotland but had been of English origin. . .

from Byberry Waltons

Boaz Walton born about 1737 in Byberry Twp, Phila. Co., Pa., died Aug. 2, 1823 aged 86 in Westmoreland Co., Pa., son of Joseph Walton & Sarah, probably Roberts of Byberry Twp. . .William Blose Reed says Daniel Blose's first mill was at a place known in 1939 as Oswald's Mill, near Best Station, about three miles west from Slatington Pa., and the mill owned by Daniel Blose and Boaz Walton was in the Mahoning Valley west from Lehighton and later known as Garber's Mills. . .

William Blose Reed writes that Boaz Walton and Daniel Blose or Bloss owned adjoing lands in Northampton Co., which later were in Mahoning Twp, Carbon Co., and seem to have been closely associated through a good part of their lives, having been in the same battalion if not the same company during several years of the Revolution. The History of Jefferson Co., Pa says

"About 1790 Daniel Blose came to Westmoreland Co., with Boaz Walton, and he and his family lived in a round log house without any floor in it except the ground, with Boaz Walton and his family, about eight miles north of Greensburg. Daniel Blose, whose wife's name was Elizabeth, was the father of seven children: George, Michael, Barney, Mary married to Joseph Walton, Daniel, Ann married to Isaac Shuster and a daughter born 1783 whose name was Magdalena."

Of these George, Daniel and Magdalena, not Mary were the ones who married Sarah, Martha, and Joseph children of Boaz Walton.