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.

Daniel and Sarah's children included:
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 (Bernard) Bloss (August 30, 1789, died at 4 months), and
Elizabeth Bloss Schuster (December 9, 1792, married Isaac Schuster).

The Lehigh County tax list of 1781 showed that he was a property holder. In 1781 they were in Heidelberg Township.

During the American Revolution, in 1780 and 1782, Daniel served as a private in the Third class of the Sixth Battalion of the Northampton county militia.

In the 1785 Lehigh County tax list, he was assessed one pound and four shillings on fifty acres, one horse, and one cow. In 1786 he was listed in Heidelberg Township, Lehigh County.

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 April 21, 1795 he bought two tracts of land consisting of 421 acres, together with a grist-mill and a saw-mill located on Mahoning Creek, in Penn Township, Carbon County. William Blose Reed in Byberry Waltons wrote that Daniel's

first mill was at a place known in 1939 as Oswald's Mill, near Best Station, about three miles west from Slatington Pa.,

Daniel and Boaz Walton owned adjoining properties in a part Northampton County that became Mahoning Township, Carbon County. William Blose Reed also recalled that

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. . .

The families were so closely related that George, Daniel and Magdalena Bloss married Sarah, Martha, and Joseph Walton who were children of Boaz Walton.

He sold his Carbon County property on January 1, 1802.

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

Children of Johann Conrad Bloss and Anna Magdalena Reber Bloss John George Bloss Eva Elizabeth Bloss Seidel Maria Margaretha Bloss Brandstetter Daniel Bloss Peter Bloss Henry Bloss Sonia Bloss Conrad Bloss

Heidelberg Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania originally included Washington Township and Slatington. It is located on Trout Creek and Jordan Creek.