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 floss bought from John Longstreth, Joseph Longstreth and Abraham Duffield two tracts of land consisting of 421 acres, together with a grist-mill and sawmill located on Mahoning Creek, Penn township, Carbon county. After residing here six years he sold this property Jan 1, 1802, to Joseph Matthews and Benjanin Matthews.

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.