Abiel C. Bliss was the town clerk in Flushing in 1838. In 1907 there was a Mr. and Mrs. Mahlon D. Bliss in Flushing, Try the census reports for the names. I didn't find a Rickard in the Sesquicentennial History book covering 1835 to 1987, there is a Vol ! and 3 that I don't have. Joan