Person:Samuel Parsons (9)

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Samuel Holden Parsons
b.14 May 1737 Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States
d.17 Nov 1789 Drake, Muskingum, Ohio, United States
Parents and Siblings
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  1. Marshfield Parsons1732/33 -
  2. Jonathan Parsons1735 -
  3. Samuel Holden Parsons1737 - 1789
  4. Thomas Parsons1739 -
  5. Ezra Parsons1741/42 -
  6. Phebe Parsons1743 -
Spouse and Children
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m. 10 Sep 1761
  1. Lucia Parsons1764 - 1825
  2. Mehitabel Parsons1772 - 1828
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Facts and Events
Name Samuel Holden Parsons
Gender Male
Birth[1][2] 14 May 1737 Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States
Marriage 10 Sep 1761 Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United Statesto Mehitable Mather
Occupation? US Army
Death[1] 17 Nov 1789 Drake, Muskingum, Ohio, United StatesBig Beaver Creek
Reference Number? Q7411716?


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Samuel Holden Parsons (May 14, 1737 – November 17, 1789) was an American lawyer, jurist, general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and a pioneer to the Ohio Country. Parsons was described as "Soldier, scholar, judge, one of the strongest arms on which Washington leaned, who first suggested the Continental Congress, from the story of whose life could almost be written the history of the Northern War" by Senator George F. Hoar of Massachusetts

Parsons was born in Lyme, Connecticut, the son of Jonathan Parsons and Phoebe (Griswold) Parsons. At the age of nine, his family moved to Newburyport, Massachusetts, where his father, an ardent supporter of the First Great Awakening, took charge of the town's new Presbyterian congregation.

Parsons graduated from Harvard College in 1756 and returned to Lyme to study law in the office of his uncle, Connecticut governor Matthew Griswold (governor). He was admitted to the bar in 1759, and started his law practice in Lyme. In 1761, he married Mehitabel Mather (1743–1802), a great-great-great-granddaughter of Rev. Richard Mather. Well-connected politically, he was elected to the General Assembly in 1762, where he remained a representative until his removal to New London.

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References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Samuel Holden Parsons, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2. ↑ Lyme (Connecticut). Registrar of Vital Statistics. Records of births, marriages, and deaths, 1700-1921. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1981).

    Births:
    Samuel Holden Parsons son of Jonathan Parsons & Phebe Griswold

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