Person:Thomas Parsons (32)
Thomas Parsons
chr.8 Feb 1608/09 Beaminster, Dorset, England
d.23 Sep 1661 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. 15 Nov 1602
  1. WIlliam Parsons1604 - 1655
  2. Thomas Parsons1608/09 - 1661
  3. Christopher Parsons1612 - Aft 1660
  4. Mary Parsons1617 - 1670
  5. Cornet Joseph Parsons1620 - 1683
  6. Deacon Benjamin Parsons1625 - 1689
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Thomas Parsons1608/09 - 1661
  • W.  Lydia BrownAbt 1616 - Aft 1671
m. 28 Jun 1641
  1. Bethia Parsons1642 - Aft 1708
  2. Abigail Parsons1643/44 - 1659
  3. Thomas Parsons1645 - 1680
  4. John Parsons1647 - 1693/94
  5. Mercy Parsons1652 - Aft 1722
  6. Ebenezer Parsons1655 - Aft 1710
  7. Samuel Parsons1657 - 1708
  8. Joseph Parsons1661 -
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Facts and Events
Name[1][2][3][4][5] Thomas Parsons
Gender Male
Christening[2][3] 8 Feb 1608/09 Beaminster, Dorset, EnglandSt Marys
Emigration[1] 1636
Marriage 28 Jun 1641 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesto Lydia Brown
Death[2][4][5][6] 23 Sep 1661 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Thomas Parsons, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Directory. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jun 2015)
    255.

    "Parsons, Thomas: [Origin] Unknown; [Emigration] 1636; [Resided] Wethersfield, New Haven [NHCR 1:38; Grant 59; TAG 21:118; NEHGR 143:105-7 (clue), 148:215, 226-38, 345-59]."

    There appear to be a couple of errors here: (1) All evidence points to Windsor being the only New England residence of this Thomas Parsons; (2) No evidence of Thomas Parsons in the early records of the New Haven church.

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 1. Thomas1 Parsons, in Parsons, Gerald James. The Early Parsons Families of the Connecticut River Valley. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jul, Oct 1994; Jan 1995; Apr 1996)
    148:226.

    "1. Thomas1 Parsons, an early settler of Windsor, Connecticut, was probably the Thomas baptized at Beaminster, Dorset, 8 February 1608/9, son of William and Margaret (Hoskins) Parsons. He came to New England probably about 1635, and died at Windsor 23 September 166l."

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Parsons, Gerald James. Were Joseph and Benjamin Parsons and David Wilton of Beaminster, Dorset, England, the New England Colonists?. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Apr 1989)
    143:114.

    "Thomas (Parsons), bp. (Beaminster) 8 Feb. 1608/9; possibly the Thomas Parsons of Windsor, Conn., who d. there 23 Sept. 1661; …"

  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Parsons, Thomas, in Stiles, Henry R. History of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut (1859): including East Windsor, South Windsor, and Ellington prior to 1788, the date of their separation from the old town; and Windsor, Bloomfield, and Windsor Locks to the present time; also the genealogies and genealogical notes of those families which settled within the limits of ancient Windsor, Connecticut prior to 1800. (New York: Charles B. Norton, 1859)
    2:735.

    "PARSONS Thomas of Windsor, m. Lydia Brown, June 28, 1641; he d. in Windsor Sept 23, 1661; his wife d. June 14, 1674. The name of Thomas Parsons appears on a book called Town Wayes, in Windsor, as one the owners of the Palisado Plot. He was a Pequot soldier and received fifty acres of land in Windsor for his services in the Pequot war; which land was subsequently allotted to his two sons, Ebenezer and Samuel Parsons, by the general court at Hartford, and Lieut. Matthew Allyn and Samuel Beckwith, jun., were appointed by the court to lay it out to them according to their grant, Oct 13, 1698 (see Col Records p 87). Children-- Bethnia, b. May 21, 1642; m Thomas Haskell of Simsbury, who was made a freeman, May 10, 1660; Abigail, b. Jan 21, 1644; buried Dec 5, 1659; Thomas, b. Aug 9, 1645; d Dec 14, 1680; John, b. Nov 13, 1647; Mary, b. July 23, 1652; Ebenezer, b. May 14, 1655; Samuel, b. July 18, 1657; d. at Hartford, Aug 11, 1708; Joseph, b. May 1, 1661; d. in Simsbury, April 15, 1687; William."

  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Thomas Parsons, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    3:364.

    "Thomas (Parsons), Windsor, was soldier in the Pequot war 1637, for wh. some of his ch. had gr. of ld. many yrs. aft. m. 28 June 1641, Lydia Brown, had Bethia, b. 21 May 1642; Abigail, 21 Jan. 1644; Thomas, 9 Aug. 1645; John, 13 Nov. 1647; Mary, 23 July 1652; Ebenezer, 14 May 1655; Samuel, 18 July 1657; and Joseph, 1 May 1661; beside William in some earlier yr. not specif. and d. 23 Sept. 1661. His wid. m. Eltweed Pomeroy. Of these ch. Ebenezer, Samuel, William, and Joseph live. at Simsbury, and some, if not all, had fams. but I kn. not the details. Bethia m. 10 May 1660, Thomas Mascall; and next, 18 Aug. 1672, John Williams of W."

  6. ↑ Windsor Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
    218.

    "Parsons, … Thomas, d. Sept. 23, 1661 [MG]"
    "Parsons, … Thomas, d. Sept. 23, 1661 [1:49]"
    "Parsons, … Thomas, d. [____, [16]61 [MG]"

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