Ancestry of
Joseph Parsons
(c1618–1683)
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- 1st Generation
- Ahnentafel No:
- 1
- Father:
- Mother:
- Birth Date:
- ABT 1618
- Birth Location:
- prob. Beaminster, Dorset, England
- Christening Date:
- Christening Location:
- Death Date:
- 9 Oct 1683
- Death Location:
- Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts
- Burial Date:
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- Notes:
Joseph Parsons is said to have been a cornet of the British cavalry. The rank of cornet was originally the third and lowest grade of commissioned officer in a British cavalry troop. It is below the rank of Captain and Lieutenant, and equivalent to today's 2nd Lieutenant.
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Marriages for Joseph Parsons
- Spouse:
- Mary Bliss
- Marriage Date:
- 26 Nov 1646
- Marriage Location:
- Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut
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Sources for Joseph Parsons
- 1 New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1921, Vol. 52, p. 198.
- 2 The American Genealogist, 2019, Vol. 91, p. 45.
- 3 Bliss, Aaron Tyler, Genealogy of the Bliss Family in America, Vol. 1, Midland, Michigan: Published by the Author (1982), 31.
- 4 Burt, Henry M., Cornet Joseph Parsons: One of the Founders of Springfield and Northampton, Massachusetts, Garden City, Long Island, New York: Albert Ross Parsons (1898), 106-107.
- 5 Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 1994, Vol. 27, p. 14.
- 6 Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 2002, Vol. 35, p. 32.
- 7 Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Cuneo Press (1931), Vol. 2, pp. 625-636.
- 8 Jacobus, Donald Lines and Edgar Francis Waterman, Hale, House and Related Families: Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1978, reprinted from 1952), 479.
- 9 Parsons, Gerald James, The Parsons Family: Descendants of Cornet Joseph Parsons . . . Through His Grandson Jonathan Parsons (1693-1782), Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, Inc. (1984), 9-50.
- 10 Weeks, Lyman Horace, ed., Prominent Families of New York: Being an Account in Biographical Form of Individuals and Families Distinguished as . . ., New York: The Historical Company (1898), 416.