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Joseph Parsons

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• • 9th Great-grandfather of Kate Upton — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2240 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1618 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Beaminster, Dorset, England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 9 Oct 1683 
  • Death Location:
  • Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Bliss
  • Marriage Date:
  • 26 Nov 1646 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut 
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  Joseph Parsons (Ahnentafel No:1120 )

  John Parsons

  Samuel Parsons

  Jonathan Parsons

  • 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.

• 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.

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