Ithamar Parsons (1707 - 1786)

Born 9 Jun 1707 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Curtiss) Parsons — married 1732 in Durham, Hartford, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 21 Jan 1786 at age 78 in Durham, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Ithamar Parsons was born at Northampton, Massachusetts Bay, in June of 1707, a son of Samuel Parsons and his second wife, Rhoda (Taylor) Parsons. He married Sarah Curtis about 1732 – the year in which their daughter Phebe was born, at Durham, on the 1st of October.

Ithamar ("Ithamer" in his gravestone inscription) died at Durham in January of 1786.

Sources

• Birth 9 June 1707 at Northampton MA: "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCS5-Q84 : 14 January 2020), Ithamer Parsons, 1707.

• Marriage [shown in birth record of child]: Fowler, William. History of Durham, Connecticut (Wiley, Waterman & Eaton, 1866) Page 267

• Death 21 Jan. 1786, Connecticut: "Connecticut, Charles R. Hale Collection, Vital Records, 1640-1955", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7K1-W3T : 16 September 2020), Ithamar Parsons, 1786. Alt. record: "PARSONS... Ithamar, d. Jan. 21, 1786" -- Durham VRs, p. 60; Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928; https://www.americanancestors.org/DB414/i/13171/60/234593388 (by subscription)