Graduated Harvard College in 1730. Moved to Rye, NH, Nov 3, 1739 and then served as minister at the Congregational Church of Rye for 53 years, until his death.
Married Mary Jones of Boston on October 9, 1739. Mary's grandfather, John Adams, was an uncle of Samuel Adams, the great statesman and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
"Rev. Samuel Parsons, son of Joseph, born Sept. 13, 1707, at Salisbury, Mass.; married, Oct. 9, 1739, in Boston, Mary, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Adams) Jones. (...) He was graduated from Harvard, 1730, settled in Rye, NH., Nov. 3, 1739, and died there Jan. 4, 1789, aged 82 years, in the 53d year of his ministry. He was the second ordained minister in Rye, one of the original grantees of the township of Croydon, and received, in 1771, from Timothy Brown, clerk of Harpswell, Province of Massachusetts, three thousand and three hundred acres of land in Hopkinton and vicinity for 43 pounds." [1]
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