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Samuel Parsons (1707 - 1789)

Rev. Samuel Parsons
Born in Salisbury or Newburyport, Essex, Massachusettsmap
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Husband of — married 9 Oct 1739 in Rye, New Hampshiremap
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Died at age 81 in Rye, NHmap
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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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  1. “History of the town of Rye, New Hampshire : from its discovery and settlement to December 31, 1903” by Parsons, Langdon Brown, 1844-  ; Publication date 1905 by Rumford Print. Co., Concord, N.H. (Page: 476). Digital version here: https://archive.org/details/historyoftownofr00pars
  • Marriage: "New Hampshire Marriages, 1720-1920," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDVD-X26 : 31 December 2014), Samuel Rev. Parsons and Mary Jones, 09 Oct 1739; citing reference Item 1, P.352; FHL microfilm 2,169,156.
  • Parsons, L. B., History of Rye, NH, 1905.




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