Isaiah Parmenter (1742 - 1790)

Born 16 Jul 1742 in Sudbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Lydia (Hayden) Parmenter — married 28 Jan 1762 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 1790 at about age 47 in Luzerne, Delaware, New York, United States

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Biography

1st Lieutenant Isaiah Parmenter served with 3rd Continental Regiment, Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Isaiah Parmenter is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A088023.

Isaiah Parmenter was born 16 July 1742 in Sudbury, MA. He served for Massachusetts as Sergeant, Lexington Alarm, as Lieutenant for Captains Earl and Crawford. Col Learned Learned-181 He was a selectman and member of the committee of correspondence, Inspection and Safety. Isaiah Parmenter passed away in 1790 in Luzerne, NY. His wife is Lydia Hayden. Their daughter Lydia married John Whitcomb. ^[1]

From page 123 on the book or page 154 on Google: "Soldiers of Oakham, Massachusetts, in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812 and the Civil War" By Henry Parks Wright · 1914

Isaiah Parmenter.

Born in Sudbury, July 16, 1742, son of William and Mary (Pepper) Parmenter. He was First Lieutenant in Capt. Crawford's company of minutemen who marched April 19, 1775, in response to the Lexington alarm; and Sergeant in Capt. Samuel Dexter's company, which was raised in Hardwick, New Braintree and Oakham for six months' service in the siege of Boston. This company formed part of Col. Ebenezer Learned's Learned-181 regiment, and went into camp at Roxbury, May 19, 1775. He served also, with rank of Ensign, in New York, in the latter part of 1776, and again as Lieutenant in Capt. Ralph Earl's Co., Col. Danforth Keyes's Regt., from June 27,1777, till July 27, 1777, at Providence. Isaiah Parmenter was Selectman of Oakham in 1778 and 1779, and was a member of the Committee of Correspondence, Inspection and Safety in 1777. He was one of the signers of the petition of June 23,1773, for the organization of a Congregational Church in Oakham . January 28,1762, he was married in Sudbury to Lydia, daughter of Uriah and Hannah Hayden. Children: Thaddeus, born July 27,1762; Winser, born March 27,1766.

Oakham T. R.,i,168,188. M. S. R.,xi,938 (7),949 (8) (Parnenter]. Oakham V. R., 42. Sudbury V. R., 64, 106, 246. Oakham Church Records, i, 1.

Sources

Soldiers of Oakham, Massachusetts, in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812 and the Civil War, By Henry Parks Wright · 1914

• https://www.google.com/books/edition/Soldiers_of_Oakham_Massachusetts_in_the/e9yC2GGgXMYC?hl=en&gbpv=0

Footnotes

1. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed August 18, 2020), "Record of Isaiah Parmenter", Ancestor # A088023.Meehan-411

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to Sadie Light-manfredi for starting this profile 17 Jan 2013

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