John Parsons (1647 - 1694)

Born 13 Nov 1647 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Hardy) Fish — married 21 May 1679 in East Hampton, Long Island

Descendants

Died Jan 1694 at age 46 in Cape May, New Jersey

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Biography

"John Parsons was born at Windsor, Connecticut, 13 November 1647 and died at Cape May, New Jersey, in January 1693/4. He married at East Hampton, Long Island, New York 21 May 1679, Elizabeth (Hardy) Garlick, who died at Cape May, New Jersey, 1 May 1696, daughter of Richard Hardy and widow of Joshua Garlick, Jr. She married third, about 1694, John Fish, who died about six months after the wedding. John Parsons's account book is now at the Cape May County Historical Society."^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Parsons, Gerald James. (1998, April). "The Early Parsons Families of the Connecticut River Valley." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 148, 345-346.

• S116 Abbreviation: Early Records Windsor Title: New England Historical and Genealogical Register: Early Records of Windsor, Ct., Volume: 5 Publication: July 1851
• S79 Abbreviation: Parsons Title: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register: Parsons Families of the Connecticut Valley, Volume: 148 Author: Parsons, Gerald Publication: July 1994
• Welles, Edwin. Births, Marriages, and Deaths Returned from Hartford, Windsor, and Fairfield (Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1898) Page 38
• Hand, J. P. (2020, May 31). John Persons journal. [Online forum message]. Message posted to New-Mostly South-Jersey Genealogy Forum. https://njgf.groups.io/g/main/topic/74580583#21291
• Stevens, Lewis T. ' The History of Cape May County, New Jersey, from the Aboriginal Times to the Present Day. (Cape May City, N.J: Stevens, 1897), page 45 (but note that Stevens has confused Elizabeth (Hardy) Garlick with her mother-in-law Elizabeth (Unknown) Garlick)