Born about in Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts
Ancestors 
Daughter of John Parsons
and Sarah (Clark) Parsons
Sister of
Sarah (Parsons) Graves, Mary (Parsons) Bridgman, Samuel Parsons, William Parsons and Experience (Parsons) Bascom
Wife of
Thomas Alvord
— married
3 Jan 1706 in Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts
[children unknown]
Died
at about age 24
in Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts
Profile last modified
| Created 2 Jun 2016
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Biography
Esther Parsons was born to Captain John Parsons and Sarah Clark Parsons in Northampton, Massachusetts. A very faded birth record of 1683 may pertain [1].
Esther married Thomas Alvord, Jr. in January 1706 in Northampton [2].
Esther Parsons Alvord drowned at 22 years of age, along with her brother John Parsons, Jr., 8 October 1707 [3],[4].
Her widowed husband Thomas Alvord eventually married Mary Strong, daughter of Thomas Strong and Mary Stebbins, in 1709.
Sources
- ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-LL9H : Wed Oct 25 14:02:40 UTC 2023), Entry for Esther, 1683.
- ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-LPGN : Wed Oct 25 23:38:32 UTC 2023), Entry for Thomas Alvord and Esther Parsons, 03 Jan 1706.
- ↑ "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910", , FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC95-7Z4 : 14 February 2020), Esther Allverd, 1707.
- ↑ "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910", , FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC9P-DJF : 14 February 2020), Esther Alvord, 1707.
- The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong, of ..., Volume 1 By Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight, p 263.
- A Genealogy of the Descendants of Alexander Alvord an Early Settler of Windsor, Conn. and Northampton, Mass., p. 43-45, no. 14: https://archive.org/stream/genealogyofdesce00alvo#page/43/mode/1up
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