Ebenezer Parsons

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(The Parsons Line).

(I) Philip Parsons, immigrant ancestor, was born in England and was one of the first settlers of Enfield, Connecticut. In 1697 he was living in the Great South Field in that town. He was a tanner and cordwainer as well as a farmer. He died after 1747. He bought land of Zachariah Booth, June 19, 1713, in the South Field, and a house and thirty acres there February 20, 1726, of Caleb Brooks. From time to time he made other purchases of real estate and was evidently a man of substance. He married Anna . Children, born at Enfield: Philip, August 2, 1708; Nathaniel, March 11, 1709-10, mentioned below; Shubael. June II, 1715, died without issue: Thomas, November 29, 1718; Sarah, May 5, I722; Ebenezer, December 14, 1724, died young.

(II) Nathaniel, son of Philip and Anna Parsons, was born at Enfield, March II. 1709 -10. He or his son of the same name was a soldier in the French and Indian war in 1758 in Lieutenant David Parson's company, under Major General Phinehas Lyman, Third Company, First Regiment. He bought land on the Scantic river, February 26, 1728-29, and various other property at Enfield. Another Nathaniel Parsons appears to have been living at the same time in Enfield. He moved to Somers, Connecticut, where his wife Mary died July 31, 1786, in her eighty-second year; they had a son Stephen, born February 20, 1730-31. Nathaniel, son of Philip, married January 29, 1735-36, Alice Collins.

Alice (Collins) Parsons was born March 14, 1716, daughter of Rev. Nathaniel Collins, minister of the Enfield church, graduated at Harvard College in 1697. married, in 1701, Alice Adams, who died February 19, 1755, daughter of Rev. William Adams, of Dedham, Massachusetts. Rev. Nathaniel Collins was born June 13, 1681, died February 6, 1758, son of Rev. Nathaniel Collins, who was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 7, 1642, died at Middletown, Connecticut. December 28, I684; graduated at Harvard in 1660 and was ordained minister at Middletown, November 4, 1666; married, August 3, 1664, Mary, daughter of William Whiting. Deacon Edward Collins, father of Rev. Nathaniel Collins. Sr., appeared in Cambridge as early as 1638 and was deacon of the first church there; was admitted freeman, May 13, 1610; lived many years on Governor Cradock's plantation and finally purchased it; deputy to the general court many years; died in Charlestown, April 9, 1689, aged eighty-six. Alice (Adams) Collins was a descendant of Henry Adams, the immigrant, of Braintree, Massachusetts, from whom the two presidents were descended. Alice Bradford, wife of Rev. VVilliam Adams, was the daughter of Major William Bradford and his wife Alice (Richards) Bradford, granddaughter of Governor William Bradford and wife Alice (Carpenter) Bradford. Governor Bradford was the most distinguished of the “Mayflower” company, son of William of Yorkshire, England.

Children of Nathaniel and Alice (Collins) Parsons, born in Enfield:

Nathaniel, 1736, lived in Enfield;

Asa, February 4, 1742;

Edward, 1745, died in Springfield;

Ebenezer, 1748;

William, 1750, mentioned below;

Shubael, 1752, died at Enfield;

Alice.

Bibliographic information:

• Title Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 2
• Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation, Mary Kingsbury Talcott
• Authors William Richard Cutter, Edward Henry Clement, Samuel Hart, Mary Kingsbury Talcott, Frederick Bostwick, Ezra S. Stearns
• Publisher Lewis historical Publishing Company, 1911
• Original from Cornell University
• Digitized May 7, 2012
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