Esther Alvord

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Parsons-5592

Esther Parsons was born to Captain John Parsons and Sarah Clark Parsons about 1685 in Northampton, Massachusetts.

She married Thomas Alvord, Jr. in January 1706 in Northampton.

Esther Parsons Alvord drowned at 22 years of age, along with her brother John Parsons, Jr., 8 October 1707. Her widowed husband Thomas Alvord eventually married Mary Strong, daughter of Thomas Strong and Mary Stebbins, in 1709.

Sources

1. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Northampton Births, Marriages and Deaths, pp 104 - 105, page 143. (Please note that Esther Root died 27 October 1707.)
2. The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong, of ..., Volume 1 By Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight, p 263.
3. 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