John Parsons, of York, Maine

Not the same as Capt. John Parsons

Biography

John Parsons, Sr. died 24 JAN 1691/2 in York, York, Maine, killed by Indians in the Candlemas Massacre during King William's War.

• Parents: Mark Parsons & Elizabeth.

Married:

1.   BEF 1677 in York, York, ME to Elizabeth (1655-c 1720), daughter of Robert Huckins & Elizabeth.  She married Peter Hinkson 2nd.

Children:

1. Christian PARSONS
2. Elihu PARSONS b: 31 MAR 1685 in York, York, ME U. S. A.
3. Rachael PARSONS
4. Mercy PARSONS
5. John PARSONS b: 31 JUL 1677
6. Elizabeth PARSONS
7. Mary PARSONS b: 13 OCT 1681 in York, York, ME 
8. Anne PARSONS married William Hilton

Notes:

• York deeds, Volume 5.  Authors-Maine Historical Society, Maine Genealogical Society (1894- ), York County (Me.). Register of Deeds. Publisher-J.T. Hull, 1889 Pg. 16

The widdow Elizabeth Parsons Complaining against William Hilton for taking a cow from her sd Hilton is ordered to returne the cow to her or another as Good in her roome

Administration is granted to Elizabeth Parsons on the Estate of John Parsons her husband Deceased and sd Elizabeth parsons as principle and William Hilton and Thomas Trafton as suretyes stand bound to our soveraigne Lord and Lady the King and Queen in the sum of a hundred and twenty pounds that the sd Elizabeth Parsons shall Administer on sd Estate according to law

pg. 81 [81] A true Inventory of the Estate of Jno. Parsons who Deceased January 25.  Signed John Harman; Thomas Dunnell.  Sworne in Court Novbr 1st 1692.  Elizabeth parsons that this is a true Inventor of the Estate of her Deceased husband John Parsons & If any more Estate shall appcare she will ad it hereto as attests John Wincoll Cleric.  The aboue written are true coppys of the originall Inventory and the oath to it, & here entred Feb. 15th 1692-3 .John Wincoll Cleric.

•  from TORREY:
•  PARSONS, John (-1692) & Elizabeth _____, m/2 Peter HINKSON 1698; by 1677; York, ME {York Hist. 18, 271, 303-4; Parsons (1898) 106; Wilson (1898) 74; GDMNH 531}

Sources

• Noyes.  Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire
• Savage.  A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations of Those who Came before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register
• Torrey. New England Marriages Prior To 1700
•  New England & Pennsylvania Genealogy (Families of Early Hancock County, ME & Clearfield County, PA)
• Banks.  HISTORY OF YORK, Successively Known as Bristol (1632), Agamenticus (1641), Gorgeana (1642) & York (1652) With contributions on topography and land titles by Angevine W. Gowen, C.E.; sketches by the author (Boston, MA: Calkins Press,1931-5
• Burt, Henry M., Cornet Joseph Parsons (Garden City, L.I.: A.R. Parsons, [c.1898])
• Wilson, Fred Allen. The Early History of the Wilson Family of Kittery Maine (Lynn, MA: J. MacFarland, 1898)

Links

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