Joseph Parsons

Biography

From History of the Military Company of the Massachusetts, Now Called ..., Volume 1 By Oliver Ayer Roberts Page 256

Joseph Parsons (1679), of Boston, merchant, married Bethia Brattle, daughter of Capt. Thomas (1675). They had four children, all of whom died young; the mother herself dying July 4, 1690, ten days after her last child died.
Mr. Parsons (1679) was a member of the patriotic council for the overthrow of Andros in 1689, and was made a freeman in March, 1690.
Of Joseph Parsons (1679), the father, after the death of the last of his family, nothing has been learned, except that he was alive in 1720.

Authorities: Savage's Gen. Diet.; Harris's Descendants of Thomas Brattle page 27, Harris's Descendants of Thomas Brattle page 28

From Harris's Descendants of Thomas Brattle

His son Thomas was appointed administrator of his estate April 12, 16S3. The first division was made March 13, 16S3-4, "wherein two eighths of the whole were set off to son Thomas, while Nat. Oliver, John Eyre and Joseph Parsons, in right of their wives, receive for their portion the iron works at Concord, a farm of three hundred acres at Rumney Marsh (Chelsea), eight acres of pasture land near Sentry Hill, Boston, a house and land occupied by John Marion, Jr. near the common or training field, £549.4.7 in debts, and an interest in lands at Narraganset, Queboug and Kennebec. All of his real estate, comprising what was known as "Brattle Close," except a small portion se-t off to his son William, passed into the possession of his son Thomas. The estate was appraised at £7827.16.10, and, says Savage, was probably the largest inNew England.

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