1620 - 1683 (~ 63 years)
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Name |
Joseph Parsons [1] |
Nickname |
Cornet |
Christened |
25 Jun 1620 |
Beaminster, Dorset, England |
Gender |
Male |
Occupation |
26 Mar 1661 |
Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts [2] |
"Lycensed to keepe and ordinary or house of common entertaynmt...for the yeare ensuinge, and he hath liberty...to sell wines or strong liquors as need shall require" |
Residence |
26 Mar 1661 |
Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts [2] |
Occupation |
25 Mar 1662 |
Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts [3] |
Innkeeper's and liquor license renewed "provided he keepe good rule & order in his house" |
Residence |
25 Mar 1662 |
Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts [3] |
Occupation |
29 Mar 1664 |
Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts [4] |
On this date the court renews his license to keep "an ordinary & for selling wines or liquors" |
Residence |
29 Mar 1664 |
Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts [5] |
On this date the court recorded:
"The Jury presenting Joseph Parsons Senr to this Courte for lacivious carriage towards some women of Northampt vizt Hannah Roote & Goodwife Salman: The Courte did examine the case, & did judge that there are grounds to feare & suspect that Joseph Parsons hath misdemeanored himself towards the said women: And therefore the Courte did admonish the said Joseph concerning their suspition of such miscarriages" |
Residence |
27 Sep 1664 |
Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts [6] |
On this date, fined £5 for "opposing & resisting the Constable of Northampton in operation of his Office & work," an act of "high contempt of Authority." He and Constable Robert Bartlett "had some Scuffling in the Balywick whereby blood was drawn between them" and Parsons was fined a further 10 shillings. The court reduced the fine by 20 shillings upon Parsons' apology |
Occupation |
28 Mar 1665 |
Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts [7] |
On this date he is fined 20 shillings for "contemptuous behavior towards Northampton Commissioners & towards the Selectmen," and fined a further 40 shillings for allowing "Henricks ye Dutchman" to "spend his tyme" in Parsons' "house of ordinary." |
Occupation |
29 Mar 1676 |
Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts [8] |
Appointed constable of Northampton |
Died |
9 Oct 1683 |
Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts [9] |
- "Cornet Joseph Parsons was sicke & died Octobr 9 1683"
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Probate |
26 Mar 1684 |
Hampshire Co., Massachusetts [10] |
Estate inventory filed, £2088.09.00; division of estate filed |
Probate |
4 Mar 1718/9 |
Hampshire Co., Massachusetts [11] |
Estate appraisers appointed |
Probate |
19 May 1719 |
Hampshire Co., Massachusetts [12] |
Appraisers return a value of £80 for the former residence of Joseph and Mary Parsons |
Probate |
21 Dec 1720 |
Hampshire Co., Massachusetts [13] |
Estate administrators' account filed; additional moneys had come into the estate, resulting in payments to the legal heirs of £36.12.1½ each |
Probate |
18 May 1722 |
Hampshire Co., Massachusetts [14] |
Another estate account is filed; the ongoing business activities in the estate result in payments to each legal heir of £40.19.5 |
Probate |
18 Mar 1723 |
Hampshire Co., Massachusetts [15] |
Administrators John and Joseph Parsons accuse their brother-in-law Joseph Willistone of having "taken in a clandestine way" a number of household goods and the deed to the lot on which Willistone's house was built; Willistone denies most charges, claiming ignorance of any deed and just possession of most of the items in question |
Buried |
- Probably buried in the original Springfield cemetery, from which remains and monuments were exhumed and moved to a new cemetery in 1848 to make way for a railroad. Prior to about 1750 the people of Springfield did not have access to good stone with which to make grave markers so very few headstones survive from earlier times.
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Joseph "Cornet Joseph" Parsons (1620 - 1683) - Find A Grave Memorial Includes monument photos and biography.
Maintained by: Richard Baldwin Cook
Originally Created by: Shari
Record added: Apr 19, 2009
Find A Grave Memorial# 36038380 |
Notes |
- Joseph Parsons is believed to have been the first of the name in America. He was known as Cornet Joseph, from the military title which he, in later years, bore; the Cornet being the color-bearer and third in command in a British troop or regiment of cavalry...
[Parsons] came to America about 1635, possibly earlier. On July 15, 1636, he was witness to the deed of cession made by the Indians to William Pynchon and others of a large tract of land, then called Agawan but later Springfield... At that time he was about seventeen years of age... This deed was made but sixteen years after the landing of the Pilgrims, and but six years after the first settlement of Boston. Munsell's "American Ancestry" states that Joseph Parsons came over with William Pynchon, the leader of the Springfield colonists, who was one of the patentees of the grant by the Crown to the Massachusetts Bay Company, and a fellow passenger with Winthrop, who came over in 1630...
In 1651, he was elected a selectman, the highest town office in the gift of the people.
About 1655 he purchased of William Pynchon... a monopoly of the Connecticut River beaver or fur trade, in which... he was for many years successfully engaged.
From 1672 to 1678 he was a Cornet of the Hampshire Troop, commanded by Capt. John Pynchon, the first troop of horse formed in Western Massachusetts, and in 1679, he was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston, the first regularly organized military company in America...
In the spring of 1671 Joseph Parsons, with three others, went on an exploring expedition to what is now Northfield, Mass., and concluded a bargain with the Indians for a tract of over 10,000 acres of land on the "great river" (Connecticut). His intimate acquaintance with the Indians as a fur trader, taking him to their villages up and down the Connecticut Valley, made him invaluable in any transactions with them...
[Parsons] served in the French and Indian wars, Colony of Massachusetts Bay. He was a partner of William Pynchon in the fur trade of the Connecticut valley and was the chief founder of Northampton, Mass.
Cornet Joseph Parsons was preemninently a business man, with the courage and enterprise which peculiarly fitted him to take a leading part in the settlement of a new country. Savage says that he was "the most enterprising man in the Connecticut valley for a quarter of a century," and Burt, in his Monograph, says that "with perhaps a single exception he was the most prosperous and successful of any of the settlers and acquired a handsome property, the largest, unless it be that of John Pynchon, of any in Hampshire County, an evident indication of his foresight and enterprise."
pp. 39-42, The Parsons Family, by Henry Parsons
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Person ID |
I1334 |
Wm L Gann Ancestors |
Last Modified |
26 Jul 2017 |
Family |
Mary Bliss, b. 1625, Rodborough, Gloucestershire, England , d. 29 Jan 1711/12, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts (Age 87 years) |
Married |
26 Nov 1646 |
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut [1] |
- "Joseph Parsons & Mary Blisse were joyned together in marriage 9 mon. 26 day 1646 at Hartforde"
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Family ID |
F564 |
Group Sheet |
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Sources |
- [S26921] Massachusetts, Springfield Vital Records, 1638-1887, (''FamilySearch'' (https://www.familysearch.org)), LDS film 185414, image 214 (Reliability: 3), 14 Jun 2011.
- [S112] Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Hampshire Co., Probate Record vol. 1 p. 5 (Reliability: 3), 25 Jul 2017.
- [S112] Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Hampshire Co., Probate Record vol. 1 p. 13 (Reliability: 3), 25 Jul 2017.
- [S112] Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Hampshire Co., Probate Record vol. 1 p. 32 (Reliability: 3), 25 Jul 2017.
- [S112] Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Hampshire Co., Probate Record vol. 1 p. 33 (Reliability: 3), 25 Jul 2017.
- [S112] Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Hampshire Co., Probate Record vol. 1 p. 40 (Reliability: 3), 25 Jul 2017.
- [S112] Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Hampshire Co., Probate Record vol. 1 p. 54 (Reliability: 3), 25 Jul 2017.
- [S112] Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Hampshire Co., Probate Record vol. 1 p. 168 (Reliability: 3), 25 Jul 2017.
- [S26921] Massachusetts, Springfield Vital Records, 1638-1887, (''FamilySearch'' (https://www.familysearch.org)), LDS film 185417, vol 1 p 51 (Reliability: 3), 14 Jun 2011.
- [S112] Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Hampshire Co., Probate Record vol. 1 p. 233-34 (Reliability: 3), 25 Jul 2017.
- [S112] Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Hampshire Co., Probate Record vol. 4 p. 12 (Reliability: 3), 26 Jul 2017.
- [S112] Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Hampshire Co., Probate Record vol. 4 p. 13 (Reliability: 3), 26 Jul 2017.
- [S112] Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Hampshire Co., Probate Record vol. 4 pp. 43-44 (Reliability: 3), 26 Jul 2017.
- [S112] Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Hampshire Co., Probate Record vol. 4 p. 60 (Reliability: 3), 26 Jul 2017.
- [S112] Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Hampshire Co., Probate Record vol. 4 p. 76 (Reliability: 3), 26 Jul 2017.
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