Parsons, Samuel Holden, 1737 - 1789

Samuel Holden Parsons (Harvard 1756) was the son of Jonathan Parsons and Phoebe Griswold of Lyme, Connecticut, husband of Mehitable Mather, and a nephew of Connecticut Governor Matthew Griswold (1714-1799).  Parsons represented Lyme at the Connecticut General Assembly from 1762 until 1774 and was appointed King’s Attorney of New London County in 1773.  He served as major of the 14^th Connecticut Militia in 1770 and promoted to colonel of the 6^th Connecticut Regiment in 1775, in which position he commanded at the Battle of Bunker Hill.  After the war, Parsons removed to Marietta, Ohio in the Northwest Territory.  As a commissioner, he represented the Ohio Company in negotiations with the various tribes on the Connecticut Reserve.  Charles Hall, Life and Letters of Samuel Holden Parsons (Binghamton, N.Y.: Otseningo Publishing Company, 1905), 2-8, 461-488.