04191cpcaa2200661 4500 mm 78035550 DLC 20260227111625.0 cr ||||||||||| 780328|||||||||||| eng mm 78035550 ms 78001748 DLC dacs DLC DLC C lcmd Parsons family papers, 1769-1878. 80 items. 1 container. 1 microfilm reel. 0.2 linear feet. Open to research. Correspondence, legal documents, account book, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and other papers chiefly of Samuel Holden Parsons (1737-1789), his son, Enoch Parsons, and Enoch's son, Samuel Holden Parsons (1800-1871). Includes a 1778 letter from General Parsons to his friend, American loyalist William Walter, in which he argues the colonists' cause. Also includes material on Parsons's work for the Ohio Company relating to land development near Marietta, Ohio, and in the Western Reserve. Other topics include Indians in the Old Northwest, the nullification controversy, and family matters. Family correspondents include Mary Sullivan Parsons Dickson, Enoch Thomas Parsons, Henry Ethelbert Parsons, Jonathan Parsons, and Mehetabel Mather Parsons. Other correspondents include Richard Butler, Oliver Ellsworth, Jonathan Greenleaf, Benjamin Huntington, Joel Munsell, Israel Putnam, Benjamin F. Wade, and Elisha Whittlesey. Microfilm edition available, no. 17,351. Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1978. Parsons family of Connecticut and Ohio. Family members represented include Samuel Holden Parsons (1737-1789), Continental Army officer; his son, Enoch Parsons, public official and banker of Middletown and Hartford, Conn.; and Enoch's son, Samuel Holden Parsons (1800-1871), lawyer and banker of Middletown, Conn. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009334 Dickson, Mary Sullivan Parsons, -1841 Correspondence. Butler, Richard, 1743-1791 Correspondence. Ellsworth, Oliver, 1745-1807 Correspondence. Greenleaf, Jonathan, 1785-1865 Correspondence. Huntington, Benjamin, 1736-1800 Correspondence. Munsell, Joel, 1808-1880 Correspondence. Parsons, Enoch Thomas, -1830 Correspondence. Parsons, Henry Ethelbert Correspondence. Parsons, Jonathan, 1705-1776 Correspondence. Parsons, Mehetable Mather, 1743-1802 Correspondence. Putnam, Israel, 1718-1790 Correspondence. Wade, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1800-1878 Correspondence. Walter, William, 1737-1800 Correspondence. Whittlesey, Elisha, 1783-1863 Correspondence. Parsons family. United States. Continental Army Officers. Ohio Company (1786-1796) American loyalists. Indians of North America Northwest, Old. Land companies Ohio. Land speculation Ohio Marietta. Nullification (States' rights) Connecticut History 1775-1865, United States History Revolution, 1775-1783. Western Reserve (Ohio) Parsons, Enoch, 1769-1846. Enoch Parsons papers. Parsons, Samuel Holden, 1737-1789. Samuel Holden Parsons papers. Parsons, Samuel Holden, 1800-1871. Samuel Holden Parsons papers. Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009334 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009334.3 39991 39991