TY  - GEN
AU  - Parsons,Enoch
AU  - Parsons,Samuel Holden
AU  - Parsons,Samuel Holden
TI  - Parsons family papers,
KW  - Dickson, Mary Sullivan Parsons,
KW  - Butler, Richard,
KW  - Ellsworth, Oliver,
KW  - Greenleaf, Jonathan,
KW  - Huntington, Benjamin,
KW  - Munsell, Joel,
KW  - Parsons, Enoch Thomas,
KW  - Parsons, Henry Ethelbert
KW  - Parsons, Jonathan,
KW  - Parsons, Mehetable Mather,
KW  - Putnam, Israel,
KW  - Wade, B. F.
KW  - Walter, William,
KW  - Whittlesey, Elisha,
KW  - Parsons family.
KW  - United States
KW  - Continental Army
KW  - Officers
KW  - Ohio Company (1786-1796)
KW  - American loyalists
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Northwest, Old
KW  - Land companies
KW  - Ohio
KW  - Land speculation
KW  - Marietta
KW  - Nullification (States' rights)
KW  - Connecticut
KW  - History
KW  - 1775-1865
KW  - Revolution, 1775-1783
KW  - Western Reserve (Ohio)
N1  - Open to research; Microfilm edition available; no. 17,351; Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division; Washington, D.C.; Library of Congress Photoduplication Service; 1978
N2  - 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
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009334
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009334.3
ER  -