Isaac Parsons (Virginia politician)

Isaac Parsons was an American planter, politician, and militia officer in the U.S. state of Virginia . Parsons served as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates representing Hampshire County from 1789 until his death in 1796. Following an act of the Virginia General Assembly in 1789, Parsons was appointed to serve as a trustee for the town of Romney. In 1790, Parsons began serving as a justice for Hampshire County. He served as a captain in command of a company in the Virginia militia during the American Revolutionary War and continued to serve as a captain in the Hampshire County militia following the war. Parsons operated a public ferry across the South Branch Potomac River, and later died from drowning in the river in 1796. Parsons was the grandfather of Isaac Parsons , who also represented Hampshire County in the Virginia House of Delegates and served as an officer in the Confederate States Army.

Isaac Parsons was born on January 27, 1752, in Hampshire County, Virginia . Parsons was the third son of Thomas Parsons and his wife Parthenia Baldwin Parsons. The Parsons family was a prominent family whose ancestors arrived to the Thirteen Colonies from England in 1635 and relocated to Hampshire County around 1740. Parsons father settled on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1725 prior to relocating to Hampshire County, Virginia.

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