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Joseph Parsons, 5 1/2 ac; Adj G. Washington, 1812, bk 1, pg 326
"Jackson County in the Wars"
Revolutionary Soldiers
Joseph Parsons. Brother of Charles Parsons. Born in 1755 in Queen Anne's County, Maryland. Moved to Augusta or Rockingham county, VA, 1763 or 1764. Living in District of West Augusta, now Lewis County in 1776. After the Revolution, lived in Wood, Mason and Jackson counties.
In 1820 census, there were 2 boys and 2 girls in his family. Married, probably for the second time, Elizabeth, daughter of Adam Bush, in Harrison county, Jan 14, 1804.
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John House, "Pioneers of Jackson County"
In 1800, or near that date, Joseph Parsons, Cornelius King, and John Douglass were added to the little settlement.
Joseph Parsons was a brother of Charles, and an uncle of William L. Parsons. He was a member of the first Methodist Class, organized in Jackson County. This church was established at his house in 1803, by Reverend Noah.
It is on record in Deed Book No. 1, of Jackson County, in the Clerk's Office, in Ripley, that Joseph Parsons, on November 28th, 1831, sold to Alexander Warth, a tract of five and one half acres of land lying between the mouth of Big and Little Mill Creek, described as beginning on the River, just below the mouth of Big Mill Creek, on two elms on the line of the Washington Survey, and running with said line to the corner of a tract patented to John Harvey. The price paid was Twenty Dollars per acre.
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Randolph Co. Va. pg 190 Court Notes of a Century.
Court records for July 1787, contain this item
On the same day John Alford came into court and swore that he was afraid that Joseph Parsons would do him a private injury. There upon Parsons was put under bond" to keep the peace of the world and especially of John Alford."
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West Virginia Pioneers
