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Last name Parsons
First name Samuel
Display name Samuel Parsons
Birth date 1774
Death date 1841
Birth place New York City
Death place New York City
Gender m
Affiliations Society of Friends, New York Yearly meeting of Friends, New York Yearly Meeting of Friends. Indian Committee
Bio notes NYYM Indian Committee 1807-1816, clerk in 1808/1813. Son of James and Mary Parsons. Married Mary Bowne of Flushing, NY. c. 1808 became an elder, later a minister. Served as assistant clerk for New York Yearly Meeting for 8 years and as clerk for 14 more years, including during the Separation in 1828.

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Minutes of the Committee on Indian Concern No 1

Reports of the Indian Committee to New York Yearly Meeting, 1795-1806

New York Yearly Meeting Committee on Indian Concerns Scrapbook

Life of Thomas Eddy