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Parsons, Samuel Holden

soldier, lawyer, jurist, author, was born May 14, 1737, in Lyme, Conn. He was elected a member of the Connecticut assembly in 1762, and successively for eighteen sessions. He was made brigadier-general by congress in 1776; and major-general in 1780. In 1785 he was appointed by congress a commissioner to treat with the Indians at Miami; was a member of the convention of Connecticut which ratified the federal constitution of 1788; and was appointed first judge of the northwest territory. In 1789 he was state commissioner for treating with the Indians on the western reserve of Connecticut; and settled on the Ohio river in 1787, and published an essay on the antiquities of the western states. He was drowned Nov. 17, 1789, in Big Beaver river, Ohio.