his son Enoch, "..His estates, both in Middletown and Marietta, were found to be insolvent.." Parsons' children Parsons' surviving children included: William Walter Parsons (1762–1802). Served as a midshipman during the Revolution, wherein he was taken prisoner by the British during the disastrous Penobscot Expedition. He eventually settled in Bangor, Maine. Enoch Parsons (1769–1846). Accompanied his father to Ohio, where he served as Registrar and Clerk of Probate. Returning to Connecticut after his father's death, he served as High Sheriff of Middlesex County for 28 years and as President of the Middletown Branch of the Bank of the United States from 1818 to 1824. Samuel Holden Parsons (1777–1811). Middletown merchant in West Indies trade. Lucia Parsons (1764–1825). Married Stephen Titus Hosmer, Chief Justice of Connecticut. Her daughter, Sarah Mehitabel Hosmer (1793-1834), married Major Andre Andrews (1792–1834), second Mayor of Buffalo. Mehetable Parsons (1772–1825). Married William Brenton Hall, Middletown physician. Margaret Parsons (1785-1853). Married 1st Stephen Hubbard of Middletown; married 2nd Alfred Hubbard Lathrop-a grandson from her marriage to Alfred Lathrop was the author George Parsons Lathrop married to Rose Hawthorne daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne See also Battle of Norwalk References Bibliography Baker, Mark (2104). Connecticut Families of the Revolution, American Forebears from Burr to Wolcott, The History Press, Charleston, SC (2014). Hall, Charles S.: Hall Ancestry. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, New York (1896). Hall, Charles S.: Life and Letters of Samuel Holden Parsons, Major General in The Continental Army and Chief Judge of the Northwestern Territory, Otseningo Publishing Co., Binghamton, New York (1905). Heitman, Francis B.: Officers of the Continental Army during the War of the Revolution, Rare Book Shop Publishing Co., Washington, D.C. (1914). Hildreth, Samuel P.: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of the Early Pioneer Settlers of Ohio, H. W. Derby and Co., Cincinnati, Ohio (1852). Hinman, Royal R.: A Historical Collection of the part sustained by Connecticut during the War of the Revolution, printed by E. Gleason, Hartford, Connecticut (1842). Leiter, M. T.: Biographical Sketches of the Generals of the Continental Army of the Revolution, University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1889). Shipton, Clifford K.: Harvard Graduates: Biographical Sketches of Those Who Attended Harvard College, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1968). 1737 births 1789 deaths Accidental deaths in Pennsylvania Continental Army generals Continental Army officers from Connecticut Deaths by drowning in the United States Harvard College alumni Northwest Territory judges People from Lyme, Connecticut People