Mary was living in Durham in July 1780 when given £20 ("to my sister Mary Parsons") in the will of brother Ebenezer Robinson of Durham. There is no record of when she died, but she is assumed to be interred without surviving gravestone at the Old Durham Cemetery in Durham, Conn. with her husband, numerous of her children, and Mary's own parents and several siblings (see inscription note.)
On Nov. 30, 1719 of record in Durham, Conn., Mary m. Timothy Parsons, s. of Samuel Parsons and Rhoda Taylor, b. Jan. 23, 1694/95 in Northampton, Mass. He d. testate in Durham with the rank of Capt., Jan. 28, 1772, Æ 78 (g.s.) They had nine known children born or baptized of record in Durham, Conn.
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Mary was living in Durham in July 1780 when given £20 ("to my sister Mary Parsons") in the will of brother Ebenezer Robinson of Durham. There is no record of when she died, but she is assumed to be interred without surviving gravestone at the Old Durham Cemetery in Durham, Conn. with her husband, numerous of her children, and Mary's own parents and several siblings (see inscription note.)
On Nov. 30, 1719 of record in Durham, Conn., Mary m. Timothy Parsons, s. of Samuel Parsons and Rhoda Taylor, b. Jan. 23, 1694/95 in Northampton, Mass. He d. testate in Durham with the rank of Capt., Jan. 28, 1772, Æ 78 (g.s.) They had nine known children born or baptized of record in Durham, Conn.
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Inscription
In the Hale Conn. Cemetery Inscriptions database for the Old Durham Cemetery (Vol. 12), immediately following the extant gravestones of Lieut. Samuel and Rhoda (Taylor) Parsons (parents of Mary's husband) is the notation of a "Stone Gone." This is immediately followed by the extant gravestones of Mary's husband Capt. Timothy Parsons and their son Ensign Timothy Parsons, Jr. The latter two listings are followed by the extant gravestones of Mary (Robinson) Parson's half-sister and her husband, Capt. Joseph and Abigail (Robinson) Coe.
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