Parmenas Briscoe was born To Capt. William Briscoe and Elizabeth Wallace in Albermarle County, Virginia on January 23, 1784, and died in the Pacific Ocean in 1851.
Parmenas went to Mississippi from Madison County, Kentucky in 1898 where his brother, William had been for five years.
He was a Captain in the Creek War and was in the War of 1812-1815 and was commissioned General in the State Militia. Parmenas was a member of the State Legislature and Senate for many years.
His first wife's name is unknown and he married secondly on December 18, 1809 in Adams County, Mississippi to Mary (Polly) Montgomery of Kentucky.
Their children were, John, who served several terms in the Mississippi State Senate; Captain Andrew (who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence of Texas from Mexico and was at the Alamo until the day before its fall); Margaret who died at the age of 6 months, buried at Beechland; Samuel M. (1818-1849), who married Elizabeth Barnes and had a son, all of them dying the same night with Cholera on their Plantation at Mounds, Louisiana (as the wife died last, the Plantation passed from the Briscoe family); Emily Elliott (1821-1891) married George Alexander H. Briscoe (1812-1851), a relative from Kent County, Maryland; William P. (1822-1873) married Leonly Stewart; Clarissa Jane (1825-1895) married Henry Faulk Shaifer; Mary Ann born 1824 married David Harrison; George W. (1830-1853) was with his father Parmenas when he died in 1851; Robert Parmenas born 1832, married Adeline Mayes; Philip (1837-1854) died in a hunting accident.
More than a century ago, during the troublous times of England under Cromwell, there came from "the mother country" four brothers of a cavalier family named Briscoe, and settled in Virginia. Two of them remained there, where they became prominent and prosperous planters, and two, whose names were Phillip and William, emigrated, at a later date, to Kentucky. William had married Elizabeth Wallace while living in Virginia, and was the head of a family at the time of his removal West. He and his brother settled in what is now Madison county, near the town of Richmond, Kentucky, and there their families grew up. The fourth son of William, named Parmenas, born in 1784, while the family yet lived in Virginia, went, at about the age of twenty-one, to Mississippi, whither he was accompanied by an older brother named William. There some four years later (December 18, 1809) he married Polly Montgomery, a daughter of Samuel and Margaret (Crockett) Montgomery, who were early emigrants from South Carolina to Kentucky, whence they had moved southward and settled in the Mississippi country. The Mississippi country at that time included a large area, portions of what is now Alabama being embraced in this area. The settlements were confined mainly to a few river towns like Natchez, and the chief vocations of the settlers were such as grew out of the traffic and transportation along the Mississippi river. But the fertility of the soil was known, and in the forest and cane-brake wilderness of what was afterward Claiborne County, Parmenas Briscoe erected the rude log cabin which was to serve for his shelter and opened his primitive patch preparatory to entering on his career as a planter.
The old Briscoe homestead in Adams County Mississippi was not unlike that of many another of the "first settlers" in that section of Mississippi, a place where industry, thrift and economy joined hands with intelligence, culture and genuine Southern hospitality. The natural productiveness of the soil, aided by the wise use of slave labor, in time brought wealth to its owner, and wealth brought all needful means of enjoyment. This condition of things was not produced, however, without effort, nor did the country enjoy at all times that state of tranquility that enabled the industrious husbandman to remain at home and devote his time to the improvement of his holdings and the enjoyment of pastoral life. Mississippi was erected into a Territory in 1798, and admitted to Statehood in 1817, He was a Captain of volunteers in the Creek war, and in the war of 1S12 commanded a company of volunteers, and was present at New Orleans, but unfortunately for the honor of his command and of himself, he did not reach the scene of conflict until the day after General Jackson had defeated the British forces under Packenham.
The elder Briscoe was for many years prominent both in the military and civil history of his State, becoming General of militia in the days when the State militia was one of the institutions of the land, and serving as a member of both branches of the State Legislature. Those were the days that are now celebrated as "the flush times" of Mississippi, a period that was characterized by the wildest speculation and a saturnalia of corruption in high places. General Briscoe was one who always advocated the highest integrity, both in public and private life, and, by reason of his prominent stand against many schemes of a questionable nature, he excited great enmity among those engaged in these enterprises. As author of the "Briscoe bill," which set on foot an investigation into the banking business in the State, he uncovered and brought to light a great deal of fraud in connection with the State banks, and in this way saved to the people of the State large sums of money. For these services he won the gratitude of all good citizens, and drew around himself a large number of public men. His home, in fact, was the rallying point for such, and it was here that his son Andrew met many of the first men of that day, and from their conversations learned much concerning the political history of the times, and from them also imbibed the political principles by which his own career in after years was, in a great measure, regulated. It will be sufficient for the purposes of this narrative to say that the elder Briscoe continued his interest in public matters to the end of his life, and that he was an interested spectator when the conflict of 1835-6, between Texas and Mexico, came on. His sympathies were naturally with the colonists, and he made several trips about that date to San Felipe and encouraged the Revolutionists in their efforts to secure independence. (Source: History of Texas Biographical History of the Cities of Houston and Galveston (1895)
Parmenas went to Mississippi from Madison County, Kentucky in 1898 where his brother, William had been for five years.
He was a Captain in the Creek War and was in the War of 1812-1815 and was commissioned General in the State Militia. Parmenas was a member of the State Legislature and Senate for many years.
His first wife's name is unknown and he married secondly on December 18, 1809 in Adams County, Mississippi to Mary (Polly) Montgomery of Kentucky.
Their children were, John, who served several terms in the Mississippi State Senate; Captain Andrew (who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence of Texas from Mexico and was at the Alamo until the day before its fall); Margaret who died at the age of 6 months, buried at Beechland; Samuel M. (1818-1849), who married Elizabeth Barnes and had a son, all of them dying the same night with Cholera on their Plantation at Mounds, Louisiana (as the wife died last, the Plantation passed from the Briscoe family); Emily Elliott (1821-1891) married George Alexander H. Briscoe (1812-1851), a relative from Kent County, Maryland; William P. (1822-1873) married Leonly Stewart; Clarissa Jane (1825-1895) married Henry Faulk Shaifer; Mary Ann born 1824 married David Harrison; George W. (1830-1853) was with his father Parmenas when he died in 1851; Robert Parmenas born 1832, married Adeline Mayes; Philip (1837-1854) died in a hunting accident.
More than a century ago, during the troublous times of England under Cromwell, there came from "the mother country" four brothers of a cavalier family named Briscoe, and settled in Virginia. Two of them remained there, where they became prominent and prosperous planters, and two, whose names were Phillip and William, emigrated, at a later date, to Kentucky. William had married Elizabeth Wallace while living in Virginia, and was the head of a family at the time of his removal West. He and his brother settled in what is now Madison county, near the town of Richmond, Kentucky, and there their families grew up. The fourth son of William, named Parmenas, born in 1784, while the family yet lived in Virginia, went, at about the age of twenty-one, to Mississippi, whither he was accompanied by an older brother named William. There some four years later (December 18, 1809) he married Polly Montgomery, a daughter of Samuel and Margaret (Crockett) Montgomery, who were early emigrants from South Carolina to Kentucky, whence they had moved southward and settled in the Mississippi country. The Mississippi country at that time included a large area, portions of what is now Alabama being embraced in this area. The settlements were confined mainly to a few river towns like Natchez, and the chief vocations of the settlers were such as grew out of the traffic and transportation along the Mississippi river. But the fertility of the soil was known, and in the forest and cane-brake wilderness of what was afterward Claiborne County, Parmenas Briscoe erected the rude log cabin which was to serve for his shelter and opened his primitive patch preparatory to entering on his career as a planter.
The old Briscoe homestead in Adams County Mississippi was not unlike that of many another of the "first settlers" in that section of Mississippi, a place where industry, thrift and economy joined hands with intelligence, culture and genuine Southern hospitality. The natural productiveness of the soil, aided by the wise use of slave labor, in time brought wealth to its owner, and wealth brought all needful means of enjoyment. This condition of things was not produced, however, without effort, nor did the country enjoy at all times that state of tranquility that enabled the industrious husbandman to remain at home and devote his time to the improvement of his holdings and the enjoyment of pastoral life. Mississippi was erected into a Territory in 1798, and admitted to Statehood in 1817, He was a Captain of volunteers in the Creek war, and in the war of 1S12 commanded a company of volunteers, and was present at New Orleans, but unfortunately for the honor of his command and of himself, he did not reach the scene of conflict until the day after General Jackson had defeated the British forces under Packenham.
The elder Briscoe was for many years prominent both in the military and civil history of his State, becoming General of militia in the days when the State militia was one of the institutions of the land, and serving as a member of both branches of the State Legislature. Those were the days that are now celebrated as "the flush times" of Mississippi, a period that was characterized by the wildest speculation and a saturnalia of corruption in high places. General Briscoe was one who always advocated the highest integrity, both in public and private life, and, by reason of his prominent stand against many schemes of a questionable nature, he excited great enmity among those engaged in these enterprises. As author of the "Briscoe bill," which set on foot an investigation into the banking business in the State, he uncovered and brought to light a great deal of fraud in connection with the State banks, and in this way saved to the people of the State large sums of money. For these services he won the gratitude of all good citizens, and drew around himself a large number of public men. His home, in fact, was the rallying point for such, and it was here that his son Andrew met many of the first men of that day, and from their conversations learned much concerning the political history of the times, and from them also imbibed the political principles by which his own career in after years was, in a great measure, regulated. It will be sufficient for the purposes of this narrative to say that the elder Briscoe continued his interest in public matters to the end of his life, and that he was an interested spectator when the conflict of 1835-6, between Texas and Mexico, came on. His sympathies were naturally with the colonists, and he made several trips about that date to San Felipe and encouraged the Revolutionists in their efforts to secure independence. (Source: History of Texas Biographical History of the Cities of Houston and Galveston (1895)
Parmenas Briscoe was born To Capt. William Briscoe and Elizabeth Wallace in Albermarle County, Virginia on January 23, 1784, and died in the Pacific Ocean in 1851.
Parmenas went to Mississippi from Madison County, Kentucky in 1898 where his brother, William had been for five years.
He was a Captain in the Creek War and was in the War of 1812-1815 and was commissioned General in the State Militia. Parmenas was a member of the State Legislature and Senate for many years.
His first wife's name is unknown and he married secondly on December 18, 1809 in Adams County, Mississippi to Mary (Polly) Montgomery of Kentucky.
Their children were, John, who served several terms in the Mississippi State Senate; Captain Andrew (who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence of Texas from Mexico and was at the Alamo until the day before its fall); Margaret who died at the age of 6 months, buried at Beechland; Samuel M. (1818-1849), who married Elizabeth Barnes and had a son, all of them dying the same night with Cholera on their Plantation at Mounds, Louisiana (as the wife died last, the Plantation passed from the Briscoe family); Emily Elliott (1821-1891) married George Alexander H. Briscoe (1812-1851), a relative from Kent County, Maryland; William P. (1822-1873) married Leonly Stewart; Clarissa Jane (1825-1895) married Henry Faulk Shaifer; Mary Ann born 1824 married David Harrison; George W. (1830-1853) was with his father Parmenas when he died in 1851; Robert Parmenas born 1832, married Adeline Mayes; Philip (1837-1854) died in a hunting accident.
More than a century ago, during the troublous times of England under Cromwell, there came from "the mother country" four brothers of a cavalier family named Briscoe, and settled in Virginia. Two of them remained there, where they became prominent and prosperous planters, and two, whose names were Phillip and William, emigrated, at a later date, to Kentucky. William had married Elizabeth Wallace while living in Virginia, and was the head of a family at the time of his removal West. He and his brother settled in what is now Madison county, near the town of Richmond, Kentucky, and there their families grew up. The fourth son of William, named Parmenas, born in 1784, while the family yet lived in Virginia, went, at about the age of twenty-one, to Mississippi, whither he was accompanied by an older brother named William. There some four years later (December 18, 1809) he married Polly Montgomery, a daughter of Samuel and Margaret (Crockett) Montgomery, who were early emigrants from South Carolina to Kentucky, whence they had moved southward and settled in the Mississippi country. The Mississippi country at that time included a large area, portions of what is now Alabama being embraced in this area. The settlements were confined mainly to a few river towns like Natchez, and the chief vocations of the settlers were such as grew out of the traffic and transportation along the Mississippi river. But the fertility of the soil was known, and in the forest and cane-brake wilderness of what was afterward Claiborne County, Parmenas Briscoe erected the rude log cabin which was to serve for his shelter and opened his primitive patch preparatory to entering on his career as a planter.
The old Briscoe homestead in Adams County Mississippi was not unlike that of many another of the "first settlers" in that section of Mississippi, a place where industry, thrift and economy joined hands with intelligence, culture and genuine Southern hospitality. The natural productiveness of the soil, aided by the wise use of slave labor, in time brought wealth to its owner, and wealth brought all needful means of enjoyment. This condition of things was not produced, however, without effort, nor did the country enjoy at all times that state of tranquility that enabled the industrious husbandman to remain at home and devote his time to the improvement of his holdings and the enjoyment of pastoral life. Mississippi was erected into a Territory in 1798, and admitted to Statehood in 1817, He was a Captain of volunteers in the Creek war, and in the war of 1S12 commanded a company of volunteers, and was present at New Orleans, but unfortunately for the honor of his command and of himself, he did not reach the scene of conflict until the day after General Jackson had defeated the British forces under Packenham.
The elder Briscoe was for many years prominent both in the military and civil history of his State, becoming General of militia in the days when the State militia was one of the institutions of the land, and serving as a member of both branches of the State Legislature. Those were the days that are now celebrated as "the flush times" of Mississippi, a period that was characterized by the wildest speculation and a saturnalia of corruption in high places. General Briscoe was one who always advocated the highest integrity, both in public and private life, and, by reason of his prominent stand against many schemes of a questionable nature, he excited great enmity among those engaged in these enterprises. As author of the "Briscoe bill," which set on foot an investigation into the banking business in the State, he uncovered and brought to light a great deal of fraud in connection with the State banks, and in this way saved to the people of the State large sums of money. For these services he won the gratitude of all good citizens, and drew around himself a large number of public men. His home, in fact, was the rallying point for such, and it was here that his son Andrew met many of the first men of that day, and from their conversations learned much concerning the political history of the times, and from them also imbibed the political principles by which his own career in after years was, in a great measure, regulated. It will be sufficient for the purposes of this narrative to say that the elder Briscoe continued his interest in public matters to the end of his life, and that he was an interested spectator when the conflict of 1835-6, between Texas and Mexico, came on. His sympathies were naturally with the colonists, and he made several trips about that date to San Felipe and encouraged the Revolutionists in their efforts to secure independence. (Source: History of Texas Biographical History of the Cities of Houston and Galveston (1895)
Parmenas went to Mississippi from Madison County, Kentucky in 1898 where his brother, William had been for five years.
He was a Captain in the Creek War and was in the War of 1812-1815 and was commissioned General in the State Militia. Parmenas was a member of the State Legislature and Senate for many years.
His first wife's name is unknown and he married secondly on December 18, 1809 in Adams County, Mississippi to Mary (Polly) Montgomery of Kentucky.
Their children were, John, who served several terms in the Mississippi State Senate; Captain Andrew (who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence of Texas from Mexico and was at the Alamo until the day before its fall); Margaret who died at the age of 6 months, buried at Beechland; Samuel M. (1818-1849), who married Elizabeth Barnes and had a son, all of them dying the same night with Cholera on their Plantation at Mounds, Louisiana (as the wife died last, the Plantation passed from the Briscoe family); Emily Elliott (1821-1891) married George Alexander H. Briscoe (1812-1851), a relative from Kent County, Maryland; William P. (1822-1873) married Leonly Stewart; Clarissa Jane (1825-1895) married Henry Faulk Shaifer; Mary Ann born 1824 married David Harrison; George W. (1830-1853) was with his father Parmenas when he died in 1851; Robert Parmenas born 1832, married Adeline Mayes; Philip (1837-1854) died in a hunting accident.
More than a century ago, during the troublous times of England under Cromwell, there came from "the mother country" four brothers of a cavalier family named Briscoe, and settled in Virginia. Two of them remained there, where they became prominent and prosperous planters, and two, whose names were Phillip and William, emigrated, at a later date, to Kentucky. William had married Elizabeth Wallace while living in Virginia, and was the head of a family at the time of his removal West. He and his brother settled in what is now Madison county, near the town of Richmond, Kentucky, and there their families grew up. The fourth son of William, named Parmenas, born in 1784, while the family yet lived in Virginia, went, at about the age of twenty-one, to Mississippi, whither he was accompanied by an older brother named William. There some four years later (December 18, 1809) he married Polly Montgomery, a daughter of Samuel and Margaret (Crockett) Montgomery, who were early emigrants from South Carolina to Kentucky, whence they had moved southward and settled in the Mississippi country. The Mississippi country at that time included a large area, portions of what is now Alabama being embraced in this area. The settlements were confined mainly to a few river towns like Natchez, and the chief vocations of the settlers were such as grew out of the traffic and transportation along the Mississippi river. But the fertility of the soil was known, and in the forest and cane-brake wilderness of what was afterward Claiborne County, Parmenas Briscoe erected the rude log cabin which was to serve for his shelter and opened his primitive patch preparatory to entering on his career as a planter.
The old Briscoe homestead in Adams County Mississippi was not unlike that of many another of the "first settlers" in that section of Mississippi, a place where industry, thrift and economy joined hands with intelligence, culture and genuine Southern hospitality. The natural productiveness of the soil, aided by the wise use of slave labor, in time brought wealth to its owner, and wealth brought all needful means of enjoyment. This condition of things was not produced, however, without effort, nor did the country enjoy at all times that state of tranquility that enabled the industrious husbandman to remain at home and devote his time to the improvement of his holdings and the enjoyment of pastoral life. Mississippi was erected into a Territory in 1798, and admitted to Statehood in 1817, He was a Captain of volunteers in the Creek war, and in the war of 1S12 commanded a company of volunteers, and was present at New Orleans, but unfortunately for the honor of his command and of himself, he did not reach the scene of conflict until the day after General Jackson had defeated the British forces under Packenham.
The elder Briscoe was for many years prominent both in the military and civil history of his State, becoming General of militia in the days when the State militia was one of the institutions of the land, and serving as a member of both branches of the State Legislature. Those were the days that are now celebrated as "the flush times" of Mississippi, a period that was characterized by the wildest speculation and a saturnalia of corruption in high places. General Briscoe was one who always advocated the highest integrity, both in public and private life, and, by reason of his prominent stand against many schemes of a questionable nature, he excited great enmity among those engaged in these enterprises. As author of the "Briscoe bill," which set on foot an investigation into the banking business in the State, he uncovered and brought to light a great deal of fraud in connection with the State banks, and in this way saved to the people of the State large sums of money. For these services he won the gratitude of all good citizens, and drew around himself a large number of public men. His home, in fact, was the rallying point for such, and it was here that his son Andrew met many of the first men of that day, and from their conversations learned much concerning the political history of the times, and from them also imbibed the political principles by which his own career in after years was, in a great measure, regulated. It will be sufficient for the purposes of this narrative to say that the elder Briscoe continued his interest in public matters to the end of his life, and that he was an interested spectator when the conflict of 1835-6, between Texas and Mexico, came on. His sympathies were naturally with the colonists, and he made several trips about that date to San Felipe and encouraged the Revolutionists in their efforts to secure independence. (Source: History of Texas Biographical History of the Cities of Houston and Galveston (1895)
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