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Jr., and first m. Capt. Joseph Washburn; Barnabas d. in S. B. 1795, æ. 25.—Experience, wife of Abiel Packard, d. in S. B. 1790, æ. 83.—Sarah m. Wm. Pool 1795.—Isaac Porter (s. of Joseph) m. a Packard.—Wid. Susanna Packard d. 1773, æ. 89.
PARRIS.—Thomas Parris of London came to Long Island, N. Y., 1683; thence removed to Newbury, Mass., 1685, and to Pembroke 1697; his father was John, a dissenting minister of Ugborough, near Plymouth, England, whose father was Thomas, a merchant of London, who had a brother a merchant and planter of great wealth, who d. in Barbados 1660. (See Deane's Scituate.) Thomas, first above named, had a s. Thomas born at Pembroke 1701; m. Hannah, D. of Matthew Gannet of Scituate, 1724, and had Thomas 1725, Elkanah, Benjamin, Matthew. The father d. 1786.—Thomas (last named) m. Rebeckah, D. of Benjamin Hayward, Jr., and settled within the borders of E. B. and had Benjamin 1753, Thomas 1758.—Thomas, the father, d. 1797, æ. 72; she 1806; æ. 77.—Thomas, the son, perished in a great snow storm 1777.
2. Benjamin (s. of Thomas 1) m. Sarah, D. of his uncle Benjamin of Halifax 1774; she d. 1787, æ. 36; he then m. a 2d w. Lydia, and had Betsy 1789, Thomas 1792, Oren 1796. The father was drowned 1817, æ. 66; his w. d. 1824, æ. 69.—Thomas m. Clarissa, D. of Barza Kingman 1815.—Oren m. Eunice, wid. of William Wildy and D. of Barza Kingman, and both live in E. B., and have families.—Betsy m. Otis Hayward 1804.
Elkanah (brother of Thomas 1) m. Grace Mott of Scituate 1761, and has a large family at Williamstown.
Benjamin (brother of Thomas 1) married Millescent, D. of Joseph Keith of Easton 1753, and had Samuel 1755, Matthew 1757, Josiah, Martin, Dan, Sarah, and others, probably. This man lived a while in the border of Halifax, near his brother Thomas, but d. in Pembroke.—Samuel, Esq., m. Sarah Pratt of Mido. and settled in Hebron, Me., and is father of Albion Keith Parris, late Govenor of Maine.—Mathew m. Mercy Tomson of Halifax 1780, and d. in Me., and was father of Alexander, Esq., of Boston.—Josiah m. Experience, D. of Nath'l Lowden of E. B. 1788, and settled in Me., and has a son Virgil, an Attorney and Member of Congress.—Martin gra. B. U. 1790, and was a Minister of Marshfield, and d. 1839.—Dan has a family in Halifax.
Thomas and Mary Parris, of Cambridge, had Thomas 1641, Mary 1643.—John Parris, of Charlestown, 1645, gave a mortgage of his houses in Barbados, 1650, to secure £650 to be paid in Lombard street at the Green Dragon, London.—Samuel and Elizabeth Parris had Thos. 1681, Elizabeth 1682, Susanna 1687. Thomas and Mary Parris, of Boston, had Mary 1686*, Mary 1687.—Thomas Parris at Duxbury 1710.
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