Hall, Charles S. Life and Letters of Samuel Holden Parsons, Major General in the Continental Army and Chief Judge of the Northwestern Territory, 1737-1789. New York: From the Archives of James Pugliese, 1968. Reprint edition. [11748]
Green cloth with gilt titles, binding very good, 10 x 6 1/2 inches, tight. xiii, [1], 607 clean pp., with index. Very good. Hardcover.
First published in 1905.
Samuel Holden Parsons (1737-1789), b. Lyme, CT; d. Beaver River, PA. A lawyer by trade, and during the American Revolution a general in the Continental Army. He graduated at Harvard in 1756, studied law with his uncle, and was admitted to the bar in 1759. He was an early advocate of American Independence, and as an officer saw action in the Battles of Bunker Hill, Long Island and West Point. He was instrumental in the investigation of Benedict Arnold, and was one of the board that sentenced Major John André to death. He served from the first conflicts of the war until 1782. In 1787 he became a pioneer in the Ohio territory as a director of the Ohio Land Company, and was appointed Chief Justice of the Northwest Territory.
