branch death_date children allegiance birth_date residence state_delegate term_end death_place profession preceded battles term_start spouse rank name succeeded relations birth_place alongside party state district article_title
virginia militia hampshire county militia 25 august 1796 james gregg parsons david parsons united states 27 january 1752 romney united states , virginia -lrb- now west virginia -rrb- , virginia 1796 south now west virginia -rrb- branch potomac river hampshire county , virginia -lrb- planter , politician , and militia officer samuel dew robert parker american revolutionary war 1789 mary e. ellender gregg captain isaac parsons fielding calmes thomas -rrb- isaac parsons -lrb- grandson -rrb- parsons -lrb- father -rrb- parthenia baldwin -lrb- mother hampshire virginia -rrb- county , colony of virginia -lrb- now west isaac miller elias poston francis white alexander king federalist party virginia hampshire county isaac parsons -lrb- virginia politician -rrb-

isaac parsons -lrb- virginia politician -rrb-

isaac parsons -lrb- january 27 , 1752 -- august 25 , 1796 -rrb- was an american planter , politician , and militia officer in the u.s. state of virginia -lrb- now west virginia -rrb- .
parsons served as a member of the virginia house of delegates representing hampshire county from 1789 until his death in 1796 .
following an act of the virginia general assembly in 1789 , parsons was appointed to serve as a trustee for the town of romney .
in 1790 , parsons began serving as a justice for hampshire county .
he served as a captain in command of a company in the virginia militia during the american revolutionary war and continued to serve as a captain in the hampshire county militia following the war .
parsons operated a public ferry across the south branch potomac river , and later died from drowning in the river in 1796 .
parsons was the grandfather of isaac parsons -lrb- 1814 -- 1862 -rrb- , who also represented hampshire county in the virginia house of delegates and served as an officer in the confederate states army .
