Hi All: Spent some of the lunch hour today going through Ancestry....Found this info you might be interested in....My husband's line is the Parsons one mentioned, so I am always wanting to hear from related folks....The Abigail Parsons who married Thomas Hayden was a sister to the 3rd Moses in this line... Cornet Joseph> Joseph Esq> Moses>Moses> Moses> James Allen Parsons>Heman --Fred's great grandfather... I am most interested in this 3rd Moses, as he went from MA to VT in the late 1700's and early 1800's....can't find where he died, or where he is buried....Does anyone have this line? Best to All, Karen Rinnert Parsons [email protected] Full Context of Colonial Families in the United States, Vol. 3. Colonial Families of the United States of America: Volume 3 [p.208] ISSUE ADJT. THOMAS HAYDEN, b. 14th Jan. 1745; bap. 16th Jan. 1745; d. in Windsor, 28th Dec. 1787. When the clash of arms occurred at Lexington, Mass., 10th Apr. 1775, and the news reached Windsor the next day, Thomas HAYDEN was plowing in his field. Loosening his horse from the plow and harness, he sprang upon its back and rode express, carrying the news to Suffield, arousing the country to arms. He was one of the "Lexington Alarm" party under command of his cousin, Capt. Nathaniel HAYDEN; served until July, 1775, when he was made Sergeant in the Simsbury Company, commanded by his brother-in-law, Capt. Ebenezer Fitch BISSELL. He was appointed Sergeant-Major, Eighth Connecticut Regiment, 11th Aug. 1775; commissioned by Congress Second Lieutenant, Seventeenth Regiment, Continental Line, 1st Jan. 1776, and First Lieutenant of the same, 1st Jan. 1777; appointed Adjutant to Col. Jed. HUNTINGTON, 20th Oct. 1776; and 8th Apr. 1777, at Danbury, appointed Adjutant to Col. Zebulon BUTLER. In Aug. 1777, he was in the recruiting service at Windsor. In 1778 he was honorably discharged, and with many other Connecticut officers returned home. He re-entered the service in 1781, and was appointed Lieutenant in a Provincial Connecticut Regiment; was made First Lieutenant, Connecticut Regiment, 20th June, 1782, and was honorably discharged with his command, after the close of the war in 1783. His first commissions, sword, orderly book, watch and ink-horn used in the Revolutionary War are in the hands of his descendants. Lieutenant HAYDEN was for fifty years an architect and builder, and his reputation as such led to his being selected to erect the fortifications at Roxbury, during the siege of Boston, 1775, which were considered among the best constructed in the war. m. 19th Nov. 1767, his cousin, Abigail PARSONS, b. 28th Apr. 1747, bap. June, 1747, d. 1817, dau. of Moses PARSONS, of Durbam, Conn., by his wife, Elizabeth VENTRIS, of East Haddam, Conn. Moses PARSONS was a grandson of Moses PARSONS (and his wife, Abigail BALL), Deputy to the General Court of Connecticut, 1732, 1734, 1738, and was a greatgrandson of Hon. Joseph PARSONS, of Northampton, Mass., and his wife, Elizabeth STRONG, sister of Lieut. Return STRONG. Joseph PARSONS was Deputy to the General Court of Massachusetts for twenty-six years; Captain, Hampshire County Militia, 1697-1727; Justice, 1696-1702; Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, 1696; Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, 1696-1717; and was the son of Cornet Joseph PARSONS, one of the founders of Springfield, Mass., 1635, by his wife, Mary BLISS, dau. of Thomas and Mary BLISS (1630).