Book/Printed Material A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence during the revolutionary war.
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Image 1 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ...- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 2 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ...- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 3 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ... A VINDICATION General Samuel Holden Parsons AGAINST THE CHARGE OF TREASONABLE CORRESPONDENCE DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. By HON. GEO. B. LORING. From The Magazine of Ajubrican History for October, 1888, with an...- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 4 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ...- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 5 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ... A VINDICATION OF General Samuel Holden Parsons AGAINST THE CHARGE OF TREASONABLE CORRESPONDENCE DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. By HON. GEO. B^LORING. From the Magazine of American History for October, 1888, with am...- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 6 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ... W1 Hisi, So J| p-T,^- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 7 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ... DEDICATED TO GEN. W. T. SHERMAN who represents by inheritance the loyalty and patriotism of Connecticut and Ohio, to whose civil organization Samuel Holden Parsons devoted his courage and fidelity as a...- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 8 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ...- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 9 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ... LETTER OF VINDICATION. Salem Mass., August 10, 1888, To Mrs. Martha J. Lamb Uditor of the Magazine op American History. The appearance in your magazine for October, 1883, and in subsequent numbers,...- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 10 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ... opened for use in the library of the Massachusetts Histor- ical Society, from a few letters offered for sale, and from authentic liistories. Among the distinguished officers in the American Army of...- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 11 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ... 6th regiment stationed at Roxbury, Mass., until the Brit- ish evacuated Boston, and then ordered to New York. Having obtained from Benedict Arnold an account of the condition of Ticonderoga, he projected...- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 12 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ... 8 At the close of the war he resumed the practice of law at Middletovvn, Conn., was appointed by Congress a Com- missioner to treat with the Miami Indians in 1785 was...- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 13 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ... Parsons was in secret communication with Sir Henry Clinton, and that one William Heron, a representative from Fairtield in the Connecticut legislature was the inter- mediary to whom Parsons wrote letters which...- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 14 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ... 10 communication stating the weakness of both sides, the American and the English and of no great value as an account of either. On its very face it bears this interpre- tation....- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 15 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ... 11 his desire to obtain a place for his son in the British Navy. Heron says also that he came iincler the sanction of a com- mission from Gov. Trnml)ull to cruise...- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 16 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ... 12 Heron s statement, in this letter, of the opinions of Parsons and Stark with regard to the condition of the American army, is merely a repetition of what Parsons had already...- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 17 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ... 13 him. Heron makes no doubt of bringing Parsons to do what we wish. About this time Heron wrote an account of the route taken by the French troops, which he said...- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 18 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ... 14 sonal relations with the leading men of Connecticut and he was in full correspondence with Sir Henry Clinton. He stands well with the officers of the continental army with General Parsons...- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 19 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ... 15 will serve you as a spy must be assured of some generous compensation such as would be an object to his family and secure his fidelity. In his reply to this...- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 20 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ... 16 On April 20, 1781, he wrote to Washington The per- son on whom our principal dependence is placed has been very faithful and employed almost the whole time iu the service...- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 21 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ... 17 nie instead of bearing it where it was directed, which letter you have. In opposition to this his enemies suggest he carries on an illicit trade with the enemy; but I...- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 22 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ... 18 do his duty, preach, and pray for the King till the rebels cut his tongue out. Heron belonged to this church. But we should remember that while in the town of...- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 23 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ... 19 such espionage as Heron practised is impossible but even the vivid imagination of Cooper has not overdrawn tlie pic- ture, in his delineation of Harvey Birch in tlie Spy. This creation...- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 24 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ... 20 against the town of Bedford in Westchester county. This he succeeded in communicating to Washington by a note signed with his own initials, E. H., and forwarded by cour- ier, while...- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 25 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ... 21 1781, we fortunately have a record, not hitherto published, but found largely in his unpublished letters to Washing- ton, filed in the State Department. The part he performed in the events...- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 26 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ... 22 ing of New London by Arnold gave a local importance to the trying events which oppressed the country at this time. It was under these circumstances that Heron pro- fessed to...- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 27 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ... 23 Lee, of the flight of General Provost from Carolina, and in closing adds, Surely it is time for Britons to rouse from their delusive dreams of conquest and pursue such systems...- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 28 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ... 24 Long Island, and Sir Henry Clinton s exploration of the condition of affiiirs with his own troops and also with regard to where transports were taking provisions. Aug. 25, 1780, writes...- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 29 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ... 25 Sraallwood s promotion but complaining that he himself had been unjustly neglected, having served four years, and half the time commanded a division of the army. Had the same principles actuated...- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 30 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ... 26 the honor of seeing you, fully convinces me of the justice of my observations yesterday on that subject and I be- lieve the same spirit pervades the whole of the line....- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 31 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ... 27 Mar. 3, 1781. Parsons in another letter to Gov. Trum- bull avows knowledge of constant intercommunication be- tween the disaffected scattered from New York to Canada. He says he knows who...- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 32 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ... 28 on the defection of Vermont they say their measures are fully secured there and that an army may be expected from Canada soon. No doubt Heron furnished him this information. June...- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 33 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ... 29 one Rowland and directing the prisoners to attend the ex- ecution. These letters written in 1781, of which that of July 28 to Washington is the last, cover the entire period...- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 34 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ... matters relatino to his business with Cono^ress and re- ceived many letters from the general to the members. On July 5, 1787, he was ready to support Parsons for Gov- ernor, but...- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 35 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ... 31 In the division of the lands a share consisted of 11 73 J acres (in plots) of which the cost was understood to be $1000 in continental money and $10 specie....- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 36 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ... APPENDIX. LETTER OF HON. CHAS. J. MCcORDY. Lyme, Conn., Oct. 15, 1888. Hon. George B. Loring. Dear Sir: Your letter of the 10th Inst, was duly received. Your vindica- tion of General...- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 37 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ... 33 his proverbial sagacity and his selection and control of instruments that General Parsons knew his man all the time and had turned him from his former employers and probably with the...- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 38 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ... 34 LETTER OF HON. CHA8. S. HALL. Binghamton, N. F., Oct. 16, 1888. Hon. George B. Loring. My dear Sir: Your Viudication of General Samuel Holden Parsons I have read with the...- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 39 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ... 35 for the cause of our countrv, and trust the event to Him who orders all events for the best good of His people. Governor Tryon in 1778 had burned several houses...- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888
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Image 40 of A vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons against the charge of treasonable correspondence ... 36 the character of the man and his confidential relations with Washing- ton, it would not be just or reasonable to infer anything to the con- trary, then we must conclude that...- Contributor: Loring, George B. (George Bailey) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1888