Relationship 788: Thomas Parvin & Unknown female

Relationship Record 788

Male/Husband} Parvin, Thomas

Family History} Hancock

Female/Wife} Unknown female

Relationship Type} Marriage

Marriage: Date} Cal 1764

Place}

Ended: On Date} Aft 1793
By}

Source 1}	1250=Family history
Source 2}	1274=Family history
Source 3}	1275=Family history
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Photo} None

Last Updated
by} Dan Hancock

Date Updated} 3 Nov 2010
Date Created} 10 Oct 2010

Notes: Thomas worked in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, years before he moved his family to Kentucky.

Thomas apparently arrived at Crow's Station, near Danville, Kentucky, with his family in 1784. Two years later Thomas moved about one-half mile below Stroud's Station, in what is now Clark County, with the John Constant and James Stamper families. The place was then called Constant's Station since it was on John's land. Constant's Station at that time consisted of four houses in a quadrangle on the south side of a lane running down to Strode's Creek. James Stamper had a double house with a partition in the middle. Stamper's family occupied one half and Thomas Parvin's family occupied the other half. Thomas was poor and had many children.

Thomas and his family were at Constant's Station when it was attacked by Indians in 1785 or 1786. Two of the Parvin children were hoeing corn in Constant's field and two little Parvin children had been sent down the land about 125 yards from the house to gather some spice bushes. The other Parvin children had the measles.

The Indians shot John Constant in the leg as he was trying to get the Parvin children with him to take alarm and run. The two little Parvin children who had been breaking spice bushes alone, far from the others, were killed. They looked dreadful and like they had been tomahawked. The Indians escaped.

Thomas was a school teacher at Strode's Station for some time. A year or so later, Thomas was induced to go to Lexington — first temporarily, and then permanently. Thomas worked as a typesetter one day a week for awhile and taught school in Lexington.

Later Thomas moved to Bourbon County, near the Clark County line, were he lived until his death in about 1823.

Children:

Total # of Children} 7 or 9?

Seq. # of Primary}

1st Child}	Parvin, Elizabeth Frances	b Cir 1765/1777,	d Bef 1831
2nd Child}	Parvin, Sarah	b Cir 1767
3rd Child}	Parvin, Nancy Jane	b Cir 1769
4th Child}	Parvin, Catherine Louise	b Cir 1771
5th Child}	Parvin, Henry Clay	b Cir 1775,	d Cir 1850
6th Child}	Parvin, Arthur	b Fam 1787,	d Fam 1871
7th Child}	Parvin, Benjamin	b Fam 1793,	d Bef 1860

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