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Theophilus Parsons (February 13, 1749, Newbury, Massachusetts
Newbury, Massachusetts

Newbury is a New England town in Essex County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 6,717 at the 2000 census. Newbury includes the villages of Old Town , Plum Island, Massachusetts and Byfield, Massachusetts, home of The Governor's Academy , a private University-preparatory school....
 – October 30, 1813 Boston, Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts

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) was an American jurist
Jurist

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.

The son of a clergyman, he graduated from Harvard College
Harvard College

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 in 1769, was a schoolmaster in Falmouth (now Portland, Maine
Portland, Maine

Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maine and the county seat of Cumberland County, Maine. The city population was 64,249 at the 2000 United States Census....
) from 1770-1773; he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1774.






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Theophilus Parsons
Theophilus Parsons (February 13, 1749, Newbury, Massachusetts
Newbury, Massachusetts

Newbury is a New England town in Essex County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 6,717 at the 2000 census. Newbury includes the villages of Old Town , Plum Island, Massachusetts and Byfield, Massachusetts, home of The Governor's Academy , a private University-preparatory school....
 – October 30, 1813 Boston, Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts

Boston is the State capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region, and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England." Boston city proper had a 2007 est...
) was an American jurist
Jurist

A jurist or jurisconsult is a professional who studies, develops, applies, or otherwise deals with the law. The term is widely used in American English, but in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth of Nations countries it has only historical and specialist usage....
.

The son of a clergyman, he graduated from Harvard College
Harvard College

Harvard College is the undergraduate section and oldest school of Harvard University, a private university in the United States founded in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature....
 in 1769, was a schoolmaster in Falmouth (now Portland, Maine
Portland, Maine

Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maine and the county seat of Cumberland County, Maine. The city population was 64,249 at the 2000 United States Census....
) from 1770-1773; he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1774. In 1800, he moved to Boston.

He served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court is the highest court in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The SJC has the distinction of being the oldest continuously functioning appellate court in the Western Hemisphere....
 of Massachusetts from 1806 until his death in Boston in 1813. In politics, he was active as one of the Federalist leaders in the state. He was a member of the Essex County convention of 1778 — called to protest against the proposed state constitution — and as a member of the "Essex Junto
Essex Junto

The Essex Junto was a group of lawyers and merchants from Essex County, Massachusetts. These Federalist Party supported Alexander Hamilton and the Massachusetts radicals....
" was probably the author of The Essex Result, which helped to secure the constitution's rejection at the polls.

Parsons was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1779-1780 and one of the committee of twenty-six who drafted the constitution. He was also a delegate to the state convention of 1788 which ratified the Federal Constitution. According to tradition, he was the author of the famous Conciliatory Resolutions, or proposed amendments to the constitution, which did much to win over Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams

Samuel Adams was a statesman, Political philosophy, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. As a politician in Province of Massachusetts Bay, Adams was a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, and was one of the architects of the principles of Republicanism in the United States that shaped the political cul...
 and John Hancock
John Hancock

John Hancock was a merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as President of the Continental Congress of the Second Continental Congress and was the first Governor of Massachusetts of the Massachusetts....
 to ratification. His Commentaries on the Laws of the United States (1836) contains some of his more important legal opinions.

His son, also named Theophilus Parsons
Theophilus Parsons (professor)

Theophilus Parsons , was Dane Professor of Law at Harvard from 1848 to 1870. Parsons is remembered chiefly as the author of a series of useful legal treatises and some books in support of Swedenborgian doctrines....
 (1797-1882), was an author and a professor at Harvard.

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