Indian Names of Places in Rhode-Island (Classic Reprint)
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In 1766, the Narragansets were reduced to three hundred and fifteen persons, residing on the Indian reserved lands, in Charlestown. In 1832.
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Directions for Making Anatomical Preparations: Formed on the Basis of Pole, Marjolin and Breschet, and Including the New Method of Mr. Swan
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His father, Nicholas Frost, was also a native Of Tiverton, and resided near Lemon Green, over against Bear Garden. He had one sister, who married Charles Brooks, a brazier in Crown Alley, London. He was born about the year 1595, and arrived at Pascataqua about 1635 or 1636, and settled at the head of Sturgeon Creek, on the south side of Frost's Hill, where he died, July 20, 1663, and was buried in the rear of his house. He brought over a wife and two or three children. The wife is not mentioned in his will, dated 1650, from which it is to be inferred that she died before that time. This will was examined in court Of probate, and, from some cause now unknown, was deemed invalid and Of none effect. The court ordered that his estate be divided among his children equally, excepting that Charles, the Oldest, should have a double share, for his care and former trouble. This amounted to £211. Charles took the homestead, with five hundred acres Of land. TO his second son, John, he gave three hundred acres in York, with a marsh valued at £65, the rest in money. TO William Leighton, for his wife Catherine, personal property. TO Elizabeth, when she should arrive Of age, personal estate. TO Nicholas, a house and lot adjoining Leighton's, and personal property; he being a minor, was placed under the guardianship Of his brother Charles.
Catherine Leighton had a son and a daughter named John and Eliza beth. The latter died young. The son married Oner Langdon, and was the ancestor Of a numerous race, among whom were a grandson, Major Samuel Leighton of Elliot, and his son, General Samuel Leighton, who died in Alfred, Sept, 1848. Catherine married again, to Joseph Hammond, who was Register and Judge Of Probate, and had children by him. She died Aug. 1, 1715.
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Usher Parsons was an American physician and surgeon.
Background
Usher Parsons was born on August 18, 1788 in Alfred, York County, Maine, United States. He was the youngest of nine children. His father was William Parsons, farmer, trader, and lumberman, three of whose brothers were Harvard graduates; his grandfather was the Rev. Joseph Parsons, whose immigrant ancestor of that name was one of the first settlers in Springfield, Massachussets, in the seventeenth century. His mother, Abigail Frost (Blunt) Parsons, was the daughter of the Reverend John Blunt of New Castle, New Hampshire, and a blood connection of Sir William Pepperell, hero of Louisburg.
Education
Usher Parsons' formal education was meager and desultory, but included one year (1800 - 1801) at Berwick Academy. As a lad he worked in retail stores in Portland and Wells. In 1807 he began the study of medicine under Dr. Abiel Hall of Alfred. In 1809 he attended anatomical lectures at Fryeburg under Dr. Alexander Ramsay and later was in the office of the eminent Dr. John Warren of Boston. In March 1818, Usher Parsons received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from Harvard Medical College.
Career
Usher Parsons was licensed to practise by the Massachusetts Medical Society, February 7, 1812, when war with England was imminent. He was commissioned surgeon's mate, July 6, 1812. Finding that the John Adams, which he had been ordered to join in August, had sailed when he reached New York, he volunteered for service on the Great Lakes. Arriving at Buffalo, he did yeoman service during an epidemic of pleuro-pneumonia, and wrote extensively for the press on the cause and treatment of that disease. In 1812 - 1813 he was in charge of the sick and wounded at Black Rock and, after the arrival upon the scene of Commodore Oliver H. Perry in June 1813, sprang into great prominence for his brilliant surgical work.
At the battle of Lake Erie, owing to the disability of his associate surgeons on the Lawrence, the whole duty of dressing and attending nearly a hundred wounded, and as many sick, devolved upon young Parsons. In a letter to the Secretary of the Navy, Commodore Perry is said to have written: "It must be pleasant to you, Sir, to reflect that, of the whole number wounded, only three have died. I can only say that, in the event of my having another command, I should consider myself particularly fortunate in having him [Parsons] with me as a surgeon". On the day of the battle and the following day, the wounded from the entire fleet having been brought to his ship, he performed six thigh amputations. For this extraordinary service a grateful country awarded him not only prize-money but a silver medal.
After the war, he served under Perry on board the Java, and on January 22, 1816, in view of the threatening attitude of Algiers, sailed in the Java for the Mediterranean. Returning to Narragansett Bay, March 3, 1817, he proceeded to Providence with letters of introduction from Commodore Perry. After practising in that city for four months, he attended lectures in Boston. In October 1818, he published "Surgical Account of the Naval Battle of Lake Erie, " in the New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery. In July, he had sailed as surgeon on the frigate Guerrière. On this cruise he came into profitable contact with the leading physicians and surgeons of Paris and London, among whom were Dupuytren, Baron Larrey, Louis, Laennec, and Abernethy. In London, too, he made the acquaintance of Sir Richard Owen, naturalist and anatomist, with whom he kept up a lifelong friendship and correspondence.
In August 1820, he was chosen professor of anatomy and surgery in Dartmouth College, lecturing there one year. At this time he published The Sailor's Physician (1820), a medical guide for use on merchant vessels, of which a second edition appeared in 1824, and a third and a fourth in 1842 and 1851 under the title, Physician for Ships. In 1822 Parsons was appointed professor of anatomy and surgery in Brown University, and in this year began his continued residence in Rhode Island. In April 1823 Parsons resigned his commission in the navy. In 1831 he was appointed professor of obstetrics in Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and lectured there the following winter. Parsons wrote voluminously, his bibliography (1809 - 1867) embracing fifty-six titles. He won the Boylston Prize four times. The prize-winning papers were collected and published as Boylston Prize Dissertations (1839). A second edition (1849) included a paper which won the Fiske Fund prize in 1842. Another notable publication was Parsons' summary of his larger surgical operations in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences, April 1848. Among his lay writings were Life of Sir William Pepperrell, Bart. (1855), Indian Names of Places in Rhode Island (1861), and "Brief Sketches of the Officers Who Were in the Battle of Lake Erie" (New-England Historical and Genealogical Register, January 1863). Deservedly his memory, as of one who never worshipped medicine as a milch-cow, but always as a goddess, is cherished with pride by the profession of Rhode Island. He died in Providence on December 19, 1868.
Usher Parsons was a president of the Rhode Island Medical Society and one of the founders of the American Medical Association, and its vice-president (1853).
Personality
Quotes from others about the person
"Taking him all in all it would be difficult to find a man of greater merit in American medicine, for he gave of his entire mind for over fifty years to the advance of medical science. " - one of Usher Parsons' biographers.
Connections
On September 23, 1822, Usher Parsons married Mary Jackson Holmes of Cambridge, daughter of Abiel and sister of Oliver Wendell Holmes. She died on June 14, 1825, leaving one son who became a physician.