Mass., twenty years. He returned to Kingston, where he d. Nov. 15, 1839. His widow d. June 17, 1854, age 84.

             CHILDREN: 
Martin Luther Parris, b. May 19, 1795; was Capt.; d. at sea March 9, 
        1824. 
Benjamin Parris, b. Dec. 5, 1798; d. April 10, 1805. 
Samuel Bartlett Parris, b. Jan. 30, 1806. A physician; d. at Attleboro, 
        Mass., Sept. 21, 1827. 

In 1802 Martin Parris bought a house on Main street, Plymouth, of N. Lewis; in 1803 he sold it to the Plymouth Bank.

Martin L. Parris was in command of schooner Rainbow of Elizabeth City, N. C., on its voyage from the West Indies. He died of fever, and buried at sea.

Dr. Samuel B. Parris entered Brown's University at the age of 12, though admitted a member at the age of 10. He graduated at the age of 15. At 16 he began the study of medicine under Dr. Paul L. Nichols of Kingston, Mass., one year, then attended three courses of medical lectures. He then studied with Dr. Samuel Bigbee of Wrentham, Mass., two years. Oct. 14, 1825, he began practice in Attleborough, Mass., at the residence of the late Dr. Thomas Stanley, at the Falls, where he died at 3 a. m., Sept. 21, 1827. His body was removed to Kingston cemetery.

MERCY PARRIS6, (Benjamin5, Thomas4, Thomas3, John2, Thomas1) b. Sept. 18, 1768, dau. of Benjamin and Melicent (Keith) Parris; m. David Sturtevant of Halifax, Mass., April 11, 1786 (by Rev. Ephraim Briggs). They very soon moved to Butterfield in the east part of Sumner, Me. He d. in 1793, and is buried on the farm where he lived by the side of his mother, Joanna (Waterman) Sturtevant, on the west end of lot nine, first range. In 1892, owned by heirs of Winslow Briggs. Left alone with four little children in a wild country, his widow was obliged to return to her parents in Pembroke, Mass., where she taught school.

             THEIR CHILDREN: 
William Sturtevant, b. July 22, 1786, in Sumner, Me.; d. in war of 
        1812. 
David Sturtevant, b. Aug., 1788, in Sumner, Me.; was in war of 1812. 
        He fell from a horse in Charleston, S. C.; d. Mar. 10, 1816. 
Isaac Sturtevant, b. Jan. 7, 1790, in Sumner, Me. 
Martin Parris Sturtevant, b. Sept. 10, 1791, in Sumner, Me. 

Mercy (Parris) Sturtevant m. second, Thomas Turner of Pembroke, Mass., May 30, 1802, (by John Turner, J. P.); she d. April 11, 1845, age 77. Thomas Turner was a Justice of Peace for more than forty years; he d. Feb. 12, 1862, age 84.