Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Benjamin PARVIN
Exeter MM, Selected items from Men's Minutes: "25/10/1769 - . . . Benjamin Parvin requests certificate to Monthly Meeting at Third Haven in Maryland in order to proceed in marriage with Sarah Powel, a member of that meeting."
Source: F. Edward Wright, Berks County Church Records of the 18th Century, p. 147
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"On 23 da., 7 mo., 1777, Benjamin Parvin, late of PA, but now of TA Co., manumitted Negroes Adam, Eve, Isaac, Phill, and Pegg, and renounced all claim to Jenny, Judith, Minta and Rose, all of full age, the property of his wife Sarah Powell, manumitted before her marriage with him and before she had reached 21. {TALR:20:111}
Benjamin Parvin was the son of Francis Parvin of Maiden Creek, Bucks Co. PA. He m. Sarah, dau. of Daniel and Sarah Powell. They were the parents of: {THMM} MARY, b. 18 March 1781."
Source: Colonial Families of the Eastern Shore, Vol. 3, the Howell Powell Sr. Family, p. 291
The following information was sent by Debra Tucker on October 6, 2003 via e-mail:
"From the following website: http://www.parvin-associates.com/genealogy/d2158.htm
BENJAMIN PARVIN was born in Mar. 1728 at sea. He died on May 22, 1795 in Easton, MD. He was Quaker. He was a personal friend of JOHN WOOLMAN, the emminent Quaker. JOHN WOOLMAN'S Journal (Published Vol. I of Harvard Classics) describes their trip far up the Susquehanna River to meet the Indians at Wehaloosing (Wyloosing, near Towanda, Bradford Co., PA) in an effort to understand the Indian's point of view regarding the white settlements.
BENJAMIN freed his slaves voluntarily when slave-holding became a "disownable" offense in the Friends (Quaker) church in 1779. In 1781 the Meeting bought a stove. BENJAMIN disapproved of this "comfort" and to show his contempt, called it a "dumb idol" and stuffed his overcoat into the cold stove. The next Sunday he repeated the act, not noticing that the stove this time had a fire in it -- much to the amusement of his children and others present.
He was a member of the committee to establish a school for the children of Third Haven (MD) Friends Meeting. The committee recommended that $133. be raised for the school and that a brick schoolhouse 40 ft. x 20 ft. be built."
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