He designed Quincy Market, St. Paul's Church, Massachusetts General Hospital, Custom House and other public buildings of Boston and vicinity. Between 1820 and 1830 he was associated with Col. Loammi Baldwin in building the dry dock at Charlestown Navy Yard. He was appointed constructing engineer of the Navy Yard at Porstmouth, N. H. In 1840 he purchased the estate of Elisha Briggs in the north part of Pembroke, Mass., and resided there. While on his way to Washington, D. C., in the spring of 1852, he was taken ill and was removed to his home in Pembroke, where he died June 16, 1852. Mrs. Parris died Oct. 3, 1853. Both are buried in the cemetery on the hill near their home. During the war of 1812 he was captain of a company of Artificers, stationed at Plattsburg, N. Y. There is a fine portrait of him in the old State House, Boston.

JOSIAH K. PARRIS6, (Benjamin5, Thomas4, Thomas3, John2, Thomas1) b. Aug. 30, 1760, son of Benjamin and Melicent (Keith) Parris; m. July 23, 1788, Experience Lowden of Bridgewater, Mass. She was dau. of Nathaniel Lowden from Duxbury, Mass. They moved to Buckfield, Me., in (???); she d. Jan. 4, 1832, age 63.

             THEIR CHILDREN: 
Delphina Keith Parris, b. Nov. 24, 1801, in Buckfield, Me.; d. Sept. 
        10, 1826. 
Virgil Delphina Parris, b. Feb. 16, 1807, in Buckfield, Me. 
Mr. Parris m. second, Sally Robbins of Hebron, Me. He d. in Buckfield, Mar. 23, 1856, in his 96th year. In 1850, then in his 91st year, he visited Pembroke, Mass., (his former home), with his son Virgil D. He delighted in telling incidents of his experience in the Revolutionary War. At the age of thirteen he was put out to Joseph Bearce, who lived in a house about fifty rods east of the house (now 1899, occupied by C. Washburn), formerly the home of Thomas and Mercy (Parris) Turner, near Silver Lake, Pembroke.

In the family of Virgil D. Parris at Paris Hill, Me., is a wooden cup made by Joseph Bearce, and given to Josiah Parris, when he lived with Bearce in 1773.

See Journal of Josiah Parris: "And in the year 1773, my father put me to Joseph Bearce. There I lived as easy and peaceable as I did in all my days before." He was in the Revolutionary War from Halifax and Kingston, Mass.

VIRGIL D. PARRIS7, (Josiah K.6, Benjamin5, Thomas4, Thomas3, John2, Thomas1) b. Feb. 16, 1807, son of Josiah K. and Experience (Lowden) Parris; m. Dec. 30, 1833, Columbia Rawson, dau. of Capt. Samuel and Polly (Freeland) Rawson, formerly of Sutton, Mass. He was a lawyer at Paris Hill, Me., held many political places of trust; was one of the promoters of the Buckfield Branch R. R., since extended to Rumford Falls, Me.