William Parr (312)

William Parr (?–?) was an attorney, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1771. Initially based in Philadelphia, William Parr was appointed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in 1751 and began working there as an attorney. He became Sheriff of Philadelphia County in 1754 and served as an ensign in the Philadelphia militia in 1756. He worked as a justice in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court throughout the 1760s and 1770s, occupied a seat in the Philadelphia Common Council (1768, 1773, 1774), and worked as Master of the Rolls for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1767, 1772). At some point thereafter, Parr relocated to Lancaster where in 1784 and 1786 he represented the county at the Assembly in Philadelphia.