Parsons Family: Descendants of Cornet Joseph Parsons, Springfield, 1636--Northampton, 1655, Volume 1 |
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Parsons Family: Descendants of Cornet Joseph Parsons, Springfield, 1636 ... Henry Parsons No preview available - 2017 |
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Aaron Abigail Anna Benjamin born Brimfield Cady Capt Catherine Charles CHILD CHILDREN OF REV CHILDREN OF WILLIAM Church Clark College Conn Cornet Joseph Daniel Darling daughter David died Ebenezer educated Edward Edwin Elijah Elisha Eliza Elizabeth ELIZABETH PARSONS Erastus Eunice Frances George George Best graduated Hannah Harriet Hayden Helen Henry Iowa Isaac James Jane Jonathan Joseph Parsons Joseph,2 Joseph¹ Josiah Julia July July 12 July 25 June 11 June 24 Kingsley Levi Lewis Lieut Lockport Lucy Lydia Margaret Maria married Martha Mary Parsons Mass Miller Moses Moyer N. Y. City Nathan Noah Northampton Ohio Oswego Parsons family PARSONS Rev Parsonsfield Phebe Pomeroy Portius Rachel Regt resided Reuben Parsons Samuel Sarah SARAH PARSONS School Seminary seph seph¹ Sept Seth Sharon Sharon Springs Sikes Springfield Staley Terre Haute Thomas viii wife Wilbraham Yale College
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Page 7 - Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations : ask thy father, and he will show thee ; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
Page 90 - I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou earnest.
Page 69 - God; do make and publish this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following that is to say . . . First I do order and direct that all my just debts and funeral expenses be paid out of my personal property as soon as conveniently can be after my decease.
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Page 129 - Boston: and being fully sensible of our indispensable duty to lay hold on every means in our power to preserve and recover the much injured constitution of our country; and conscious at the same time of no alternative between the horrors of slavery, or the carnage and desolation of a civil war...
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Page 39 - He was, a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery company of Boston, 1794-1844, and frequently conducted the music on public occasions.
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Page 40 - Cornet Joseph Parsons was preeminently a business man, with the courage and enterprise which peculiarly fitted him to take a leading part in the settlement of a new country. Savage says that he was "the most enterprising man in the Connecticut valley for a quarter of a century," and Burt, in his Monograph, says that "with perhaps a single exception he was the most prosperous and successful of any of the settlers and acquired a handsome property, the largest, unless it be that of John Pynchon, of...