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The Parsons Family -- Volume One

The English Ancestry & Descendants to the 6th Generation of Cornet Joseph Parsons 1620-1683 - Springfield, Massachusetts, 1636; Northampton, Massachusetts, 1654

• Author: Gerald James Parsons, A.B., M.S.L.S. (Fellow, American Society of Genealogists)
• Price: $90.00 (price includes postage) (US Funds)
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829 pages, 8 1/2 x 11", hardcover, photographs and illustrations, indexed.

This is an 829 page, fully documented, book. It is the winner of the grand prize for New England Genealogy given by the Connecticut Society of Genealogists. It has received rave reviews by The New York Biographical and Genealogical Society, Heritage Quest Magazine and The American Genealogist. It represents 70 years of research by the author, including the connection to William Parsons (b.ca1570) of Beaminster, County Dorset, England. This book by the late Mr Parsons; a Fellow of the Ameircan Society of Genealogists is a must for anyone connected to this family.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Editorial Matters:
• Abbreviations, Etc.
• Dates
• Town vs Township
• Folio vs Page
• Coat of Arms
• The Surname Parsons
• The Parsons Ancestry in England
• First Generation in New England
• Second Generation
• Third Generation
• Fourth Generation
• Fifth Generation
• Appendix:
• The Parsons House
• The Parsons Memorial Monument
• Parsons Family Association Tour to England
• The Parsons Family Association, Inc.
• Key to Short Titles
• Index

Some of the families included in this book: Allen, Ashley, Baker, Bartlett, Bates, Bishop, Bliss, Bridgeman, Brown, Burt, Camp, Chapin, Clapp, Clark, Coe, Edwards, Ferry, Frary, Graves, Hall, Harmon, Ingersoll, Jones, Kingsley, Lyman, Miller, Parrish, Persons, Phelps, Pomeroy, Sheldon, Smith, Stebbins, Strong, Williams, Wright and others.