CORNET JOSEPH PARSONS

ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF

SPRINGFIELD AND NORTHAMPTON. MASSACHUSETTS

SPRINGFIELD, 1636

NORTHAMPTON, 1655

AN HISTORICAL SKETCH FROM ORIGINAL SOURCES, VIZ., TOWN,
COUNTY, COURT, AND PRIVATE RECORDS

"On Colonel Joseph Lemuel Chester's Alleged English Parsons Ancestry,"
"The 'Honorable Family of Parsons' in England and its Connection by
Marriage with Sir Edward Pynchon, Knt., Cousin of William
Pynchon, Founder of Springfield, Massachusetts,"