William Parsons (1716 - 1796)

Born 21 Apr 1716 in Boston, Massachusetts

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Died 31 Jan 1796 at age 79 in Gilmanton, Belknap, New Hampshire, United States

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• Marriages and Baptisms at South Hampton, N.H. 1743-1801 (Geo A. Gordon, 1899)

• Page 3: "William Parsons was born, at Boston, 21 April 1716, son of Rev. William and Elizabeth (Thompson) Parsons. His ancestry had long been settled at Northampton. He was graduated at Harvard college with the class of 1735, as his father had been with the class of 1697. He married, in 1743, Sarah Burnham, of the Durham, N.H. family. They were the parents of four sons and two daughters. Mr. Parsons died at Gilmanton, in January 1796. His wife died in February, 1797, at the age of seventy-five. Both were buried on their farm, and near where they first settled in Gilmanton."

• Farmer, John & Moore, Jacob B. A Gazetteer of the State of New-Hampshire (Concord: Jacob B. Moore, 1823) Page 240.
• Jewell, Benjamin. Religious History of South Hampton, N. H. (The News-letter Steam Job Print., Exeter, N.H., 1881) Page 19.
• Gordon, George A., South Hampton (N.H.) Church Records, NEHGR (NEHGS, Boston, 1898) Vol. 52, Page 427.
• Sibley, John Langdon. Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University (Charles William Sever, Cambridge, 1873) Vol. 9, Page 554.