Excerpt found online: "Mary Jane (Cram) Parsons (1814-1898), the daughter of Jonathan and Polly (Dockham) Cram of Meredith, New Hampshire. She married [in 1840] Joseph Parsons (1816-1887), the son of William and Mary Parsons of Alfred, Maine. Joseph and Mary Jane had several children, the first two (mentioned in this letter) being Mary Georgia Parsons (b. 1840) and William Addison Parsons (b. 1842). By 1850, Joseph and Mary Jane had settled at Riverhurst, the Parsons family home in Kennebunk, Maine. He was a farmer and later served in the Maine Legislature." - https://sparedshared3.wordpress.com/letters/1845-mary-jane-cram-parsons-to-edwin-parsons/
Parsons family : descendants of Cornet Joseph Parsons, Springfield, 1636--Northampton, 1655 by Parsons, Henry, Publication date 1912,
New York : Frank Allaben Genealogical Company
https://archive.org/details/parsonsfamilydes02pars/page/238/mode/2up
1860 Census
Kennebunk, York, Maine.
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81690000/joseph-parsons
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