Josiah Parsons

1681 - 1768  (87 years)

• Name	Josiah Parsons
  Birth	2 Jan 1681	Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	2 Jan 1682	Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut   [2]
  Death	12 Apr 1768	Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Burial	Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts   [1]
  Person ID	I5897	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	17 Feb 2016

  
  

  Father	Joseph Parsons,   b. Abt 1647, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts d. 21 Nov 1729, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts (Age ~ 82 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Strong,   b. 24 Feb 1648, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut d. 11 May 1736, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts (Age 88 years)
  Marriage	17 Mar 1669	Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts   [3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Family ID	F339	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah Sheldon,   b. 12 Jul 1688, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts d. 14 Nov 1738, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts (Age 50 years)
  Children	+ 1. Martha Parsons,   b. 3 May 1727, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts d. 16 Dec 1814, Chester, Hampden, Massachusetts (Age 87 years)
  Family ID	F6449	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Dec 2025

  
  

• Sources

  [S1089] Findagrave.com page for Josiah Parsons. [S899] The Mary Bliss Parsons Trial, website developed by Historic Northampton and the Center for Computer Based Instructional Technology (now the UMass IT Center for Educational Software Development [CESD]) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst., year only. [S256] The Parsons Family: Descendants of Cornet Joseph Parsons by Gerald James Parsons. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1984. [S390] Freeman" target="_blank">http://kinnexions.com/smlawson/index.htm">Freeman Family Lines, from the files of Stephen M. Lawson (via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine). [S682] Gerald James Parsons, "The Early Parsons Families of the Connecticut River Valley." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 148:215, July 1994. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S899] The Mary Bliss Parsons Trial, website developed by Historic Northampton and the Center for Computer Based Instructional Technology (now the UMass IT Center for Educational Software Development [CESD]) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.