Manuscripts

Theron Parsons diaries

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Description: Includes 18 volumes of diaries by and a daguerreotype of Theron Parsons.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1854-1892.
Call number: mssHM 1556
Creator: Parsons, Theron(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of 1925-1926.
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Moses Parsons diaries : Byfield, Mass

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Moses Parsons's diaries for the years 1774-1783. The volume also contains two diaries of Gorham Parsons for the years 1773 (ff.1-10) and 1777 (ff. 42-47 v.)

mssHM 59827

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George Parsons account book

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Account book kept by George Parsons intermittently from January 1, 1853, until September 12, 1857. Includes work tallies and pay records, as well as tabs for items such as clothing, salt, sugar, coffee, tobacco, tools, and livestock. Parsons' location is unknown.

mssHM 74639

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The Parsons heritage, 1651-1989 :

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Two bound volumes containing photocopies of typscripts, documents, photographs, and other genealogical material, regarding the Parsons family.

mssHM 54456

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Moses Parsons diaries : Byfield (Mass.)

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Daily records document personal and family matters; affairs of the local clergymen, including an account of a contested ordination in Amesbury parish in 1754 that involved a candidate who "went to hear Mr. Whitefield" and a short obituary of Aaron Burr; social and political life in Newburyport and Boston, including records of public fasts and thanksgivings, general elections, and schools; war news, including the closing of the King George's War, the events of the French and Indian War, and the siege of Havana in Aug. 1762. The diaries also contain extensive meteorological records that are arranged to match the respective entries in the Ames' Almanack, natural disasters that took place in Newbury and Boston areas -- fires, earthquakes, lightning strikes, storms, droughts, and epidemics

mssHM 59826

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Parsons family papers

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The collection documents the business and personal activities of several members of the Parsons and Howson families, including Hosmer B. (Buckingham) Parsons (1846-1908), his wife Clelia Howson Parsons (1845-1931), and their daughter Emma Parsons Adams (1872-1961). Hosmer Parsons's materials include correspondence with Mexican banker Enrique Creel and senator John Sherman, and other letters related to his mining and land interests. There are also several letters to his sisters, including one written when he was a child. Clelia Howson Parsons's papers include additional family correspondence, notebooks and bankbooks, and estate documents. There are also letters from family friend Phoebe Apperson Hearst to both Clelia Howson Parsons and Emma Parsons Adams, as well as a notebook kept by Hosmer Parsons presumably related to Hearst's finances. The collection also includes a notebook kept by Hosmer Parsons's father Benjamin Booth Parsons (1810-1887), written while he was attending Amherst University in the 1830s. Materials related to Clelia Howson Parsons's sister Emma Howson (1844-1928) include a fan letter, a Howson family performance advertisement, and estate documents. The collection also includes family photographs, clippings, and genealogy correspondence and research. There are also photographs of a Mexican mine, and ephemera related to the Homestake Mine in South Dakota and railroads in Colorado, presumably related to Hosmer B. Parsons's business interests.

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Parsons and Howson family clippings

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Theron Parsons diaries

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