Stone-Goodwin-Parsons papers, 1739-1918.

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Stone-Goodwin-Parsons papers, 1739-1918.

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Collection contains the papers of three interrelated families of Newburyport, Mass., 1739-1918. The Parsons papers include a sermon (1739) and other papers of Jonathan Parsons, pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Newbury, Mass., family records, including a pre-nuptial agreement (1790), and genealogical information. The Goodwin family papers include family correspondence and records, in particular their connections with the Stone family, and the will of Nathaniel Goodwin (1817). The largest part of the collection consists of the Stone family papers including those of Jacob Stone and his son, Jacob Stone, Jr., including a biographical sketch of the latter, (b. 1805); deeds and mortgages to the land in Newburyport; papers of George F.P. Stone; Henry A. Stone family letters written during his service in the Civil War; and biographical material on Goodwin Atkins Stone, who was in the Second Mass. Volunteer Calvary, and died as a result of injuries at the Battle of Aldie, near Falls Church, Va., during the Civil War, 1864. Also, various Stone family letters and genealogical information, and a copy of a letter from Oliver Wolcott to Major General Samuel Holden Parsons (1779).

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7544898

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Stone, Jacob, b. 1805.

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Parsons family.

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Goodwin family.

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Stone, Goodwin Atkins, 1841-1864.

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First Presbyterian Church (Newburyport, Mass.)

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United States. Army. Massachusetts Calvalry Regiment, 2nd (1861-1865)

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Stone, Henry A.

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Goodwin, Nathaniel, d. 1817.

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Parsons, Jonathan, 1705-1776

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Jonathan Parsons was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on November 30, 1705, the son of Ebenezer Parsons and Margaret Marshfield. After graduating from Yale College in 1729, he briefly studied theology at Yale. In 1730, he became pastor of the First [Congregational] Church in Lyme, Connecticut, where he remained until 1746, when he became pastor of a new Presbyterian church in what is now Newburyport, Massachusetts. His church at Newburyport later became one of the largest congregations in Nor...

Stone family.

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Stone, Jacob, d. 1831.

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Stone, George F. P.

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