New England Historic Genealogical Society

"'Guide to the Manuscript Collection of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, First Edition' will direct family historians to an unprecedented wealth of resources -- most available only in the R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Department at NEHGS. The NEHGS manuscript collection, considered one of the largest and most valuable of its kind in the world, contains more than deeds, and cemetery transcriptions to unpublished genealogical treatments for a multitude of New England and American families. The guide is fully indexed and is an easy-to-use reference for the NEHGS manuscript collections"--Cover page 4.

Alphabetical indexes to the manuscript records of the town, supplemented by information from church registers, cemetery inscriptions and other sources.

"Beginning with William Parsons, born in Dorset, England, ca. 1570 and encompassing the English Civil Wars, the story follows immigrant Benjamin Parsons, whose family settled in what is now Enfield, Connecticut. His great-grandson Hezekiah served in the French and Indian War and the early years of the American Revolution. Hezekiah's son Jabez Parsons served for a full six years during the Revolutionary War, responding to the Lexington Alarm, participating in the Battle of Brooklyn, and serving as a quartermaster at the Valley Forge encampment and beside General Washington at the Battle of Monmouth. Arthur H. Parsons, a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and great-grandson of First Lieutenant Jabez Parsons, was serving on the USS Saginaw when it ran aground on the reef surrounding Ocean Island in the Pacific in 1870. The family spread out across the U.S., settling in Ohio and Iowa, with episodes in Colorado, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. The book also includes coverage of the related Sampson and Crozier families." -- Book Jacket

Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

Describes a petition by the New England Historic Genealogical Society to change its corporate name to the New England Historical and Genealogical Society, which was opposed by the Massachusetts Historical Society.