Rev. Jonathan Parsons

• Benjamin Parsons Find a Grave
• II Ebenezer Parsons Find a Grave
• III Rev Jonathan Parsons Find a Grave

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The first Parsons to attain renown was "Uncle Jonathan," he was reverently, and affectionately, called. He was an old Puritan, strong-minded and passionate, second only to his friend, George Whitefield, among the revivalist ministers of the day. Like Albert Parsons of Haymarket fame, old Jonathan was something of a traveling agitator: his preaching tour, on which he delivered sermons to eager audiences, horrified the conservativ-minded clergymen of New England.

Liberty-loving Jonathan could not endure British tyranny. According to one story, he denounced the English oppressors from his pulpit and, in the very aisles of his church, mustered a company which marched to Bunker Hill where another Parsons lost his arm in the famous battle of the Revolution.

Taken from:

http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/bright/aparsons/calme...