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Jonathan Parsons served as the first pastor of Old South Presbyterian Church in Newburyport, Massachusetts from 1746 until his death in 1776.

The home of Jonathan Parsons in Newburyport, Massachusetts, where George Whitefield preached his last sermon and died the following day.

Jonathan Parsons is buried, along with George Whitefield and Joseph Prince, inside the Old South Presbyterian Church in Newburyport, Massachusetts.

Notebook of Handwritten Sermons (1727-1772)

Wisdom Justified of her Children: A Sermon Preached at the Publick Lecture in Boston, on Thursday, September 16, 1742 (1742)

Account of the Revival of Religion in the West Parish of Lyme in Connecticut (1744)

The Doctrine of Justification by Faith Asserted and Explained: and Some Exceptions Thereto Considered: Being Three Lecture-Discourses, Deliver'd at the Presbyterian-Church: In the Months of November and December, A.D. 1747 (1748)

January 8, 1750 Letter to Elisha Williams (1750, 1858)

Manna Gathered in the Morning; or, Christ the True Manna, To Be Received and Fed Upon Daily by Young and Old: Being the Substance of a Discourse Delivered at the Presbyterian Church at Newbury (1751)

Manna Gathered in the Morning; or, Christ the True Manna, To Be Received and Fed Upon Daily by Young and Old: Being the Substance of a Discourse Delivered at the Presbyterian Church at Newbury (1751, 1826)

A Rejoinder to the Reverend Mr. Robert Abercrobie's Late Remarks on a Fair Narrative of the Proceedings of the Bresbytery of Boston, Against Himself (1758)

Infant Baptism From Heaven: Two Discourses (1765, 1767)

A Funeral Sermon Occasioned by the Death of Mr. Ebenezer Little, One of the Elders of the Presbyterian Church in Newbury-Port (1768)

October 20, 1769 Letter to Samuel H. Parsons (1769, 1858)

To Live is Christ, To Die is Gain: A Funeral Sermon on the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield (1771)

Freedom from Civil and Ecclesiastical Slavery, the Purchase of Christ: A Discourse Offered to a Numerous Assembly on March 5, 1774, at the Presbyterian Meeting House, in Newbury-Port (1774)

Sixty Sermons on Various Subjects, Vol. 1 (1779)

Memoir of the Rev. Jonathan Parsons, M.A., First Pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Newburyport, MS [Massachusetts] (1841)

Jonathan Parsons (1858)

Rev. Jonathan Parsons (1899)

Source: Colonial North America at Harvard Library

Source: Colonial North America at Harvard Library