eminence, professor of geology and zoölogy in Brown University from
1878. Zoölogy; Life Histories of Animals, or Comparative Embryology;
Guide to the Study of Insects; Half-Hours with Insects; Our Common
Insects; Entomology for Beginners; A Naturalist on the Labrador Coast;
Observations on the Glacial Phenomena of Labrador and Maine. _Est. Ho._
=Packard, Frederick Adolphus.= _Ms._, 1794-1867. A Philadelphia writer,
editor for nearly forty years of the publications of the American
Sunday School Union. The Teacher Taught; Life of Robert Owen; Visit
to European Hospitals; The Teacher Teaching; Union Bible Dictionary,
include his most important writings.
=Packard, John Hooker.= _Pa._, 1832- ----. Son of F. A. Packard,
_supra_. A surgeon of Philadelphia, surgeon to the Pennsylvania
Hospital from 1884. Manual of Minor Surgery; Lectures on Inflammation;
Handbook of Operative Surgery; Sea Air and Sea Bathing. _Lip._
=Packard, Lewis Richard.= _Pa._, 1836-1884. Son of F. A. Packard,
_supra_. An educator who was professor of Greek at Yale University from
1866, and author of Studies in Greek Thought.
=Packard, Silas Sadler.= _Ms._, 1826-1898. An educator who founded a
business college in New York city. Bryant and Stratton’s Bookkeeping
Series; Complete Course of Business Training; Commercial Arithmetic;
New Manual of Bookkeeping.
=Paddock, Benjamin Henry.= _Ct._, 1828-1891. The fifth Protestant
Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts, 1873-1891. Ten Years in the
Episcopate; The First Century of the Diocese of Massachusetts; The
Pastoral Relation; The Foundation of Religious Belief. _Ap._
=Paddock, Mrs. Cornelia.= 18-- - ----. In the Toils; The Fate of Madame
la Tour, a Tale of Great Salt Lake. _Fo._
=Page, Charles Edward.= _Me._, 1840- ----. A physician of Boston. How
to Treat the Baby; Natural Cure of Consumption; Horses: their Feed and
Feet; Pneumonia and Typhoid Fever.
=Page, Charles Grafton.= _Ms._, 1812-1868. An examiner in the Patent
Office at Washington from 1840, who published Psychomancy, Spirit
Rappings, and Table Tippings Exposed.
=Page, David Perkins.= _N. H._, 1810-1845. A once prominent educator of
Albany whose Theory and Practice of Teaching was long popular.
=Page, Emily Rebecca.= _Vt._, 1834-1862. A verse-writer of Vermont
whose work, which enjoyed local fame, is included in the volume, Lily
of the Valley.
=Page, Richard Channing Moore.= _Va._, 1841-1898. A physician of New
York city, but during the Civil War a Confederate officer. Genealogy
of the Page Family of Virginia; Sketch of Page’s Battery, Lee’s Army;
Chart of Physical Diagnosis.
=Page, Thomas Jefferson.= _Va._, 1808-1899. A naval officer in the
service of the Southern Confederacy, 1861-62. La Plata, the Argentine
Confederation, and Paraguay.
=Page, Thomas Nelson.= _Va._, 1853- ----. A lawyer of Richmond,
Virginia, whose studies of Southern life are notable for a singular
charm of style. In Old Virginia; Two Little Confederates; On Newfound
River; Elsket, and Other Stories; The Old South; Pastime Stories;
Essays, Social and Political; Unc’ Edinburg, a Plantation Echo; The
Burial of the Guns; Polly; Among the Camps; Meh Lady; Marse Chan; Befo’
de War (with A. C. Gordon, _supra_). _Har. Scr._
=Paige, Lucius Robinson.= _Ms._, 1802-1896. A Universalist clergyman
who retired from the ministry in 1839, and subsequently filled several
offices of trust in Cambridge. Commentary on the New Testament; History
of Cambridge, 1630-1877, with Genealogical Register; History of
Hardwick, Massachusetts. _Hou._
=Paine, Elijah.= _Vt._, 1796-1853. A jurist and legal writer of New
York city. Paine’s Reports; Practice in Civil Actions and Proceedings
in the State of New York (with W. Duer, _supra_).
=Paine, Halbert Eleazar.= _O._, 1826- ----. A Federal army officer
during the Civil War, and subsequently a lawyer in Washington, whose
Treatise on the Law of Elections to Public Offices is a much-valued
work. _Lit._
=Paine, Harriet Eliza.= “E. Chester.” _Ms._, 1845- ----. A Boston
educator. Girls and Women, a helpful book for girls. _Hou._
=Paine, Martyn.= _Vt._, 1794-1877. A physician of New York city.
Medical and Physiological Commentaries; Institutes of Medicine;
The Cholera Asphyxia of New York (1832); Physiology of Digestion;
Physiology of the Soul and Instinct as distinguished from Materialism;
Review of Theoretical Geology; The Philosophy of Vitality; Defence
of the Medical Profession of the United States; A Therapeutical
Arrangement of Materia Medica; Organic Life Distinguished from Chemical
and Physical Doctrines. _See Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries._
=Paine, Robert.= _N. C._, 1799-1882. A prominent Methodist bishop whose
Life and Times of Bishop McKendree was once a popular biography.
=Paine, Robert Treat.= _Ms._, 1773-1811. A once noted verse-writer
of Boston whose spirited song, Adams and Liberty, has preserved his
memory. He gave up his profession of law for literary pursuits, and
received large sums for his poems, among which are, The Invention of
Letters, and The Ruling Passion. His work was stilted and conventional,
with the exception of the song named above. His collected Verse
and Prose, edited by Prentiss, appeared in 1812. _See Allibone’s
Dictionary._
=Paine, Thomas.= _E._, 1737-1809. A celebrated political and deistical
writer of English birth who came to America in 1774, and in 1776
issued his famous pamphlet, Common Sense, which was of great service
to the American cause. In the American Crisis, published in numbers,
1776-83, he continued his defence of America. His other works include,
The Rights of Man, a reply to Burke’s “Reflections on the French
Revolution”; The Age of Reason, a work inferior to his other writings
in matter and style, and fiercely assailed by the religious sentiment
of his day. His works have been ably edited by M. D. Conway (1894-95),
_supra_. _See Lives by Chatham, Cobbett, Rickman, G. Chalmers, G. Vale,
Sherwin, M. D. Conway; Atlantic Monthly, July, November, and December,
1859; Nineteenth Century, March, 1879; McMaster’s History of the
People of the United States, Watson’s Men and Times of the Revolution;
Allibone’s Dictionary; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 43._
_Put._
=Paine, Timothy Otis.= _Me._, 1824-1895. A Swedenborgian clergyman of
Elmwood, Massachusetts. Solomon’s Temple and Capitol; Idolatrous High
Places. _Hou._
=Palfrey= [pawl´fri], =Francis Winthrop.= _Ms._, 1831-1889. Son of J.
G. Palfrey, _infra_. An officer in the Federal army during the Civil
War, and from 1872 register of bankruptcy in Boston. Antietam and
Fredericksburg; Memoir of William Francis Bartlett. _Hou. Scr._
=Palfrey, John Gorham.= _Ms._, 1796-1881. A Unitarian clergyman in
Cambridge, professor of sacred literature in Harvard University,
1831-37, subsequently a member of Congress, and postmaster of Boston,
1861-67. His literary reputation rests upon his History of New England,
a painstaking, accurate work, but not especially attractive in style,
and marred by want of perspective. Other works by him are, Lectures on
the Jewish Scriptures; The Relation between Judaism and Christianity.
_Hou. Lit._
=Palfrey, Sarah Hammond.= “E. Foxton.” _Ms._, 1823- ----. Daughter of
J. G. Palfrey, _supra_. A novelist and verse-writer of Cambridge. Her
work in verse comprises, Prémices; Sir Pavon and St. Pavon; The Chapel;
The Blossoming Rod; Agnes Wentworth. In fiction she has published
Katharine Morne; Herman, or Young Knighthood. _Le._
=Palmer, Alonzo Benjamin.= _N. Y._, 1815-1887. A physician who was
medical professor in the University of Michigan from 1852. Homœopathy,
What Is It?; The Treatment of the Science and Practice of Medicine;
Epidemic Cholera; Temperance Teachings of Science; Diarrhœa and
Dysentery.
=Palmer, Mrs. Anna [Campbell].= “Mrs. George Archibald.” _N. Y._,
1854- ----. A writer of Elmira, New York. The Summerville Prize; Little
Brown Seed; Lally Gay; Lally Gay and her Sister; Verses from a Mother’s
Corner.
=Palmer, Benjamin Morgan.= _S. C._, 1818-1902. A Presbyterian minister
of New Orleans. Life and Letters of James Thornwell, _infra_; Sermons;
The Family in its Civil and Churchly Aspects; Formation of Character;
The Broken Home; Theology of Prayer.
=Palmer, Elihu.= _Ct._, 1764-1806. A writer of New York city who was in
his early career a Congregational minister, but became a deist and a
political agitator. The Principles of Nature; Prospect or View of the
Moral World from 1804.
=Palmer, Mrs. Frances [Purdy].= N. Y., 1839- ----. A journalist and
lecturer of Providence who has published A Dead Level, and Other
Episodes.
=Palmer, George Herbert.= _Ms._, 1842- ----. Alford professor of
natural religion, moral philosophy, and civil polity at Harvard
University. He has published The New Education, and an English
translation of the Odyssey in rhythmic prose. _Hou. Lit._
=Palmer, Mrs. Henrietta [Lee].= _Md._, 1834- ----. Wife of J. W.
Palmer, _infra_. The Stratford Gallery, or the Shakespeare Sisterhood;
Home Life in the Bible; The Heroines of Shakespeare.
=Palmer, Horatio Richmond.= _N. Y._, 1834- ----. Elements of Musical
Composition; Theory of Music.
=Palmer, John Williamson.= _Md._, 1825- ----. A physician and
littérateur of Baltimore and subsequently of New York city. The Queen’s
Heart: a Comedy; The Beauties and Curiosities of Engraving; After His
Kind, a novel; The Golden Dagon, or Up and Down the Irrawaddi; The New
and the Old, or California and India.
=Palmer, Julius Auboineau.= _Ms._, 1840-1899. About Mushrooms; Memories
of Hawaii; One Voyage and its Consequences; Mushrooms of America; Again
in Hawaii. _Le. Lo. Wn._
=Palmer, Lynde.= _See Peebles, Mrs._
=Palmer, Mrs. Phœbe Worrell.= _N. Y._, 1807-1874. A Wesleyan evangelist
of New York city, whose writing is mainly concerned with the doctrine
of perfection. The Way of Holiness; Entire Devotion; Faith and its
Effect; Promises of the Father; Four Years in the Old World; Pioneer
Experiences. _See Life and Letters of, 1876._
=Palmer, Ray.= _R. I._, 1808-1887. A Congregational clergyman of
Albany, widely known as a writer of hymns, the most famous of which is,
“My Faith Looks up to Thee.” Home, or the Unlost Paradise; Spiritual
Improvement; Closet Hours; Hymns and Poems; Hymns of My Holy Hours;
Remember Me; Voices of Hope and Gladness. _Bar. Le. Ran._
=Palmer, William Pitt.= _Ms._, 1805-1884. An insurance president of
New York city known also as a verse-writer. Light; Echoes of Half a
Century, a collection of poems.
=Pancoast, Joseph.= _N. J._, 1805-1882. An eminent surgeon of
Philadelphia, professor of surgery in Jefferson Medical College,
1838-74. Operative Surgery; Essays and Lectures; System of Anatomy.
_See Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries._
=Pancoast, Seth.= _Pa._, 1823-1889. A Philadelphia physician, professor
in Pennsylvania Medical College, 1854-62. The Cabala; Consumption;
Ladies’ Medical Guide; Boyhood’s Perils; Bright’s Disease.
=Pansy.= _See Alden, Mrs._
=Parish, Elijah.= _Ct._, 1762-1825. A Congregational minister, pastor
at Byfield, Massachusetts, 1787-1825. He was co-author with Jedediah
Morse, _supra_, of several geographical works, and wrote a New System
of Modern Geography. _See Sermons of, with Memoir, 1826._
=Park, Edwards Amasa.= _R. I._, 1808-1900. A Congregational clergyman
in Andover, Massachusetts, professor in the Theological Seminary there,
1835-1881. Discourses and Treatises on the Atonement; Discourses on
Some Theological Doctrines as Related to the Religious Character; Lives
of S. Hopkins, _supra_, N. Emmons, _supra_, B. B. Edwards, _supra_, S.
H. Taylor, _infra_, W. B. Homer.
=Park, Roswell.= _Ct._, 1807-1869. An Episcopal clergyman and educator,
president and chancellor of Racine College, 1852-63. Sketch of the
History of West Point; Jerusalem, and Other Poems; Pantology, or
Systematic Survey of Human Knowledge.
=Park, Roswell.= _Ct._, 1852- ----. A professor of surgery in the
University of Buffalo from 1883 who has published Lectures on Surgical
Pathology.
=Parke, John.= _Del._, 1754-1789. An officer in the American army
during the Revolution, who published The Lyric Works of Horace. The
translation, in rhymed verse, was dedicated to Washington, and in it
the names of American patriots were substituted for those of the Roman
worthies.
=Parke, John Grubb.= _Pa._, 1827-1900. A soldier of distinction who
was superintendent of the United States Military Academy in 1887, and
was retired from active service in 1889. United States Laws Relating
to Public Works; Laws Relating to the Construction of Bridges over
Navigable Waters.
=Parker, Edward Griffin.= _Ms._, 1825-1868. A lawyer of New York city.
The Golden Age of American Oratory; Reminiscences of Rufus Choate.
=Parker, Edwin Pond.= _Me._, 1836- ----. A Congregational clergyman
of Hartford, pastor of the South Church from 1860, Book of Praise;
Memorial of H. Bushnell, _supra_; The Ministry of Natural Beauty.
=Parker, Mrs. Elizabeth Lowber [Chandler].= “Bessie Chandler.” _N. Y._,
1856- ----. A writer of Batavia, New York, who has contributed much to
magazines. A Woman who Failed and Others. _Rob._
=Parker, Foxhall Alexander.= _N. Y._, 1821-1879. A commodore in the
United States navy. Fleet Tactics under Steam; The Naval Howitzer
Afloat; The Naval Howitzer Ashore; The Fleets of the World; The Battle
of Mobile Bay; Elia, or Spain Fifty Years Ago, a translation from the
Spanish.
=Parker, Francis Wayland.= _N. H._, 1837-1902. A prominent educator
of Chicago, principal of Cook County Normal School, and formerly
supervisor of the Boston schools. Talks on Teaching; The Practical
Teacher; Course in Arithmetic; How to Teach Geography. _Ap._
=Parker, Sir [Horatio] Gilbert.= _Ont._, 1859- ----. A popular novelist
of Canadian birth. Pierre and His People; An Adventurer of the North;
A Romany of the Snows; A Lover’s Diary; When Valmond came to Pontiac;
The Seats of the Mighty; The Pomp of the Lavillettes; The Battle of the
Strong. _Hou. St._
=Parker, Mrs. Helen Fitch.= _N. Y._, 1827-1874. Wife of H. W. Parker,
_infra_. Sunrise and Sunset; Morning Stars of the New World; Rambles
After Land Shells; Missions and Martyrs of Madagascar; Frank’s Search
for Sea Shells; Constance of Aylmer, a tale; Blind Florette; Arthur’s
Aquarium.
=Parker, Henry Webster.= _N. Y._, 1824- ----. Son of S. Parker,
_infra_. A Presbyterian clergyman and educator, professor of mental
science in Iowa College from 1879. The Story of a Soul, a poem; Verse.
=Parker, James Cutler Dunn.= _Ms._, 1828- ----. Nephew of R. G.
Parker, _infra_. A Boston musician. Manual of Harmony; Theoretical and
Practical Harmony.
=Parker, Joel.= _N. H._, 1795-1875. A jurist of Massachusetts,
professor of law at Harvard University, 1847-75. The War Power of
Congress; The Right of Secession; The Non-Extension of Slavery;
Constitutional Law; Revolution and Construction; The Three Powers of
Government; Conflict of Decisions.
=Parker, Joel.= _Vt._, 1799-1873. A Presbyterian clergyman of New
York city. Lectures on Unitarianism; Invitations to True Happiness;
Reasonings of a Pastor; Sermons; Notes on Twelve Psalms, include his
principal writings. _Har._
=Parker, Nathan Howe.= 18-- - ----. Iowa as it is in 1855; Kansas and
Nebraska Handbook for 1857-58; The Missouri Handbook (1865); Missouri
as it is in 1867, are among his various statistical works.
=Parker, Mrs. Permelia Jane [Marsh].= _N. Y._, 1836- ----. A writer of
Rochester, New York. Toiling and Hoping, a novel; The Boy Missionary;
Losing the Way; Under His Banner; The Midnight Cry, a novel of the
Millerite delusion; Rochester, a Story Historical; Life of S. F. B.
Morse, _supra_; The Morgan Boys; Around the Manger; Andy, the Story of
a Troublesome Boy. _Cas. Do._
=Parker, Peter.= _Ms._, 1804-1888. A Congregational missionary and
diplomat in China, and after 1857 a resident of Washington. Journal of
an Expedition from Singapore to Japan; Statement respecting Hospitals
in China.
=Parker, Richard Green.= _Ms._, 1798-1869. An educator of Boston.
Natural Philosophy; Aids to English Composition.
=Parker, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1799-1866. A Congregational clergyman of New
York State, said to have been the first who suggested the possibility
of a railway through the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. He
published, Exploring Tour Beyond the Rocky Mountains.
=Parker, Theodore.= _Ms._, 1810-1860. A famous Unitarian clergyman of
West Roxbury, Massachusetts, whose extremely radical views excited
great opposition in his denomination, and resulted in his becoming
pastor of an independent congregation in Boston. He was very outspoken
in his championship of freedom for the slave, temperance, and the
rights of labour, and rapidly came to be a controlling influence in
contemporary thought. Since his death his influence has deepened
both in America and Europe. He was a prolific writer, but the purely
literary value of his work is not great. Miscellaneous Writings;
Sermons on Theism, Atheism, and Popular Theology; Occasional Sermons
and Speeches; Matters Pertaining to Religion; Additional Sermons and
Speeches; Sermons for the Times; Experience as a Minister; West Roxbury
Sermons; Prayers; Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of
Mind; Historic Americans; Views of Religion. His complete works, as
edited by Frances Power Cobbe, fill twelve volumes. _See Lives by John
Weiss, 1864, Réville, 1865, O. B. Frothingham, 1874; The Story of
Theodore Parker, by Miss Cobbe; Atlantic Monthly, October, 1860; North
American Review, April, 1864._ _A. U. A. Rob._
=Parker, Thomas.= _E._, 1595-1677. A learned Puritan clergyman who was
one of the founders of Newbury, Massachusetts, and its first pastor.
Parker River, in that region, is named in his honour. Letter on Church
Government; Prophecies of Daniel Expounded; Methodus Gratiæ Diviniæ;
Theses de Traductione Peccatoris ad Vitam.
=Parker, Willard.= _N. H._, 1800-1884. A distinguished surgeon of
Philadelphia, professor of surgery in the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, 1839-1869. Cystotomy; Spontaneous Fractures; The Concussion
of Nerves, are among his professional monographs.
=Parker, William Harwar.= _N. Y._, 1826-1896. Brother of F. Parker,
_supra_. An officer in the Confederate navy during the Civil War.
Instruction for Naval Light Artillery; Recollections of a Naval
Officer. _Scr._
=Parkhurst, Charles Henry.= _Ms._, 1842- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman
of New York city, pastor of the Madison Square Church from 1880,
and very prominent as a municipal reformer. Forms of the Latin Verb
Illustrated by the Sanskrit; The Blind Man’s Creed; The Pattern on
the Mount; Three Gates on a Side; What Would the World Be Without
Religion?; The Swiss Guide; Our Fight with Tammany. _Ran. Rev. Scr._
=Parkinson, William.= _Md._, 1774-1848. A Baptist clergyman of New York
city. Ecclesiastical History; Public Ministry of the Word; Sermons on
Deuteronomy xxxii. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._
=Parkman, Ebenezer.= _Ms._, 1703-1789. A Congregational pastor in
Westborough, Massachusetts, from 1724 till his death. Reformers and
Intercessors.
=Parkman, Francis.= _Ms._, 1788-1852. Grandson of E. Parkman, _supra_.
A Unitarian clergyman of Boston, author of The Offering of Sympathy.
=Parkman, Francis.= _Ms._, 1823-1893. Son of F. Parkman, _supra_. The
foremost of American historians. He was born in Boston, was a graduate
of Harvard in 1844, and in 1846 explored the wilderness beyond the
Rocky Mountains, The Oregon Trail resulting from this journey. For
many years he was partially blind, but as far as possible continued
the historical work which he was meditating, while as a relaxation he
devoted much time to horticulture and published a Book of Roses in
1866. The work of his life was the series of historical narratives
called France and England in North America, begun in 1864 and completed
in 1892. The work includes, in their order, Pioneers of France in the
New World; The Jesuits in North America; La Salle and the Discovery
of the Great West; The Old Régime in Canada; Count Frontenac and New
France under Louis XIV.; A Half Century of Conflict; Montcalm and
Wolfe. The Conspiracy of Pontiac forms a sequel to the work, though
first issued in 1857. The picturesque charm of his style has been
widely acknowledged, while his scholarship has never been questioned.
_See Life and Uncollected Papers, by Farnham; Life by H. D. Sedgwick,
1904; Atlantic Monthly, November, 1874, May, 1894; Canadian Magazine,
October, 1884; Harvard Graduates’ Magazine, June, 1895; Vedder’s
American Writers._ _Lit._
=Parkman, George.= _Ms._, 1791-1849. Grandson of E. Parkman, _supra_.
A Boston physician who published Insanity and the Management of the
Insane. _See Trial of Webster for the Murder of Dr. Parkman, 1850._
=Parks, Leighton.= _N. Y._, 1852- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of
Boston (1878-1904), and later of New York. His Star in the East;
Winning of the Soul, and Other Sermons. _Dut. Hou._
=Parley, Peter.= _See Goodrich, S. G._
=Parloa, Maria.= _Ms._, 1843- ----. A lecturer and writer upon domestic
economy, especially upon the science of food preparation. First
Principles of Household Management and Cookery; Kitchen Companion; The
Young Housekeeper; New Cook Book and Marketing Guide. _Est. Hou._
=Parrish, Edward.= _Pa._, 1822-1872. Son of Joseph Parrish, 1st,
_infra_. An educator and pharmacist of Philadelphia, and president of
Swarthmore College, 1868-70. Introduction to Practical Pharmacy; The
Phantom Bouquet, a Treatise on Skeletonizing Leaves; Essay on Education
in the Society of Friends.
=Parrish, John.= _Md._, 1729-1807. A Quaker preacher of Pennsylvania
noted as an early opponent of slavery, who published Remarks on the
Slavery of the Black Race.
=Parrish, Joseph.= _Pa._, 1779-1840. Nephew of J. Parrish, _supra_.
An eminent Philadelphia physician who was the author of Practical
Observations on Strangulated Hernia. _See Memoir by G. B. Wood._
=Parrish, Joseph.= _Pa._, 1818-1891. Son of Joseph Parrish, _supra_.
A physician of Burlington, New Jersey, famous as an authority upon
the treatment of inebriates. Alcoholic Inebriety from the Medical
Standpoint.
=Parry, Charles Christopher.= _E._, 1823-1890. A botanist of Davenport,
Iowa, among whose writings are, Botanical Observations in Western
Wyoming; Botanical Observations in Southern Utah.
=Parsons, Mrs. Frances Theodora [Smith] [Dana].= _N. Y._, 1861- ----.
A writer of Albany whose books were published under the name of Mrs.
William Starr Dana. How to Know the Wild Flowers; According to Season;
Plants and Their Children. _Am. Scr._
=Parsons, Frank.= _N. J._, 1855- ----. A lawyer of Boston. The World’s
Best Books; Our Country’s Need, or the Development of a Scientific
Industrial System. He has edited several legal works.
=Parsons, George Frederic.= _E._, 1840- ----. A journalist of New York
city. Life of J. W. Marshall, Discoverer of Gold in California; Middle
Ground, a novel.
=Parsons, Jonathan.= _Ms._, 1705-1776. A Presbyterian minister of
Newburyport, who adopted the views of Whitefield, and in whose house
that famous preacher died. Lectures on Justification; Good News from
a Far Country, said to be the first book published in New Hampshire;
Sixty Sermons; Freedom from Ecclesiastical and Civil Slavery the
Purchase of Christ. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._
=Parsons, Theophilus.= _Ms._, 1750-1813. A jurist of Newburyport and
after 1800 of Boston, and chief justice of Massachusetts from 1801.
Commentaries on the Law of the United States; The Essex Result, a
famous political pamphlet of 1777. _See Memoir by his son._