Parson's House (where Papa was born), West Street., Northampton, Mass.

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Image depicts 39 West Street, Northampton, Mass., birthplace of William A. Wood. Property built and owned by Col. Joseph Bailey Parsons (1828-1906), prominent citizen of Northampton and Civil War veteran. William Wood's great-grandmother Keziah Parsons Phelps was a descendant of Cornet Joseph Parsons, Sr., an English settler and one of the original founders of Northampton, and his wife Mary Bliss Parsons, who was tried and acquitted of witchcraft. (Source: Parsons, H. (1912). Parsons Family: Descendants of Cornet Joseph Parsons, Springfield, 1636-Northampton, 1655 (Vol. 1). New York: Frank Allaben Genealogical Company).