Item 104995 - Josiah K. Parsons homestead, Westport Island, ca. 1935
- Item 104995 - Josiah K. Parsons homestead, Westport Island, ca. 1935
- Contributed by Westport Island History Committee
- Item 104995
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Image Info Captain Josiah Parsons (1750-1807), a veteran of the Revolutionary War, built this Federal style house in 1792 overlooking Greenleaf Cove, where he had a grist mill. The Cape style building on the left served as a trading post and was built around 1815.
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Captain Parsons was buried in the family burying ground not far from the house. Etched in his gravestone were the words "He was a Patriot of Bunker Hill."
Dr. James and Alice Blake Williams owned the house in 1935 when Alice Williams took this picture from the Sheepscot River.
