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Parson and Mason
Mason Locke Weems ( October 11, 1759 – May 23, 1825 ), generally known as Parson Weems, was an American book agent and author.
Ferry Farm is the setting for some of the best known stories about George Washington, most particularly those brought to the American public by Mason Locke Weems, best known as Parson Weems, in the early 19th century.

Parson and Weems
In 1815, Parson Weems, an early American novelist and moralist, published God's Revenge Against Adultery, in which one of the major characters " owed his early downfall to reading ' PAINE ' S AGE OF REASON '".
The public memory of Francis Marion has been shaped in large part by the first biography about him, " The Life of General Francis Marion " written by M. L. Weems ( also known as Parson Weems, 1756 – 1825 ) based on the memoirs of South Carolina officer Peter Horry.
However, John Newton's heroics are said to be a product of Parson Weems, who also fictionalized the story of George Washington and the cherry tree.
* A famous anecdote by Parson Weems claims that George Washington once cut a tree over when he was a small child.
* Parson Weems ' Fable ( 1939 )
From this beginning Carey went on to develop a highly successful publishing house, which printed the works of Thomas Jefferson, Parson Weems, Walter Scott, James Fenimore Cooper, and the first quarto Bible of American manufacture, in both the Douay version and the Authorized version.
Portrait of Parson Weems
In 1911, Lawrence C. Wroth authored Parson Weems ; a biographical and critical study ; it was his first book.
' Parson Weems ' Fable ', a 1939 painting by Grant Wood, depicting both Weems and his famous " Cherry Tree " story.
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Several states have adjacent counties named Jasper and Newton, as these were remembered as a pair, due to the popularity of Parson Weems ' fictionalizing early American history.
John Newton ( 1755 – 1780 ) was a soldier of the American Revolutionary War who was popularized by Parson Weems in his school books in the early 19th century.
However, no contemporary account of this rescue exist, and the only source is the very unreliable Parson Weems.

Parson and first
In 1854 the Methodist Church was organized, first meeting at the boy ’ s school and in 1857 moving to Parson ’ s Seminary.
There have been theatrical performances in Stratford-upon-Avon since at least Shakespeare ’ s day, though the first recorded performance of a play by Shakespeare himself was in 1748 when Parson Joseph Greene, master of Stratford grammar school, organised a charitable production to fund the restoration of Shakespeare's funerary monument.
It is the recognised conformation show variety of the Jack Russell Terrier and was first recognised in 1990 in the United Kingdom as the Parson Jack Russell Terrier.
Parson Gordon was the first to record a fuller version of the story some sixty years after Hay.
The English name, Parson Bird, has fallen into disuse but came about because at first glance the bird appears completely black except for a small tuft of white feathers at its neck and a small white wing patch, causing it to resemble a parson in clerical attire.
For the first families moving on to Parson Cross, it was a working-class paradise.
* The Parson of Veilbye, written in the first person, is the first Danish crime novel.

Parson and legend
Local legend has it that the curate of Yateley, named Parson Darby, was a highwayman who used the Reading Road as his main stamping ground.
A version of the legend of the Parson and Clerk dating to 1900 tells the tale of the Bishop of Exeter visiting Teignmouth and whilst being guided by a local priest, the devil turns them both to stone, which is seen in the form of two stacks.

Parson and book
On 5 September 1538, following the split with Rome, Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's Vicar General, ordered that each parish priest must keep a book, and that the Parson, in the presence of the wardens, must enter all the baptisms, marriages and burials of the previous week.
) A second title inside the book reads: " A pleasaunt Dialogue, conteining a large discourse betweene a Souldier of Barwick and an English Chaplain, who of a late Souldier was made a Parson, and had gotten a pluralitie of Benefices, and yet had but one eye, and no learning: but he was priestly apparailed in al points, and stoutly maintained his Popish attire, by the authoritie of a booke lately written against London Ministers.
A book about growing up in Parson Cross in the fifites, “ Get Thi Neck Weshed ” by Graham Shepherd, was published by ACMRetro, specialists in Sheffield ’ s post war social history.

Parson and Life
Keith suggests in his autobiography " Life " that Mick Jagger may have been the real driver for Parson ' departure given that Keith spent so much time playing music with Gram.
* Parson Weems-The Life of Washington
* Roland P Butterfield ( editor ) Ordained in Powder: The Life and Times of Parson White of Crondall Published 1966 by Herald P in Farnham ( Sy.

Parson and George
Parson Weems's George Washington became the symbol of honesty and the father image of the uniting States.
Tombstone resident George Parson wrote in his diary, " A Cowboy is a rustler at times, and a rustler is a synonym for desperado — bandit, outlaw, and horse thief.
St Mungo's Church, Parson Street ,( George Goldie, 1869 ) is Italiante-Gothic in style.
Patrick Garland also directed his adaption of Under the Greenwood Tree at Salisbury Playhouse in 1978. This transferred to the West End Vaudeville theatre in 1979, with Frank Shelley as Geoffrey Day, Charmian May as Mrs Dewy, Geoffrey Kirkness as Dick Dewy, David Bacon as Reuben Dewy, Suzan Crowley as Fancy Day and Gilbert Wynne as Parson Maybold, George gabriel as Leaf.

Parson and Young
* Alec Guinness as the Duke, the Banker, the Parson, the General, the Admiral, Young Ascoyne, Young Henry, and Lady Agatha
Lowery also had roles in a number of Western films including The Homesteaders ( 1953 ), The Parson and the Outlaw ( 1957 ), Young Guns of Texas ( 1962 ), and Johnny Reno ( 1966 ).

Parson and .
In the screenplay by Anthony Hinds, the main character's name was changed from Doctor Syn to Parson Blyss to avoid rights problems with Disney's upcoming film version, and Captain Cleggs screenplay follows the novel Doctor Syn and the screenplay of the 1937 film closely with the exception of a tightening of the plot.
In the Arliss movie Doctor Syn, Syn escapes to sea with Mipps and the rest of the Dymchurch smugglers, whereas Captain Clegg ends more faithfully to the novel, with Parson Blyss being killed by the mulatto ( who is then killed by Mipps ) and then being carried to and buried in Captain Clegg's empty grave by Mipps.
In addition, Fenton ’ s inability to understand both the plight of woman and Ruth Parson ’ s feelings of alienation further illustrate the differences of men and women in society.
He regrets having lost everything, but then Parson Glennie receives a letter from Aldobrand.
Jeffrey Lee Parson, a. k. a. T33kid, was an 18-year-old high school student from Minnesota who was responsible for spreading a variant of the infamous Blaster computer worm.
Parson only modified the original Blaster worm, already prevalent, using a hex editor to add his screen name to the existing executable, and then attached another existing backdoor, Lithium, and posted it on his website.
Late on the night of August 15, Stark was awakened by the arrival of Parson Thomas Allen and a band of Massachusetts militiamen from nearby Berkshire County who insisted on joining his force.
Their drivers included Keke Rosberg ( who later became World Champion on the Williams Saudia F1 Team ), Elliott Forbes-Robinson, Randolph Townsend, Mike Brockman, Howdy Holmes, Teo Fabi, Patrick Depailler, Danny Sullivan, Bobby Rahal, Johnny Parson Jr., among others.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh was born at 70 Parson Street, Glasgow on 7 June 1868, the fourth of twelve children and second son of William and Margaret McIntosh.
" Parson Hawker ", as he was known to his parishioners, was something of an eccentric, both in his clothes and his habits.
Suspicion quickly fell on the Earl of Bothwell and his supporters, notably Archibald Douglas, Parson of Douglas, whose shoes were found at the scene, and Mary herself.
One day, Parson Tringham informs John that he has noble blood.
** The Parson – A character who made ecclesiastical quips and, in 1970, officiated at a near-marriage for Tyrone and Gladys.
During the Great Migration, in the 1930s a number of Shubuta residents followed Reverend Louis W. Parson to Albany, in the search for industrial jobs and better opportunities.

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