Name origin: The name is derived from the Latin word parcarius, meaning parkkeeper or shepherd.
b.1591 Marlborough, Wiltshire, England; parents ukn
m.1616 Woburn, MA Joanne Drake
b.1595 Marlborough, England
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b.1600, England; parents ukn
m.Jane ______
b.bef.1598 of York, England
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b.1601/1602 prob. of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England; parents unknown
d.Apr. 17, 1685 Cambridge, MA
m.1635 Woolpit, Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk, England; Judith ______
b.1602
d.May 8, 1682 Cambridge, MA
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From Directory of the Ancestral Heads of New England Families 1620-1700, by Holmes: ROBERT, butcher, came from Wiolpit near Bury St. Edmunds, County Suffolk, Eng., to Boston, Mass., 1634.
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b.1615 England; s/o Robert Parker and Judith ______
d.1684
m.1684 Cambridge, MA Joanna ______
b.abt.1623 of Hingham, MA
d.March 14, 1688 Newton, MA
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b.1617 Essex County, England; s/o John Parker and Jane ______
r.later lived in Groton, MA
d.May 23/5, 1700/1 Groton, MA
m.(1)March (or May) 23, 1645; Elizabeth Long of Woburn, MA
bapt.Nov. 14, 1621 England; d/o Robert Long and Sarah Taylor
d.bef.1690 in Groton, MA
m.(2)bef.1697 Mrs. Eunice (Brooks) Carter; she later m.John Kendall
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From Gen. & Family History of the State of Maine, by Burrage and Stubbs: Capt. James Parker...Woburn...was made a freeman...in 1644. He was a Selectman in Groton and a Representative to the Mass. General Court, under the Charter from William & Mary.
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b.ca.1620; s/o John Parker and Jane ______
d.1686 York County, ME
m.(Edith?) Adams
b.dau. of Samuel Adams
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NOTE: The Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire 1623-1660 by POPE p.155: PARKER, John, York, his land referred to in the bounds of adjoining tract in 1651. Took oath of allegiance to Mass. govt. 22 Nov. 1652.
History of York by Banks Page 169: JOHN PARKER The first record of this settler is in 1648 when he was called of Marblehead, carpenter, as grantee of John Heard of his house and all his lands in Gorgeana, for the sum of twelve pounds payable in money, coin or board, in three annual payments (Deeds iii, 72). Whether this property became his homestead is uncertain, but it is known that he lived on the northwest side of Meeting House Creek and north of the Lindsey Road. He signed the Submission in 1652, and in 1656 the petition to Cromwell. He was county jailer and hangman for many years. The date of his death is not known but he was living in 1686 (Deeds IV, 61).
The name of his wife is also unknown except that she was living in 1654. He was excused from military duty in 1681...
Page 295: the name John Parker appears on the list of those who died in the Indian wars. [Sr. or Jr.?]
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b.Feb. 1, 1656 in Chelmsford, MA; s/o James Parker and Elizabeth Long
d.bef.Nov. 12, 1712 Groton, MA
m.1685 Groton, MA Abigail Lakin
b.March 13, 1667 Groton, MA; d/o John Lakin
d.aft.1722 Groton, MA
She m.(2)Feb. 7, 1721 Robert Dickson/Dixon
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b.1694 Groton, MA; s/o Samuel Parker and Abigail Lakin
d.aft.Apr. 29, 1777
m.May 22 OR 27, 1719 Joanna Ames
b.March 25, 1695 Groton, MA d/o John and Priscilla (Kimball) Eames
d.aft.Oct. 29, 1765 Groton, MA
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b.Feb. 23, 1738 Groton, MA; s/o John Parker and Joanna Ames
d.1818 Brooksville, ME
m.(1)Aug. 7, 1759 Groton, MA; Jane Nutting
b.bef.1742 of Groton, MA
m.(2)Eunice (______)
d.Feb. 8, 1767 Groton, MA
m.(3)Sarah Wooster
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Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, Castine, ME. Loyalist during the Revolution; went to Canada during the war. Later returned to Castine as a very active and prominent citizen. Moved to Brooksville late in life, where he died.
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b.May 4, 1765 Groton,MA; s/o Judge Oliver Parker and Eunice ______
d.May 5, 1807
m.Dec. 20, 1787 Mary Perkins; d/o Joseph Perkins and Phoebe Weare
b.Dec. 27, 1770 York,ME d.Dec. 3, 1833
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Brooksville, ME "A town in the Revolution" by Snow "Eben Perkins Parker, son of Simeon, above, was living on the Parker farm in 1885 then upward of eighty years of age. His memory of early events was clear and he told the following story. "... A party of men, comprising a dozen of more, were on their way to Castine to fight the British at all risks, and stopped at his father's, (some four miles from the Castine ferry), to rest themselves and get some dinner. His mother after preparing some dinner for them, and while they were eating thought she would test their courage, and being possessed of a red camlet cloak, she took it under her arm, slipped out the back door, went into the pasture, caught their old horse, led him down the road some distance toward Castine, put on her red cload streaming in the wind, and making all the clatter she could. Just as she came over the brow of the hill below the house one of the men having finished his dinner came to the door. The first thing he saw was the red cloak coming over the hill. He just stopped long enough to scream through the door, 'The red-coats are coming, the red-coats are coming! and immediately took to his heels; all the rest dropping knives and forks, and following as fast as their legs would carry them, and by the time the lady got to the house, there was not a man to be seen or found in the vicinity...
Another episode told by Mr. Parker that he heard from his father concerned "...some four or five deserters from the British at Castine, (who) had managed to get across the river into Brooksville. They got up to the head of the river, and came to his father's just as night was coming on. He kept them all night, and after giving them a hearty breakfast, sent a hired man with them to pilot them to Blue Hill. Before noon a party of half a dozen soldier, with a sergeant in command arrived at the house in pursuit. He detained them until after dinner, and then, by many little artifices still detained them till quite late in the afternoon, and then sent my father, with an older brother, as pilot to show them the was to Naskeag, an entirely different road from that the deserters had taken, thus giving ample time to get beyond danger of being overtaken. Quite a number more of deserters, also came this way, and by the help of a few settlers here, by misleading their pursuers, etc., all made their escapes, and two of them, Joseph Daley and William Nevils, came back after the British had left Castine, settled here and raised families, and their descendants reside in this vicinity at the present day."
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b.Oct. 3, 1794; s/o Simeon Parker and Mary Perkins
d.betw. 1827 and 1829
m.int.Oct. 7, 1818 m.Nov. 8, 1818 Thankful Snow, dau. of Isaac Snow and Mary Paine
b.Apr. 14, 1797 Brooksville, ME
d.Jan. 5, 1858 Brooksville, ME
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