Person Info
- Name: Robert PARKER
- Sex: M
- Birth: Abt 1603 b
- Death: Abt 1685 d
Parents:
Family:
Marriage:
Children:
- Benjamin PARKER Birth: 6 Jun 1636 in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Death: 17 Jan 1671/2 in Billerica, Massachusetts
- Nathaniel PARKER Birth: 28 Jul 1638 in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Death: Before 1659
- Sarah PARKER Birth: Apr 1640 in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- John PARKER Birth: Mar 1642
Death: Before 21 Mar 1684
- Rachel PARKER Birth: Abt 1644
Bibliography
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Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England 1620-1633. Boston, New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1995. Available at http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/great-migration-begins-immigrants-to-ne-1620-1633-vols-i-iii/image Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p[0-9]*].
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Pulsifer, David, Early Records of Boston. NEHGR v4 (Jan 1850, April 1850), p55-6, p181-4. Available at http://americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-and-genealogical-register/image Information from this source tagged as [Ref: BostonMA EarlyRec p[0-9]*].
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Hartwell, John F, The Hartwells of America. Saginaw, Michigan: Hartwell-Lorenzen, 1956. UMI G4088. LDS Film#1597552#13. Available at http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009184804 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: HartwellJF HARTWELL [a-z]*[0-2]p[0-9]*].
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Hazen, Henry A, History of Billerica, with Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: A Williams, 1883. LDS Film#0901880#2. Available at http://books.google.com/?id=OVunB0IQ_EcC Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Hazen Billerica p[0-9]*].
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Savage, James, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, showing three generations of those who came before May 1692, on the basis of Farmer's Register. Boston, MA: Little Brown & Co, 1860. Available at http://archive.org/details/genealogicaldic01savarich. Reprinted Baltimore, MD, Genealogical Published Co, 1965. Scanned and corrected by Robert Kraft, 1994, and available at http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Sav-age [A-Z][A-Z]* [A-Z][a-z]*].
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Torrey, Clarence Almon, New England Marriages prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1987. M-LH 974Tor Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Torrey NE<1700 p[0-9]*].
- date:
- age 82 in 1684 [Ref: Sav-age PARKER Robert]
- age 82 in 1684/5 [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1398]
Sources for death Information
- date:
- will dated 21 Mar 1684 pro 7 Apr 1685 [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI
p1398, Sav-age PARKER Robert]
Sources with Information about marriage to Judith (BUGBY)
- date:
- before 1635, 1629? [Ref: Torrey NE<1700 p115]
- before 6 Dec 1635 [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1398, Anderson
GreatMigrationI p268]
- second marriage of Judith [Ref: Sav-age PARKER Robert]
- three children by wife "Jude" 1636, 1638, and 1640 [Ref: Anderson
GreatMigrationI p269],
- names:
- Robert PARKER & Jude ___ [Ref: BostonMA EarlyRec p182]
- Robert PARKER & Judith ___ [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1398,
Anderson GreatMigrationI p1399, Anderson GreatMigrationI p268, Anderson
GreatMigrationI p269, HartwellJF HARTWELL v1p2, Sav-age PARKER Robert, Torrey
NE<1700 p115],
- child:
- [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1398, Anderson GreatMigrationI p1399,
BostonMA EarlyRec p182, HartwellJF HARTWELL v1p2, Sav-age PARKER Robert]
Research Notes:
1610: an incident reported by Hubbard, in which Richard Brown rescued
William Ames and Robert Parker [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p265]
1633: immigrated, unknown origin, to Boston. Butcher. Moved to
Cambridge 1636 [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1396]
possibly came from Woolpit, near Bury St. Edmunds, co Suffolk [Ref: Sav-age
PARKER Robert]
Mar 9 1633/4: "Robert Parker servant to our brother William Aspinall"
admitted to Boston Church [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1396]
Mar 9 1634: admitted to church, called servant to our brother William
Aspenwall [Ref: Sav-age PARKER Robert]
Mar 4 1634/5: freeman, last in a sequence of thirteen in Boston [Ref: Anderson
GreatMigrationI p1397]
1636: moved to Cambridge [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1396]
moved early to Cambridge [Ref: Sav-age PARKER Robert]
of Cambridge, was one of the sub-purchasers of the Dudley farm, and had a
grant, afterwards exchanged, on the township [of Billerica?]. Never lived in
Billerica [Ref: Hazen Billerica p104]
Jul 24 1636: Boston church took the following action "Robert Parker our
brother who was excommunicate the 6th of the 10th month 1635 for scandalous
oppression of his wife's children inselling away their inheritance from them,
and other hard usage both of her and them, was this day upon profession of his
repentance received again to the fellowship of the Church" [Ref: Anderson
GreatMigrationI p1396, Anderson GreatMigrationI p269]
Feb 6 1636/7: granted half an acre in the "lots for houses toward Watertowne
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1397]
Aug 16 1637: sold to Joseph Cooke "my dwelling house in Newtowne adjoining his
own yard, with the yard & their appurtenances exccept & without any land unto
the same [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1397]
abt Aug 1637: sold to Abraham Morreill "six acres of land in the Old West
Field [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1397]
1639: in inventory of about 1639, held two and a half acres of marsh on the
south side of Charles River, bought of "Goodman Redding" [Ref: Anderson
GreatMigrationI p1567]
late 1630s: in Cambridge book of possessions, held three parcels of land: "one
house with garden & backside in the lane to Watertown" (the parcel granted to
him on 6 Feb 1636/7); "bought of Timothy Standly four acres of planting ground
in the old west field"; and "bought of Goodman Redding two acres and a half of
marsh on the south side of Charles River". Also held "in the west field two
acres of land more or less" [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1397]
late 1630s: in an undated division, received two parcels of five acres each on
south side of Charles River [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1397]
1645: town of Cambridge granted him six acres "on the west side of Monotamye
River" [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1397]
Jun 8 1646: found delinquent for felling two trees on the common without leave
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1399]
Nov 4 1646: fined for letting an ox feed upon the cow common [Ref: Anderson
GreatMigrationI p1399]
Apr 8 1648: given permission to fell some timer for the building of a dwelling
house and some for a barn and fencing provided he did it before the last of
September [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1399]
1649: signed a deed [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1397]
Feb 12 1649/50: sold to Roger Bancroft of Cambridge, weaver, one dwelling
house with a barn and one half acre of land [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI
p1397]
Feb 9 1651/2: allowed, with others, to fell timber on the commons for fencing
and building. permission renewed annually through 1684 [Ref: Anderson
GreatMigrationI p1399]
Feb 17 1654/5: signed a petition of Shawshin (Billerica) inhabitants,
requesting separation from Cambridge [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1399]
Mar 21 1654/5: Cambridge fenceviewer [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1397]
Apr 3 1656: Isaac Hart sold to Robert Parker four acres of land and a house in
Watertown [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1397]
Nov 10 1656: Constable [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1397]
Feb 1 1656/7: dismissed from church of Boston to Cambridge [Ref: Anderson
GreatMigrationI p1397]
Feb 5 1656/7: Edmund Angier, merchant, sold to Robert Parker, husbandman,
6.5 acres in Pine Swamp Field [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1397]
Mar 15 1657/8: Cambridge fenceviewer [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1397]
Jan 1658/9: in list of Cambridge church members, compiled by Jonathan
Mitchell, are "Robert Parker & his wife both in full communion having been
dismissed hither (together with their children) from the churches of Boston
and Roxbury"; the children listed are Benjamin, John, Sarah, and Rachel [Ref:
Anderson GreatMigrationI p1397]
Mar 21 1658/9: Cambridge fenceviewer [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1397]
1662: in fourth division of lands on the south side of Charles River,
received three acres [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1397]
Mar 24 1663/4: Hogreeve [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1397]
1664-5: drew lot 60 of twenty acres with two cow common rights [Ref: Anderson
GreatMigrationI p1397]
Nov 24 1665: James Parker and Thomas Chamberline of Chelmsford, planters,
sold to Robert Parker three parccels of land in Billerica (125 acres;
five acres in Pong Meadow; and three acres in Crooked Meadow) and "a part
of that farm ... purchased of Thomas Dudley deceased" [Ref: Anderson
GreatMigrationI p1398]
Apr 13 1667/8: Hogreeve [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1397]
1671: made his mark to a deed [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1397]
Apr 4 1671: sold to Jonathan Danforth of Billericac thirty-five acres
"according to the grant of the same to myself by the town of Billerica";
signed by mark by Robert Parker and "Judee Parker" [Ref: Anderson
GreatMigrationI p1398]
1683: in land division, drew lot number twenty of fifteen acres and two cow
commons [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1397]
will dated Mar 21 1684/5, proved Apr 7 1685, "Robert Parker of Cambridge ...
aged about eighy-two years" bequeathed to "my loving daughter Sarah Foster,
sole executrix" in "recompense of her tender care & childlike affection to me
in my old age laboring under much weakness & many informities I do give &
bequeath unto her the said Sarah Foster my whole estate ... give her full
power while she live ... to sell & dispose of any the said houses or lands ...
and at her decease to distribute what shall then be left among her children,
her son Thomas having a double portion, and in case of her marriage" the
overseers to become joint-executors with her; "I do further declare that I
have already given unto my sons Benjamin & John, deceased, their full portions
out of my estate before their decease"; "my loving brethern Deacon Walter
Hastings, Francis Moor & Abraham Holman" overseers [Ref: Anderson
GreatMigrationI p1398]
inventory of estate taken Apr 7 1685, totalled #197, 16s, including #147
in real estate: "two acres & a half of marsh" #13; "four acres of land in
Westfield" #24; and "house & barn with fifteen acres of land & town
privileges" #110. [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1398]
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