Family of Thomas + PARKER and Amy + AYLESWORTH

Husband:	Thomas + PARKER (1609-1683)
Wife:	Amy + AYLESWORTH (1609-1690)
Children:	Thomas PARKER (1636- )
	Hananiah + PARKER (1638-1724)
	Joseph PARKER (1642- )
	Joseph PARKER (1645- )
	Mary PARKER (1647- )
	Martha PARKER (1649- )
	Nathaniel PARKER (1651- )
	Sarah PARKER (1653- )
	Jonathan PARKER (1656- )
	Sarah PARKER (1658- )
Marriage	25 Dec 1635	Lynn, Essex, MA, US1

Husband: Thomas + PARKER

Wife: Amy + AYLESWORTH

Name:	Amy + AYLESWORTH
Sex:	Female
Father:	Nathaniel + AYLESWORTH (1580-1634)
Mother:	-
Birth	1609	England
Death	15 Jan 1690 (age 80-81)	Reading, Middlesex, MA, US

Child 1: Thomas PARKER

Name:	Thomas PARKER
Sex:	Male
Birth	1636

Child 2: Hananiah + PARKER

Child 3: Joseph PARKER

Name:	Joseph PARKER
Sex:	Male
Birth	1642

Child 4: Joseph PARKER

Name:	Joseph PARKER
Sex:	Male
Birth	1645

Child 5: Mary PARKER

Name:	Mary PARKER
Sex:	Female
Birth	12 Dec 1647

Child 6: Martha PARKER

Name:	Martha PARKER
Sex:	Female
Birth	14 Mar 1649

Child 7: Nathaniel PARKER

Name:	Nathaniel PARKER
Sex:	Male
Birth	16 May 1651

Child 8: Sarah PARKER

Name:	Sarah PARKER
Sex:	Female
Birth	30 Sep 1653

Child 9: Jonathan PARKER

Name:	Jonathan PARKER
Sex:	Male
Birth	18 May 1656

Child 10: Sarah PARKER

Name:	Sarah PARKER
Sex:	Female
Birth	23 May 1658

Note on Husband: Thomas + PARKER

PARKER can be traced back to the earliest records. The name is derived from the Latin, Parcus, meaning a picketed enclosure or park, an enclosure for domestic cattle or a game preserve. The surnames Parcus and De Parco are found in the Domesday Book. The name was spelt Parker as early as 900.

Geoffrey Parker is noted in the reign of Edward I (901-925), living at Bexley on the eastern coast. From him descended a numerous posterity, including probably the American progenitor. Thomas Parker. The family seat is at Berkshire, England. There are numerous Parker coats-of-arms, but that supposed to belong to the family of Thomas Parker, mentioned below, is: Gu. a Chevron, between three Stags, faces or. Th,e early generations of this family in Massachusetts were usually prosperous, prominent and devout. A careful study of the early records reveals no unworthy action.(I) Thomas Parker, immigrant ancestor of this family, was born in England, coming thence to New England on the ship "Susan and Ellen," sailing from London, March 31,1635. He settled in Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1635, and was one of the founders of the twelfth church in the Massachusetts Bay colony. He was admitted a freeman, May 17, 1637, and was a proprietor of Lynn in 1638. He was one of the first settlers of the adjacent town of Reading , and was elected deacon of the church there and was one of the foremost citizens. He was selectman' in 1661 for five or more years. He was a man of property and had difficulty in establishing the bounds of his estate. His homestead was within a radius of thirty rods of the town hall at Wakefield, formerly South Reading . He died August 12,1683, and was buried in the burial ground at the east side of the Common in Reading . His will dated August 3, was proved December 18, 1683, bequeathing to his wife Amy; sons John, Thomas, Nathaniel andHananiah ; daughters Mary and Martha; grandchildren, Samuel and Sarah Parker; to John "a great Bible that Boniface Burton gave me." His widow, Amy, died in Reading , January 15, 1690. Children: 1. Thomas, born at Lynn, 1636, died July 17, 1699. 2. Hananiah, mentioned below. 3. John, born at Reading , 1640, married, November 13, 1667, Hannah Kendall. 4. Joseph, born 1642, died 1644. 5. Joseph, born 1645, died 1646. 6. Mary, born December 12, 1647, married Samuel Dodge, of Beverly. 7. Martha, born March 14, 1649. 8. Nathaniel, born May 16, 1651, married, September 24, 1677, Bethia Polly. 9. Sarah, born September 30, 1653, died October 26, 1656. 10. Jonathan, born May 18, 1656, died June 10, 1680. n. Sarah, born May 23, 1658.(II) Lieutenant Hananiah Parker, son of Thomas (1) and Amy Parker, was born at Lynn, Massachusetts, about 1638, and died March 10, 1724. He settled in Reading on land bordering his father's farm on the main road from Lvnn to Lowell, now Lowell street, Wakefield. He was assessed there in 1667 for a house and farm; was admitted a freeman, October 15, 1679. He was ensign of the Reading Military Company in 1680; lieutenant in1684. In 1679 he and two others were elected a committee to have charge of the construction of a new meeting house. He served the town in many offices of trust and honor; was town clerk for a long period; school commit- te,eman, selectman and representative to the general court. He was a farmer.He married (first), September 30, 1663, Elizabeth Browne, who was born in Reading, December 10, 1647, died February 27, 1697, daughter of Nicholas and Elizabeth Browne. The children of the marriage were: 1. John, mentioned below. 2. Samuel, born October 24, 1666, married Martha Brown, of Cambridge. 3. Elizabeth, born June, 1668, married, November 17, 1695, Samuel Cowdrey, of Reading . 4. Mary, married Samuel Poole, of Boston. 5. Sarah, born February 20, 1672, -died October 2, 1673. 6. Hananiah, born November 2, 1674, died January 3, 1677. 7. Ebenezer, born February 13, 1676, marric.l Rebecca Newhall, of Reading . 8. Hananiah. born April 30, 1681, died August 7, 1681. Lieutenant Parker married (second), December 12, 1700, Mrs. Mary (Bursham) Bright, daughter of William Bursham, widow of Deacon John Bright, of Watertown. She died January 4, 1736. Lieutenant Parker died January 4, 1736, aged eighty-seven years.(III) John Parker, son of Lieutenant Hananiah (2) and Elizabeth (Browne) Parker, was born at Reading , Massachusetts, August 3, 1664, died January 22, 1741. His life covered an interesting period of the early growth of the colonies. He was a joiner by trade and built a shop where he made farm implements, furniture and various useful articles of wood. He taught his trade to all his sons and they in turn to theirs. The Parkers of Lexington were all skillful wood workers. John Parker was constable of Reading, fence viewer in Lexington in 1714, tythingman in 1715 and 1721, and was among the most important men of the town, as shown by his seat among the' foremost in the meeting house. He and his family removed to Lexington in the spring of 1712 and settled on the homestead that ever since has been occupied by his family and descendants. He married, October 2, 1689, Deliverance Dodge, of Beverly, Massachusetts, born March 10, 1661, daughter of John and Sarah Dodge. She died March 10, 1718. Children: 1. Sarah, born July 5, 1690, died July 9, 1690. 2. Hananiah, born October 10, 1691, died 17n; was in the service in Queen Anne's war, in the Annapolis Expedition. 3. Andrew, born February 14, 1693, married Sarah Whitney, of Lexington. 4. Josiah, born April n, 1694, married Anna Stone, of Lexington. 5. Mary, born December 4, 1695, died 1709, aged fourteen years. 6. John, born and died 1696. 7. Edie, born August 19, 1697, died 1702, aged twelve years. 8. John, mentioned below.

 

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Thomas Parker (deacon)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thomas Parker

(1605–1683) was one of the founders of

Reading, Massachusetts

, and a deacon

and one of the founders of the 12th Congregational Church in Massachusetts (now the First Parish

Congregational Church).

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Dea. Parker sailed from London on March 11, 1635, for Massachusetts.

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He settled first in

Lynn

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but in 1638 became either the first, or one of the first, settlers of what became the town of Reading.

It was first known as Lynn Village, but was incorporated in 1644 as Reading, with a total of seven

families living in seven houses.

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There is evidence that Parker was "conspicuous in naming the

town" and that he was related to the Parker family of Little Norton, England, who owned land by the

name of Ryddinge.

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Parker was a selectman of Reading and was appointed a

judicial commissioner.

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He owned 200 acres of land on

the north side of the Ipswich River, but his homestead

bordered the east side of the Wakefield (then part of

Reading) Common, just northeast of today's Wakefield

Town Hall. Reading split into three towns in the late 18th

century, Wakefield (First Parish), North Reading (Second

Parish) and Reading (Third Parish).

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Parker's tombstone is in the cemetery just west of the First

Parish Congregational Church in Wakefield, MA. His actual

grave is on the east side of the Common (which was larger

at that time) on the east side of the church. By 1834, the

old burial ground had gone uncared for, and virtually disappeared. In building a town house there in

that year, some of the graves were broken into accidentally. The tombstones that were recoverable

were relocated to their present positions west of the church, but the graves themselves were not.

First Parish Congregational Church Web site, History page

http://fpccwakefield.com/FirstParishHistory.html

Parker, Theodore,

John Parker of Lexington and his Descendants, Showing his Earlier Ancestry in

America from Dea. Thomas Parker of Reading, Mass. from 1635 to 1893,

pp. 15-16, 468-470, Press of

Charles Hamilton, Worcester, MA, 1893.

Sources

1	"US New England Marriages prior to 1700".

2	"Middlesex County Massachusetts Index, 1648-1870".

3	"MA Town and Vital Records 1620-1988 Record".