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A lot of trees have a 'P.' as a middle initial for Nathaniel Parker and his son, but I've not seen any historical document that has them with a 'P' as a middle initial so I've removed them.
* - Mary (Ramsey) Bledsoe is commonly stated to have been born in 1734, but that means her last three children would have been born when she was 50, 55 & 59 years old. At least one researcher has proposed the last two digits were transposed and it should be 1743, which means the last three children would have been born when she was 41,46 and 50.
Nathaniel Parker and Richard Parker are on a circa 1757 Culpeper Militia list of men who have guns and are ready to march out on the frontier. [Colonial Soldiers of The South, 1732-1774, p. 440] They were in Culpeper Co. VA. presumably to escape the Indian attacks along Patterson Creek as a result of the French and Indian War 1754-1763. In September 1758 Culpeper County John Parker (father or brother) was paid for provisions for the militia under Colonel Martin's certificate [Statutes at Large by William Hening, Volume VII, p. 213] Nathaniel Parker and Richard Parker were paid for Militia Service in Culpeper Co. VA.. (USGenWeb archives).
Nathaniel Parker (#120) is on the 2 Mar 1778 Washington County, Maryland Andw. Bruce list giving his Patriot's Oath of Fidelity to the State of Maryland along with his probable brother-in-law John Scott (#122). Washington County, Md. was immediately across the river from where Patterson Creek flowed into the Potomac River.
In February 1780 Nathaniel Parker is included with a company of men going with Col. George Rogers Clark from Hampshire Co. VA. going to Pittsburgh, PA. (George Rogers Clark Papers)
7 Oct 1794 Land Indenture from William Penny and Lucky his wife to Nathaniel Parker along Bledsoe Creek. Was William Penny and his wife Lucky (Lucky is a nickname for Lucretia ) parents of Nathaniel Parker Jrs 2nd wife Lucretia Penny, or did Lucky's husband die and Nathaniel Parker Jr. married a widow?
4 Oct 1796 Land Indenture ( a part of the estate of Anthony Bledsoe ) from James Clendening to Nathaniel Parker.
Sherry Falcon's account of Nathaniel Parker's trip to Natchez, MS. in the spring of 1800.
In an account book of General James Winchester's cotton gin, three miles northeast of the Parker residence, it is noted that in 1806 the Parkers had 1,726 pounds of cotton ginned there.
Norvan L. Johnson in his Rootsweb family file has this text: BURIAL PLACE Parker Family Cemetery, Sumner Co., TN. Much speculation has been made about the whereabouts of Nathaniel' s burial place near Bledsoe Monument at Castalian Springs, TN. I personally believe that, as many of his sons did, Nathaniel requested that a family burial ground be established and his body be laid to rest on his family's plantation. Son, Robert Parker (Sr.) and his first wife, Patsey Martin are buried on a farm formerly owned by Oscar Branham (born 1858, son of Albert Gallatin Branham, grandson of John Branham & Mary Parker, g-grandson of Thomas Parker and Susana Rogers), which is very near the location where Nathaniel Parker's original cabin stood until the1990's. In this cemetery are many sunken, older graves whose headstones over the years have broken, deteriorated, and been scattered. I feel that this is most likely where he, and possibly even his son, Aaron, are buried. Eura Lee Perry, great-granddaughter of Robert A. Parker (Jr.,) recalls older family members saying that this cemetery is also the site of her grandparents', Martha Parker Perry's and Lucilius Perry's, graves.
1. Susannah Parker born abt. 1764 "Susannah intermarried with Charles Buler (Beeler). More than sixty years since they removed and settled at Maristick a few miles from Louisville Kentucky. They had several children, but are both now deceased. Neither the names nor the places of their descendants are to me known." [12] In the 1830 Jefferson, KY U.S. Census there is a John C. Buler and a Geo Buler as head of households. In the 1820 Jefferson, KY. U.S. Census you find a John C. Beeler and a Geo Beeler; as well as a Thos Beeler. So Buler is actually a transcription error and should be Beeler. See Susannah Parker webpage for additional research. Charles Beeler died June 14, 1805, Jefferson Co., VA. Estate Probated March Court 1810 [25]. Charles Beeler moved from Hampshire Co., VA in mid to late 1785 to Nelson Co., (KY) where he owned land on Rolling fork of Salt River, and on Nolin Creek. By 1797 he had moved up to the salt works at Mann's Lick, Jefferson Co., KY. He was involved in the salt trade until March 1803, when he ran an ad in The Kentucky Gazette saying he was "quitting the salt making trade." [26] Susannah Parker Beeler died before 1805. (Findagrave)
Children:
Children of Sarah Colston & Charles Beeler
1) Elizabeth Beeler born abt. 1779;
married John
Lemaster, Jefferson Cty., KY. on 31 Dec. 1800.
2) John C. Beeler born 15 Jan 1781 - died 18 Sep 1838;
married Eliza
Thornberry, Jefferson Cty., KY. on June 25, 1804. She along with daughter
Elizabeth died in 1810.
On 26 Sep. 1811 he
married Elizabeth Parker in Sumner County, TN., daughter of Thomas Parker
and Susana Rogers. John C. Beeler's father Charles Buler (Beeler) married
at least twice. His 2nd marriage was to Susannah Parker, daughter of Nathaniel
Parker. After John C. Beeler's death,
Elizabeth (Parker) Beeler
married William Morris Terry
of Todd County, KY. She died between 24 Oct.
1855 and 21 Dec 1857. (Jefferson
County, KY. Deaths and Obits.)
Children of Susannah Parker & Charles Beeler:
3) Nathaniel Beeler born abt. 1785; married Elanor Philips,
Jefferson Cty., KY on 28 Apr 1803.
4) Charles D. Beeler born abt. 1787; married Mary Ann Stiles.
5) Thomas F. Beeler born 25 Feb 1790; married Sarah Floyd,
Jefferson Cty., KY. on 4 Aug. 1812.
6) George Beeler born abt. 1795; married Mary Ann Richardson,
Jefferson Cty., KY. on 13 Jan. 1820.
"Elizabeth (Parker) intermarried with Col. Michael Collyer (Collier) and John (Parker) with Miss Sally Collier, grand-son and grand-daughter of old Col. Thomas Cresap. These two families many years since removed and settled in Shelby County, Kentucky."
Children:
01) Susan Bealor
Parker born 9 Sept. 1802
02) Aaron Parker born
abt. 1805
03) Lucretia Parker born abt. 1808
04) Amanda F. Parker born 5 Sept. 1809
05) John Parker, Jr.
born 1810
06) Cresap Parker born 10 June 1812
07) Mary 'Polly' Parker born
08) Eldridge Parker
born abt. 1813
09) Benedict Parker born 1814
10) Sarah 'Sally' Parker born abt. 1818.
The above John Parker is referenced in Thomas Scott's 1851 letter. Thomas Scott was a 1st cousin to the children of Nathaniel Parker and would have personally known them so he had first hand knowledge rather than second hand knowledge two to three generations later of the family. Second, Parker in America page 482 where a 1904 letter states: John, s (son) of Nathaniel lived at Shelbyville, Ky..
NOTE: Most family files have John Parker born December 17, 1755 having married Mary Rogers and resided in King and Queen County, VA. as the son of Nathaniel Parker. That John Parker died in 1816 King & Queen County, VA. and per a 1793 will of Thomas Gouldman of Essex Co. VA was his son-in-law who married Mary Gouldman, so he could not have participated in the will and estate settlement for the Nathaniel Parker (1724-1811) of Sumner County, TN..
Children:
01) Isaac Collier
(step-son) born 10 Aug 1780,
Maryland; died 16 Feb 1835 Chestnut Grove, Shelby County, KY.bt. 1783
02) Nathaniel Collier born 1 May 1787
Maryland - died 20 May 1836 Shelbyville, Shelby County, KY. Married Avarilla
Willis (b. 15 Dec 1790 Shelbyville, Shelby County, KY.
03)
Mary Collier born 1789
04) Michael Collier born 1791
05) Hannah Cresap Collier born 1793
(*)
06)
Elizabeth Collier born abt. 1796
07) Sarah Collier
born abt 1797
08) John Crissip Collier born 1798
09) Thomas B. Collier born 1799 - 30 Apr 1850 w/burial
Parkers Family Cemetery, Sumner Co., TN. (Findagrave):
married
1st cousin Susan Elizabeth (Parker) Donnell on 29 Dec 1824 Sumner Co. TN.,
daughter of Nathaniel and Lucretia Parker, Jr.
10) Harriet
Collier
born Nov. 30, 1800 - died 27 Jan 1861 w/burial
Parker Family Cemetery, Bethpage, Sumner County, TN..
Married (bond)
27
January 1825 William
Parker (1st cousin) in Shelby County, Kentucky, son
of Richard and Nancy (Rogers) Parker of Sumner County, TN. He was
born
12 May
1797 and
died
15 Dec 1863.
11) Joseph Cresap Collier born abt. 1801.
* MYTH BUSTED: Hannah Cresap Collier in some trees is shown as the daughter of her grandparents Isaac and Elizabeth (Cresap) Collier. Elizabeth (Cresap) Collier is stated to have been born in 1736. That means she would have been 57 years old when Hannah Cresap Colllier was born. This Wikipedia page shows that any children being born to a mother after age 50 is statistically unlikely. And this WikiPedia page discusses Pregnancy Over Age 50. It lists three women who had children at age 50 in the 1850's/1860's, but none older until modern medicine provided hormones to allow woman older than that to have children.
Hibbet Cemetery Sumner Co., TN. Headstone: Sacred to the Memory of Thomas Parker born Feb. 29th 1768 and departed this life August 8th, 1846 Aged 78 years 5 months and 9 days.
Sumner County, TN. Census Records: 1820, 1830, 1840
Several family files suggest that Thomas Parker's middle name was 'Henderson' and that he was born in Isle of Wight, Virginia. There was a Thomas Henderson Parker, but he was born May 21, 1821 in Boston, Mass. but I've not found any documentation to show that the above Thomas Parker had a middle name. As to the Isle of Wight birth county, Thomas Parker's father Nathaniel Parker bought land from James Rogers in March 1771[6] and his grandfather John Parker had been in Frederick / Hampshire County, VA. since 1749. Given the distance between the Isle of Wight and what is now Mineral County, WV the attribution that Thomas Parker was born in Isle of Wight County, VA. seems incredulous. See map: Mnl+Ham = Hampshire Cty. VA; IW - Isle of Wight, VA.; Bed = Bedford Cty. VA.
Children:
01) Elizabeth Beulah Parker
born 3 Feb 1793
02) Sarah Parker born 23 Dec 1794
03) Pearson Parker born 29 Aug 1797
04) Mary Parker
born May 19, 1799
05) Milton Page Parker born 15 Feb 1803
06) Pamelia A. Parker born 15 Mar 1805
07)
Nancy Parker born 30 Aug 1807
08) Martin Parker
born 19 Oct 1809
09) Patsy Almira Parker born Apr 27, 1813;
10) Susan Ann Parker born Sep 11, 1815.
* Source: Francis Milton Duffy & Pamelia A. Parker Family Bible.
Sumner County, TN. Census Records: 1820, 1830,
In 1803 according to the Sumner County Tennessee DB 3:309, Richard purchased a 640 acre track of land in Sumner County located on the middle fork of Bledsoe Creek, one mile below Cooks Camp from Thomas Mastin.
Children:
01) George Washington
Parker born 1789
02) Nathaniel Parker born abt.
1791, died 10 Dec 1867 Prairie Grove Battlefield, Arkansas;
married Betsy
Collier on 13 May 1817 in Sumner County, TN. Was
Betsy Collier the daughter of Michael
and Elizabeth (Parker) Collier of Shelby County, KY. who I currently show
marrying Elijah
Rude on the 13 March 1818 in Shelby County, KY.? This Nathaniel
Parker's marriage
to Betsy Collier took place in Sumner County, TN..
03) Rev.John
Parker born 17 Aug 1792 John Parker, died 4 Feb 1866 (Findagrave)
(Will ). A
minister of the Gospel 49 years. His wife Mary 'Polly' Harper, born Mar. 15, 1796 died Mar. 10,
1866. They were married Feb. 21, 1815. Two Christians Pleasant in their lives in
death not divided. Their daughter Elizabeth married William Stewart, Jr.
She was born
14 Dec
1817 and died 6 June 1860.
05) Elizabeth Parker born 17 May 1795,
died 30 April 1826 with burial in the Stewart Cemetery #2, Gallatin, Sumner
County, TN.; married John Crenshaw.
06) William Parker (born
12 May 1797 -
died 15 Dec 1863);
married (bond) 1st cousin Harriet Collier of Shelby Co. KY. on 29 Jan 1825.
04) Isaac Newton Parker
born 1793 or 1801, died 1885
Isaac N. Parker per some trees moved to Kentucky and appears in the 1850, 1860, 1870 & 1880 U.S. census. In the 1850, 1860, & 1870 his wife Mary is listed as born abt. 1812. If it's the same Isaac N. Parker and Mary Lafferty, then they were married when she was 12 years old. Typically a female married at 18, not 12. Either the Isaac N. Parker in the 1850, 1860, 1870 & 1880 is a different Isaac N. Parker or 1 he married a 12 year old or 2 Mary Lafferty died and he 2nd married another Mary unknown.
NOTE 1: Some trees show Nathaniel Parker 1775-1857, as the father of Parker children born in Stewart Co., TN. The Stewart Co., TN. Nathaniel Parker 1770-1850 who married Sarah Rogers was a 1st cousin of the above Nathaniel Parker 1775-1857, was the son of Aaron Parker 1732-1793, a brother to Nathaniel Parker 1724-1811 in this profile. Each appears concurrently in Stewart and Sumner Co., TN census records for the years 1820, 1830 & 1840.
In 1803 Nathaniel Parker Junior was Bonded (FamilySearch) to be a Constable in Sumner Co., TN.; the bond was witnessed by his brother Thomas Parker (1768-1846), and the Bond is filed with the Wills and Probate records in early Tennessee records,
The January 29, 1857 'The Nashville Christian Advocate' newsletter noted:
Rev. NATHANIEL PARKER died Jan. 15, 1857, Sumner Co., Tenn.; had he lived until March he would have reached his 82nd birthday
The April 23, 1857 'The Nashville Christian Advocate' newsletter noted:
Children of Nathaniel Parker and Sally Ramsey:
Some family files suggest that Nathaniel Parker and Sally Ramsey had a son named Woodson Daniel Parker. Woodson Daniel Parker per the 1860 York Township, Putnam, Missouri census was age 63 and born in Tennessee. Findagrave shows he was born 8 Sep 1796 and died 16 Jul 1861 and buried in Powersville, Wayne County, Iowa. His wife Abigal Mitchell is buried beside him. He married Abigal Mitchell on 14 Feb 1817 in Jackson, Indiana. FamilyTree DNA shows at least one male Parker descendant of Woodson Daniel Parker 1796-1861 has taken a yDNA test. Comparing his yDNA to Nathaniel Parker 1775-1857 of Sumner Co., TN. shows only 7 of 25 yDNA markers match and 23 of 25 need to match to prove a biological relationship. So Woodson Daniel Parker can't be a son of Nathaniel Parker 1775-1857.
At least two commenters on Parker Heritage suggest Woodson Daniel Parker was the son of James Parker who married Charlotte Daniel and who's mentioned as the son-in-law of Woodson Daniel (1736-1791) who died in Wake County, N.C. Woodson Daniel was the son of James Daniel Jr. and Elizabeth Woodson- hence the name Woodson Daniel. Woodson Daniel Parker as a son of Nathaniel Parker and Sally Ramsey is still unproven and seems suspect!
Children of Nathaniel Parker and Lucretia Penny: (source)
xx. Nancy Parker born 12 Oct 1798; died 1845; married Elijah Robertson.
Findagrave and several Ancestry trees attribute this Nancy Parker to be the daughter of Nathaniel Parker Jr. 1775-1857 and his wife Lucretia Penny. The birth date of Oct 12, 1798 and the Sumner Co. TN. marriage date of April 9, 1811 has her marrying Elijah Robertson at the age of 12� years old. Not impossible, but unlikely. Nathaniel Parker, Sr. 1724-1811 married Mary Ramsey Bledsoe on the 4 Dec 1791 and reputedly had a daughter named Nancy born in 1793. If the Nancy attributed to Nathaniel Parker, Jr. was actually born in 1793, and not 1798 and was the daughter named Nancy attributed to his father, that had her age 17 � when she married. Something more reasonable. A review of the Findagrave headstone photo shows a probable transcription error where the birth year should be 1793, in lieu of the 1798 stated..
01) Susan Elizabeth Parker born 30 Nov 1803, died 10 Mar 1872 w/burial Parker Family Cemetery, Bethpage, Sumner County, TN. (Findagrave) 1st) married Latimer Donnel 8 March 1824 2nd) married 1st cousin Thomas Collier 29 Dec 1824 Sumner Co., TN., son of Michael & Elizabeth (Parker) Collier. Census: 1860, 1870
02) Richard Parker born 1 Dec. 1804, died 26 Aug 1850 w/burial in Tyree Cemetery #1, Bethpage, Sumner County, TN.; married Arabella Tyree on 17 Dec 1844 Sumner County, TN. Census: 1850 [This Richard Parker is attributed to Nathaniel Parker, Jr. but there is no male child age 15 listed in the 1820 Sumner County, TN. U.S. census for Nathaniel Parker, Jr. Is he really a son of Nathaniel Parker, Jr.? Page 482 of Parker in America towards the bottom states 'Rev. Nathaniel had no s's, but three daus.' This same letter states the author did not think Nathaniel Parker 1724-1811 did not have any daughters, which has been proved incorrect.]
03) Margaret Parker 30 August 1806, died 22 March 1839 Sumner Co., TN.; married Rev. Luke Palmer Allen 15 Aug 1825 Sumner Co. TN. (Findagrave) Children: Lucretia Ann Allen (1826-1849) (FindAGrave), Mary Fletcher Allen (1829-1891), Susan Catherine Allen (1830-1857), Thomas Collier Allen (*) (1830-xxxx), Martha Woodson Allen (1832-1835), Parmelia Matilda Allen (1836-xxxx), Margaret EmilyAllen (1837-1914), Eunice Reece Allen (1839-1887). See 1850 Sumner County, TN. census. (* - census record has ditto marks beside Thomas Colliers name leading one to conclude his surname is Allen, but it may actually be Collier.)
04) Mary T 'Polly' Parker born 30 May 1808 Sumner County, TN.; died 1897 Sumner County, TN. with burial Gallatin City Cemetery, Gallatin, Sumner County, TN.; married John G. Turner 11 Dec 1825 Sumner County, TN.
1810 tax list of Sumner Co., TN: Isaac Parker, Capt
Lauderdale's list (Same list as his father Nathaniel.)
1820 census of Sumner
Co., TN: Isaac Parker 120210-31010 Isaac and Agnes are both 26-44.
1830
census of Sumner Co., TN:00011001-00110001 Isaac and Agnes are both 50-60.
1840 census of
Sumner Co.
Will Synopsis--Wife Agnes, brother Thomas, Daus: Elizabeth Thompson, Melvina
Walsh w/o John Walsh; granddaughter Agnes Walsh; son Page Parker & D.W.Mentlo
Children:
01) William Parker born 1800 born Abt. 1800 Tennessee, died abt. 1865 Sumner, TN., married (bond) Francis Brown on 25 Sep 1821 in Sumner County, TN.. Appears in the 1830 Sumner Co., TN census, then in the 1840, 1850, 1860 Haywood, TN census. Children: Elizabeth Parker born 1825, Isaac Parker born 1830, Permelia Parker born 1834 and Richard Parker born 1837.
02) Mary L. Parker born 10 Aug
1807, married Abraham Martin
03) Richard Nelson Parker born 9 Nov. 1809; died 5 Mar 1867 Haywood Co., TN. with burial in the Parker-White Cemetery, Haywood County, TN., married 1) Cinthia Whitesides (some trees say Whitman but that's a transcription error) 9 Feb 1835 Sumner County, TN. 2) Mary Green (1st name of Richard copied from The Perry & Webb Families' No source listed.)
Samuel G. Parker, jeweler and stationer of Dyersburg, was born in Haywood County, Tenn., in March, 1849, and is the son of Nelson and Mary (Green) Parker, the former, a native of Sumner County, Tenn., born in November 8, 1809. He was twice married. His first wife, Cynthia C. Whiteside, died January 1, 1846; of her children two, Isaac L. and James P., are living, and two deceased, viz.: Nelson Franklin, who joined Forrest's command late during the war between the States. The battle of Harrisburg was his first engagement, soon after which he, with a squad of other Confederates, was sent to Lamar, Miss., to cut the Illinois Central Railroad at that point. While in that act he was mortally wounded, and died four days afterward and was buried at that place. Anselam P. was born February 24, 1847, and was married to Miss Tommie Howard, of Tipton County, Tenn., May 29, 1871, and died September 20, 1872. he leaves one son, Howard Nelson, born May 13, 1872. By his second marriage he became the father of eight children. Those now living are Samuel G., Emma N. (Mrs. D. H. Thomas), Ella A. (Mrs. S. D. Morris), Booth T., and Mary L. (Mrs. T. R. Moss). Mr. Parker died in 1867, and his last wife in 1878. Samuel G. received a good practical education, and at the age of twenty-two began to learn the jeweler's trade, working for three years in Nashville and Jackson. In 1873 he came to Dyersburg and engaged in the jeweler's business, to which, in 1880, he added a stock of books and stationery. He began with a small stock of goods, but by honesty and close application to business, he has built up a good trade, and now has the leading store of the kind in the town. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Christian Church. From Goodspeed's History of Dyer County, 1887.
04) Margaret Parker born 1811,
05) Elizabeth Parker born 1 Apr 1812; died 10 Apr 1858 at Schochoh, Logan County, KY while visiting her daughter with burial in the Morgan Cemetery, Castalian Springs, Sumner County, TN ; married Bushrod Thompson born abt. 30 Nov 1803 KY on the 3 November 1828 Sumner County, TN. Bushrod Thompson owned a country estate and had the largest general merchandise store in Castalian Springs, Sumner Co., TN
Bushrod W. Thompsons 2nd marriage was to Elizabeth Cayce Butler in February 1860 Williamson County, TN.
In 1850 Bushrod Thompson is listed as one of the trustees of the Bledsoe Female Academy in Sumner County, TN. [Acts of the State Of Tennessee passed at the First Session of the Twenty-Eighth General Assembly for the Years 1840-1850 page 276]
1830 Sumner County, TN U.S. census - Buchard Thompson (transcription error) Bushrod Thompson
1840 Sumner County, TN. - Buchred W. Thompson (transcription error) Bushrod W. Thompson
1850 Sumner County, TN. - Bushrod Thompson age 48 w/wife Elizabeth age 38, Isaac age 17, George N age 15, Prscilla age 14, Davis age 12, Martha age 10, Frances age 8, Elizabeth age 6, Ada age 9/12.
"Diary of Old Lawyer - page 25: Bushrod Thompson, whose kind and amiable nature was only exceeded by the best of wives, with a house full of boys and girls. Ike, George, Willis, Davis, Emily and Martha, all schoolmates in the pioneer log house, near the rocky spring and Hawthorne grove. Martha would risk her life for a practical joke. All the boys wore the gray, and George and Davis fell in Shiloh's battle.
1860 Sumner County, TN. - B.W. Thompson (
1870 Williamson County, TN. census - B Thompson
06) Page P. Parker born 1815, died 1852; married Mary H. Gourley 31 Aug 1841 Sumner County, TN. 1850 census Sumner County, TN.
07) Martha Melvina
Parker born 1816; died Sept 1849 Sumner County, TN.; married John
Walsch 28 Oct 1841 Sumner County, TN. Children: Agnes Walsh born 1844,
James R. Walsh born 1850.
08) Pamelia Parker born 9 Nov 1818 Sumner Co., TN.; died 17 Dec 1835 age 17 years 1 mo, 8 days with burial in the Bryson Cemetery, Sumner Co., TN.; married Isaac Litton. Their daughter Pamelia Ann Litton died 23 Mar 1837, age 1 year, 3 mos 5 days.
1820 (PDF), 1830 (PDF) Davidson, TN. U.S. Census. In the 1840 Davidson, Tennessee U.S. census there is one Wm Thompson age 20-30, and a 2nd age 40-50. The William Thompson that Mary Parker married would have been age 60 and higher based upon the above 3 May 1800 marriage date which seems supported by the 1820 census which shows him born by/before 1775, and the 1830 census that shows William Thompson born between 1761 and 1770. FamilySearch profile has him born 1768 and in the 1830 Davidson, Tennessee census the oldest females are age 10 to 15, so Mary (Parker) Thompson seems to be deceased. William Thompson's will probated 3 Oct 1836 in Davidson, TN. court.
NOTE: This Mary Parker DID NOT marry Bushrod Thompson. Bushrod W. Thompson married Elizabeth Parker, daughter of the above Isaac Parker and Agnes Bartlett on 3 Nov 1828 at Castalian Springs, Sumner County, TN.
Children:
01 Charles Thompson (1801-1836)
02) Elizabeth Thompson (1804-1836)
03) William Parker Thompson born abt. 1805
FamilySearch.org shows a William P. Thompson in Davidson, TN. marrying a Ann J. Whiteside on 14 Feb 1829, a 2nd marriage to a Isabella Whiteside on 24 Nov 1832 and a 3rd marriage to a Ann Hearn on 23 July 1835. Davidson, TN. 1840 census shows William P. Thompson age 30-40.
04) John W. Thompson born abt. 1811 (An Ancestry tree says born 1811, died 1860) Davidson, TN 1840, 1850 census has John W. Thompson born 1811 and wife Mary J. Thompson age 28 living adjacent to D.F. Thompson. In 1860 census wife Mary J. Thompson is listed as head of house.
05) Dela Fletcher Thompson born abt. 1814 (An Ancestry tree says born 1814, died 1893), married 1st Margaret Ann Whitsitt on 5 Aug 1838 Davidson County, TN.; 2nd Jane P. Johnson on 30 Nov. 1847 Davidson Co., TN. 3rd Zerelda Bettie Halsell on 15 May 1855 Rutherford Co. TN. Davidson, TN. census 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880.
Children: Mary J. Thompson (born 14 May 1843 Davidson, TN.-died 15 Mar 1935 Davidson, TN.) married an Alexander.
06) Mary Catherine Thompson born abt. 1817
There is a marriage record for a Mary C. Thompson to John J. White on 22 Dec 1840 in Davidson County, TN. Is this Mary Catherine? A Tree on FamilySearch.org shows John J. White born 1815 Davidson, TN. and Mary C. Thompson born abt. 1819. Davidson, TN 1840 census has John J. White age 30-40. This Findagrave page may be their children.
07) Susan Margaret Thompson born 24 Aug 1818 Davidson Co., TN.., died 22 Feb. 1898 Osceola, St. Clair, MO.
Susan M. Thompson married Daniel P. Morgan on 25 Sep 1838 in Davidson, Tennessee. Four Rootsweb.com trees show she died 1898 at St. Clair, Missouri. Oseola Township, St. Clair, MO. 1860 census. Alexander Township, Benton, Missouri 1870 census. Osceola, St. Clair, Missouri 1880 census.
Searching U.S. census records for Wm. or William Thompson we
find:
One Wm Thompson in the 1830 Sumner County, TN. U.S. census.
Two -
William Thompson in the 1820 Davidson County, TN U.S. census
Five Wm. or
William Thompson's in the 1830 Davidson County, TN U.S. census
Two William
Thompson's in the 1840 Davidson County, TN. U.S. census
A Mary Thompson age 70 is found in the
1850 Robertson
County, TN. U. S. census and in the
1830 Robertson
County, TN U.S. census.
One William Thompson in the 1820 Montgomery County, TN. U.S.
census.
One William Thompson in the 1830 Montgomery County, TN. U.S. census
10. Robert Parker [4][12] b: July 25 1783 in Hampshire Co. VA.(now Mineral County, W.V.); died August 31, 1870 in Sumner County, TN. with burial in Parker Family Cemetery, Sumner County, TN. (Findagrave); married 1) Martha Patsy Martin ((1 May 1789- 29 Jun 1840)) in Sumner County, TN. on May 27,1808 [4] 2) married Matilda Osborn Gibson on 13 January 1846 Sumner County, TN.
Sumner County, TN. Census Records: 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870
Children of Robert Parker and Martha (Patsy) Martin:
01) Susan Parker 4
Mar 1809
; died 1 Sep 1831 w/burial in
Parker Cemetery, Sumner County, TN.; consort of Israel Greenhalgh
(Greenhaigh sp?)
02) Nathaniel Parker born 8 March 1813; died 11 Jul 1894
DeKalb County, TN w/burial in
Mount Holly Cemetery,
Smithville, DeKalb County, TN.; married Martha Ann Martin 17 Dec 1835. (Nathaniel
Parker & Mary Ann Martin Family Bible)
03) Aaron Parker born
1815; died in childhood
04) Nancy Josephine Parker born abt. 1824, married Austin B. Mitchener 2 May 1842 Sumner Co. TN.
01. Martha E. Mitchener buried in Parker Cemetery, Sumner, TN. born 27 Mar 1844, died 22 Jun 1844 age 2 mos. 26 days.
02 Josephine Mitchener living in household born 1846; died 1899 with burial in the Gallatin City Cemetery, Sumner, TN.; married Amos Kendall Milliken (Milligan in 1880 Sumner TN census) 8 Feb 1865 Sumner Co., TN.
05) Lucretia Parker born 8 Jan 1828
06) Robert A. Parker (Jr.) born 1831
07)
Ann
Parker born 1832
Children attributed to Nathaniel Parker and Mary Ramsey Bledsoe:
11. Nancy Parker thought to have been born about 1793 -
Findagrave and several Ancestry trees attribute a Nancy Parker being the daughter of Nathaniel Parker Jr. 1775-1857 and his wife Lucretia Penny. FindAGrave has her birth date of Oct 12, 1798 and the Sumner Co. TN. marriage date of April 9, 1811 has Nancy born 1798 marrying Elijah Robertson at the age of 12 1/2 years old. Not impossible, but unlikely. Nathaniel Parker, Sr. 1724-1811 married Mary Ramsey Bledsoe on the 4 Dec 1791 and reputedly had a daughter named Nancy born in 1793. If the Nancy attributed to Nathaniel Parker, Jr. was actually born in 1793, and not 1798 and was the daughter named Nancy attributed to his father, that would have her age 17 1/2 when she married. Something more reasonable. A close examination of the Findagrave jpeg of the headstone for Nancy Parker 1798-1845 has led me to conclude a transcription error has occurred where a '3' was transposed to an '8', thus the headstone should have her birth year as 12 Oct 1793, not 1798. Note, one of Nancy (Parker) Robertsons sons was named Henry Bledsoe Robertson . And Mary (Ramsey) (Bledsoe) Parker had a son named Henry Ramsey Bledsoe and an uncle named Henry Ramsey. Not proof but suggestive. This needs additional documentation to validate.
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| Nancy Parker birth year 1798 | Nancy Parker actual birth year 1793 |
Nathaniel Parker married
Mary Ramsey Bledsoe on the 4 December 1791 and separated
roughly a year later. In the Knox Gazette dated 29 November 1794
Nathaniel Parker stated that his wife Mary had left his bed and board and warned
all persons that he would not be responsible for her debts or contracts. On
November 21, 1800 Mary Parker sued for divorce from Nathaniel Parker. On
November 12, 1802 a trial was held. Twelve days later, on November 24 1802, the
court entered it's final decree. The court awarded her separate bed and board
and awarded her separate maintenance in the amount of $200 per annum to be paid
quarterly
A local Sumner County, TN. tradition is that Mary Ramsey was
pregnant with the child of
Thomas Sharpe Spencer, who was killed by Chief
Doublehead on 1 April 1794 on the Cumberland Road [Lamb and Allied Families by
James L. Mohon, p. 221] before they could be married. The administration of
Thomas Sharpe Spencer's estate was granted to Thomas Donnell at the January 1795
term of court in Sumner County [Sumner Co., TN County Court Minutes p. 80). This
was a little more than three years after Mary Ramsey married Nathaniel Parker.
Nathaniel Parker wrote his will in Sumner County on 25 February 1811 [Sumner
Co., TN WB 1:156 J. He named his children and mentioned "my second wife's
daughter Nancy Parker." It is presumed that was a reference to his wife Mary
Ramsey Bledsoe. She was probably about 45 years of age when she married
Nathaniel Parker, being nearly at the end of her childbearing years. Anthony and
Mary Bledsoe were not known to have a daughter named Nancy.
So Nancy Parker receiving only a one Dollar in Nathaniel Parker wills sixth bequest makes sense as she was born when her mother Mary Ramsey Bledsoe Parker was still married to Nathaniel Parker thus the Parker surname for Nancy, but she was not a biological child of Nathaniel Parker's.
Note: Some Family Files suggest that the 'Elder John Parker' and his son Daniel Parker were descendants of the above Nathaniel Parker. The Parker Heritage yDNA project shows that the 'Elder John Parker' and his son Daniel Parker belong in the Parker Family Group 5 while the above Nathaniel Parker and his father belong in Family Group 18.
Another child attributed to Nathaniel Parker and Ann Clayton is Moses Parker. This website suggests Moses Parker (1773-1852) was a nephew to the Elder John Parker, son of Daniel Parker. Per the Parker Heritage yDNA website, no male descendants of any Moses Parker has had their yDNA tested as of September 2015.
The Nathaniel Parker who married Ann Clayton belongs to Parker yDNA Family Group #5, while the Moses Parker born 1744, died in 1730 Marlboro S.C. belongs to Parker yDNA Family Group #7 so he's from an entirely different biologically distinct Parker line. This Rootsweb tree has research on this Moses Parker which links him to to Parker yDNA Family Group #7.
[2] The Will of Richard Parker was written 22 October, 1831
and probated in Sumner County, TN. April 1838 court session. Will Book 2 page 65:
He left his wife Nancy (Rogers) all of his property. He left to son George W. Parker 206
acres after the death of his wife. He mentioned four other sons: John,
Nathaniel, William, and Isaac Newton, who with George W. were to share his
estate after the death of Nancy.
[3] Parker Family Bibles
Ophelia Parker Family Bible - Beth Page, TN.- Published 1885 - Births Page; Deaths; (Richard Parker, son of Nathaniel Parker & birth/death years )
Francis Duffy 'Family Bible (Pamelia A. Parker, daughter of Thomas Parker and granddaughter of Nathaniel Parker)
Tennessee Records: Bible Records & Marriage Bonds by Jeannette Tillotson Acklen - Genealogical Publishing 2009, page 179-180 'From the M.B. DeWitt Family Bible, in possession of John H. Dewitt': (Nancy Caroline Parker, daughter of Thomas Parker and granddaughter of Nathaniel Parker.)
John Johnson Hibbett, born May 30, 1806, in Smith County, TN.
Nancy Caroline (Parker) Hibbett, born August 30, 1807, in
Sumner County, TN.
Her father, Thomas Parker, and her mother, Susan
(Rogers) Parker, were born in Virginia.
His father, Nathaniel Parker, was born in Virginia in 1724.
Thomas Parker, born Feb. 29, 1768.
Susan Parker, born April 11, 1773.
John Johnston Hibbett and Nancy Caroline Parker, married in
1829.
Thomas Parker died Aug. 8, 1846.
Susan Parker, died October 25, 1838.
Nathaniel Parker, died in 1811, in Sumner County, TN.
[4] The will of Nathaniel Parker, dated 25 February 1811, lists his surviving children: [WB 1 Sumner County, TN transcript of wills 1788-1822 pp. 156-158]
In the name of God, Amen. I,
Nathaniel Parker, Sr., of Sumner County and state of Tennessee,
being weak in body, but of sound and disposing mind and memory, blessed be God
for all his mercies, do make, ordain and establish this my last will and
testament in manner and form following, that is to say.
First, I return my soul to the God who gave it, and my body to the earth to be
decently buried at the discretion of my Executors hereinafter named.
Second, I give and bequeath to my son Robert, his heirs and
assigns, the following described part of the tract of land whereupon I now live,
to include my dwelling house and orchard, to begin at Hugh Rogan's southeast
corner, thence south to a stake opposite the middle of my land that leads to my
mill, thence east to David Shelby's line north with the same to the corner,
thence east to Isaac Bledsoe's line, thence with it north to Isaac Parker's
corner, thence with said Isaac Parker's lines passing a spring to Hugh Rogan's
line, thence with it south to the aforesaid place of beginning.
Third, it is my will and desire that all the rest and residue of the said tract
of land whereupon I now live, with the mill and other improvements thereupon,
together with all my horses, horned cattle and cogs, and my following named
negroes, to wit, Burrough, Ned, Sawney, Pegg and her two children named Levi and
Squire, Charlotte and her two children called Malinda and Isaac, shall be sold
at the discretion of my Executors hereinafter named, and the proceeds, after the
payment of my just debts and funeral charges, I give and bequeath to my sons
John Parker, Thomas Parker, Richard Parker, Isaac Parker, Nathaniel
Parker, and Robert Parker to be equally divided amongst them, share and
share alike.
Fourth, I give and bequeath to my daughter Betsy Collier,
during her natural life my negro girl Fan. And after her decease, I give the said
girl Fan, and her increase to my said daughter Betsy's daughter called Betsy, her heirs
and assigns forever.
Fifth, I give and bequeath to my daughter Mary Thompson, her
heirs and assigns, my negro boy Edmond, and no more of my estate, real or
personal.
Sixth, I give and bequeath to my second wife's daughter Nancy Parker, one dollar
and no more of my estate, real or personal.
Lastly, I nominate and appoint my sons Thomas Parker and Isaac Parker, Executors
of this my last will and testament, revoking and annulling all former wills by
me heretofore made, ratifying this and only this as and for my last will and
testament. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the
25th day of February 1811.
Test:
Hugh Rogan
Nathaniel Parker, Sr.
[Sumner Co., TN WB 1 page 156]
One of Nathaniel's last acts on 4 June 1811 was to deed 59 1/4 acres of land to Thomas Parker (presumably his son) on Bledsoe's Creek, part of a tract commonly called Greenfield's Survey, adj lands of David Shelby and James Clendening. Wit. Jo H Conn [Sumner Co., TN DB 6:231].
Nathaniel Parker's Estate Inventory was filed at the 7 March 1812 term of court in Sumner County by Thomas and Isaac P. Parker, the executors and included 13 slaves [Sumner Co., TN Inventories, Settlements, and Guardian Accounts, p. 116].
The Estate Sale was recorded in April, 1812. Slaves were bought by Robert Parker, Isaac Parker, Richard Parker, and Nathaniel Parker. Other items were bought by these and Thomas Parker, B. Parker, Henry Bledsoe and Isaac Bledsoe.
29 July, 1814--Settlement of estate of Nathaniel Parker dec'd. List of legatees: Nathaniel, Robert, John, Isaac, Thomas, Richard Parker and John C. Beeler.
On 19 November 1814 John Parker, Thomas Parker, Richard Parker, Nathaniel Parker, Isaac P. Parker and John C. Beeler for himself and brothers, children and grandchildren of Nathaniel Parker, late of Sumner County deceased, sold to Robert Parker son of said Nathaniel Parker 185 acres of land on the East side of Bledsoe's Creek. The land was identified as being the land where Nathaniel lately lived Witnesses were Meridith Baily and Thomas Coddle. [Sumner Co., TN DB 7, page 162]
November, 1816--Another Settlement of Nathaniel Parker estate. Robert Parker is owed $17.50. Money is owed to Mark Marshall and John C. Buler (Buler is a transcription error, should be Beeler). The Executor has $1,016.38. Legatees are Nathaniel, Robert, John Parker, John C. Buler (Beeler), Isaac, Thomas and Richard Parker.
This same deed written on 19 November 1814 was recorded again on 3 May 1825 in Sumner County [Sumner Co., TN DB 11:66]. At that time the name of E. Collier had been inserted at the top in the listing of the six men who executed the deed. In addition, the signatures included not only the six named men, but also Elizabeth Collier, Mary Thompson and William Thompson. In addition to the witnesses listed when the deed was first recorded, the names of Jno. Parker, Susan Parker and Susan Donnell had been added. Susan Parker and Susan Donnell appeared in court in February 1825 and proved the deed in court "as to Elizabeth Collier, Mary Thompson and William Thompson." It thus appears that someone realized that not all of the heirs had signed the deed when it was first recorded. The second recording corrected the situation.
On 24 February 1818 the same six men deeded to James Suddarth and Joseph Hodge Sr. for $700.76 land on Bledsoe's Creek including a mill formerly owned by Nathaniel Parker deceased containing 16 acres in all [Sumner Co., TN DB 8:318].
[5] Tax Lists / Enumerations: http://www.wvgenweb.org/mineral/census.html
1782 Hampshire County, Virginia Enumerations: Nathaniel Parker was taxed on 532 acres of land in Hampshire County.
Parker, Benjamin
7 - 12
Parker, Benjamin 6 - 12
Parker, George
6 - 12
Parker, James
3 - 12
Parker, Job
7 - 14
Parker, John
4 - 7
Parker, Nathaniel Sr. 3 3
Parker, Nathaniel 10
5
Parker, Robert
7 10
Total number of whites and total number of blacks.
1782 Hampshire County, Virginia Personal Property Tax List
Name
Tithes Slaves
Horses Cattle
Parker, Nathaniel
1
5
23
35
Parker, Benjamin
1
-
9
19
Parker, James
1
-
1
3
Parker, Nathaniel, Sen. 1
3
3
2
Parker, John
1
4
10
Parker, Robert
1
9
15
40
Parker, Job
1
5
23
1784 Hampshire County, Virginia, Patterson Creek District: - Nathaniel Parker and 9 children.
Name White Black
Parker, Benjamin
5 6
Parker, James
3 6
Parker, Job
6 8
Parker, John
3 5
Parker, Nathaniel 10
6
Parker, Robert
7 10
List of Parkers in Hampshire County, Virginia Tax Lists 1782-1792
1787 Sumner County, Tennessee - Taxable Property: Nathaniel Parker not listed.
1788 Sumner County, Tennessee - Taxable Property: Nathaniel Parker not listed.
1789 Sumner County, Tennessee - Tax Paid for paying of Militia: Nathaniel Parker not listed
1790 U.S. Census of Hampshire County, Virginia (now West Virginia): Nathaniel Parker & 10 family members. Nathaniel Parker was listed as a miller. (owned several grain mills)
1790 Sumner County, Tennessee - Taxable Property: Nathaniel Parker not listed
1792 Hampshire County, Virginia Tax List: Nathaniel Parker
1792 Sumner County, Tennessee Tax List -
Names Polls Land Amount of Taxes
Isaac Bledsoe
9 4467
1-3-10 1/2
Heirs of A Bledsoe 12
5362
1-9-10 1/4
Nathl Parker
6 -
-6-
Joseph Desha
2 200
-2-8
Hugh Rogan
1 320
-2-0 3/4
1794 Sumner County, Tennessee Tax List
Names Polls Land Amount of Taxes
Hugh Rogan
1 320
2-0 3/4
George D Blackmore 2
960
5-2 1/4
Nathaniel Parker
21 5362
1-18-10 1/4
Robert Desha
7 300
8
James Blythe
4 220
4-8 3/4
John Thompson
1
71
1-2 3/4
Obediah Terrell
1 300
2
Heirs of Isaac Bledsoe 8
3750
1-0-6
1802 tax list of Sumner Co., TN: Nathaniel Parker is on Capt. Brownens List.
1810 Sumner County, Tennessee Tax List: Nathl Parker, Capt Lauderdale's List - 5,362 acres
[6] Land Grants / Indentures:
Hampshire County, Virginia Land Indenture: 1749 John Parker purchased Lot #12 on Patterson's Creek Settlement
Lot #12 was owned by John Parker whose grandson Thomas Parker son of Nathaniel Parker married Susan Rogers granddaughter of Mathew Rogers who owned Lot 13 and daughter of William Rogers.
SIMS Index to Land Grants in West Virginia Hampshire County, VA. (Mineral County, WV) 1762-1863
1765-12 June - Land Indenture, Hampshire County, Virginia - Catherine Parker Foreman
Catherine Y. Foreman (nee Parker) signs a deed which partitions the lands of her father John Parker among herself and William Foreman, her mother (widow of John Parker), and her siblings.
1764 Richard Parker from Edward
McQuire and wife
1765 Nathaniel Parker from Thomas McQuire et el.
1765
Robert Parker from Thomas McQuire et el 113 acres on New Creek.
1765 Aaron Parker from Thomas McQuire et el
1765 John Nall and wife from Thomas McQuire et el
1771 Hampshire Co., VA DB 3:229-232:
On 24 March 1771 in a deed of lease and release Nathaniel purchased 220 acres of land from James Rogers and his wife Martha, all of Hampshire County, for five shillings. The land was located on Patterson Creek and was part of a tract of land patented by Mathew Rogers deceased that fell to his son William and thence to James Rogers. Thus, Nathaniel was now the owner of 532 acres of land.
Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, Gertrude E. Gray, pg. 223
P-235: Mr. Matthias Bush of the City of Philadelphia, 403 acres on Patterson's Creek in Hampshire County. Surv. John Moffett. Adj. Nathaniel Parker, Matthew Rogers dec'd. 19 Nov. 1773.
11 May, 1779-Hampshire County, Virginia
-Catherine Foreman to John Williamson: 200 acres for 200 pounds on
Little Cacapon about 1/2 mile above the Buffalo Lick plus an additional 150
acres on the North Branch Potowmack River from her father, John Parker. Ref;
Hampshire Co VA Deed Bk 8, Page 141. (signed 2 deeds in Hampshire
county on 11 May 1779 and 14 Nov 1780.) The land was allotted and assigned to
William Foreman dec'd then the husband of the said Catherine being part of her
share of her dec'd father John Parker by
a deed of partition in 1765 between the following:
Thomas McGuire an wife late Elizabeth Parker relict of said
John Parker; Robert Parker, Richard Parker; Nathaniel Parker; Aaron
Parker; John Nall and wife Elizabeth and the said
William Foreman and wife Catherine.
Catharine Foreman relict of William Foreman dec'd and Joh (John) Foreman son and
heir of said William to John Williamson: 200 acres for 200 pounds on Little
Cacapon one mile above the Buffalo Lick. (This appears to be the same deed but
mentions that Catherine and her son John are selling the property rather than
just Catherine.)
12 November, 1783--Catharine Forman owed the estate of Abraham Kuykendall.
Name also spelled "Catreen".
Name listed on yellow papers as Susan Parker. Listed as sixth (6) child.
See the Bell Tower inside the gate Romney Cemetery, which have marble tablets with the names of Benjamin Forman, Capt. , William Forman & wife Catherine Parker Forman.
Catherine Forman and children fled from approaching Indians . They hid back of a large brush pile, the baby cried. It' s mother held it so close to her bosom to still it's voice that she smothered it. (taken from a letter of Maggie Guthrie, 17 Apr 1928.
Final Deed of John Parker's land (Deceased) was signed 12 Jun 1765.
1788 Land Indenture, Hampshire County, Virginia (now West Virginia):
Nathaniel Parker, 300 acres, on Patterson Creek
1788 - Deed Book S page 522 - Charles Clinton assignee of Nathaniel Parker 272 acres (18 June 1779) in Hampshire County inc. Delaps Place on north branch of Potomack adjacent Slagle, Heeton, Joseph House, A. Bird, Hartley. 2 July 1788. [34]
U.S. GenWeb Project 1789-1822 Sumner County, TN. Will Index 1 is a document for Nathaniel Parker dated 20 Sept 1790. The Sumner County, TN. Tennessee GenWeb site coordinator Diane Payne did a Will look-up for the 20 Sept. 1790 document recorded in the Index, but did not find a Will. Based upon similar instances in pre-1800 documents found with the Wills, this may be an early record appointing a person to act for you to buy / sell land. The comment listed in the Will Index seems to substantiate this:
County of Hampshire, State of VA.. Nominate and appoint Elmore Douglass my
lawful attorney.
Parker, Nathaniel
A web search for "Elmore Douglas" "Hampshire County" Virginia does not find anyone in Hampshire County, Virginia by the name of Elmore Douglas, but a similar search for "Elmore Douglass" Sumner County" Tennessee returns one Elmore Douglass whose father Edward Douglass was a lawyer, though he never practiced per a statement by Jay Guy Cisco in his 1909 book 'Historic Sumner County, Tennessee'.
1790 - Grant Book U page 594: 12 June 1783 James Clark assignee of Malcom Hart assignee of Nathaniel Parker 72 acres (23 July 1788) in Hampshire County on John Jone's Run adj. John Jones, Nehemiah Harris, William Rogers. 6 July 1790.[34]
1790 - Grant Book V page 30: 3 Feb 1783 & 12 Sep 1783 - Andrew Cooper assignee of Nathaniel Parker & James Nesbett 265 acres (6 Aug 1789) in Hampshire Co. on Patterson's Creek adj. John Jones, William Rogers, Valentine Burgett. 30 Nov 1790. [34]
1790 - Grant Book V page 35: 28 Apr 1788 - Nathaniel Parker Jr. 300 acres (8 July 1788) in Hampshire County on Patterson Creek. adjacent lotts 18 & 20 now occupied by Nathaniel Parker Sr. 3 Dec 1790. (FamilySearch)
Note: In 1790 Jr. & Sr. did not only mean father and son, but also older and younger persons of the same name, but not necessarily related. A circa 1860 family bible owned by a daughter of John Johnson and Nancy Caroline (Parker) Hibbetts (daughter of Thomas and Susana (Rogers) Parker) states her grandfather Nathaniel Parker was born in 1724. This strongly suggests Nathaniel Parker, Sr. was an uncle, brother to the John Parker 1700-1760 who died in Hampshire Co. VA.
1791 Hampshire Co. VA. - Jones, David, Jr. from Nathaniel Parker - Early Records, Hampshire County, VA.: Now West Virginia by Clara McCormack
Hampshire Co., VA., Deed Book 9, Pages 71-73 Mar 1792 (land indenture)
Nathaniel Parker of Hampshire Co VA sold land to William Armstrong of the same County, 800 lbs for 502 & 1/2 acres on Patterson Creek being 312 acres granted to John Parker 8 Jun 1749 and devised to his son Nathaniel Parker. The 109 & 1/2 acres to Matthew Rogers.
1793 - Grant Book W page 338: Edward McQuire 403 acres (Nov. 1764) in Hampshire County on Patterson Creek adjacent Nathaniel Parker, Matthew Rogers dec'd. 8 Nov 1793. [34]
1796 Deed for Rogana in Sumner County, Tennessee:
This Indenture made this 30th day of January in the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred & ninety six between Nathaniel Parker & Mary his wife Executrix to Anthony Bledsoe dec'd of the County of Sumner & territory of the United States south of the river Ohio of the one part and Hugh Rogan of the same County & territory aforesaid of the other part witnesseth for that whereas .......
Nathaniel Parker owned 5,362 acres in Sumner County, TN
1797-1798 Deed Book Vol. A: No. 63 Parker, Nathaniel - indenture
1798-1802 Deed Book Vol. 2: No. 144 George Parker - indenture; No. 402 Nathaniel & Isaac Parker - indenture.
1800-1805 Land Records Vol. 3:
240 Parker, Benjamin - deed
243 Parker, William - deed
575 Parker, James - indenture
593 Parker, Thomas - indenture - 1800 Parker, Thomas from Nathaniel Parker
401 Parker, Nathaniel Jr - indenture
748 Parker, Thomas - indenture
1020 Parker, Richard - indenture
1808 Christian County, KY. - Vol 2 published by Turner Publishing Company, Jun 15, 1991 (Unclear if this is the same Sumner County, TN. Nathaniel Parker and his son Thomas Parker.)
Christian County Court - May 9th, 1808: A deed of bargain and sale from Nathaniel Parker of Christian County to Thomas Parker of Bourbon County state aforesaid for a tract of land lying in Hampshire County, VA. acknowledge and ordered certified to the county court of Hampshire County, Virginia.
1811 - Sumner County, TN Deed Book 6, pg 231.
4 Jun 1811 - Nathaniel Parker Senior to Thomas Parker, $385, 59 1/4 acres on Bledsoe Creek part tr commonly called Greenfield's Survey, adj lands of David Shelby and James Clendening Wit: Jo H Conn
[7] DAR file # A087729 for Nathaniel Parker who married 1) Ann Clayton (actually Elizabeth Scott) and 2nd) Mary Ramsey Bledsoe.
I downloaded three separate DAR submissions for Nathaniel Parker and none provided documentation of Nathaniel Parker's marriage to Ann Clayton. I subsequently sent two emails to DAR's correction email address informing them of the incorrect birth year and incorrect spouse with links to my web page 'Nathaniel Parker of Sumner County, TN.' created to separate the two merged but distinct Nathaniel Parker families. Per DAR's replies they do not accept digital documentation, only hard copy. I submitted a 'Letter of Correction with backup documentation to the DAR in December 2015 and 19 months later they still had not corrected the information.
The SAR / DAR web page has three errors on it.
1) It lists Ann
Clayton as the 1st wife, but the 1828 Francis and Pamelia A. (Parker) Duffy
family bible says Thomas Parker born 29 February 1764 was the son of Nathaniel
and his wife Elizabeth. (See Sources) And the 1851 letter by Ohio Supreme Court
Justice Thomas Scott states " His father's sister Elizabeth (Scott) married
Nathaniel Parker of Hampshire County, VA. and later Sumner County, TN.
2) The SAR / DAR record also lists a John Parker of King &
Queen, Virginia who died in 1801 as the son of Nathaniel Parker, but the 1851
Ohio Supreme Court Justice Thomas Scotts letter says he migrated to Shelby
County, KY. This is reinforced by a 1904 letter found in Parker in America that
states John Parker, son of Nathaniel lived in Shelbyville, KY. Shelbyville is
the county seat of Shelby County, KY.
3) The SAR / DAR
record also lists Susannah (Parker) Daughhettee as being a daughter of Nathaniel
Parker. But Susannah Daughhettee was a sister of The Elder John Parker (died at
Ft. Parker, TX in 1836) who belongs to Parker yDNA Family Group #5, while
Nathaniel Parker and his father John Parker belong to Parker yDNA Family Group
#18. Two separate and distinct Parker lines. The 1851 Ohio Supreme Court Justice
Thomas Scott's letter shows that Nathaniel Parker's daughter married Charles
Beeler of Hampshire County, VA. and that they migrated to Manns Lick, Jefferson
County, KY. where they operated a salt works in the late 1790's/early 1800's.
2018-09-26 response letter from DAR regarding the above red text. The DAR agrees that the John Parker who they list as marrying Mary Rogers IS NOT the son of Nathaniel Parker 1724-1811. And future submitters will have to prove both Ann Clayton and Susan Parker Daughhettee were either married to him or his daughter.
[8] The Johnson Family - Thomas Collier, Sr.
David L. Johnson-3, born November 18, 1800, married Thankful Anderson on September 7, 1830. She was born October 9, 1809, and died in March 1849. On June 5, 1850, after his first wife died, he married Elizabeth Collier. He was also the administrator of the estate and guardian of the children of his brother, AUSTIN-3. David is buried in Parker Cemetery. About 1850, David was also the administrator of the estate of Elizabeth Collier Johnsons father, Thomas Collier. There was a lawsuit about the estate, in which David and Elizabeth were sued by Sarah Parker Collier, Elizabeth's mother, and her siblings.
Elizabeth's father, Thomas Collier, Sr., owned a slave woman
named Charlotte prior to 1846. Thomas Collier was living in Kentucky and became
very debt ridden. He sold the slave [who was also mortgaged at the time] to his
rich brother-in-law, Mr. Williamson, without telling Williamson about the
mortgage. Williamson, who was childless, was in the habit of giving handsome
gifts to his wife's siblings and their children. Williamson, then, in turn, sold
the slave for about one-third of her value to Nathaniel Parker, Jr.,
the father of Thomas Collier's wife, Sarah.
In the meantime, Thomas Collier had given the slave to George W. Johnson [no
known relationship] and another man to settle a debt he owed them, and had given
them a worthless deed to the slave. They testified in the depositions that they
never took possession of the slave, but let Thomas Collier continue to use the
slave. They didn't know that in Kentucky at that time, it was possession of the
slave plus the deed that counted, and their failure to take possession of the
slave when they bought her voided the sale. Thomas Collier sold the slave and
then took her out of state to his father-in-law's, where Mr. Parker assigned the
slave to do the 'drudgery' for his daughter, Sarah, Mrs. Collier. He also made a
deed of gift to Sarah and her children for the slave and her offspring.
When Thomas Collier died, his new son-in-law, David Johnson, who was the
administrator of the estate, seized the slave and was going to sell her. David
Johnson's mother-in-law, Sarah Parker Collier, and his wifes siblings sued him
to prevent him from selling the slave and her child. I don't know how the
lawsuit was settled, but it was obvious from the many depositions that Thomas
Collier did not take kindly to the charity offered to him by his father-in-law,
which included the use of this and other slaves, including one that he whipped.
The whipped slave boy ran home to Mr. Parker's and Parker did not send him back,
nor apparently another to replace him. One of the depositions says that Thomas
Collier was in a 'fit' over that. Just before Collier died, Parker requested
that Collier pay the tax on the slave, Charlotte, since he had the use of her
and the deponent stated that Collier didn't like Parker at all. There were other
mentions of quarrels between Thomas Collier and other relatives. For anyone
descended from this line, these lawsuits are quite interesting. Apparently the
widow and children were attached, or at least said that they were, to the slave
and her child, and one deposition indicated that the slave had grown up in the
household. The depositions I have seen however, do not make clear what David
Johnson's interest in selling the slave were, except that the money was needed
to pay the debts of the estate which was insolvent.
The 1850 census of Sumner County showed Nathaniel Parker, age 75, and
his wife, Luorela (Lucretia), age
76, living in District 13, house number 725. Parker had been born in
Virginia and his wife in North Carolina. They owned $7500 in real estate. Thomas
Collier, age 20, was also living with the couple. He had been born in Kentucky.
[9] 'Parker in America 1630-1910', page 572, compiled by Augustus C. Parker, published 1911 by Niagara Frontier Publishing Co.
[10] 'Parker in America 1630-1910', page 575, compiled by Augustus C. Parker, published 1911 by Niagara Frontier Publishing Co.
[11] Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, Vol. 53, R.R. Bowker Company, 1919, page 575
6249. Whiting - I note your query regarding James and William Whiting. I have the D.A.R. record of John Parker. He is a son of Nathaniel Parker and his wife, Ann Clayton, but I have not the date. She is supposed to be a dau of John Clayton and Elizabeth Whiting. John Clayton was b in Eng., 1685, and d in Gloucester Co., Va. 1773. He was an eminent botanist and had a botanical garden on his estate, which he called "Windsor". He m. Elizabeth Whiting, 1723, and had several sons and daus. - Mrs. P. S. Tilson, 1516 McGowan, Houston, Tex.
[12]
Genealogy.com message board:
Ancestory.com message board:
Parker Heritage Forum:
The Ohio State Archives (actually 'Ohio
History Connection' ) holds a typed transcript of a
33-page letter written by
Thomas Scott (Call # VFM 2599), one of the first supreme court justices of Ohio,
wherein he discusses his family history in great detail. He wrote the letter to
his children on 31 Oct 1851 on the occasion of his 79th birthday.
In the letter he relates that he was born at Oldtown, (present) Allegany County,
Maryland, on 31 Oct 1772, the son of John Scott and Sarah Chenoweth. Thomas
writes of his grandparents Thomas Scott and Susannah Watson and all their
descendants known to him.
On pages 8-9 of the letter, he writes:
"My father's sister Elizabeth, intermarried with Mr.
Nathaniel Parker. He owned a beautiful well-kept cultivated farm and
mills, two or three miles above the town of Frankfort on Patterson's creek, in
Hampshire County, Virginia. He was a man of more than ordinary industry, economy
and enterprise, and owned considerable wealth. My aunt had
three daughters and seven sons by him, namely, Susannah, Elizabeth and Polly,
John, Thomas, Richard, Aaron, Robert[,] Isaac and Nathaniel. Susannah
intermarried with Charles Buler. More than sixty years since they removed
and settled at Maristick a few miles from Louisville Kentucky. They had several
children, but are both now deceased. Neither the names nor the places of their
descendants are to me known. Elizabeth intermarried with
Col. Michael Collyer [sic] and John with Miss Sally Collier, grand-son
and grand-daughter of old Col. Thomas Cresap. These two families many years
since removed and settled in Shelby County, Kentucky. After the decease of my
aunt, Mr. Parker with the residue of his sons and daughters, their families
removed to the state of Tennessee, where he intermarried with the widow of Col.
Bledsoe deceased, but report says they did not live happily together."
Thomas Scott knew these families (Nathaniel Parkers children were his 1st cousins) and lived near them in his youth, and public
records support his statements in other matters regarding family ties mentioned
above and throughout the letter. Unless Elder John Parker married Sally Collier and
moved to Shelby Co., KY, then he is not the son of Nathaniel Parker of Hampshire
Co., VA. and later Sumner County, TN.
Scott also mentions that his father's half-sister Polly Dobson, daughter of
William Dobson and his grandmother Susannah (Watson) (Scott) Dobson, married
Aaron Parker (Nathaniel Parker's brother) "by whom she had three sons, William, Thomas, and Nathaniel." Scott
also mentions he had not heard from any of the Parkers in "nearly sixty years"
except "William Parker who called to see me many years since."
[13] History of Mineral County, WV.
Two important forts for the early settlers of this area were the one built in Frankfort Village and the Blockhouse built in the New Creek Valley. The former of the two was eventually named Ashby's Fort after Colonel John Ashby who was attacked by Indians in 1756, but made "a most remarkable escape to the fort." Colonel Ashby was later put in command of the fort and apparently remained there through the Revolutionary War. The town eventually took its name from the man and the fort he commanded.
[14] Historic Sumner County, Tennessee: With Genealogies of the Bledsoe, Cage and Douglass Families and Genealogical Notes of other Sumner County Families by Jay G. Cisco Folk-Keelin Printing 1909
"Mrs. Bledsoe was fifty-four years of age when her husband was killed. Five years thereafter, when she was in her sixtieth year, she married Nathan Parker, an old man, a pioneer, and the father of several children, some of whose descendants are prominent citizens of this and other states."
[15] Sumner County TN DB 3 page 309: In 1803 Richard purchased a 640 acre track of land in Sumner County located on the middle fork of Bledsoe Creek, one mile below Cook's Camp from Thomas Mastin.
[16] The History of the Cresaps - Cresap Society 1987 revised edition
This history shows Elizabeth Cresap, daughter of Thomas Cresap and Hannah
Johnson, "b. 01/19/1737, probably in York Co., PA, m. Isaac Collier of PA. Isaac
and Elizabeth were said to have moved to Kentucky, but no record of their
residence there has been found. Both died before 1826."
It shows four children of Isaac Collier and Elizabeth Cresap: Michael Collier,
d. 1826, Joseph Collier, no record, Isaac Collier, Jr., no record, John Collier,
b. 1766 - d. 1857.
It then states: "(Probably other children. See note at end of this genealogy
regarding Daniel Collier, 1764 - 1835, and other Collier connections.)"
Then there is also an Elizabeth Cresap listed, 1799 - 1887 for whom they don't
know the proper place.
The supplemental note at end of the book on Collier says "Identifying the
descendants of Isaac and Elizabeth Cresap Collier (No. 6) is particularly
difficult because of the paucity of clear records and the confusion of names. It
is possible that Daniel Collier (1764 - 1835) was a son of Isaac and Elizabeth.
Daniel was married in 1787 to Elizabeth Prather and had a large family of
children. They moved from Allegany County, Maryland, and settled in 1795 in
Adams County, Ohio, where Daniel was a citizen of considerable prominence.
Descendants of Daniel who have searched for his parentage and the records of his
descendants are Mrs. Helen Fretz Jarrett, Washington, D.C.; Wayne Collier,
Sandusky, Ohio; and Miss Helen L. Wikoff, Columbus, Ohio. The late Louis T.
Payne of Oakland, California, traced his line of descent to Margaret Ellen
Collier, b. 1838 near Cumberland, MD - m. 1856, James Payne in Coshocton County,
Ohio. Margaret (sister to Thomas Collier, Jr.) was daughter of Thomas Collier,
m. 1836 - 37, Sarah Ann Middleton, sister of Jesse and Stacy. He was living in
Allegany County, Maryland, in 1838."
The genealogy does, however, show Michael Collier, son of
Elizabeth Cresap and Isaac Collier, marrying a first wife, by whom he had
one son Isaac Collier, b. 1780 - 1835, and then second
wife Elizabeth Parker, daughter of Nathaniel Parker
of Hampshire County, VA, and later of Sumner County TN, by whom he had 10
children. It says that Michael Collier lived in Shelby County, KY and d.
1826. The genealogy also shows "John Collier, b. 1766 in VA - m. 1792, Mary
Slagle (1770 - 1841) dau. of John Jacob and Hannah Burrill Slagle of Hampshire
County, VA - d. 1857, Somerset County, PA. John is said to have been reared in
Kentucky, but resided at Mt. Augusta, PA. It shows 11 children of John's
marriage to Mary.
[17] John Parker, the Virginian, and his descendants, 1749-1980: Johannas (John) Peters (1675-1766), Hampshire Co., VA (now W.Va.). Dallas, Tex.; K.H. Campbell, 1980
[18] Isaac Parker - U.S. Census Records:
1810 tax list of Sumner Co., TN: Isaac Parker, Capt
Lauderdale's list (Same list as his father, Nathaniel.)
1820 census of Sumner Co., TN: Isaac Parker 120210-31010 Isaac and Agnes are
both 26-44.
1830 census of Sumner Co., TN:00011001-00110001 Isaac and Agnes are both 50-60.
[19] Isaac Parker - Will Synopsis
Wife Agnes, brother Thomas, Daus: Elizabeth Thompson,Melvina Walsh w/o John Walsh; GD Agnes Walsh; son Page Parker & D.W.Mentlo.
[20] Tax List / U S Census - Sumner Co, TN - Nathaniel Parker, Jr.
1810 Tax List of Sumner Co., TN: Nathl.
Parker, Jr. on the tax list of Capt Charlton.
1820 Census of Sumner Co., TN, Gallatin: Nath. Parker
000001-02101 Nathaniel and his wife are both 45 and up. There are three females
in the household.
February, 1832: FHC microfilm #0467482, Section 3 p. 108--Nathaniel Parker is
guardian for the heirs of Charles Turner who are James, Charles, Nancy,
Pleasant, and Milly.
1830 census of Sumner Co., TN: Nathaniel Parker
00001001-00010001 Nathaniel and Sally are both 50-60. They have a male 20-29 and
a female 15-19 in the household.
U S Census 1850 - Sumner Co, TN - Nathaniel Parker
Page: District 13, p 179B
Note: 17 October 1850
Visit 725, family 725
Text: Nathl, Parker, 75, m, farmer, $7500, VA
Lucretia, 76, f, NC
Parmelia M Allen, 14, f, TN, school
Margarett E Allen, 13, f, TN, school
Unice R Allen, 7, f, TN, school
Thos Collier Allen, 20, m, farmer, KY
[21] Cemetery Inscription of Bethpage Cemetery - 10 miles east of Gallatin on Scottsville Pike, Gallatin TN:
Nathaniel P Parker b. 17 March, 1775 d 15 Jan 1858. Lucretia Parker b. ------ d. 25 Feb., 1860, age 88 years. (Sumner Co TN Bible Records and Cemetery Records)
[22] Richard Parker of Sumner County, TN.
1810 tax list of Sumner Co., TN: Richard Parker is on the list of Capt
Lauderdale, the same list as his father and his brother, Isaac. There is another
Richard Parker on the list of Capt. Cook.
1820 census of Sumner Co., TN, Gallatin: Richard Parker 001301-00001 Richard and
Nancy are both 45 and up. Four of their sons are living at home.
[23] A Glimpse of the Past, the Harness Family History , Page 94 Copied by Anne Waller Reddy
REVOLUTIONARY LIST AT HAMPSHIRE, VA.
(NOW WEST VIRGINIA)
THE following List of HAMPSHIRE County names is taken from a manuscript book and
from loose pages of manuscript in the VIRGINIA STATE LIBRARY at Richmond,
Virginia.
This Hampshire List shows the names of persons who furnished supplies
under the COMMISSIONERS OF PROVISION LAW, the supplies to be applied to
CONTINTENTAL PURPOSES. Descendants of those mentioned in the List are
eligible for D. A. R. membership.
As a Court held for Hampshire County the 15th Day of May, 1782. The
Court proceeded to receive and Certify public Claims for Impressments, etc.,
agreeable to a late Act of Assembly as follows, viz.:
Joseph Vanmeter, Garret Vanmeter, Samuel Dew, Okey Johnson, Isaac Miller,
Michael See, James Lirgent, Charles Lynch, Jacob Chrismin, Evangelist Hardin,
Jonathan Chaneworth, William Cunningham, Abraham Hite, Joseph Vanmeter, Anthony
Baker, Solomon Vanmeter, John Tapp, Amos Branson, Samuel Tunmonds, Daniel Ashby,
Jacob Randall, Stephen Ruddell, Wm. Anderson, Garret Vanmeter, Peter Casey,
Wilham Darling, Jacob Harness, Felix Seymour, Prior Robey, William Cunnmgham,
Jr., William Cunningham, Sr., John Harness, Michael Stump, James Cunningham,
Sylvester Ward, Martin Power, Christopher Huffman, Alexander Simpson, Ursulla
Brink, Thomas Parsons, James Stephenson, Job Welton, Jesse Welton, John McNeil,
Peter Casey, Henry Carr, Rudolph Shobe, Martin Shobe, John Wilson, Sithman
Howman, Valentine Power, Charles Lynch, Leonard Stump, Moses Hutton, Jesse
Cunningham, Michael See, George Harness, John Campbell, Michael Harness. George
Stump, Abraham Inskeep, George See, Christopher Ermantiout, Robert Cunningham,
John Westfall, William Robey, William Renick, John Cring, Richard Seymour,
William Jones, Henry Linder, Robert Traviss or Fraviss, Michael Stump, Moses
Hutton, Sithman Howman, Andrew Wodrow, John Wilson, Abel Randall, Moses Hutton,
William Vanse, George Nixon, Levi Ashbrook, William Buffington, James Smith.
James Largent, Thomas Seymour, Richard
Bodkin, Nicholas Tivault, Thomas Demoss, Evan Jenkins, John Martin, Thomas
Edwards, Michael Lawrence, Esekial Thomas, Patrick Keran, Jahn Largent, Isaac
Jones, William Anderson, Davis Forman, James McBride, Barbara Hankle, John
Wilson, John McBride, John Cutrack, William Cunningham, Abel Randall, Nicholas
Casey, Garret Vanmeter, John Forman, Nathaniel Parker, Stephen
Colvin, Nathaniel Parker, Thomas McCarty, Peter Casey.
[25] Early Kentucky Settlers: The Records of Jefferson County, Kentucky, from Filson Club History Quarterly; by Kentucky Adjutant Generals Office; Genealogical Publishing Com. 1988, page 426.
"Charles Beeler estate. At March Court, 1810, on motion of John C. Beeler, it was ordered that Ga. J. Johnston, Samuel Hinch, John Y. Moore, Samuel Bray, and John Howard be appointed to divide land of Charles Beeler among heirs, except John C. Beeler, who claimed land on which he lived, and the widow who received her dower. Beech Spring Tract (according to plat Mill Creek runs through land and Fish Pool Creek through S.E. portion) and land near the licks (Mann's (Lick salt works)) containing 275 acres, conveyed by executors of Isaac Hite to heirs of Charles Beeler, divided between Nathaniel, Charles, George, and Thomas Beeler and Charles Lamaster, with John Speed guardian. Approved December 5, 1811, by James Vance, guardian, for George and John C. Beeler. Approved December 4, 1811, with slight change asked by John Speed guardian of Charles Lemaster and Thomas Beeler, an infant on April 28, 1810, but now twenty-one years of age. Witness John Speed Smith. Recorded December 9, 1811. [B1, p32.]"
[26] History Of The Ohio Falls Cities and Their Counties; Precincts of Jefferson County, KY. General histories of Clark and Floyd counties, Ind. New Albany and Floyd County. Clark County and Jeffersonville; L.A. Williams & Company - 1882 page 58.
"Thomas Milton Beeler, Esq. was born in Jefferson county, Kentucky, in 1833. His father was John C. Beeler, who came with his father Charles Beeler, to Mann's Licks at a very early day, supposed to have been somewhere in the nineties. ......"
[27] Kentucky Gazette, Lexington KY. - August 20, 1802 and again on September 10, 1802
WE, the subscribers, Salt-makers at Mann's Lick, having
been informed that a report was in circulation and believed, that it was our
intention to exact any price for salt this fall, which the scarcity would enable
us to command, did in the month of June, request and authorize John Speed, to
contradict said report, by causing it to be known that our price would be 12s.
per bushel and no more. We take this method of making our determination more
public, that we will not ask more than the above price.
Charles Beeler
James F. Moore
John C. Beeler
John Lemaster
Jesse Carter,
John Speed Jun.
24 July 1802.
[28] Legal Papers of Andrew Jackson by Andrew Jackson - University of Tennessee Press, 1987 pages 255- 259
[29] More Tales of Tennessee by Louise Littleton Davis 1998, Pelican Publishing page 54
[30] Did Mary (Parker) Thompson die abt 1828 or 1864? in Davidson Co., TN and her husband William Thompson die in 1836. In his Will, William Thompson names the following children, Dela F. (son), John W., Mary C. and Susan M. Susan M. Thompson married Daniel P. Morgan of Sumner, Co., TN (aka Mary Catherine Tompson born abt 1805; John W. Thompson born abt 1811-died 7 Nov 1837 Davidson Co., TN. married Mary Jane Whitesett 7 Nov 1837; Dela(ware) F. Thompson born abt 1814 married 1st Margaret Ann Whitsett 5 Aug 1838 Davidson Co., TN. 2nd married Jane P. Johnson 30 Nov 1847 Davidson Co., TN. 3rd married Zurelda E. Watson born 14 May 1855 Davidson Co., TN.; William Parker Thompson born abt 1817 married Martha Ann Hunt abt 1839 ; Susan Margaret Thompson born abt. 1820 married Daniel P. Morgan 25 Sept. 1838.)
[31] Multiple Parker lines lived, passed through and/or died in Sumner County, TN. adding to the confusion of who their ancestors were.
The John Parker who died in 1825 Sumner County, TN was part of yDNA sample P166. Per the Parker Heritage yDNA page, P166 falls in Family Group #15 while the Sumner County, TN. Nathaniel Parker falls in Family Group #18. A comparison of the markers shows only 14 of 25 match. 23 to 25 need to match to assume a common ancestor. Two distinct and separate families.
[32] The 1830 Shelby County, KY. census has John Parker age 60 to 70, so that puts him born between 1760 and 1770. While the 1810 Shelby County, KY U.S. Census has three John Parkers each in the 26 to 45 age bracket. So this John Parker was born between 1765 and 1770. The 1790 Hampshire County, VA tax list lists John son of Nathaniel Parker. Showing on the tax list means he was at least 21 years of age, which means he was born between 1765 and 1769. Based upon the births of Nathaniels other children there are two windows for him to be born. Between 1765 and June 1766 when Elizabeth Parker was born. Or between Thomas Parker born 29 Feb 1768 and Richard Parker born 20 Sep 1770. As the 3rd bequest in Nathaniel Parkers 1811 will, Ohio Supreme Court Justice Thomas Scott's 1851 letter (PDF page 11), 1904 page 482 Parker in America letter, and Jay Guy Cisco's 1909 Historic Sumner County, TN., all start the list of male children with John Parker. Nathaniel Parker naming the eldest son John would have followed the 17 century southerners tendency to name their eldest sons for paternal grandfathers. So the birth of Nathaniel Parker's son John Parker most likely occurred in 1765.
[33] I, Nathaniel PARKER of Sumner Co TN,
for the affection I have to my beloved son Aaron PARKER, have
sold unto Aaron PARKER all the negros, horses and cattle. All mentioned in
original document. This 5 July 1803.
A N MILLER Nathaniel PARKER
Job WALKER
Thomas PARKER
Reg: 27 September 1803
[34] Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1775-1800, Volume 3 By Gertrude E. Gray, Dave Gray
[35] U.S. Dept of the Interior - National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Nathaniel Parker home and land.
[36] Early Records, Hampshire County, Virginia: Now West Virginia by Clara McCormack Sage 1939 Estates Referred to In Index of Book 2
Thompson, David, est. Widow, Mary, ex, and John Thompson, Evidently the heirs were: David, Francis, Abraham and Jacob Reasner, William Blackburn, James Daugherty and Nathaniel Parker.
Why was Nathaniel Parker an heir of David Thompson? Or did Nathaniel Parker just purchase goods from the Estate?
[37] Davidson Co., TN
Records of Davidson County
Court, Minute Book B
Oct. 19, 1835 – Sept. 7, 1841, p. 177
William Thompson - Will
The last will and testament of William Thompson
of Davidson County and State of Tennessee who being weak in body but sound in
mind and memory declare this to be my last will and testament hereby revoking
all others. I commend my frail body to the dust from which it was made and my
spirit to the God who gave it in hopes of a glorious immortality when they shall
be again united. I wish my body deposited in the family burying ground in a
manner suitable to my condition in life and all of my just and laywful debts
paid as soon as my executor shall find it convenient.
I give and bequeath
unto my beloved son Wm P. Thompson a piece or parcel of land on
the west end of the tract where I now live and bounded as follows. Beginning
near the tanyard on the Branch of the north boundary of my said tract and
running with said branch south so as to include water on both sides to a white
oak in the field on the west side of the Branch thence south with said Branch
including water on both side to the head of said branch to a hollow.
Thence south with said hollow until it intersects Enoch Ensley line thence west
with said Ensley's? line to a spanish oak on (Catron..s?) line thence north to a
poplar thence east to the beginning be the same more or less including the
tanyard together with all of its contents.
I give unto my son
Dela F. Thompson the balance of the tract of land where I now live it
being east of the before described land. But it is my will and desire that the
land given to my son Dela F. shall be valued by three disinterested person and
that the tract of land purchased of James Whitesides shall be valued also that
belonging to my son John and my son D. F. is to pay John the difference in the
price, as it is my intention that each of them shall be equally interested in
both tracts of land - But if my said sons John W. & D. F. shall prefer dividing
the the land I give them the priviledge of doing so But with neither to have an
advantage over the other.
I give and bequeath unto my beloved daughters
Mary Catharine and Susan Margaret Thompson four negro to wit,
Sophia, Harriett, Henry and Stephen to be put in two lots and drawn for by
themselves. But should either of said negro die before a division of my estate
takes place they are to have another of equal valve. It is my wish that the
balance of my negro not particulary specified shall be equally divided between
the whole of my children, viz William P., John W., Dela F., Mary C., and
Susan Thompson. It is my will that each of my four youngest children
shall have a horse worth sixty or seventy dollars. It is my will and devise that
the remainder of my property including stock of all dismplions?, shall be sold
and the proceeds thereof equally divided between the whole of my children or
well as all monies due me either in notes or accounts, except a claim I have
against Joseph Litton if ever collected I wish equally divided between my two
daughters Mary C and Susan M. Thompson and finally it is my will and divise that
my friend and neighbor Ech............ Pattison (Patterson) and my son
John W. Thompson shall qualify as my executors to this my last will and
testament. Signed this 24th day of August in the year of our Lord 1836.
Wm
Thompson
Witnessth
Thomas Moff ......?
Robert Brown .....?
Oct. 3, 1836, Wm Thompson will proved – A paper writing purporting to be
the last will and Testament of William Thompson decd was produced in open court
for probate and proved thus: Thomas Moss and Robert Brown the subscribing
witnesses thereto duly sworn depose and say that they became such in the
presence of said William Thompson and at his request and in the presence of each
other & that they verily believe that he was of sound mind and memory at the
time of executing said paper. It is therefore ordered that said paper writing be
admitted to record as the last will and Testament of the said William Thompson
decd. Whereupon Everard M Patterson & John W Thompson the executors named in
said will came into court and gave bond in the sum of fory thousand dollars. D F
Thompson and W P Thompson their securities and qualified according to law.
Ordered that they have letters testamentary granted to them.
