See also

Family of Hananiah + PARKER and Mary BURSHAM

Husband: Hananiah + PARKER (1638-1724)
Wife: Mary BURSHAM (c. 1640-1736)

Husband: Hananiah + PARKER

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Hananiah + PARKER

Name: Hananiah + PARKER
Sex: Male
Father: Thomas + PARKER (1609-1683)
Mother: Amy + AYLESWORTH (1609-1690)
Birth 1638 Lynn, Essex, MA, US
Occupation farmer
Death 10 Mar 1724 (age 85-86) Reading, Middlesex, MA, US1

Wife: Mary BURSHAM

Name: Mary BURSHAM
Sex: Female
Father: -
Mother: -
Birth 1640 (est)
Death 4 Jan 1736 (age 95-96)

Note on Husband: Hananiah + PARKER

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.

Sources

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