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Book Title: History Of Durham, Maine

PARKER.

   James Parker, b. at N. Yarmouth 16 April 1744, m. 4 April 1774 Hannah
Mitchell, b. in N. Yarmouth 15 Jan. 1752. They were in Durham earlier than 1786.
He died 15 Oct. 1803. There is no record of their family.

   John Parker, said to have been a Rev. soldier, came from Cape Elizabeth
before 1775. Married 3 Jan. 1765 Sarah Marriner. A sister m. Ebenezer Woodbury.
Parker's children were.

   JOSEPH b. 21 Nov. 1765; JOHN b. 11 Oct. 1767; m. 21 Mch. 1799 Sally Vining
(?); SARAH b. 29 Jan. 1770, m. (1) 1791 John Spades; (2) 10 Feb. 1799 Wm. Pitt
Oliver; MERCY b. 21 June 1772, unm.; MARY b. 18 May 1775, m. 28 Aug. 1794 John
Robinson; NATHANIEL b. 29 Sept. 1777; EBENEZER b. 14 May 1780; PETER b. 17 Nov.
1782, see below; DEBORAH b. 8 May 1782; unm. Burned to death in her house at a
very old age.

   Peter Parker, b. 17 Nov. 1782, m. 26 Nov. 1812. Mercy, dau. of John Mcintosh
and d. 7 July 1855. He was a farmer in the southern part of the town. His wife
d. 21 June 1868, aged 74 yrs. 1 mo. 8 days.    Their children were.

   NATHANIEL m. 1831 Dorothy Plummer, d. 11 June 1854, aged 41 years, 6 mos.;
JOHN d. 9 Feb. 1853, aged 25 yrs.; WEALTHY d. 23 Sept. 1854, aged 23 yrs.; ANNA
m. George Pollard, d. 21 Jan. 1855, aged 22 yrs. Her dau. Marcia m. Lyman Sawyer
of Pownal; EUNICE d. 23 Sept. 1854, aged 32 yrs.; MARY C. b. 23 Mch. 1816, m. 10
Nov. 1842 Charles H. Knight; ALEXANDER M.; see Biog. Sketch; JACOB S. m. 7 Feb.
1848 Ruth, dau. of Nathaniel Parker. He lives in Deering.

   Nathaniel Parker married in Kittery, in 1769, Elizabeth _____, who was born
there in 1745. He died at sea. She moved with her family from Gorham to Durham
in 1802, where she died in 1858, lacking but few months of being 113 years of
age. Of her daughters Rebekah m. Nathan Kimball of Buxton ; Polly m. William
Riggs of Portland; Lydia m. Abner Wescott of Gorham ; Sally m. Samuel Fickett;
Anne m. Thomas Larrabee of Durham ; Deborah m. Isaac Jenkins of York; Hannah m.
Benjamin Fickett; and Elizabeth m. William Larrabee of Durham. Of her sons, Amos
married (Int. Rec. 28 Jan. 1819) Charlotte Wormell; William married (Int. Rec. 8
Nov. 1816) Priscilla Wormell (both these settled in Guilford). Joseph lived in
Cumberland ; and Nathaniel lived in Durham.

   Nathaniel Parker married (1) 11 May 1811 Ruth Stetson, who died 25 Sept.
1826; (2) 14 Feb. 1828 Abigail Stetson, sister to Ruth; (3) 9 Oct. 1845 Abigail
Wright, widow of Dr. Abijah Wright. She died 30 Sept. 1886, aged 91 yrs. 8 days.
He lived on Parker Hill, lot 119. He was famous as a mover of buildings. His own
house was the first one he moved, from near Methodist Corner to Parker Hill. I
can see him now standing in the window of a gable in his old age (when younger
he stood on the ridge-pole) and hear him shouting, "a little harder on your off
string." Fifty yoke of cattle were tugging away. He was a genial man, much
respected and beloved. He died in 1875, aged 95 years.

   WASHINGTON  b. 28 April 1812. See below.

   CHARLES b. 30 May 1813; m. Lucy Libby. Lives at Pownal Corner.

   ELBRIDGE b. 15 Sept. 1815.  Unm.

   NATHANIEL b. 18 April 1817; m. 23 Jan. 1843 Sally Weeks. Lived and died in
Durham.

   SEWELL b. 18 Sept. 1819.  Unm.

   SEWARD twin to Sewell; d.  10 Feb. 1845.  Unm.

   REBECCA b. n June 1821; m. 9 Nov. 1851 Joshua, son of Wm. Parker of Guilford.

   RUFUS b. 27 Feb. 1824; m. 23 March 1851 Lucy Stetson. Lives in Durham.

   EDWARD b. 3 June 1825; d. 12 Sept. 1826.

   RUTH b. 31 March 1829; m. Jacob, son of Peter Parker.

   ROUINA CAROLINE b. 23 March 1831; m- 15 MaY l85° Joshua Robinson Jr. Lives on
Orr's Island.

  JOHN b. 3 March 1833; m. 28 Feb. 1856 Emeline Roak, dau. of John Roak. Lived
in Durham.

   Washington., son of Nathaniel Parker, born 28 April 1812, married, 22 Oct.
1836, Elizabeth Haskins, who was born in Cape Elizabeth 25 July 1819. He lived
in Durham till old age. Now resides in Auburn. He served two years as Selectman
and was Captain in the militia. He was a successful farmer and a good citizen,
and still affectionately remembers his native town.

   RUTH ELLEN b. 16 March 1838; m. 1 Jan. 1859 Azariah Libby of So. Auburn.

   CORDELIA FRANCES b. 12 March 1840; m. Ivory Bowie. Lives in Auburn.

   SARAH ELIZABETH b. 23 Oct. 1831; m. Sumner Merrill of Durham.

   LENDALL C. b. 14 May 1844; m. 21 Nov. 1869 Hattie W. Merrill. See below.

   SETH AUGUSTUS b. 25 April 1846; m. Abbie, dau. of Wm. Proctor of So. Auburn.

   WILLIAM H. b. 16 May 1848; m. Abbie North of Auburn; d. 17 May 1887.

   ALMIRA S. b. 17 May 1850; m. Wm. G. Bessie. EBEN H. b. 19 May 1852; m. Sarah
Wagg.

   ROSE EMMA b. 26 ____ 1854; m. Lewis W. Haskell of Auburn.

   CLARENCE M. b. 7 July 1856; m. Jennie Damon.

   FLORA M. b. 1 Aug. 1858; m. Dr. Emery Bailey of Auburn.

   W. IRVING b. 17 Aug. i860.  Unm.  Lives in Auburn.

Children of Lendall C. and Hattie W. (Merrill) Parker.
   DELIA M. b. 22 April 1871; ANNIE B. b. 12 Sept. 1877.
   LIZZIE S. b. 13 Sept. 1879; FLORA B. b. 4 Aug. 1883.
   ALICE M. b. 4 Mch. 1885; GROVER L. b. 6 July 1888.
   CLARA E. b. 6 April 1891.


Additional Comments:
Part of Chapter XII.
GENEALOGICAL NOTES

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF DURHAM, MAINE
WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES.

BY EVERETT S. STACKPOLE.

PUBLISHED BY VOTE OF TOWN.

LEWISTON: PRESS OF LEWISTON JOURNAL COMPANY. 
1899.


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