FOUNDERS OF FORT NO. 4, CHARLESTOWN, NH
From:	Farns10th@aol.com - Janice Farnsworth

Surname: PARKER
Source: History of Charlestown NH, the Old Fort No. 4.
        by Rev. Henry H. Saunderson

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Lieut Isaac Parker son of Joseph Parker and his wife, Elizabeth_______
(Joseph Parker lived at Old Dunstable then removed to Groton, MA)
Capt. Joseph Parker was ancestor of the most numerous branches of the
Parker families of that vicinity. Both Isaac Parker's father and grand
father possessed large estates. (See Shattuck Memorial p.376)
Lieut Isaac Parker m. Ruth Blood (See Butler's History of Groton p.423)
Isaac Parker and Ruth Blood had the following children:
l. Isaac Parker Jr. b. l709
2. William Parker (grandfather of of Amos, Abbott and Samuel Lawrence)
3. Thomas Parker
4. Esther Parker
5. Ruth Parker
6. Nathaniel Parker b. 2/25/l7l8
7. David Parker b. 2/20/l720
8. Anna Parker
9. Abraham Parker
Note: Isaac Parker Jr., Nathaniel Parker and David Parker settled at Fort
No. 4  Note: The Isaac Parker of Fort No. 4 fame was, then Isaac Parker, Jr.
son of Lieut Isaac Parker and Ruth Blood.

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Isaac Parker Jr. b. l709 m (l) Mary____who d. 3/8/l755 Their children:
                                   l. Mary Parker b. l729
                                   2. Isaac Parker III b. l730
                                   3. Ruth Parker b. l734
                                   4. Thomas Parker b. l736
                                   5. Rebecca Parker b. l738
       6. Jacob Parker b. l740 (the year that
Isaac Parker and Ruth Blood removed from Groton to Fort No. 4
                                   7. Elizabeth Parker b. l744 at Fort No.4
                                      she m. Phineas Graves m (2) Col.Abel
                                      Walker.
                                   8. Sarah Parker b. l746
                                   9. Elijah Parker b. l750
                                  l0. Anna Parker b. l753 d.l8l0 at Keene
                                      (See Jehoshaphat Grout)
When Isaac Parker Jr. wife, Mary died in l755, he m (2) Mehitable_______
He had these children by Mehitable:
                                  ll. Sarah b. l756
                                  l2. Thomas b. l757  
                                  l3. Mary b. l760
The date of Isaac Jr death on his gravestone is April l758 and this is in
error!  He held office in the town of Charlestown in l759 He actually died
April, l760.

p. 50l Nathaniel Parker son of Isaac Parker and Ruth Blood m. l74l 
Eleanor Walker.  Their children were:
l. Nathaniel Parker Jr. b. l74l - Killed at the battle of Bunker Hill.
2. Sybil Parker b. Oct. l3, l743
3. Abel Parker b. l745
4. David Parker b. l747
5. Lucy Parker b. l75l

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Elijah Parker, son of Isaac Parker Jr and his lst wife, Mary.
m. in l769 Elizabeth Farwell, daug. of William Farwell and w. Bethiah.
They settled at Mansfield Conn. in l75l. Their children were:
l. Isaac Parker b. l770
2. Dorothy Parker (Dolly) b. l772 m. Lemuel Cone of Westminster m. (2)
   Benjamin Bellows of Charlestown.
3. Elizabeth Parker b. l774 b. l791
4. Jacob Parker b. l776
5. Elijah Parker Jr. b. l778
6. Ora Parker b. l780
7. David Parker b. l782 m. Fanny Jones. Their children were:
       l. Fanny Jones Parker b. l8l3
       2. Mary Anne Parker b. l8l4
       3. Isaac Parker b. l8l6
       4. David Parker Jr. died at Evansville, Indiana l837
David Parker was a colonel in the l6th Regiment of the New Hampshire
Militia hence his title: Colonel Parker He d. l846  His widow lived
at Vergennes,  Vermont with one of  her daughters.
8. Mary Parker (Polly) b. l784
9. Enos Parker b. l786
l0.Martha Parker (Patty) b. l788
ll.Phineas Parker b. l790
l2.Sophia Parker b. l792
l3.John Parker b. l794 
l4.Sarah Parker b.l797
Note: Elijah Parker, Senator d. l804 His wife, d. l840

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Stephen Parker b.l770 d. l864 m. Mary Bellows who d. l845  Their 
Children were: l. Solomon Parker b. Fort No. 4 l798 m. Miriam Wright
                  of Westminster. They removed to Middlebury VT. He
                  was a paper maker. They had 5 children
       2. Mary Parker b. l798 m. Lewis Osgood
       3. Stephen Parker b. l800 m (l) Caroline Bowles
                  He married again at Cleveland Ohio
       4. Eliza Parker m. Hiram Leach res: Middlebury VT 8 Children
               5. Millicent Parker died in childhood
               6. Sybil Parker m. James C. Stebbins
         7. Laura Parker b. l8l3 m. George Parker
         8. Sarah Parker m. Aurelean Justus Cook of Springfield Vt
               9. Royal Bellows Parker m. Nancy Miller of Nantucket MA
                  They removed to Stockton, CA had 9 children
Further, p. 504 George Parker son of Joseph Parker and Anna Upham
         p. 505 AAron Parker b. l758 m. Anna Jenison
         p. 505 Darius Parker son of David Parker and Mary Bingham


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