"41. Ezekial4 Parke, (Nathaniel3, Thomas2, Robert1), was born at North Groton, or Preston, about 1687. He married 1st, Alice Larrebee; and 2nd, Mary Safford, Sept. 20, 1716. … Ezekial was a farmer and land owner in Preston, where he lived; having received land from his grandfather, Thomas Parke, in that town, Dec. 13, 1707. At the first meeting of the Proprietors of Preston, held June 20, 1704: 'It was voted that Ezekial Parke shall have liberty to settle upon ye common land upon his grandfather’s Parke account and when ye Common Land is divided then yt Ezekial Parke shal take all his grandfather’s right,' etc. He died about 1726, …"