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Deacon Thomas Parker
b.Cal 1610
Facts and Events
[HAYNES1583-2004.GED]
Came to Lynn, MA in 1630, with Amy, his wife , and some children. The family came on the "Susan and Ellen" with young Richard SALTONSTALL. Thomas PARKER had a brother William, mentioned by early writers. Thomas became a freeman 17 May 1637. He removed from Lynn to Reading, MA in 1640 where he, with six others, started the first church there.
Sailed from England 31 Mar 1635. Landed at Lynn Mass.
Settled at Reading, now Wakefield, Mass, 1638.
Founded 12th Congregational Church in Mass.
Le Squires said he was born ca 1609
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Parker Family, in Butterfield, Harry M. (Harry Morton). The ancestry of the William T. Butterfield family of California: a progress report tracing this family back to Major Isaac Butterfield of Westmoreland, New Hampshire, at the time of the American Revolution and to Benjamin Butterfield of Mass. ; with allied families listed as far as known to the present time. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1951).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Parker, Theodore. Genealogy and Biographical Notes of John Parker of Lexington and His Descendants: Showing His Earlier Ancestry in America from Dea. Thomas Parker of Reading, Mass., from 1635-1893. (Worcester, Mass.: Press of Charles Hamilton, 1893)
21-30.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Thomas Parker, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
5:370.
"THOMAS PARKER. ORIGIN: Unknown. MIGRATION: 1635 on the Susan & Ellen (on 13 April 1635, "Tho[mas] Parker," aged 30, was enrolled at London as a passenger for New England on the Susan & Ellen [Hotten 59]). FIRST RESIDENCE: Unknown. COMMENTS: This passenger is usually identified as the Thomas Parker who resided at Lynn by 1637, moved within a few years to Reading and died in Wakefield in 1683 [Savage 3:356; Pope 345; TEG 15:48-491. The Thomas Parker who died in Wakefield in 1683 was said to have been "aged about 74 years" (tombstone) or "aged 72 years" (church record) [Wakefield VR 310; TEG 15:481. These ages at death bracket 1610 as his year of birth, which would make him five years younger than the passenger of 1635. Even considering the known inaccuracies of the ages given in the London Port Books, this seems too much of a discrepancy for someone of this age, and so, although the identification is not impossible, we do not concur with earlier authors."
- ↑ Paige, Lucius R. List of Freemen. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct 1849)
3:95.
- ↑ HAYNES1583-2004.GED.
Date of Import: Oct 12, 2004
- ↑ Baldwin, Thomas W. Vital Records of Reading, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1912)
552.
Parker, Thomas, Dea., [died] Aug. 12, 1683.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Baldwin, Thomas W. Vital Records of Wakefield, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, Mass, 1912)
310.
Parker, Thomas, Dea., [died] Aug. 12, 1683, a. abt. 74 y. [grave record, Old Cemetery, formerly Town Burying Ground]) (a. 72 y. [church record, Congregational Church]) (Consumption [church record, Congregational Church]).
- ↑ Thomas Parker, in Find A Grave.
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