"James Parker, came to Dorchester, ca. 1630; sett. Weymouth, where he was a freeman, 1634, and Deputy to the Gen. Ct., 1639-1642; sett. Portsmouth, N. H., 1642-1646; Barbadoes, 1646-1652; a godly man and a scholar; will made Aug. 21, 1648; d. Barbadoes, 1652."