Person:Margery Unknown (124)

The Identity of the Wife of William Parker of Hartford and Saybrook

"[According to Hotten's History of American Emigrants, William Parker and Margaret Pritchard, a. 17 years, were passengers on the ship 'Matthew,' from London, May 21, 1635 (Richard Goodladd, master), for St. Christopher, a small island in West Indies, which was an English colony. It is not unlikely that this couple were our ancestors. In 1635 a Dutch ship brought salt and tobacco directly from St. Christopher to Marblehead. William and Margery, his w., might easily enough have come thence and arrived in Hartford, 1636. Their first child was b. 1637.]"^[3]

This is the only apparent source for the assertion that William Parker's wife was a Pritchard. It hardly seems adequate to prove her identity.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} William Parker, in Barbour, Lucius Barnes. Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977)
   443-44.

   William Parker died Dec 21, 1686 mar Margery who died Dec 6, 1680.

2. ↑ Saybrook Vital Records (NEHGS), in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
   88.

   Parker, Margery, w. of William, Sr., d. Dec. 6, 1680 [1:52].

3. ↑ Parker, Augustus G. (Augustus Granville), and Robert M. Lee. Parker in America, 1630-1910: What the Historians Say of Them: What a Large Number Say of Themselves: Genealogical and Biographical: Interesting Historical Incidents. (Buffalo, N.Y.: Niagara Frontier Publishing, [1911])
   304.