"Peter Parker, the third s. of Thomas, was b. at Wallingford, 1753. He m., 1774, Esther, b. 1754, dau of John Clark of Chatham, Ct. He settled first in Torrington, Ct. In 1781 he rem. to Salisbury, , Ct., and from thence to Clarendon, Vt., where he remained but a year or two, and then came to Granville, N. Y., in 1786. After some years he purchased a farm in the northeastern part of Hartford, the same on which Harvey S. Wing now resides, three miles from North Granville. He occupied this farm many years, until the death of his w., 1827, soon after which he sold, and thereafter res. with his s. at North Granville. He d. 1838, and is interred beside his w. and others of his family and kindred, in the Masonic burying-ground, south of Middle Granville. He was a much respected citizen, an active member of the 'Union Religious Society of West Granville,' subsequently the 'Fair Vale Religious Society,' now currently known as the congregation of the North Granville Presbyterian Church—the Society Records showing him to have been frequently associated upon important committees with Zebulon R. Shipherd, Butler Beckwith, and other leading men in that vicinity who were his contemporaries."
