Transcript talk:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v3p347

The first two defects reflect 4 Richard Park/Parke/Parks being compressed into only 2 by Savage.

Defect 1 [29 March 2014]

Savage's style is ambiguous: The mention of Sarah Cutter is intended as the wife of the grandson Richard, not his mother, the wife of son Thomas. (The wife of Thomas was Abigail Dix, as Savage points out in his entry on Thomas on the next page.) But even with that clarification, this entry is wrong. The grandson's wife was not Sarah Cutter, it was thought to be the step-daughter of James Cutler, who named in his will the wife of Richard Parks. But as he had his own daughter Sarah (named as Sarah Waite in his will), to be the Sarah who married the grandson, it would need to be a step-daughter. Since the only widow he married, who could have step-children, was in 1645, this is clearly not the Sarah who married the grandson Richard. This is a reference to his daughter Mary who married a Richard Parks not covered by Savage. --Jrich 20:27, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

Defect 2 [29 March 2014]

Sarah, the wife of Richard Park died in Newton in 1727. Richard died in Newton in 1737/38. The man in Concord who married in 1690 by record, not 1699 as Savage says, Elizabeth Billings and died 1725 is a different man. If Savage had used the correct date for the marriage to Elizabeth Billings he might recognized them as separate men. And while Savage quibbles with Jackson over whether Elizabeth Billing had 10 or 11 children, it turns out she had 13. Savage missed two who were recorded in the records but not mentioned in the will. --Jrich 20:28, 29 March 2014 (UTC)