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View Tree for Captain James ParkerCaptain James Parker (b. 1617, d. date unknown)

James Parker (son of John Parker and Joane Drake) was born 1617 in Wiltshire, England, and died date unknown. He married Elizabeth Long on May 23, 1643 in Woburn, Massachusetts.

 Includes NotesNotes for James Parker:
From "Parker In America":
Captain James Parker owned a 50-acre right in Groton and resided there from the first settlement until his death in 1701. He was a distinguished and extraordinary man, and a leader in the municipal, military, ecclesiastical, and other affairs of the town. He married (1), in Woburn, 1643, Elizabeth Long. He married (2) Eunice (Brooks) Carter. He had 10 children by his first and one by his second w..., the last born when he was over 80 years of age!

Captain James came to America in 1634, was in Woburn in 1640, a freeman in 1644, a grantee in Billerica, and then moved to Chelmsford. He became one of the earliest settlers of Groton, where he was very prominent in the affairs of the town. He was one of the first board of selectmen chosen in 1662, and continued in that capacity most of the time until 1669. He was a representative to the general court in 1693.

After King Philip's war and the resettlement of Chelmsford, a mill was built at Stony Book, concerning which this record is found: "The twenty shillings due the Indian Andrew from the town, for his weir at Stony Brook, assigned by said Indian to Richard Blood, the said Blood assigns over to James Parker." This was about 1680.

James house was one of the garrisons used during King Philip's War, and it was with Capt. Parker that the Indian chief, on the night of March 13, 1675, talked, as mentioned in Hubbard's "Narrative." In the assault made on the town, July 26, 1694, his son James and his son's wife, Mary, were killed by the Indians and several of their children were carried away captives.

This family's history has been traced to the remote progenitor who in the eleventh century entered England with Wiliam the Conqueror. Another reference states that the Parkers of this line are said to have descended from Lord Parker of Macclesfield, England, who is supposed to have descended from one of the natural children of King Charles II, who is said to have descended from William the Conqueror.


More About James Parker and Elizabeth Long:
Marriage: May 23, 1643, Woburn, Massachusetts.

Children of James Parker and Elizabeth Long are:
  1. +James Parker, b. Apr 15, 1652, Woburn, Middlesex Co., Mass., d. Jul 27, 1694, killed by Indians in Groton, Middlesex Co., Mass..
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