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View Tree for Robert PARKERobert PARKE (b. 03 Jun 1580, d. 11 Feb 1663/64)

Robert PARKE (son of Robert PARKE and Alice CHAPLIN) was born 03 Jun 1580 in Preston, Suffolk, England, and died 11 Feb 1663/64 in Mystic River, New London, CT169. He married Martha CHAPLIN on 09 Feb 1600/01 in St. Edmunds, Bury Co., England169.

 Includes NotesNotes for Robert PARKE:
Robert Parke was a personal friend of John Winthrop, the first Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony. He and his family sailed with Winthrop from Cowes, Isle of Wight, for America, on board the "Arbella", with seventy-six passengers, March 29, 1630, and landed in Salem, June 17, 1630, making the voyage in seventy-eight days.

He was a man of means. He did not come to the new world through dire necessity or to better his condition, but rather through a desire to have more religious liberty. He lived for a time at Roxbury MA.

In 1639 he, with his son Thomas, went through the wilderness to Wethersfield CT, with the first settlers there. He resided at Wethersfield CT with the first settlers there.

He was a resident of the town plot of New London for about six years, and then moved to lands which he owned on the Mystic River.

He died in Mystic aged 84 years. His grave is in the White Hall graveyard, at White Hall, Mystic CT. His house was east of the present road and southeast of the burial ground, and stood just south of a small knoll, somewhat rocky.

PARKE FAMILY GENEALOGY, by FS Parks, page 25 (With corrections)






More About Robert PARKE:
Burial: White Hall Graveyard, Whitehall,Mystic, CT.

More About Robert PARKE and Martha CHAPLIN:
Marriage: 09 Feb 1600/01, St. Edmunds, Bury Co., England.169

Children of Robert PARKE and Martha CHAPLIN are:
  1. +Richard PARKE, b. 08 Aug 1609, London, Middlesex, England, d. 12 Jul 1664, Cambridge, Middlesex.MA169.
  2. William PARKE, b. 21 Apr 1607, Semer, Suffolk, England, d. 11 May 1685, Roxbury, MA.
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