tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post195379779810468467..comments2024-03-28T04:26:30.557-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: Moses Parker, “the most prominent military character”Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-4000219691610419382021-04-20T06:52:24.068-05:002021-04-20T06:52:24.068-05:00There are several Parker lines in Massachusetts du...There are several Parker lines in Massachusetts during this period. Capt John Parker, of Lexington fame, descends from Deacon Thomas Parker who settled in Reading. Moses descends from Abraham Parker one of the first settlers of Chelmsford. There does not appear to be a connection between these two Parker lines. YDNA testing shows the Chelmsford/Groton Parkers to be Family Group 10, while the Reading Parkers appear to be Family Group 19 - distinct lines. You can find Moses here: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Parker-31136, Sarah here: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Parker-27329, Capt John Parker here: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Parker-11016<br /><br />Regards,<br />Jack ParkerAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03717944017477809908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-23740882292343814992021-04-20T06:42:04.510-05:002021-04-20T06:42:04.510-05:00Sarah petitioned the federal government for relief...Sarah petitioned the federal government for relief as she was a widow of a slain officer and Congress had passed a resolution to support widows of the Continental Army. At issue was that the soldiers at Bunker Hill were not yet of the Continental Army and would not become so until George Washington arrived in Boston in the summer of that year. It is unclear whether her petition was successful although Secretary Knox seems to have been sympathetic.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03717944017477809908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-48257793511989485242021-04-19T17:50:05.860-05:002021-04-19T17:50:05.860-05:00I recently found out Moses Parker was a distant re...I recently found out Moses Parker was a distant relative on my Grandmother's side! I recently learned about John Parker and Amos? Parker at the battle of Lexington! I was wondering if this is the same lineage! My name is Douglas Wilcott! Hopefully I'm on the right track!! The Wicott' are also from New England!<br />If there's any relationship please let me know!!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17253412626451084748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-84997272705780056672019-07-15T17:33:18.029-05:002019-07-15T17:33:18.029-05:00Very interesting! Lt. Col. Moses Parker is my 5th ...Very interesting! Lt. Col. Moses Parker is my 5th great grandfather and my proven DAR Patriot. I'm interested in finding out more about his wife, Sarah Parker Parker. Thank you for this post!Bonnie Wade Muciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14793188485651754033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-39576364296289626612019-07-12T20:59:31.242-05:002019-07-12T20:59:31.242-05:00Yes, the notion of Joseph Parker dying in battle w...Yes, the notion of Joseph Parker dying in battle with some group of Native Americans seems quite unreliable.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-40267721519780797292019-07-12T16:36:56.702-05:002019-07-12T16:36:56.702-05:00Digging through in some detail, I find no referenc...Digging through in some detail, I find no reference to a violent death for Capt Joseph Parker aside from the prose offered by William Thorton Parker in "Gleanings", which appears to have been quoted almost word for word in "Parker in America" (p369) (which was printed 4 years earlier). There are two other references to Joseph Parker in "Parker in America" neither of which mention a violent death. <br /><br />Joseph shows up in the Chelmsford town records as a selectman in 1734 and 1736 and then as Captain Joseph Parker, Selectman in 1737, finally as moderator in 1738, the year of his death.<br /><br />There is record (in a letter from Col Tyng to Gov Dummer written May 14th) of Col. Tyng requesting 15 men from Robert Richardsons company (of which Joseph was Lieut.) after the Lovewell fight, followed by a list of 12 men (including their ages), all of West Chelmsford (later Westford), from this one must assume that these men were alive on May 14th 1725, a week after the Lovewell fight. On top of which the men who died in Lovewell's fight are well documented, I did not note the name "Parker" in those lists.<br /><br />Going through the list of 40 men in Joseph's company, I can find mid to late 18th century deaths in Chelmsford records that could be attributed to 29 of them, 7 of them with correct ages that leave little to doubt.<br /><br />Going through the history of Chelmsford, there are numerous entries of individual deaths from Indians, I find it unlikely that the death of a body of men by such means would go uncommented upon.<br /><br />I am of the opinion that William Thornton Parker was guilty of an embellishment.<br /><br />Reagrds,<br />Jack ParkerAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03717944017477809908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-59502980836627786462019-07-04T11:47:38.282-05:002019-07-04T11:47:38.282-05:00Further comment on Lovewell's fight. Looking ...Further comment on Lovewell's fight. Looking at the list of men in Lt. Joseph Parkers company and comparing it to the men involved in Lovewell's fight, there is no overlap - they are different people. There are several common surnames.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03717944017477809908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-90224552651633326462019-07-04T11:20:46.349-05:002019-07-04T11:20:46.349-05:00I think I figured out the whole Joseph Parker thin...I think I figured out the whole Joseph Parker thing. The battle against the Oneida makes no sense since they are a New York tribe, also why would he be buried in Chelmsford if he had been killed afield with his entire command? 1738? What war was going on at that time? Every reference that I have seen of it uses almost exactly the same wording - as though repeating from a single original source.<br /><br />Joseph Parker was a Lt in a snowshoe company formed in 1724, the reference must be to "Lovewell's fight" which took place in 1725 during Dummer's war. There were 20 or so survivors. Joseph must have been one of those.<br /><br />Regards,<br />Jack ParkerAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03717944017477809908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-37639591861102265912019-05-29T16:49:09.770-05:002019-05-29T16:49:09.770-05:00It has been two years and I haven't returned? ...It has been two years and I haven't returned? Sigh. Too many things to keep an eye on. Find-a-Grave is an unreliable resource except when there is an actual headstone. There is a custom of "plopping" someone into a cemetery because they lived in that town or near it and the researcher wants the memorial to be findable. I'm still trying to clean up the Groton Find-a-Grave site which has some 40-odd "plopped" memorials. Moses may very well be buried in Boston, unless there was some arrangement made to return the body - which you would think we would have heard about. It should be noted that Chelmsford is proud of him, the high school is named after him.<br /><br />Regards,<br />Jack ParkerAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03717944017477809908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-20741402032029052232017-06-13T20:22:35.939-05:002017-06-13T20:22:35.939-05:00I originally wrote that Moses Parker was part of a...I originally wrote that Moses Parker was part of a Chelmsford company that went to Crown Point in 1775-56. They were indeed recruited for such a mission, but author Bruce Venter tells me that site remained in French hands during that period, with the British forces getting no further than Fort William Henry on Lake George. So I changed that line.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-2349204853202802552017-06-12T21:54:26.806-05:002017-06-12T21:54:26.806-05:00Because Moses Parker died in Boston, I assume he w...Because Moses Parker died in Boston, I assume he was buried in that town, probably in an unmarked grave. Though Find a Grave lists him out at the cemetery in Chelmsford, it doesn't show any gravestone for him there, unlike his father. <br /><br />Thanks for the information and link about Park gravestones. J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-34295609642347578502017-06-12T10:20:07.715-05:002017-06-12T10:20:07.715-05:00An interesting piece, I look forward to tomorrows ...An interesting piece, I look forward to tomorrows installment - which I'm sure you've already written and will include an image of the death of Warren at Bunker Hill which features Moses on the far left, wounded with his head down. I wonder where he is buried, I'll have to go look for him.<br /><br />I was unaware of Joseph's headstone which is a Park headstone, from the stonecutters at Groton, they are quite distinctive. Joseph's cousin Phinehas has a very similar stone. https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=47209039<br /><br />It might be interesting to read an article on the Parks, they stayed neutral during the war, their headstones are quite distinctive, and can be found in towns throughout Middlesex county. Each subsequent Park had their own style - I forget which one is which, the third Park was into putting faces, purportedly reflecting the deceased onto his stones, like this unadorned one https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=83952591<br /><br />The immigrant Park may be found here: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=83001617<br /><br />Regards,<br />Jack ParkerAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04741707113527501123noreply@blogger.com