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• Irving Ostrander July 31, 2021 at 12:08pm

  My 3rd great grandmother Elsey Parker from Pownal, Vermont has given me problems for 20+ years. I believe I have finally solved. Elsey's parents were Abel Parker, son of Nathaniel and Eleanor (Walker) Parker, her mother Hannah Elizbeth Gardner also from Pownal, VT. I am still working the details through and double checking accuracy of sources but looks good so far. Elsey married John D Ostrander from Hoosick in 1811 and had 6 children. Elsey travels to Chicago in 1860 with daughter Sarah Hall and dies around 1865. Still looking for that. If I can help in any way feel free to contact me!
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    Michael Parker > Irving Ostrander July 31, 2021 at 12:28pm

    Congratulations on attacking a Brick Wall!! Thanks for letting us know. Mike, Parker yDNA Family #7, Brick Wall: Daniel Parker born 1821-7 in Georgia.
• Mary Beth Lyford Taft December 23, 2015 at 8:15pm

  Looking for David Parker b.1764 Scituate, RI and died 1851 in Clarendon, VT. His wife Lydia Thornton died in Ira, VT in 1822. Their daughter Anna Parker married Jabez Colvin both died in VT, however, Jabez was born in RI. Any info would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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    Richard Parker > Mary Beth Lyford Taft December 2, 2017 at 6:27am

    David Parker b 1764 (Rev war service) m Lydia Thornton
    Anna Colvin d Apr 2, 1883 aged 88 (birth ~1795)
    Calvin d Dec 14, 1887 aged 91 (birth ~1796)
    
    David shows up in the census:
    1790 Clarendon 1 male over 16, 2 females
    1800 Ira, Rutland 3 males under 10, 1 male 26—45, 1 female under 10, 1 female 26-45, 1 female 45 or older
    1810 Middletown, Rutland 7 males, 3 females, unknown columns: 10 35 40 1 2 37 - 26
    1820 Ira, Rutland, supposedly, but I can’t find him, Calvin and Philip Parker also supposedly on the same page.
    1830 Clarendon 1 male, 60-70, 1 female 15-20 (grandchild?), 1 female 50-60
    1840 Middletown, Rutland 1 male 70-80, 1 female 60-70
    
    Towns are right next to one another, either he is moving or the town boundaries are.
    
    I don’t find birth info for him, although I have a David Parker in our tree, born in Coventry, CT, 1768, I don’t know what happened to him.
• Bonnie Schow April 26, 2015 at 8:10pm

  I am looking for Willard Parker and Harriet (Wheeler) Parker. They are the parents of George Willard Parker, born 1840. He lists his parents as from Vermont on the 1880 census in Lenawee County, Michigan. Willard and Harriet are listed as George's parents on his death record.
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    Richard Parker > Bonnie Schow December 2, 2017 at 5:39am

    There is a Willard J (b 1792) and a Willard F (b 1812) to different sets of parents, but both in the same town, Whiting, Addison Cty, Vt.
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  Ann Marie Parker Thompson February 17, 2015 at 9:28am

  My Parker's are from Ira/Clarendon/Middletown Springs in Rutland Co.
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  Richard Parker December 22, 2013 at 12:09pm

  Simeon I run into a brick wall almost immediately.

  Joshua D is in Vermont:   https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XF79-DCP
  Here he is in the 1850 census - with his mother Olive:
  https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MC2J-C7N
  David and Olive in Chelmsford are easy to find:
  Marriage:
  [Parker] David, 3d, and Olive Peirce, Oct. 14, 1800.*
  They have no death record or records of children - so they probably left Chelmsford/Billerica
  There are two Chelmsford Davids:
  Birth:
  David, s. Samuel, jr. and Dolle, Mar. 20, 1784 - probably too young to marry in 1800
  David, s. David and Phebe, at Billerica, July 19, 1772
  
  Marriage: Chelmsford: [Parker] David [of Billerica. int.], and Phebe Swallow, Oct. 4, 1764.
  Billerica: David and Phebe Swallow, Oct. 4, 1764, in Chelmsford.*
  
  p 190 “Parker in America” - Ref “Hazen’s Billerica Mass”
  That David is the son of Benjamin b 1720 m 1742, Mary Corey
  Son of Benjamin b 1689 m Lydia Chamberlain
  Son of Benjamin b 1662 m Mary Trull
  son of Benjamin b 1636 m Sarah Hartwell
  son of Robert - one of the sub purchasers of the Dudley farm (Capt James Parker was another)
  
  Although on page 233 the husband of Phebe Swallow is referred to as Daniel.  (MVR gives David)
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  Richard Parker August 19, 2013 at 4:28pm

  Chelmsford is where Abraham Parker and Rose Whitlock had their Parker family.  I'll see what I can dig up.
• Emily A Lainson August 19, 2013 at 3:48pm

  I am trying to trace Simeon Parker of Londonderry, VT. He was born in 1801, d. 1844 and is buried in Riverside Cemetery there. I cannot find a record of his birth or whom his parents were. There are several other branches of Parkers buried in the same section, and I have found some evidence to suggest that they were probably all related. One of them was a Joshua D. Parker 1805-1887. His parents were David Parker and Olive Pierce who were married in Chelmsford, MA.