Judith Parker (1742)

Born 1742 in Edgecombe County, Province of North Carolina

Ancestors

Biography

Judith was born in 1742. She is the daughter of Simon Parker and Judah Knight.

Judah Parker, Sarah Parker, Winnifred Parker and Charity Parker were four orphaned children of Simon Parker. Benjamin Foreman was the guardian of these four orphaned children from 1760 to 1769. This same Charity Parker who married Arthur Jones lived in Halifax North Carolina while her deceased brother Estate was in Franklin Georgia. Charity Parker Jones sent her son Tignal Jones down to Franklin Georgia to check on her brother Estate, either James or William Parker.

Other Parker mentioned in the Halifax North Carolina record are James Parker, William Parker, Francis Parker, and Jethro Parker. Areas for all people mentioned in the Halifax Record include Smith, Tennessee, York, South Carolina, Burke ,Georgia, Hancock, Georgia, Nash, North Carolina, Montgomery, North Carolina, Green, Georgia, and Chatham, North Carolina.

Sources

See also:

• Parker, Simon. Edgecombe County. December 31 1758. March Court, 1759. Sons: Francis, Simon, William, Robert (to each is devised a plantation), James. Daughters: Judah, Sarah, Winne, Charitie and Ruth Parker. Wife: Judith. Executors: Francis Parker (brother) and James Knight (brother-in-law). Witnesses: Charles Daniell, Girrard Wall, Mary Cullender. Clerk of the Court: Jos. Montfort. (Grimes, J. Bryan, Secty. of State (1910) Abstract of North Carolina Wills, E. M. Uzzell & Co., Raleigh., p. 279)