Penelope (Penelope) Parker (abt. 1794 - 1870)

Born about 1794 in North Carolina

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Died 1870 at about age 76 in Hertford County, North Carolina

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Elisha Parker (1787 – 1868) and Penelope Dilday (1795 – ca 1868)^[1] were both born and raised in the Southern Dist., Hertford County NC near present day Ahoskie^[2]. Note there is another Elisha (b. 1805) and Matilda (b. 1821) Parker with eight children in 1860 on the 'same page' with Wiliam and Martha Warren^[3], the first being in the southern district and the second in Northern part/ Murfreeboro.

“. .our Elisha Parker, whose residence in Hertford County always seems to have been on what is now the road from Ahoskie to Harrellsville, early known as Pitch Landing or Bethlehem Road. Elisha married Penelope Dilday born in 1795. She was still alive when he wrote his will in 1868.” ~ Roy Parker^[2]

<i>“Elisha b. 1787 became 21 in 1808 and he shows up on the Gates Tax Lists in 1810, Abraham Cross’s captaincy, (p. 61) with only a poll-tax, and that was it. He drops out of the Gates County records that I have on hand, so probably went to Hertford ca. 1811.” ~ Ray Fouts^[2]

“In 1861 Elisha Parker deeds his farm to his son Joseph Benjamin Parker. Hertford Co Bk A-228 Dec 1868. Deed made 10 Sept 1861. probate 7 Dec 1868. Elisha Parker to Joseph Benjamin[son] 121 acres for $120 including two grants of 100 acres obtained by Elisha in Nov 1834, 71 acres in Nov 1835. Elisha and present wife Penny keeping for life. . .on White Oak Swamp, adjoining Lawrence Askew, Ely Willoughby and others. “These were ‘grants’ because the Hertford County courthouse burned in 1831, and landowners who already had property were given special ‘grants’ of the property they already owned. This property lies in the eastern side of the present-day Harrellsville Road and Newsome Grove Road. White Oak Swamp runs east-west just north of Harrellsville Road. It rises on the east side of the town of Ahoskie and flows into Ahoskie Swamp.” <i>~ Roy Parker^[2]