Question

want to know more about the Parker family who emigrated to USA

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If you can provide some of the information that you have, other members may be able to help you.

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Do you have time frame information as to what year or years they came to USA? Would you know where they lived before they entered the USA. Are there any first names to go with the Parker surname?

Answer 1

According to familysearch.org Thomas parker came to Massachusetts in  1635 married, states most lived in Massachusetts, lived in USA and Canada. States only the first nine generations follow only one line down.  Other names Rice, Parker,  Stone.

Auther of this is John Osman Parker.

Also states to use Worldcat for other information and libraries.

Hope it helps

Answer 2

There are multiple unconnected Parker lines which emigrated to the USA.  I can identify 4 in Massachusetts.  FTDNA has a Parker Y-DNA project which has identified some 140 or so different Parker lines and connected many of us. I agree with the previous two answers - where and when?

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As stated above, Deacon Thomas Parker came to the US in 1635... He had 14 children 7 of which were boys, so that leaves basically 7 different lines to descend from just him.

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That would be the Reading Parker line (which I believe is Family Group 19).  I call them that to differentiate them from the Barnstable Parkers, the Middlesex County Parkers (Family Group 10), and the ones in Andover (who I have not tried to figure out yet).

The Reading Parkers descend from Deacon Thomas Parker that you identify. The Middlesex County Parkers from the 5 Parker brothers (James, Abraham, Joseph, Jacob, John, the last childless). I haven't really dug into the Barnstable or Andover Parkers, but I run across them periodically.

There is a Parker line in Saybrook Ct, one on Parker Island in Maine, one in Nansemond(sp?) Va., another group in New Jersey, I bump into them occasionally and many others.

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Reading is in Middlesex county, i'm not clear on how you are differentiating the two...

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That is true and it keeps biting me, I'm two towns over in Essex County and I keep thinking of Reading as Essex County. I call them "Reading" because they all trace back to Deacon Thomas Parker - a single person in one town, while the "Middlesex County" Parkers descend from 4 brothers (I don't count John) who lived in various towns - Notably Chelmsford, Groton and Dunstable. It's not an official designation by any means, just how I refer to them.

Checking the Parker YDNA project, I see they have 67 identifiable family groups.  The "Barnstable" Parkers would appear to be Family Group 5. Deacon Thomas is indeed Family Group 19.

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I just posted a query on G2G about which of a dozen Benjamin Parkers went out of Dunstable hunting scalps with Captain Lovewell in 1725.  You seem to be well informed on the various Massachusetts Parker clans.  Could you have a look at it?  If I get my Y-DNA checked out on FTDNA, should I buy the Y-111 or the Y-700 to join the Parker Y-DNA project?

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Dunstable? Sounds like my lot, "Benjamin", sounds like the Billerica lot. I know that I have looked at Lovewell in the past, I'll have a look. I think the Y-67 is more than enough, although I'll admit that I have been eyeing the 111 and I think the current sale ends today?

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Not so simple. I see two Benjamin Parkers with Lovewell, neither of them apparently at the "Pigwacket" fight. Looking at Dunstable Vital Records, I see a Benjamin of Groton, but a generation or two too late. I'll have to chase this in a bit.

https://archive.org/details/expeditionslove00kiddrich/page/18/mode/2up