John Parke Jr. (1711 - 1780)

We do not have an exact birthdate for John Parke Jr. - I have NO idea where this date you assign to him came from. He was probably born much closer to 1703 because by 1730 he was old enough to own land. (21). The Parke Society has always listed his date of birth as btw. 1700-1703. I actually prefer 1697-1703. The exact date is NOT known - this is a complete fabrication. Also the date of death is completely wrong. He died Sept. 14, 1758 on the day of the Battle of Grant's Hill in the French & Indian War - and we KNOW that by 1762 when his land was given to son John III the only child to remain in Hampshire Co. - he was already dead and his wife Mary who had married John Davis by this time, said that he could indeed have the Hampshire Co. VA land. The rest of the family including herself had all moved to the Jersey Settlement in Rowan Co., NC. The Battle was fought on the location of Ft. Duquesne, present day Pittsburgh, PA (which didn't yet exist) it is sometimes listed as Fort Cumberland, MD (on that tiny sliver part of MD that extends over to what is now West Virginia) because that is where he and the troops were stationed as they went out to march to Ft. Duquesne in the French & Indian War - that was the last place he was still alive. So some history books lists that as his place of death but I prefer to say Ft. Duquesne, PA. You will need to change the history on the bio - in 1760 he was already dead so he wasn't doing any selling of land. He got his Fairfax land grants with the help of young surveyor George Washington who was 19 at the time, acting as chain bearer for him on some of the Fairfax land grants as well. I have seen no information that he moved with his brother Andrew to western PA at all. In fact he first appears after laying low, hiding after the Coxe incident in Hopewell in 1735 in the Back Creek area of Frederick Co., VA - his land grants along the Capecon River were in 1745 - where he was for these 10 years along with his father, mother and siblings is unknown.

Parke-1201 and Parke-30 appear to represent the same person because: same name; same birth data; same parents; same spouse; same child = same individual.

Parke-1355 and Parke-1201 appear to represent the same person because: no sources for any of the dates, same wife and son