Isaac Parker (1688 - 1762)

Born 4 Apr 1688 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Ruth (Blood) Parker — married 16 Dec 1708 in Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 1 Apr 1762 at age 73 in Charlestown, Sullivan County, New Hampshire

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Biography

Isaac Parker was born on the 4 Apr 1688 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. He is the son of Joseph Parker and Hannah Blood.^[1]

On the 16 Dec 1708 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, Isaac married Ruth Blood.^[2] To this union were born at least eight children; Isaac, William, Thomas, Ruth, Nathaniel, David, Anna and Abraham.

Isaac passed away on the 1 Apr 1762 in Charlestown, Sullivan, New Hampshire.^[1]

Research Notes

The Find-a-Grave entry for him gives different parentage (Isaac<-Joseph<-Joseph), it is much argued about amongst Parker researchers. Isaac has 31 user submitted family trees on Family Search 23 of those give Isaac as the father, 5 give Joseph as the father. WHMA digs into the children of Joseph and does not mention an Isaac.

There is a birth record for an Isaac son of Isaac and Esther Fletcher in Chelmsford with a birth date of 26 July, 1685. A few lines down from that is a SECOND Isaac Parker born to Isaac and Esther 4 Apr 1688, checking deaths, sure enough Isaac Parker died 22 Feb 1688^[3].

What follows is from the scholar WHMA as printed in the Boston Transcript:

"ISAAC(3) [Isaac(2), Abraham(1)]. If no mistake is made in his history, he early went to Groton. The Concord town records show the m. there, Dec. 16, 1708, of Isaac Parker and Ruth Blood, both of Groton. An Isaac, who had a w. Ruth, and whose res. is given as Swansea, sold, May 12, 1710, land in Chelmsford, “which belonged to my f., Isaac Parker.” Unless there were two Isaacs, who each had a w. Ruth, all this refers to one couple and Swansea was only a temporary res., for the chn. are recorded at Groton. The Shattuck Genealogy gives a different parentage to Isaac, but the evidence seems unchallengeable for the belief that there was but one Isaac, and he has himself given his f., name as above. He had a dau., Esther, and that was the name of his mo. He had a s., Abraham, which was the name of his grf. After a long res. in Groton, he rem. to Charlestown, N.H., where he was a prominent citizen and where, too, he was captured by Indians and held prisoner for several months. Chn., recorded at Groton:

Isaac, b. Mch. 7, 1709; m. Mary ____.

William, b. Aug. 19, 1710; m. Susanna Kemp.

Thomas, b. Sept. 24, 1712.

Esther, b. Sept. 24, 1714.

Ruth, b. July 2, 1716; probably m. Joseph Sanderson.

Nathaniel, b. Feb. 25, 1717-18; m. Eleanor Walker.

David, b. Feb. 20, 1719-20.

Anna, b. Nov. 9, 1721.

Abraham, b. Sept. 24, 1726; probably m. Lois Blood, Mch. 16, 1749.

" ^[4]

"Parker—Yet another of the grantors in the joint deed was Isaac Parker(3) [Isaac(2), Abraham(1)]. He was a gr.-nephew of Cap. James, and not being a grs. was not an heir in his own right. His mo. was Esther Fletcher, and of other ancestry. Isaac, however, had m. Ruth Blood, Dec. 16, 1708, and it was she who was gr.-child of Cap. Parker. Being a gr.-child, she was (unless we admit the highly improbable possibility that she was a wid. when she m. Isaac) an unrecorded dau. of Nathaniel and Anna (Parker) Blood. It is worthy of note that Nathaniel Blood had land from his f., Richard Blood, Mch. 1, 1682. Before that date all his chn., probably, were recorded; afterwards none are on record. Was this then acquired land located so much further from the inhabited center of the town, that he kept less intimately in touch with the village, and did neglect to have later chn. recorded result from this circumstance?"^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Find A Grave: Memorial #176673054
2. ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCH6-7ZF : accessed 19 November 2015), Isaac Parker and Ruth Blood, 16 Dec 1708; citing reference ; FHL microfilm 0873746 IT 5.
3. ↑ Copy of Middlesex Co. Court Records now in possession of William H. Manning of West Somerville
4. ↑ https://jenningsweb.us/ParkerInAmerica.html
5. ↑ Ibid

See also:

• "Parker in America 1630." 1910 : what the historians say of them; what a large number say of themselves; geneaogical and biographical; interesting historical incidents. : Parker, Augustus G. : Internet Archive. Accessed 21 Mar. 2024. page 532 etc.