Eli Parker (1736 - 1829)

Born 1736 in Hadley, Hampshire, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Died 9 Nov 1829 at about age 93 in Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States

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Captain Eli Parker served with 4th Regiment, Hampshire County Militia, Massachusetts Militia during the American Revolution.

Eli Parker is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A087392.

Eli Parker is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: 265399
Rank: Captain

As a militia Lieutenant in the revolution, Eli Parker held a company of minute men to Cambridge at the time of the Lexington Alarm and afterwards commanded a company in Col. David Leonard's regiment that marched from Hampshire to Ticonderoga in 1777. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Eli Parker was born in 1736 in Hadley, Hampshire, Province of Massachusetts Bay, son of Samuel Parker (1704–1772) and Experience Root (1703–1780).

Eli and Elizabeth Hubbard were married.

Elizabeth was born about 1738.

Their children were:

1. Elizabeth Parker, b. 1758
2. Hannah Parker
3. Eli Parker, b. 1763
4. Deborah Parker
5. Levi Parker
6. Samuel Parker

Eli died on November 9, 1829 in Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, aged 92.

He was buried in West Cemetery, Amherst, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 2023-11-14), "Record of Eli Parker", Ancestor # A087392.
2. ↑ Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War
3. ↑ The History of the Town of Amherst, Massachusetts
4. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14642296/eli-parker: accessed 27 November 2023), memorial page for Capt Eli Parker (1736–9 Nov 1829), Find a Grave Memorial ID 14642296, citing West Cemetery, Amherst, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by the moo (contributor 46834101).

• Carpenter, Edward. The History of the Town of Amherst, Massachusetts (Carpenter & Morehouse, Amherst, Mass., 1896); p. 80, 183

• Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (Wright & Potter, Boston, 1896-1908) Vol. 11, p. 850
  • "PARKER, ELI, Amherst (probably) . 1st Lieutenant in command of a detachment of Minute-men, which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, to Cambridge ; service, 14 days ; also, Captain of an Amherst co. ; list of officers chosen March 14, and 15, 1776, in the presence of John Chester Williams, Moderator; also, Captain, 10th co., 4th Hampshire Co. regt. of Mass, militia; list of officers; commissioned April 1, 1776 ; also, Captain, Col. Leonard's regt. ; engaged May 8, 1777 ; service, 2 mos. 8 (also given 2 mos. 9) days ; company marched May 8, 1777, from Hampshire Co. to reinforce Continental Army at Ticonderoga for 2 months."

• "United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS3Q-C3CS-1?cc=2546162&wc=WD6Q-RMF%3A1588792205 : 24 January 2018), Massachusetts, vol 11, Mor, Ep'h Sudbury-Pazel, -- > image 852 of 1056; citing various published state rosters, United States.