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John
Parker
Born before in Great Burstead, Essex, England
Ancestors 
Son of John Parker
and Anne (Unknown) Parker
Brother of
James Parker Sr., Abraham Parker, Joseph Parker, Anne Parker, Jacob Parker and Joshua Parker
Husband of
Mary (Unknown) Chamberlain
— married
about 1654 [location unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
after age 52
in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts
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Biography
John Parker was baptised 4 June 1615 at Great Burstead, Essex, England, a son of John Parker. [1] [2]
His first residence was at Woburn in 1649 then moved to Billerica by 1654[3] where at an unknown time John married Mary Poulter (her 2nd marriage).[4][3]Early in the history of Billerica, John was one of the three purchasers of the "Farm Grant." His house was the hub of town life in those early years. His step-daughter, Elizabeth married John Danforth, and they resided in the "Town Grant" with their home being the first one built in the village.[4]
John was an influential man of the town of Billerica. He was the first town clerke, first tax collector, was the town agent when locating and disposing of two large grants of land, one for 8,000 acres and one for 4,000 acres - unsettled land on both sides of the Merrimack river. John and his son-in-law were reimbursed 1,000 acres for being agents and for surveying. Additionally funds were used in the church to finish their first meeting house and to pay the salary of Rev. Samuel Whiting, their minister.[3]
John Parker died at Billerica on June 14, 1667.[4]He had no children; his estate which was substantial a one time was insolvent at his death mostly because of his public benefit works in the community. [3]
Sources
- ↑ Great Burstead, Essex County Parish Registers Baptism image 14 D/P139/1/0 read by subscription Jan 2016. Again Feb2022. (image attached)
- ↑ Essex : Great Burstead : St Mary Magdalene : Parish Register : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG (https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/5a4d0cabf493fdeb842fa2c3 : viewed 21 Jun 2022) baptism John Parkor 04 Jun 1615
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Ferris "Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847
- The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) "The Poulter Family of Rayleigh, Essex, England, and Billerica, Massachusetts" Delorey, Janet Ireland. Vol 141, p. 215ffsubscription needed$
- Ferris "Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines" Privately printed Vol. 1, pp. 499, 500. "Poulter" and pp. 254 - 264, "Danforth."see at Hathitrust.org
See Also
- Parker, Augustus. "Parker In America 1630 - 1910" Buffalo, New York. 1911, subheading: "Genealogy of the Five Brothers" pp. 529ffsee at archive.org
- Source: S-2091851085 Repository: #R-2142489842 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created. Page: Ancestry Family Trees Note: Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=28006477&pid=995
- Repository: R-2142489842 Name: Ancestry.com Address: http://www.Ancestry.com Note:
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In his will, dated and signed 18 March 1638[/9], John Poulter left to his son John Poulter £50 at age 21, and to daughters Mary and Elizabeth Poulter £100 each at age 21 or marriage. If any of the children died before inheriting, their portion[s] were to go to his loving wife Mary Poulter, who was to pay the children's legacies to his overseers within six weeks after his death, to be "put out by them unto the best advantage and sufficient bond to be taken for the childrens better assurance and the use to be for the mayntenance and bringing of my said children or so many of them as shall 1ive." He bequeathed "unto Marie Poulter my mother" 40s to buy her a ring for a remembrance. He made other bequests: 20s each to "Anne Hayward my Aunt", Anne Hudson, Richard Abrahams the son of Richard Abrahams, and William Brewster. Jane Broadwater and Elizabeth Broadwater were to have 5s each, and William Clements 10s. His wife Mary was to "have the keeping governance & bringing up of my said children during theire nonages." All the rest of his estate was to go to his wife Mary, who was appointed executrix, with Thomas Purchas, clerk, and John Sharpe, yeoman, as overseers, each to have 20s for a remembrance. He added a bequest "unto Marie Pope my mother in law," £5 to be paid unto her for years at 20s a year "if she shall so long live." Witnesses were John Horsnayle, William Brewster, and John Offen [his mark]. The will was proved at Great Baddow, Essex, 30 May 1639, before Richard Baylie on the oath of Mary Poulter, relict of the said deceased and the executrix named in the said testament, to whom was committed the administration of the said deceased's estate.[14]
John Aylet of Rayleigh in the County of Essex draper, signed his will 9 March 1639[/40], noting that he was "sicke of body." Following the usual preamble, he stated:
And for my worldly estate I thus dispose. ...unto my brother Gyles Aylett of Sutton magna 40s to buy him a ring. ...unto my brother Richard Aylett of Leighe £5 to be paid unto him when he shall accomplishe his age of fowre & twentie yeares. ...unto my Cosen Edward Young of Thundersley 20s. ...unto my servant John Parker 20s. ...unto my servant Elizabeth Broadewater 20s. ...The rest of all my goods chatttells and moveables my debts and legacies being paid I give and bequeath unto Mary my beloved wife whom I make sole executrix of this my last will and testament. ...Witnesses Stephen Vassall, Thomas Gresby, John Parker.
The will was proved at Maldon, Essex, 17 April 1640, before Richard Baylie on the oath of Mary Aylett, relict of the said deceased and the executrix named in the said will, to whom was committed the administration of the said deceased's estate.[15]
from Neal Parker-36732
In his will, dated and signed 18 March 1638[/9], John Poulter left to his son John Poulter £50 at age 21, and to daughters Mary and Elizabeth Poulter £100 each at age 21 or marriage. If any of the children died before inheriting, their portion[s] were to go to his loving wife Mary Poulter, who was to pay the children's legacies to his overseers within six weeks after his death, to be "put out by them unto the best advantage and sufficient bond to be taken for the childrens better assurance and the use to be for the mayntenance and bringing of my said children or so many of them as shall 1ive." He bequeathed "unto Marie Poulter my mother" 40s to buy her a ring for a remembrance. He made other bequests: 20s each to "Anne Hayward my Aunt", Anne Hudson, Richard Abrahams the son of Richard Abrahams, and William Brewster. Jane Broadwater and Elizabeth Broadwater were to have 5s each, and William Clements 10s. His wife Mary was to "have the keeping governance & bringing up of my said children during theire nonages." All the rest of his estate was to go to his wife Mary, who was appointed executrix, with Thomas Purchas, clerk, and John Sharpe, yeoman, as overseers, each to have 20s for a remembrance. He added a bequest "unto Marie Pope my mother in law," £5 to be paid unto her for years at 20s a year "if she shall so long live." Witnesses were John Horsnayle, William Brewster, and John Offen [his mark]. The will was proved at Great Baddow, Essex, 30 May 1639, before Richard Baylie on the oath of Mary Poulter, relict of the said deceased and the executrix named in the said testament, to whom was committed the administration of the said deceased's estate.[14]
John Aylet of Rayleigh in the County of Essex draper, signed his will 9 March 1639[/40], noting that he was "sicke of body." Following the usual preamble, he stated:
And for my worldly estate I thus dispose. ...unto my brother Gyles Aylett of Sutton magna 40s to buy him a ring. ...unto my brother Richard Aylett of Leighe £5 to be paid unto him when he shall accomplishe his age of fowre & twentie yeares. ...unto my Cosen Edward Young of Thundersley 20s. ...unto my servant John Parker 20s. ...unto my servant Elizabeth Broadewater 20s. ...The rest of all my goods chatttells and moveables my debts and legacies being paid I give and bequeath unto Mary my beloved wife whom I make sole executrix of this my last will and testament. ...Witnesses Stephen Vassall, Thomas Gresby, John Parker.
The will was proved at Maldon, Essex, 17 April 1640, before Richard Baylie on the oath of Mary Aylett, relict of the said deceased and the executrix named in the said will, to whom was committed the administration of the said deceased's estate.[15]
"I am a descendant of James Parker and Abraham Parker, two of the 5 Parker brothers who came to Massachusetts from Essex around 1640. Everyone agrees that their older brother John Parker [Parker-3739] married Mary Poulter, the widow of John Poulter. After John Parker's death she married Thomas Chamberlain. She is currently [Unknown-434516]. In his will John Poulter left a bequest to Marie Pope "my mother-in-law". I think that is sufficient evidence to change the LNAB from 'Unknown' to 'Pope'.
A Parker researcher in California, Marian Parker Congdon, twice (1976 and 1990) commissioned research in Essex relative to the origin of the 5 Parker brothers, and in 1999 a lengthy article was published in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. The author Douglas Richardson was unable to find a record of the marriage of John Parker and the widow Mary Poulter, but he did find a record of the marriage in Great Burstead of a John Parker and Mary Aylett, the widow of John Aylett of Rayleigh. Great Burstead and Rayleigh are 10 miles or so apart, and it is known that the 5 brothers were born in Great Burstead. Douglas Richardson compared the wills of John Poulter of Rayleigh and John Aylett and concluded that it was probable that Mary Poulter, widow, had a short second marriage to John Aylett before she married her third husband John Parker 23 Jun 1642 in Great Burstead.
The short marriage to John Aylett provides a bridge, not dispositive but fully plausible, between the widow Mary Poulter and John Parker. My proposal is to add John Aylett as another husband of Mary Pope and to add the explanation from Douglas Richardson's article.
I have a genealogical database at http://hnparker41.com. The early Parkers are all described there. I am including here the entirety of Douglas Richardson's discussion of this issue on pages 83-86 of his article.
Neal Parker [Parker-36372]
The following detailed discussion of Mary's probable marriage to John Aylett is on pages 83-86 of the article by Douglas Richardson in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (Vol 153 (1999), pgs 81-96).
The fact that Edward Converse's first wife, Sarah, was a Parker, explains Edward's having referred to John Parker of Billerica as "kinsman" in his will dated 1659. Research in the Essex Record Office in Chelmsford, Essex, was commissioned in 1976 and again in 1990 by Marian Parker Congdon (Mrs. Guilford) of Atherton, California, a Parker family historian.[12] Both searches located the baptisms of four of the five immigrant Parker brothers: John (1615), Abraham (1619), Joseph (1622), and Jacob (1626), all sons of John Parker of the parish of Great Burstead. Although the baptism of the fifth brother, James Parker, was not located, his estimated birth date of 1617, indicated by both a deposition and the will he made as an adult in New England, is consistent with the gap between the baptisms of his brothers John and Abraham.
While the discovery of the four baptisms was encouraging, conclusive proof that these were the baptisms of the Parker brothers appeared to be lacking, as no will could be found for John Parker, the putative father of the immigrants. It was known that the eldest brother, John Parker (the immigrant to New England), had married, at an unknown date after 1639, Mary, widow of John Poulter of Rayleigh, Essex. As Rayleigh and Great Burstead are in the same general vicinity, it is natural to suppose that this couple married in England prior to their emigration sometime before 1649, but no record of the marriage of John Parker and Mary Poulter has been found in English records.[13]
However, a close review of the Great Burstead parish records shows that a John Parker and Mary Aylett, widow, were married there in 1642. Although the bride's name was clearly Aylett, it suggested to this writer that the widow Poulter might have had a brief second marriage to a man named Aylett, after the death of her husband, John Poulter, in 1639, and before she married John Parker in 1642.
Searches failed to locate such a marriage about 1640, but the will of John Aylett of Rayleigh, Essex, yeoman, proved in 1640, was found and compared with the will of Mary Poulter's first husband, John Poulter of Rayleigh, proved in 1639......
Marie Pope, mother-in-law of John Poulter is beneficiary in the will of John Poulter, nothing has been found that shows the husband "Pope" as the father. He may have been a 2nd husband of the immigrant's mother-in-law. (I hope I explained that ok...understandably.)
What should we do? I'm in favor of making her LNAB Unknown, with a note in the narrative.
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