Benjamin Parker (abt. 1735 - 1814)

Born about 26 Feb 1735 in Falmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony [uncertain]

Ancestors

Died 8 Aug 1814 at about age 79 in Falmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Birth

Benjamin Parker, son of Benjamin and Hannah, was born 26 February "1735-6" in Falmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts Bay Colony.^[1]

Gravestone Transcription

In memory of Mr B enjamin Parker who died Aug 8, 1814 in the 78th year of his age.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ "Vital Records of Falmouth, MA," database with images, The Massachusetts Vital Records Project (https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Barnstable/Falmouth/ : accessed 19 Sept. 2022); copy available at Internet Archive (https://web.archive.org/web/20230726023024/https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Barnstable/Falmouth/ : accessed 20 Feb. 2024); citing Oliver B. Brown, comp., Vital Records of Falmouth, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (n.p.: Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Rhode Island, 1976).
2. ↑ Henry Herbert Smythe, "East End Burying Ground," Falmouth (Massachusetts) Enterprise, 10 December 1904, p. 8; "Falmouth Enterprise," database with images, Falmouth Public Library (https://origin.olivesoftware.com/Olive/APA/Falmouth/ : accessed 11 Dec. 2019); citing East End Burying Ground (Falmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts), Benjamin Parker marker, plot 4 A 4. Record of all stones in the Old Burying Ground adjoining the "East End" meeting house which were standing in 1904.