William Parkison

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Husband William Parkison ^{1 2 3}

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         Father: William Parkinson (      -      ) 3 4
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• Family History: Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910).
To read a brief sketch of the Parkinson family, click here.

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1 M Benjamin Parkison ^{5 6 7}

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         Spouse: Olivia Rodgers (      -      ) 5 7 8
           Marr: 1796 8

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General Notes: Husband - William Parkison

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Between the years 1768 and 1770 five Parkison brothers-Joseph, Benjamin, Thomas, James and William-came from Virginia to the Monongahela Valley in Washington County, Pennsylvania.

... we have learned from the venerable Capt. Ira H. Butler (who obtained his information from Joseph Parkison himself) that the Parkisons before removing to this [Washington] county had been members of the Conococheague settlement. As our readers will learn by scanning maps and historical works, the "Conococheague settlement" was a very early one, and the English, Scotch, and German emigrants who first located there supposed that their settlement lay wholly within the domains of Lord Baltimore. However, by a subsequent arrangement between the proprietors of the two provinces (an arrangement though not at all satisfactory to a majority of those who were thus transferred from the rule of Lord Baltimore's officers to those of the Penns'), the present line between the States of Pennsylvania and Maryland was finally established considerably to the southward of the line called for in Lord Baltimore's grant, and thus the original Conococheague settlement is embraced by what is now known as Washington County, Maryland, formed from Frederick in 1776, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania, formed from Cumberland in 1784. The Parkisons were of English or Scotch descent. [HWC 1882, 566]

It is tradition as well as a well authenticated fact that the Parkinsons came from the old Conococheague Settlement, a very early one, composed of the English, Scotch and German emigrants who first located there supposing their settlement lay wholly within the domains of Lord Baltimore. However, by a subsequent arrangement between the proprietors of the two provinces, the territory in which the Parkinsons found themselves was within the boundaries belonging to the Penns.
(They) removed from their home in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, near Carlisle, about 1769 or 1770, to the mouth of Pigeon Creek, on the west bank of the Monongahela River, where Monongahela City is now located. The five brothers took up some 5,000 acres of lands among them in Washington County along the waters of Pigeon and Mingo Creeks from 1769 to 1791. [TCHWWC, 530]

He and his descendants were large owners of lands and mills and took a prominent part in the navigation of the rivers and as owners of steam-boats in later years. His son, Benjamin Parkinson, known as "Little Ben" to distinguish him from his uncle, Benjamin Parkinson, of the Whiskey Insurrection fame, on the 17th of March, 1801, bought from David Acheson a tract of land on the Monongahela River, including the mouth and both sides of Mingo Creek, upon which at an earlier date Paul Froman had erected the old Mingo Mill.

1 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 566.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1355.

3 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 530.

4 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 834.

5 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 567.

6 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 531.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 894.

8 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1356.