Richard Parker and Janet [Unk]

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Husband Richard Parker ^{1 2 3 4}

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           Born:  - ? Ireland
     Christened: 
           Died: Bef 1750 - ? Pennsylvania
         Buried: 

       Marriage: 

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Wife Janet [Unk] ^{1 2 3 4}

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: Bef 1765
         Buried: 

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Children

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1 M John Parker ^{1 3 4 5}

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           Born: 1716 1 6
     Christened: 
           Died: Bef 1785
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Margaret McClure (      -1792) 1 3 4 6

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2 M Thomas Parker ^{1 3}

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           Born: 1720 - northern Ireland 1 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 23 Apr 1776 - Cumberland Co, PA 7
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Eleanor Ferguson (1727-1775) 1 3

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3 M Richard Parker ^{1 3}

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           Born: 1725 - Ireland 1 3
     Christened: 
           Died: Aug 1774 - West Pennsborough Twp, Cumberland Co, PA 7
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Martha [Unk] (      -      ) 1 3

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4 M William Parker ^{1 3}

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           Born: 1727 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

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5 F Martha Parker ^{1 3}

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: when eighty-four years old
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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6 F Susannah Parker ^{1 3}

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: [Unk] Dunning (      -      ) 1 3

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7 M James Parker ^{1 3}

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           Born: Abt 1731
     Christened: 
           Died: Abt 1782
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Mary (Eleanor) Boyd (      -      ) 1 3

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General Notes: Husband - Richard Parker

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He and his wife, emigrated to America from the Province of Ulster, Ireland, in 1725, and settled three miles west of Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, acquiring land by patent on the Conedoguinet creek in 1734. His application at that date was for the land on which he had resided "ye ten years past." These lands continued for two or three generations in possession of their descendants.

The Parker farm, so-called in former days, west of Carlisle was "beautiful for situation." Located on the top of the hill overlooking the valley, a magnificent stretch of country spread out before the eye. The prospect was a charming one. At the rear of the house, and at the foot of the hill, flowed the Conedoguinet creek. From the base of the hill issues a spring of clear, cold water, which, purling and rippling over the stones, found its way into the Conedoguinet creek. Many times in the early days, when, in the dusk of the evening, the daughters of the house came down to the spring for water, did they tremble for their lives, imagining and fearing that Indians were lurking behind the trees.

Richard and Janet Parker, "among other children"-as history tells us-had seven children, five sons and two daughters.

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General Notes: Wife - Janet [Unk]

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She survived her husband by fifteen years.

1 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 579.

2 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 76.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 985.

4 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 18.

5 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 35, 76.

6 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 35.

7 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 580.