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| Notes for Mjr. Nathaniel PARKER | ||||||||||||||||||||
| "Nathaniel arrived in Granville, Annapolis Co., NS about 1760. According to the local histories of Calnek, Wilson, and Eaton and in an article written by one of his descendants, the Rev. D. O. Parker [Berwick Register, 12 May, 1897], he served under Wolfe at the fall of Quebec. Perhaps it is more likely he served in a Massachusetts regiment as part of the colonial army. After his return to Shrewsbury, MA, his home town, he must have moved very quickly to Nova Scotia. His arrival may have been as late as 1765, but he was a Planter. He was a grantee in Annapolis Twp. 30 Oct 1765. From the first division of the Felch Plan he received Lot #74 and from the second division, Lot #10. Eventually he became a Justice of the Peace, a Commissioner to get settlers, and a Commissioner of Roads; he played a part in the laying of the Liverpool-annapolis road (Calnek, page 278) He and his second wife, Salome Whitman, travelled to the Gaspereau River on horseback, to be baptizedd 5 June 1779, and were received into the Horton Baptist Church. Previously, he had been baptized as an infant, in the Shrewsbury church, 20 March 1743. With this act he renounced Congregationalism. Along with his various enterprises and activities, he found time to raise a family of 16; all lived to adulthood. His first wife, and mother to his first six children was Anna Hardy, daughter of Aaron Hardy and Hepzibah Bradish. Anna died in 1778, presumably shortly after the birth of Lucy. In the Berwick Register, the Rev. D. O. Parker (one of over 40 ordained Baptist ministers sine Nathaniel) suggests the immigrant Parker was one of three, probably a reference to Thomas Parker of Mass. Bay Colony who arrived on the "Susan and Eileen" in 1634. This line traces back to Captain Joseph Parker and Margaret. This eveidence came to light with the publication of Joseph's line in "The Exxex Genealogist", May, 1997. In the "Halifax Herald", August 19, 1958 there is a picture of the house he built in Nictaux, which was still in use by Rudolph Haase that year. [Parker, Major Nathaniel, July, 1998.FTW] Eventually, he became a Justice of the Peace, a Commissioner to get settlers, and Commissioner of Roads; he played a part in the laying of the Liverpool-Annapolis road. [Calnek, 278] He and his second wife, Salome Whitman, travelled to the Gaspereau River on horseback to be baptized 5 June 1779, and were received into the Horton Baptist Church. Previously, he had been baptized as an infant, in the Shrewsbury church, 20 March 1743. With this (second) act, he renounced his Congregationalism." Along with his various enterprises and activities, he found time to raise 16 children; all of them living into adulthood. Anna Hardy, daughter of Aaron Hardy and Hepzibah Bradish, was his first wife and mother of the first six children. She died in 1778, supposedly just shortly after the birth of their daughter Lucy. Nathaniel remarried Salome Whitman, and by April of 1780 had his first child, Henry Parker, with Salome. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes for Salome (Spouse 1) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| It is told of Salome that after her marriage to Mjr. Nathaniel Parker, twenty people ate at her table every day: his children by his first wife, her children by Mjr. Cleveland, and the children belonging to Salome and Nathaniel. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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