Joseph Parke, II

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[parke2.FTW] Joseph Parke II, settled in the Village of Asbury, having moved into the area from Amwell Township, Hunterdon County, when his father Joseph Parke died in Sussex County in 1754. Joseph Parke I wrote his Will in 1752, which was witnessed by his brother, Jonah Parke and two of his best friends who had previously lived in the Hopewell, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Joseph II inherited land from his father and it is shown in deeds in Sussex, later Warren County, as land partly in Morris and Sussex County. After his second wife, Mercey Beemer Parke died in 1811 , Joseph began to sell off his property and divide the assets among his children, who had all left the area to go into Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Virginia. We do not know his first wife's name, other than Sarah. She died prior to 1777, as Joseph married Mercy Beemer, Widow of Phillip Beemer, recorded in the Zion Lutheran Church at Oldwick, NJ . Joseph Parke died in 1815, in Harrison Co., Virginia at the home of his daughter, Theodosia, who had married Archeleus Dunham. A Will was probated for Joseph, which named his living children. The nameof Elijah was found in the Will. We had not been sure of this Elijah until the Will was found. Elijah was probably the son of Joseph and his second wife, Mercy Beemer. Joseph held several parcels of property in the Village of Asbury...a tavern, hotel, blacksmith shop and some small farms. Deeds for one parcel describes his land as being partly in Greenwich, Morris Co., and Greenwich, Mansfield-Sussex Co., NJ and that he had inherited the property . We know that in Joseph Parke's Will of 1752, he gives land and blacksmith tools to his son , Joseph Parke. Joseph Parke's tavern was surveyed for George Washington during the Revolutionary War and is noted on a map... known as Park's Tavern. This same George Washington, at an early age of 18, surveyed land in Frederick Co., Virginia for none other than John Parke, in 1750. John was a son of Roger Parke Sr., while Joseph Parke was of Roger Parke Jr.'s line of descent.

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