John Parke

John Parke

• M, b. circa 1683
• Father*: Nathaniel Parke b. c 1650, d. b 22 Jan 1718
• Mother*: Sarah Geer b. 27 Feb 1658/59

John Parke was born circa 1683 at Groton, New London Co., Connecticut.3

He married Sarah Spaulding at Voluntown, New London Co., Connecticut, on 7 December 1741.4,5

John Parke married second on 30 March 1767 Patience Wedge.6

John Parke resided at Voluntown, New London Co., Connecticut.7

Family 1: Sarah Spaulding d. b Mar 1767

1. Esther Parke b. 14 Dec 1742
2. Elizabeth Parke b. 3 Aug 1744
3. John Parke+ b. 26 Feb 1745/46, d. c Oct 1777
4. Sarah Parke b. 21 Sep 1747, d. 22 Jan 1767

Family 2: Patience Wedge

Born in North Groton or Preston, Conn. He married Sarah Spaulding and they lived at Voluntown, and their children were born there. She probably died before 1767. This record appears in the Vital Records of Rhode Island, Vol. VII, Page 209; Marriages, Kings Town Friends Record: "Parke, John, of Nathaniel, of Preston, Conn., and Patience Wage, of Joshua, deceased, 30d 3m 1767.

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1. [S109] Walter Geer, The Geer Genealogy: A Historical Record of George and Thomas Geer and Their Descendants in the United States 1623-1923 (New York: Brentano's, 1923). Hereinafter cited as Geer Gen.
2. [S165] Frank Sylvester Parks, Genealogy of the Parke Families of Connecticut (Washington, D.C.: S. F. Parks, 1906), page 48, no. 42. Hereinafter cited as Parke of Conn.. Https://archive.org/details/genealogyofparke00inpark.
3. [S165] Frank Sylvester Parks, Parke of Conn., page 48. Does not give a date.
4. [S166] Marsha Wilson Carbaugh, compiler, Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol.47, Torrington, Union, Voluntown (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2002), pp.214-215, Parke, John, m. Sarah Spaulding, Dec 7, 1741.. Hereinafter cited as Barbour Collection v.47.
5. [S2033] Jacquelyn Ladd Ricker, The Ricker Compilation of Vital Records of Early Connecticut (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Corp., 2006), page 9607. Voluntown VR. Hereinafter cited as Ricker Compliation.
6. [S165] Frank Sylvester Parks, Parke of Conn., page 49. Vital Records of Rhode Island, vol. 7, page 209; Marriages Kings Town Friends Record: Parke, John of Nathaniel of Preston, Connecticut, and Patience Wedge of Joshua, deceased 30d 3m 1767."
7. [S165] Frank Sylvester Parks, Parke of Conn., page 49, no. 42.

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