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About Roger Parke, Jr.
Roger Parke Jr. was born in 1683 Burlington County NJ. His parents were Roger PARKE Sr. and Ann PATTISON. He did NOT marry Susannah ROBINSON about 1698 in Crosswicks Creek New Jersey.. The name of his wife is unknown. Some mistaken information having to do with a will of a Thomas Robinson got this started but it has no basis in truth, having been researched extensively by many Parke family researchers. It has also been speculated that his wife was Jane Stout or a woman named Hannah before 1704, but this also is just speculation – so his wife’s name is unknown.
Roger died in 1755 in Hunterdon County, NJ.
Children
- Anne Parke, born 1700 in Hopewell Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey Colony. Married Joseph Merrill ca. 1720 Hunterdon. Died 1768 Bethlehem, Hunterdon, New Jersey.
- Roger Parke III, born 8 Sep 1704 Burlington, New Jersey. Died 1745 – Hunterdon, New Jersey, or 1754 Hampshire, Virginia
- John Parke, born 1706 in Hunterdon County, New Jersey Colony. Married 1) unknown 2) Mary Heath 1735. Died 1761 Burlington, NJ,
- Thomas Parke, born 1707 in Hunterdon County, New Jersey Colony. Married Sarah. Died 1767 Cumberland, NJ.
- Joseph Parke, born 1710 in Hunterdon County, New Jersey Colony. Married Sarah Margaret Woodbridge. Died 1754 in Warren County NJ or 1753 Greenwich Township, Morris, NJ
- William Parke, born 17 MAY 1711 in Hopewell, Mercer County, New Jersey Colony. Married Sarah Jewell in 1738. Died 1764 Hopewell, NJ.
- Keziah Parke, born 1713 in Hunterdon County, New Jersey Colony. Married James Larison in 1734 at Mercer, New Jersey. Died 1788 Hunterdon, NJ.
- Jonah Parke, born 1716 in Hunterdon County, New Jersey Colony. Married Elizabeth PARLEE c. 1738. Died 1778/79 Kingwood Township, Hunterdon, New Jersey.
- Nathan Parke, born 1717/8 in Hunterdon County, New Jersey Colony. Married Mary Walton. Died 2 Feb 1785 Rowan County, NC.
- Robert Parke, born 1719 in Hunterdon County, New Jersey Colony.
- Grace Parke, born 1721 in Amwell, Hunterdon County, New Jersey Colony. Married Jacob Stout ca. 1745 in Stoutsburg, Mercer County, NJ. Died 1783; buried Stoutsburg Cemetery, Hopewell, Mercer, New Jersey.
Research Notes
In the late 1600’s two families came into New Jersey, with names so nearly alike, that some researchers have combined them as one family. One is Roger Parke, of Hexham, Northumberland, England. The second , Roger Parkes with an “S”. Interestingly, Roger grandson Jonathan Parks had gained an “s” and lost an “e”.
Disputed Spouse
Many researchers dispute that Roger's wife was named Susannah Robinson and that they married about 1698 in Crosswicks Creek New Jersey.
Taken from a source called Miner's Descent: Some mistaken information having to do with a will of a Thomas Robinson got this started but it has no basis in truth, having been researched extensively by many Parke family researchers. It has also been speculated that his wife was Jane Stout or a woman named Hannah before 1704, but this also is just speculation – so his wife’s name is unknown.[6]
Notes
The Coxe Trials, 1733, Fifty Men’s Compact Including:
Andrew Parke John Parke, Jr. Joseph Parke Roger PARKE, Sr. Roger PARKE, Jr. John Parks
The most violent reaction came in Hopewell where citizens actively resented the political maneuverings behind Col. Coxe’s claims to ownership. After a long and tedious trail at Burlington by Judge Hooper and a panel of twelve Quaker jurors, the verdict was against the West Jersey Society and the Fifty Mens Compact. Mr. Kinsey then appealed to New Jersey’s leading judicial officer, Chancellor William Cosby, who in Dec 1734 issued a judgment upholding the decision against the Society and Compact. Unfortunately, Mr. Cosby’s ruling was based less on the legal strength of Col. Coxe’s claim than on personal hatred of his arch-enemy, Lewis Morris, who after the death of Thomas Revel became primary Agent of the West Jersey Society. No higher appeal was possible because Col. Coxe was Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, a post he held till his death five years later. The settlers had three choices: pay, remove, or resist. Historian Ralph Ege (born in Hopewell in 1837) wrote about the great dilemma:
This verdict caused the most distressing state of affairs in this township that was ever experienced in any community. Some moved away immediately, but the majority stayed, at least initially, and assumed the financial burden. Cattle and personal possessions were sold, and a great struggle began which impoverished many families for years to come. Then came the great excitement incident to ejecting the settlers from the farms which they, or their fathers had purchased, and on which they had built dwellings, barns and fences. Their lands had cost them only fifty cents per acre, it is true, but they had purchased them in good faith and spent the best years of their lives in clearing them. Many had mortgaged them to pay for the expense of improvement consequently not being able to incur the additional expense, they were compelled to leave their homes and seek new homes elsewhere, risking for the second, and for some of them the third time, the perils of the wilderness.
Many, including most of the Parke family, refused to pay for the same lands twice and left the area in the early stages of a great out-migration, generally moving westward where new lands were being opened on the Virginia frontier. Some who were unable or unwilling to repurchase, stubbornly refused to vacate their homes — and were charged rent as “Tenants” — rent they could or would not pay, and rent defaults created still more debts. The various resistance efforts would fill the colony’s court dockets for years to come. Two of the dispossessed, Thomas Smith and John Parke, were brothers-in-law and community leaders, aged 58 and 60, perhaps able to repurchase had they wished, but they (and others) were so angry they no longer wished to live where the government was so corrupt that its Assembly and Supreme Court had aided and abetted Col. Coxe in what they considered to be a monstrous land swindle against honest citizens whose families were the earliest settlers of the Township.
References
- http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=15062377
- from http://minerdescent.com/2010/05/19/roger-parkes-jr/
- http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hawley-hu...
- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Parke-33 cites
- Record for William Parke LINK http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=6781...
- U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011), www.ancestry.com, Record for Doctor Roger Parke. http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=SARMemberApps&h=78642...
- U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1994 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014), Ancestry.com, Swarthmore College; Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; Certificates of Removal and For Marriage; Collection: Quaker Meeting Records; Call Number: MR-PH-116. Record for Roger Parke. http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=QuakerMeetMins&h=1713...
- Source: #S258 Record for Roger Parke.
- Pioneers of Old Hopewell, Ralph Ege, 1908, page 202 https://archive.org/stream/pioneersoldhope00egegoog#page/n210/mode/... (has errors)
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Roger Parke, Jr.'s Timeline
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June 25, 1684
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Burlington County, New Jersey
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1703
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Burlington Township, Burlington, NJ, United States
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1703
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Burlington County, West Jersey
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September 8, 1704
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Burlington , New Jersey
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1708
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Burlington , New Jersey
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May 17, 1711
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Hopewell Township, Mercer, NJ, United States
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1713
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Hopewell, Hunterdon, New Jersey
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1713
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Burlington, New Jersey, USA
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1716
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Alexandria township, Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States
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