1667 Joseph and Peter Parker purchased land from one of the patentees of the 1665 Monmouth Patent and they settled in what is now called Little Silver, New Jersey, named after their father's estate in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Peter settled in Rumson Neck. Joseph settled in Town Neck, now Silverside Avenue. [1]
1667 Peter Parker was chosen constable of Shrewsbury, New Jersey. [2]
1667-68 Peter Parker and Joseph Parker, of Navesink [Middleton Twp, Monmouth County, New Jersey], subscribed an oath of allegiance to the King and fidelity to the lords proprietors. [3] [4]
1668 On 1 March, a warrant was issued for Peter Parker, constable of Shrewsbury, to search for and publish the laws of the General Assembly of May 30 and November 7, 1668, concealed by some disaffected persons at Shrewsbury and Middleton. [5]
1670 Peter and Sarah Parker witnessed the sale of land by Peter Tilton to Abraham Brown in Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, New Jersey. [6]
1674 The will of Thomas Cooke made 6 February and proved 20 June 1677 named wife Mary, son John, deceased son Thomas, brother John Slocum, and Sarah Parker wife of Peter Parker and her daughters Penelope, Peter, and Sarah. [7] [8]
1674 Peter Parker was to be appointed and continued as constable at Shrewsbury [Monmouth Co], New Jersey. [9]
1675 On 2 November, Peter Parker warranted 180 acres of land in Shrewsbury Twp, Monmouth County, New Jersey. [10]
1676 Joseph Parker, justice, made the inventory for the estate of George Cheut of Shrewsbury. Peter Parker was town clerk. [11]
1679 On 1 November, Peter Parker surveyed 132 acres in 3 tracts of land in Shrewsbury Twp, Monmouth County, New Jersey. [12]
1679 Peter Parker paid quit rent on 132 acres of land in Shrewsbury Twp, Monmouth County, New Jersey, on a patent. [13]
1680 In June, Peter Parker signed a receipt for the legacies to his wife and children, he called Penelope, Peter, and Sarah his "three oldest children". [14]
1680 In August, John Bowne wrote to Governor Andross saying that failure to hold a court of sessions at Shrewsbury was due to his own ilness and that of Peter Parker who was "more like to die than to live". [15]
c1685 Peter Parker, possibly this one or his son or his newphew, warranted 80 acres for survey in Monmouth County, New Jersey. [16]
1694 In a deed dated 8 December at Newport Rhode Island, Peter Parker of Jamestown, Rhode Island, sold land in New Jersey to Caleb Allen of Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. The deed stated that Peter Parker was of Shrewsbury in 1679 and described several tracts including the land patented by him on 20 February 1679. [17] [18]
1720 Peter Parker "had moved back to Westerly, where he died. On 1 April 1723, Hannah Parker, widow, was given administration of his estate. The inventory totalling £326.10.4 was taken 28 March by Thomas Lillibridge, William Clark and William James [19]. In 1727 Thomas Parker, yeoman of Westerly, petitioned the town council to assign to him the whole estate of his late father, it not being fit to divide without spoiling the whole, he to pay equal portions to the other children. Named were Peter Parker my Elder ..." [20]
Research Notes:
1664 Sarah Parker petitioned the court of the Providence plantation of Rhode Island for release [divorce] from her husband. The court left the matter to the next session, considering the weight of the matter. Both this Peter Parker and his brother, George Parker, had wives named Sarah. [21] [22]
1675 The birth of a son, Thomas Parker, has been reported. [http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jlpbears1948&id=I3900]
1685 Daughter Penelope Parker is reported to have married Stephen Remington. [http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=militarycaste&id=I37053]
Along the shore was the "Long Meadow," acquired of several grantees by Samuel Wilbur. At the mouth of the brook was the "Round meadow" of John Porter. This brook was called the First Brook in 1643 when Robert Ballou was granted 1 acres. Today it is known as Willow Brook, but I prefer the name mentioned in 1659, "Little Silver." [23]
[1] Karen L. Schnitzspahn, Images of America, Little Silver (Dover, N.H.:Arcadia 1996), 7.
[2] Jane Fletcher Fiske, "The Abigail Connection: Peter Parker of Jamestown RI & Shrewsbury NJ and his two Remington Daughters," The American Genealogist 57 (1981), 15-23, at 16, [AmericanAncestors].
[3] William A. Whitehead, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 1. (Administration 1631-1687) (1880), 51, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[4] William S. Hornor, This Old Monmouth of Ours (1932, reprint 1974), 243, [FHLBook].
[5] William Nelson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 21. (Patents and Deeds, 1664-1703) (1899), 30, citing East Jersey Deeds, Liber 3, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[6] Richard S. Hutchinson, Monmouth County New Jersey, Deeds Books A, B, C and D (2000), 14.
[7] Benjamin Franklin Wilbour, Little Compton Families, Vol. 1 (Little Compton, Rhode Island: 1967), 205, [AncestryImage].
[8] Edward H. West, "Genealogical Notes, Thomas Cook of Portmouth," Rhode Island Historical Society Collections 25 (1932), 59-61, at 60.
[9] William Nelson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 23. (Wills and Administrations 1, 1670-1730) (1901), 36, 39, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[10] John E. Stillwell, Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Vol. 2 (1906), 395, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[11] William Nelson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 21. (Patents and Deeds, 1664-1703) (1899), 43, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[12] John E. Stillwell, Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Vol. 2 (1906), 388, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[13] John E. Stillwell, Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Vol. 2 (1906), 370, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[14] Jane Fletcher Fiske, "The Abigail Connection: Peter Parker of Jamestown RI & Shrewsbury NJ and his two Remington Daughters," The American Genealogist 57 (1981), 15-23, at 16, [AmericanAncestors].
[15] John E. Stillwell, Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Vol. 3 (1914), 33, [InternetArchive].
[16] John E. Stillwell, Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Vol. 2 (1906), 400, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[17] Jane Fletcher Fiske, "The Abigail Connection: Peter Parker of Jamestown RI & Shrewsbury NJ and his two Remington Daughters," The American Genealogist 57 (1981), 15-23, at 17, [AmericanAncestors].
[18] William Nelson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 21. (Patents and Deeds, 1664-1703) (1899), 269, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[19] The Genealogical Society (FHL), Westerly, Rhode Island, Town Council and Probate records, Vol. 2-4, 1699-1736 (Microfilm: 930805), 3.38.
[20] Jane Fletcher Fiske, Thomas Cooke of Rhode Island: A genealogy of Thomas Cooke, alias Butcher of Netherbury, Dorsetshire, England, who came to Taunton, Massachusetts in 1637 and settled in Portsmouth, Rhode Island in 1643 (1987), 46, [GoogleBooks].
[21] John Russell Bartlett, Records of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England, Vol. 2, 1664-1677 (1857), 82, [InternetArchive].
[22] Clarence Almon Torrey and Elizabeth Petty Bently, New England Marriages prior to 1700 (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1985), 559, [GoogleBooks].
[23] Edward H. West, "The Lands of Portsmouth, R. I., and a Glimpse of Its People," Rhode Island Historical Society Collections 25 (1932), 65-85, at 72.