In the first, dated Jan. 21, 1655-6, he announces his recent arrival at Boston, after ten weekes of an exercising passage from the Isle of Wight.
Vol. IV., p. 440. At a later period, he mentions in detail some of his labors, and hopes, and discouragements, reminding the secretary that he undertook the work with some misgivings.
This letter may deserve insertion:—
Right Honorable.
Since my arrival in New England, which was the 20th of January last, I wrote two letters by way of Barbadoes, and this 3d also the same way being destitute of a direct conveyance from hence.
The sum of the 2 first were to inform your honour of my arrivall here, and of a little motion that I had then made in his highnesse's affayres; but the sharpness of the winter prevented my travill into other colonies.
But I procured a meeting of the council of this colony March the 7th being the soonest they mett, although the governour called them a month before; but in the interval between my arrival and
t 5 Mar. 1654.
He d. 2 Dec. 1657, his w. Ann d. 25 Mar. 1666, a. about 60, as stated upon the Inventory of her estate.
2. Walter, S. of John (1), m. Sarah, dau. of John Meane, 10 Ap. 1655; she d. 27 Aug. 1673, a. 34, and he m. Elizabeth, dau. of Deac.
Henry Bright of Watertown, 23 July 1674; she d. 23 July 1702, a. 56, and he m. Elizabeth, wid. of Elder Clark, 7 Jan. 1702-3.
His children were Sarah, b. 3 June 1656, d. 10 June 1663; John, b. 2 Dec. 1660, H. C. 1681, was a physician in Barbadoes, and prob.
d. before 1705 as he was not named in his father's will; Walter, b. 29 Nov. 1662, d. young; Walter, b. 26 Nov. 1663, d. 19 Sept. 1673; Sarah, b. 9 Dec. 1664, d. 16 Jan. 1664-5; Hannah, b. 9 Jan. 1665-6, m. Samuel Cooper 4 Dec. 1682; Elizabeth, b. 19 Feb. 1666-7, d. 3 May 1669; Nathaniel, b. 12 Ap. 1669, d. 15 Sept. 1669; Jonathan, b. 15 July 1672; Elizabeth, b. 3 and d. 12 July 1675; Abigail, b. 16 Feb. 1676-7, m. Moses Bordman, 25 July 1700; Walter, b. 10 Ap. 1679, d. 25 Sept.
ngland before 1654, when his homestead (the house having been burned) was sold by his agent, Thomas Danforth, to Thomas Oakes.
He is described in the deed as Thomas Parish, gent., of Naylond, Suffolk Co., England.
It is not impossible that Rev. Samuel Parris, of witch mania memory, who d. 27 Feb. 1720, was of this family.
The name is spelled differently, but the sound is similar.
In his will, Samuel speaks of his father Thomas as a merchant, living in London 1656, and owning estates in Barbadoes, where he d. 1673.
Parker, Robert, butcher, Boston and Roxbury, was admitted a member of Boston Church 1634.
(Farmer.) Robert Parker and his wife, both in full communion, having been dismissed hither (together with their children) from the Churches of Boston and Roxbury.
Their children, Benjamin, John, Sarah, and Rachell.
(Mitchell.) He was here as early as 1638, when he owned a house on the southerly side of Brattle Street, a few rods westerly from Ash Street; but it would seem that