Robert Parke

Bef 1580 - 1665  (> 84 years)

• Name	Robert Parke
  Born	Bef 3 Jun 1580  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Baptised	3 Jun 1580	Poslingford, Suffolk, England   [1, 3, 4]
  Died	4 Feb 1665	Mystic, New London, Connecticut   [3, 4, 5]
  Buried	7 Feb 1665	Mystic, New London, Connecticut   [4]
  Person ID	I11044	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of FW, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	3 Jun 2018

  
  

  Father	Robert Parke,   b. Abt 1554, of Gestingthorpe, Essex, England ,   d. Between 12 Feb 1593 and 17 Mar 1593, Acton, Suffolk, England  (Age ~ 39 years)
  Mother	Alice Chaplin,   b. Aft 1554,   d. Aft Mar 1593  (Age > 38 years)
  Married	27 Sep 1579	All Saints, Sudbury, Suffolk, England   [4, 6]
  Family ID	F6403	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Martha Chaplin,   b. Bef 4 Feb 1585, Semer, Suffolk, England ,   d. Bef 1643  (Age < 57 years)
  Married	9 Feb 1602	Semer, Suffolk, England   [1, 3, 4, 7]
  Children	+ 1. Thomas Parke,   b. of Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut ,   d. 30 Jul 1709, Preston, New London, Connecticut
  Last Modified	3 Jun 2018
  Family ID	F6417	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Alice Freeman,   b. Abt 1595,   d. Aft 24 Dec 1658, New London, New London, Connecticut  (Age ~ 63 years)
  Married	Aft 30 May 1644  [1, 3, 5, 8]
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2020
  Family ID	F6398	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  From McArthur-Barnes Ancestral Lines (citation details below): He sailed with some members of his family with the Winthrop Fleet, 29 Mar. 1630, from Cowes, Isle of Wight, supposedly on the flagship, Arbella. He was a man of means, and is thought to be the Robert Parke who wrote to John Winthrop 17 Feb. 1629/30 from Easterkale, co. Lincoln, proposing to go to New England [Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 5th Series, 1:194]. Savage [Gen. Dict. 3:347] states that he returned to England the same year, carrying an order by Governor Winthrop to his son John in England to pay money, "which is in my possession and may be the earliest bill of exchange drafted on our side of the water." His son William, who came over later in 1630, settled in Roxbury, Mass., where he became one of the most prominent citizens, and his daughter Ann seems to have been with William at Roxbury, where she married in 1640 and died the following year. We do not know just when Robert returned to New England, but on 9 Apr. 1640 Mr. Parke was made freeman at Wethersfield, Conn., as Robert Parke served on a jury 2 July 1640 and represented that town as Deputy to the Connecticut General Court, Aug. 1642 [Col. Rec. of Conn., 1:46, 55, 73]. His son Thomas was with him at Wethersfield, and they remained together at New London and Stonington. We do not know when Robert Parke lost his first wife, the mother of his children. On 30 May 1644, the House of Deputies of Massachusetts Bay passed the following act: "The peticon of Robert Parke is graunted by ye whole Courte, and hath libtye to pceed in marriage wth Alice Tompson wthout farthr publishe" [Shurtleff's Records of Massachusetts Bay, 3:3]. She was a widow of gentry family who had come to Roxbury, Mass., with daughters. The marriage accordingly took place. [...] About 1650 Robert Parke and his son Thomas removed to Pequot, now New London, Conn. On 20 May 1652 Mr. Parkes was a Deputy for New London [Col. Rec. of Conn., 1:231]. In New London land records we find that Alice Parke witnessed a deed, 2 June 1652; Richard Blinman, pastor, conveyed to "my brother in law Thomas Parkes," 21 Mar. 1653/4; and Thomas Parke of "Misticke neere Pequot" conveyed 9 Oct. 1656 to his father, Robert Parke, Gentleman [2:9; 3:64,41]. About 1655 the family had moved to Mystic or Southerton, later included in Stonington, Conn. The family continued to own land in New London as numerous deeds attest.

  
  

• Sources

  [S978] American Ancestors and Cousins of the Princess of Wales by Gary Boyd Roberts and William Addams Reitwiesner. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1984. [S977] The Blackmans of Knight's Creek: Ancestors and Descendants of George and Maria (Smith) Blackman by Henry James Young. Carlisle, Pennsylvania: 1980., year only. [S1699] McArthur-Barnes Ancestral Lines by Selim Walker McArthur. Edited by Donald Lines Jacobus. Portland, Maine: The Anthoensen Press, 1964. [S1500] Clifford L. Stott, "The Chaplin Family of Co. Suffolk: Ancestors of the Plumb and Parke Families of Connecticut." The American Genealogist 82:250, October 2007. [S977] The Blackmans of Knight's Creek: Ancestors and Descendants of George and Maria (Smith) Blackman by Henry James Young. Carlisle, Pennsylvania: 1980. [S1699] McArthur-Barnes Ancestral Lines by Selim Walker McArthur. Edited by Donald Lines Jacobus. Portland, Maine: The Anthoensen Press, 1964., year and place only. [S977] The Blackmans of Knight's Creek: Ancestors and Descendants of George and Maria (Smith) Blackman by Henry James Young. Carlisle, Pennsylvania: 1980., date only. [S3781] Clarence Almon Torrey, "Alice (Freeman) (Tompson) Parke." The American Genealogist 13:1, July 1936.