Alice Chaplin

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1558

Alice married Robert Parke on 27 Sep 1579 in All Saints, Sudbury, Suffolk, England. Robert was born in of Acton, Suffolk, England; died before 27 Feb 1593; was buried on 27 Feb 1593 in Acton, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 14 Mar 1665, Mystic, New London, Connecticut

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.

By his first wife, he is an ancestor of PNH's sister-in-law Laura (Wightman) Hayden:

Robert Parke (1580-1665) = Martha Chaplin (1585-1643)
Samuel Parke (1621-~1710)
Robert Parke (1676-1752) = Tamsen Packer (1674-1764)
Jemima Parke (1716-1793) = Samuel Torrance (1719-1788)
Nancy Torrance (1746-1806) = Noah Woodard (1744-1834)
Abiram Woodard (1766-1866) = Dinah Green (1783-1850)
Martha Woodard (1806-1878) = William Wightman (1796-1877)
Monroe Alphonso Wightman (1848-1910) = Sarah S. Chisman (1848-1918)
Frank Logan Wightman (1887-1959) = Iva Faye Covington (1894-1985)
John Stephen Wightman (1918-1990) = Alise Emma Evans (1918-1995)
Robert Alan Wightman (1941-2007) = Joyce Ann Marie Dixon (1941-1997)
Laura Marie Wightman (1962- ) = Benjamin Titus Hayden (1962- )

And of stunt UK prime minister Boris Johnson:

Robert Parke (1580-1665) = Martha Chaplin (1585-1643)
Thomas Parke (1616-1709) = Dorothy Tompson (1624-1709)
Joseph Morgan (1646-1704) = Dorothy Parke (1652-1707)
Dorothy Morgan (1676-1759) = Ebenezer Witter (1668-1712)
Mary Witter (b. 1696) = Jeremiah Tracy (b. 1682)
Jeremiah Tracy (b. 1719) = Margaret Huntington
Solomon Tracy (1756-1835) = Mary Wells (~1864-1848)
Hila Tracy (1799-~1841) = Jonathan Nobles (~1792-~1870)
Maria Nobles (~1823-~1880) = Judson Holcomb (~1819-~1880)
Clara Holcomb (1848-1927) = Henry Clinton Porter (1851-1922)
Helen Tracy Porter (1876-1963) = Elias Avery Lowe (1879-1969)
Frances Beatrice Lowe = Sir James Edmund Sanford Fawcett (1913-1991)
Charlotte Offlow Fawcett (1942-2021) = Stanley Patrick Johnson (1940- )
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (1964- ), UK Prime Minister 2019-

Robert married Martha Chaplin on 9 Feb 1602 in Semer, Suffolk, England. Martha (daughter of William Chaplin and Agnes Holborough) was born before 4 Feb 1585; was christened on 4 Feb 1585 in Semer, Suffolk, England; died before 1643. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Alice Freeman after 30 May 1644 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut. Alice (daughter of Henry Freeman and Margaret Edwards) was born about 1595; died after 24 Dec 1658 in New London, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1619

Notes:

McArthur-Barnes Ancestral Lines and Clifford L. Stott's article "The Chaplin Family of Co. Suffolk" (citation details below) both state that he was baptized at Hitcham, Suffolk on 13 Feb 1615, but Randy A. West ("Alice Freeman", etc., citation details below) points out that the same child is recorded in that parish register as being buried 25 Feb 1616.

Thomas Parke = Dorothy Thompson
Robert Parke = Mary Rose
Margaret Parke = Benjamin Rockwell
Margaret Rockwell = Josiah Blodgett, Jr.
Hannah Blodgett = David Burroughs
Tyler Burroughs = Anna Pratt
Abner Tyler Burroughs = Mary Rice
George Tyler Burroughs = Mary Evaline Zieger
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)

(Thus, ERB is a seventh cousin twice removed to TSW.)

Thomas married Dorothy Tompson before 28 Oct 1644 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Dorothy (daughter of John Tompson and Alice Freeman) was born before 5 Jul 1624; was christened on 5 Jul 1624 in Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England; died after 9 Aug 1709. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Samuel may have remained at Whight Hall in England with his oldest brother, Robert, when his parents came to New England in 1630 since he was only nine at the time. However, he arrived sometime before 1646. He and his brother Thomas both courted Dorothy Thompson and Thomas' and Dorothy's first child was born that year. Samuel may have returned to England since his father willed him £50 if he came to Roxbury to accept it. Before [his father] Robert died, he gave Samuel one thousand acres of the land he had purchased from Winthrop, the section in Mystic and along the waterfront and the section in Voluntown, Connecticut." [Perry Streeter, citation details below]

Family/Spouse: (Unknown first wife of Samuel Parke). (Unknown died before 25 Feb 1697; was buried on 25 Feb 1697 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Greenfield Larribee on 16 Mar 1673. Greenfield (son of Greenfield Larribee and Phebe Browne) was born on 20 Apr 1648 in Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut; died on 4 Feb 1739 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Rachel Leffingwell on 24 Nov 1681. Rachel (daughter of Lt. Thomas Leffingwell and Mary) was born on 17 Mar 1648. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Said to have been born at New London 6 Mar 1652, but no record has been found. She is mentioned as a beneficiary in her father's will of 5 Sep 1707.

Dorothy married Lt. Joseph Morgan on 26 Apr 1670 in New London, New London, Connecticut. Joseph (son of James Morgan and Margery Hill) was born on 29 Oct 1646 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts; was christened on 29 Nov 1646 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 5 Apr 1704 in Preston, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 8 Mar 1676, Stonington, New London, Connecticut
• Alternate birth: 6 May 1676, Stonington, New London, Connecticut

Notes:

The Old Burying Ground at Oneco is also known as Riverside Cemetery.

Robert married Tamsen Packer on 17 Jan 1698 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut. Tamsen (daughter of John Packer and Elizabeth) was born on 4 May 1674 in New London, New London, Connecticut; died on 2 Sep 1764 in Voluntown, New London, Connecticut; was buried in Old Burying Ground, Oneco, Sterling, Windham, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]