Reverend Thomas Parker1

b. 7 December 1700, d. 18 March 1765
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Family Background:
Underwood and Allied Families
     Reverend Thomas Parker was born on 7 December 1700 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.2 He was the son of Josiah Parker.2 Marriage intention for Reverend Thomas Parker and Lydia Richardson was published on 1 January 1720/21 in Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.1,3 He died on 18 March 1765 in Dracut at age 64.4
     
     Reverend Thomas Parker graduated from Harvard in 1718.3 He was the first minister of Dracut. Formerly a part of Chelmsford, though the Merrimack divides them, Dracut was incorporated as a town 26 February 1700/01. Several attempts were made between 1710 and 1720 to settle a minister, but without success. There was a meeting-house, built in 1715, but no church till the ordination of Mr. Parker.3,4 He He was "Pastor of ye Church in Dracut for the space of 44 years."5 He was executor of his father-in-law Jonathan Richardson's will dated 12 September 1750.6,3 He and Lydia Richardson had seven children.4

Citations

  1. [S111] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem: Newcomb & Gauss, Printers, 1914), 306.
  2. [S166] John Adams Vinton, The Richardson Memorial, Comprising a Full History and Genealogy of the Posterity of the Three Brothers, Ezekiel, Samuel, and Thomas Richardson, Who Came from England, and United with Others in the Foundation of Woburn, Massachusetts, in the Year 1641, of John Richardson, of Medfield, 1679, of Amos Richardson, of Boston, 1640, of Edward and William Richardson, of Newbury, 1643, with Notices of Richardsons in England and Elsewhere (Portland, Maine: Brown Thurston & Co., 1876), 64.
  3. [S165] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Richardson, of Chelmsford," Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): A Reprinting in Alphabetical Order by Surname, of the Sixteen Multi-Ancestor Compendia, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996), Vol. III, 3: 225, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Hildreth (1958).
  4. [S166] John Adams Vinton, The Richardson Memorial, 65.
  5. [S110] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Dracut Massachusetts (Boston: The Essex Institute, 1914), 290.
  6. [S166] John Adams Vinton, The Richardson Memorial, 48.