Anne PARKE

Anne married Edward PAYSON on 10 Aug 1640. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

English baronet
Came to America from England in the "Arbella" in 1630 as secretary to John Winthrop. Moved to Wethersfield, CT in 1639. Moved to Pequot (now New London), in CT before moving to Mystic (now Stonington), CT in 1649.
Deputy to General Court and selectman.
Served in the colonial forces

He and his family sailed from Cowes, Isle of Wight, for America, on board the "Arabella," with seventy-six passengers, March 29, 1630, and landed in Boston, Mass., June 17, 1630; making the voyage in seventy-eight days. He lived for a time at Roxbury, Mass.

In 1639 he went, with his son Thomas , through the wilderness to Wethersfield, Conn., with the first settlers there.

He resided at Wethersfield about ten years, and in 1649 removed to Pequot, (now New London,) Conn. He was a resident of the town plot of New London for about six years, and then removed to lands which he owned on the Mystic river.

In the first book of the town records of New London, the two Winthrops, John and Deane, are uniformly entitled "Mr." as also Jonathan Brewster and Robert Parke, when they appear in the records of the plantation; but all others are styled "Goodman," or mentioned by Christian and surname, without any prefix.

When Mr. Blinman, (the first minister of the Gospel who preached regularly in New London), came in 1650, there was no meeting house. During the first years of his ministry he preached in the barn meeting house which stood on the corner of Hempstead and 'granite streets. It belonged to Mr. Robert Parke.

August 29, 1651, the following vote of the town is recorded: "for Mr. Parke's barne the towne doe agree for the use of it until midsummer next to give him a day's work a peace for a meeting house, to be by the Saboth come a moneth." In 1652 Mr. Parke sold his house lot to Mr. William Rogers, of Boston.

He was elected a Freeman of the colony in April, 1640, a Representative or Deputy to the General Court, September 1641, and again in August, 1642. He was a Selectman in 1651, and again a Representative in 1652. In 1658 he as a Selectman of Southerntown, (afterwards named Mystic and now known as Stonington,) Conn.

Robert married Martha CHAPLYN in 1601. Martha was born on 04 Feb 1583/4 in Semer, Suffolk, England; died before 1630 in Roxbury, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Martha Chapen
• Fact: Daughter of Capt. Robert Chaplin and Elizabeth Ansty of Bury, England

Notes:

Name:
Robert Parke married 1st, Martha, a daughter of Capt. Robert and Elizabeth Ansty) Chaplin, of Bury, England. Her father gave her portion of L300. It is probable that she died in England before the family came to this Country, as no mention has been found of her here.