Sir Robert PARKE

1580 - 1665  (84 years)

• Name	Robert PARKE  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Prefix	Sir
  Birth	03 Jun 1580	Poslingford Suffolk, England   [1, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Death	04 Feb 1664/5	Mystic, New London Co., Connecticut   [5, 6]
  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. [5]
  Person ID	I43287	Main Tree
  Last Modified	8 Feb 2022

  
  

  Family 1	Martha CHAPLYN,   b. 04 Feb 1583/4, Semer, Suffolk, England d. Bef 1630, Roxbury, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts (Age < 45 years)
  Marriage	1601  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Deacon William PARKE,   b. Abt 1604, England d. 11 May 1685 (Age 81 years)  [Birth] + 2. Thomas PARKE,   b. 13 Feb 1614/5, Bures or Hitham, Suffolk, England d. 30 Jul 1709, Preston City, New London, Connecticut, USA (Age 94 years)  [Birth] + 3. Samuel PARKE,   b. England d. Aft 1684  [Birth]   4. Anne PARKE,   b. England d. 10 Sep 1641  [Birth]
  Family ID	F02140	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 Sep 2021

  
  

  Family 2	Alice FREEMAN,   b. 1595, Preston, England d. Aft 24 Dec 1658, Mystic, New London Co., Connecticut (Age 63 years)
  Marriage	Between 30 May 1644 and 28 Oct 1644	Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA   [1, 2, 3, 6]
  Family ID	F02137	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Feb 2022

  
  

• Sources

  [S03445] Bruce Harrison, The Family Forest Descendants of Sir Robert Parke, (Name: Name: Millisecond Publishing Co., Inc.;;). [S00012] E. Glenn Denison, "Denison Genealogy" Ancestors and Descendants of Captain George Denison, (Name: Name: Gateway Press, Inc. Baltimore 1993;;), 63-13712. [S5840] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonist Who Came to America before 1700. [S9214] Richard Anson Wheeler, History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut. [S10792] Frank Sylvester Parks, Genealogy of the PARKE Families of Connecticut. [S12597] The American Genealogist 2015 Vol. 87 January/April.