PARKHURST
This is another ancestor who arrived in New England in the
1600s and returned to England. George
Parkhurst arrived in New England sometime before 1640 judging by some of his
children’s marriage dates. He is in the
records in Watertown, Massachusetts in 1642 when a road was laid out near his
house. With his first wife he had nine
children, but it is unknown whether or not she came to America with him. In 1644 he married Susanna, the widow of John
Stimson, and had five more children.
At some point before 1655 Susannah went back to
England. George Parkhurst sold 12 acres
of John Stimson’s land on 13 June 1655 and petitioned the General Court for the
sale because he was elderly (67 years old), and his wife had returned to
England with six of the children, and he wanted to go be with her. He must have returned to England soon after
this date. He is probably the “Old
George Parkhurst” buried on 18 June 1675 in St. Lawrence, Ipswich, England.
I descend from both Deborah and Elizabeth Parkhurst, the
daughters of George and his first wife, Phebe Leete. Deborah married John Smith of Martha’s
Vineyard who is my 9th great grandfather. I also descend from his brothers Thomas and
Francis. Elizabeth Parkhurst also
married a man from Martha’s Vineyard, Joseph Merry, and her first husband was
from New Hampshire, where she lived and had four children. Deborah
and Elizabeth’s siblings married and removed to Woburn and Concord, Massachusetts
and to Rhode Island and New Jersey. They
were a very diverse bunch, which descendants all over the East Coast!
Some sources for researching this family are
Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New England and Their Origins by
John Threlfall, 1990, pages 257 – 269, and also The History of Martha’s Vineyard
by Dr. Charles E. Banks, Volume II, pages 111 – 113. You can also use the Genealogical Dictionary of Maine
and New Hampshire, and The Ancestry of Margaret Brooks Threfall,
by John Threlfall, 1985.
My Parkhurst genealogy:
Generation 1: George Parkhurst, son of John Parkhurst of
Ipswich, England, buried on 18 June 1675 in St. Lawrence, Ipswich, England;
married first about 1612 in Ipswich, England to Phebe Leete, daughter of Robert
Leete and Alice Grundy. She was baptized
on 20 December 1585 in Little Eversden, Cambridge, England, and died sometime
before 1643. He married second about 1644
in Massachusetts to Susanna Unknown, the widow of John Stimson of Watertown,
Massachusetts.
Lineage A:
Generation 2: Deborah
Parkhurst, baptized on 1 August 1619 at St. Margaret’s in Ipswich, England,
died about 1686 on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts; married
about 1638 in Watertown to John Smith, son of John Smith and Isabella
Drake. He was born about 1616 in
Hampton, Hampshire, England and died before 16 June 1674 in Edgartown on Martha’s
Vineyard. They had five children.
Generation 3: Deborah
Smith m. Nathaniel Batchelder
Lineage A1
Generation 4: Nathaniel Batchelder m. Elizabeth Foss
Generation 5: Josiah
Batchelder m. Sarah Page
Generation 6: David Batchelder m. Elizabeth Swett
Generation 7: Elisha Batchelder m. Sarah Lane
Generation 8: Jonathan Batchelder m. Nancy Thompson
Generation 9: George E. Batchelder m. Abigail M. Locke
Generation 10: George E. Batchelder m. Mary Katharine
Emerson
Generation 11: Carrie Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen
Generation 12: Stanley Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda
Hitchings (my grandparents)
Lineage A2:
Generation 4: Abigail Batchelder m. John Dearborn
Generation 5: Elizabeth Dearborn m. John Garland
Generation 6: Elizabeth Garland m. Richard Locke
Generation 7: Simon Locke m. Abigail Mace
Generation 8: Richard Locke m. Margaret Welch
Generation 9: Abigail M. Locke m. George E. Batchelder
See above
Lineage B:
Generation 2: Elizabeth Parkhurst, baptized on 18 May 1628
at St. Margaret’s in Ipswich, England; died 6 October 1727 probably in
Edgartown on Martha’s Vineyard; married first on 10 April 1640 in Watertown to
Emanuel Hilliard. He died 20 October
1657 at sea. Elizabeth married second on
14 December 1659 in Hampton, New Hampshire to Joseph Merry as his second
wife. He died 5 April 1710 in
Edgartown. She had four children with
her first husband and four more with her second husband.
Generation 3:
Elizabeth Hilliard m. Reverend John Mayhew
Generation 4: John Mayhew m. Mehitable Higgins
Generation 5: John Mayhew m. Ruth Davis
Generation 6: Mary Mayhew m. Caleb Rand
Generation 7: Mary Rand m. Asahel Bill
Generation 8: Reverend Ingraham Ebenezer Bill m. Caleb Rand
Bill
Generation 9: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe Wilkinson
Generation 10: Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha Louise
Roberts (my grandparents)
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Copyright 2013, Heather Wilkinson Rojo
Heather: This might be a real stretch, but having noticed John Dearborn in your genealogy above, I have to ask if you might be connected to the Miss Dearborn who was Principal of the Kimball School in Concord, NH in the early 1960s. I attended 5th and 6th grades at Kimball (which was sadly torn down just a couple of years ago). Miss Dearborn was the Principal there for a long time and I think her last year was my 5th grade year.
ReplyDeleteI don't know the whole Dearborn genealogy. I don't even know if there is a Dearborn book. My Dearborn line daughtered out early. Sorry!
DeleteHello, cousin! I found your page by searching for "Watertown MA Parkhurst". George Parkhurst and Phebe Leete are my 10G grandparents. I know this is almost 11 years after you posted this, but I hope this is of interest.
ReplyDeleteGeneration 2: Joseph D. Parkhurst m. Rebecca Reade
Generation 3: Joseph Parkhurst II m. Eunice Spalding
Generation 4: John Parkhurst III m. Abigail Howe
Generation 5: Corp. John Parkhurst m. Phebe Pierce
Generation 6: Abel Parkhurst m. Mary (Polly) Burroughs
Generation 7: Abel Parkhurst m. Lydia Brown
Generation 8: Maj. John D. Parkhurst m. Hariett Lovina Richardson
Generation 9: Rep. John M. C. Smith m. Lena Parkhurst
Generation 10: John David Clifford Jr. m. Lucile Eugene Parkhurst
Generation 11: Thomas E. Delahanty m. Jeanne Louise Clifford
Generation 12: Thomas E. Delahanty II m. Ruth M. Konecki
Generation 13: Patrick T. Delahanty (THAT'S ME!) m. Svetlana Chmakova
Generation 14: Kaiden P. Delahanty