Three sons and at least one grandson served in the Revolutionary War. Sons Jonathan, Whiten and Jonas, all three in the Sixth Regiment Dutchess County Militia. There was also a Samuel Parks but he was a grandson, not a son of Jonathan and Mary Parks.
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He was in Beekman by 1741 as he was assessed taxes in 1741-47, 1758, 1763, and 1767.
836According to "Parke Records" Jonathan, son of Richard Jr., and Mary moved to Connecticut and from there to New York state.
3381 Larned's "History of Windham County, Connecticut" indicates that Jonathan and Isaac Parks lived there at one time.
3386Jonathan Park purchased land in Pomfret, CT between the years 1735-1740 from Joseph Holland et al in 1735 (Pomfret Deeds Vol. 2:138) from Joseph Davison; in 1739 (Pomfret Deeds Vol. 3:67) and from Thomas Truesdell in 1740 (Pomfret Deeds Vol. 3:77).
Prior to above in 1735 Jonathan Parks of Towne End in Middlesex County,MA, purchased 60 acres of land in Pomfret from Joseph Holland; land bounded on north by land of Benj Fassett and ye Whitney’s; westerly same; south on land of Daniel Cady Jr.& Joseph Saunders east on land of Samuel Spalding (Pomfret Deeds Vol. 2:138) Jonathan sold land in 1740 to Benj Fassett.(Pomfret Deeds Vol. 3:130) and in 1741 to Joseph Davison (Pomfret Deeds Vol. 3:144). [Note: Benjamin Fassett was Jonathan’s brother-in-law, married to his eldest sister]
3387It appears Jonathan was still in Middlesex Co., Massachusetts in 1730 when he signed a document for his father’s estate.
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