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(V) Simeon, fifth son of Peter and Relief (Curtis) Dunbar, was born about 17-, and resided in North Bridgewater. His wife bore the maiden name of Bird.
(VI) John, son of Simeon Dunbar, was born September 13. 1786, in Bridgewater, and resided in New Bedford, Massachusetts, until after 1813. Before .August, 1814, he settled at Union, Broome county, New York, where he continued to reside until his death. April 16. 1845. He married there, January 21, 1810. Harriet Crocker, daughter of Joshua and Fear (Thatcher) Crocker ( see Crocker \'). Chil- dren: Clarissa Crocker, Jane Grey. AAllan Crocker. John Nye. Gideon Hawley, Harriet
Elizabeth, Martin Curtis, Horace Agard and Mary Ophelia.
(\'HI ) Jane Grey, second daughter of John and llarriet (Crocker) Dunbar, was born January 29, 1813, in New Bedford, Massa- chusetts, and was reared in Central New York. She was married December 19. 1830, at Ves- tal. Broome county, by Rev. John Griffin, a Methodist Episcopal clergyman, to William Price ( mentioned above ), of that town.
The surname Crocker, or
CROCKER Croker, as it is usually writ- ten in England, is very an- cient. An old proverbial distich records that :
"Crosker, Crewys and Copplestone
When the Conqueror came, were at home."
The Crocker family in England originally was seated at Croker's Hale and Crokern and at Lineham, Devonshire. The genealogy of the Crokers of Lineham is accurately recorded anl exhibits a descent of eleven John Crokers in almost uninterrupted succession. Members of the family removed to Cornwall, Water- ford and other places.
(I) Deacon William Crocker, immigrant ancestor, born in England, came to this coun- try with Rev. Mr. Lothrop, and his brother John came the following spring. They were first at Roxbury, Massachusetts, but soon set- tled in Scituate, later in Barnstable. John, elder brother, left no family; William's posterity is very numerous, and a large majority of all of his name in the United States and Canada trace their descent to him. The farm of John Crocker, now or lately owned by descendants of Deacon William, Joseph and Prince Crocker, is at the northeast corner of the West Parish of Barnstable. John Crocker was admitted a freeman June 4, 1650: juror. 1647-50-54: surveyor of high- ways. 1668; kept an ordinary, 1649 and later ; died 1669, leaving wife Jane, bequeathing his estate to the sons of his brother. Deacon William Crocker joined Mr. Lothrop's church in Scituate. December 25, 1636, and went to Barnstable, October 21, 1639. among the first settlers. He built a frame house in Scituate in 1636, the forty-fourth in that town. He was proposed for freeman, June 5, 1644: was constable. 1644: grand juror, 1654-55-57-61- 67-75: selectman. 1668: deputy to general court at Plymouth. 1670-71-74: surveyor of highways, 1673. He was on the jury in 1675,
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when the murderers of John Sassamon, secre- tary of King Philip, were condemned. He was one of the leading citizens of his day, of- ten employed in the business of the town and in settling estates. He probably settled first in the easterly part of the town, and removed to West Barnstable about 1643. It is thought that his first house was on the lot next west of that of Henry Bourne. He acquired a large landed estate, and for many years was the richest man in town. His sons also were all wealthy. In 1655 Deacon William Crocker owned one hundred and twenty-six acres of upland and twenty-two acres of meadow at West Barnstable, and forty acres of meadow at Indian Pond. The West Barnstable farm was bounded easterly by the farm of John Smith, now known as the Otis farm, and by the farm of Samuel Hinckley, now owned by Levi L. Godspeed : southerly it extended into the woods. The southerly part of the farm in 1654 was bounded on the west by the com- mons and the northerly part by lands then owned by Governor Bodfish and afterwards by Lieutenant John Howland. He afterwards added largely to his West Barnstable farm. and to the farm at Indian Pond, the latter containing one hundred acres at his death. The West Barnstable farm was two miles in length, from north to south. extending from the salt meadows on the Barnstable harbor to the vicinity of the meeting house. The lands he occupied were the southeasterly part of the farm: the old stone house, which according to tradition was his first residence, was about a fourth of a mile easterly from the West Barnstable meeting house. This house was taken down many years ago. This part of the farm was owned later by his son Josiah. There was another stone house on the south- westerly part of the farm owned by the de- scendants of Eleazer: this was taken down in 1815. It was called the old Stone Fort. and stood on the site of the Captain Josiah Fish House. Deacon Crocker married, in 1636, Alice - , who was living in 1683, but died soon afterwards. He married ( sec- ond ) Patience, widow of Robert Parker, and daughter of Elder Henry Cobb. Crocker died in the fall of 1692, aged about eighty. His will is dated September 6, 1692, giving his son Job his brother John's old farm. The present road running north from the West Barnstable meeting house to the Cape Cod railroad depot divides the old Crocker estate
in halves. On the east side of this road Jo- siah had the south part, excepting a portion given to John; Joseph had the north part, including a strip running north to the mead- ows and a strip on the east adjoining Josiah's land, where Nathaniel Crocker afterwards lived, and Eleazer had the northwesterly part. Swift says: "Deacon Crocker died in good old age. For many years he was deacon of the Barnstable church and living an exem- plary and pious life. He has a clean record. Nothing dishonest or dishonorable was ever laid to his charge. Men who acquire great wealth often make enemies of the envious : but Deacon Crocker appears to have been be- loved and respected by all. He was indus- trious, economical and a good manager. His boys were as industrious and as prudent as the father, and that was the whole secret of their becoming wealthy." Children: 1. John, born in Scituate, May 1, 1637. 2. Elizabeth. born in Scituate. September 22, 1639: died unmarried, May, 1658. 3. Samuel, born in Barnstable, June 3. 1642; died December, 1681, from a kick by Indian James, who was acquitted of murder after trial. 4. Job, men- tioned below. 5. Josiah, born September 19. 1647, married Melatiah, daughter of Governor Thomas Hinckley. 6. Eleazer, born July 21, 1650. 7. Joseph, born 1654; sergeant ; mar- ried, December, 1677, Temperance Brusley, daughter of John.
( II) Deacon Job, third son of Deacon Wil- liam Crocker, and child of his second wife. Patience (Cobb) Crocker, was born March 9. 1645. in Barnstable, was baptized the same day, and died there in March, 1719. He was a man of very high standing in the commun- ity, honest, industrious and prudent, and was made deacon of the Barnstable church in July, 1664. For the first eight years of his thirty- four years' service in that capacity he was associated with his father and held the same office. He was a man of good business ability. and was largely occupied in public affairs. holding many offices in the town. He resided on the homestead of his uncle. John Crocker, which was a rocky farm, difficult of tillage, but well adapted for grazing. The neat stone walls which he erected on this farm are still standing, and the two-story house was still occupied in 1888. He married ( first), in No- vember, 1668. Mary, daughter of Rev. Thom- as Walley, then pastor of the Barnstable church. She was born in London, England,
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and was baptized April 11, 1644, and came with her father to Massachusetts in 1662. She died about 1676, survived by two of her three children. Job Crocker married (second), April 19, 1680, Hannah, daughter of Richard Taylor, of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, born 1658, died May 14, 1743, having survived her husband more than twenty-four years. Job Crocker's first child, a son, died unnamed. The others were: Samuel. Thomas, Mary, John, Hannah, Elizabeth, Sarah, Job, David and Thankful.
(III) Deacon John, fourth son of Job Crocker, and second child of his second wife, Hannah (Taylor ) Crocker, was born February 24, 1683, in Barnstable, and died there Febru- ary 7, 1773, almost ninety years old. He re- sided on the westerly side of his father's farm, and was for many years deacon of the West Church of Barnstable. He married ( first ), November II, 1704, Hannah (surname not preserved), who died October 10, 1720. He married (second), June 22. 1721, Mercy Hinckley, born about 1798, daughter of John Hinckley and his second wife, Mary Good- speed. They were married November 24, 1697. She was living in 1731. Nancy, third wife of Deacon Job Crocker, died July 27. 1744, aged fifty-six years. Children of first wife: Abigail, Zaccheus, John (died young ), Ebenezer, Elizabeth, Jabez; of the second wife: John, Job, Daniel, Timothy and Jona- than.
(1\') Ebenezer, second son of John and Hannah Crocker, was born November 1, 1713, in Barnstable, and resided in Cotuit, where the house he owned was still owned by his de- scendants in 1888. He married (first), July 26, 1739, Elizabeth Lovell. She died before 1746, and he married (second) in that year Zerviah, daughter of Kenelm Winslow. of Harwich, Massachusetts. There were two children by the first wife: James and Mary. Children of the second wife: Alvan, Achsah, Ebenezer, Zerviah. Joshua, Kenelm. George, Zenas and Heman.
(V) Joshua, fourth son of Ebenezer Crock- er and fifth child of his second wife, Zerviah ( Winslow) Crocker, was born July 4. 1755, in Cotuit, and resided in that vicinity. He married Fear Thatcher, daughter of Roland and Harriet (Swift) Thatcher. Children : Hannah, Zerviah, Achsah, Clarissa, Harriet, Betsy, Polly, Sally and Orphema.
(VI) Harriet, fifth daughter of Joshua and
Fear ( Thatcher) Crocker, was married Janu- ary 21, 1810, at New Bedford, Massachusetts, to John Dunbar (see Dunbar \'1).
This name has borne no incon- PARKER spicuous part in the settle- ment and development of New England and New York, and is found in all parts of the country and of this state. Not all of its bearers have been traced to a common origin, but most are known to have descend- ed from the Puritan Fathers of the New Eng- land colonies. The name has been honored in all generations, has been especially well known in military annals, and those who bear it in this region have held up its prestige. It has been associated with civil reforms, as well as active in military operations. There were five brothers in Massachusetts, Jacob, James. Jo- seph, Abraham and John Parker, all of whom left numerous descendants, besides others in Connecticut and other points in New England. The brothers who located in Massachusetts are supposed to have come from Marlborough, Wiltshire, England. As far as known the line below traced was not related to them.
(1) Deacon Thomas Parker was born in England about 1605. He came to New Eng- land in the ship "Susan and Ellen" in 1635, sailing March 11, of that year, and settled first at Lynn, Massachusetts, where he was admit- ted a freeman in 1637, and was one of the town proprietors the following year. About 1663 he removed to Lynn Village, now the town of Reading, where he resided until his death, August 12, 1683. In 1661 he was made a selectman, and served the town in that ca- pacity for six years, and was also appointed a commissioner for trying and defending small causes. He was active in the organization of the church, and in building its house of wor- ship, and was elected deacon. His grave in the old graveyard on the east side of Reading Common was neglected and the location lost. In building a new town hall in 1834 his grave- stone and those of others were discovered and since then they have been cared for in a lot set apart for that purpose in the Reading cemetery. His wife, who bore the Christian name of Amy, died January 15, 1600. Chil- dren: I. Thomas, born in Lynn, 1636; mar- ried Deborah -, had fourteen children ; died July 17, 1699. 2. Hananiah, mentioned below. 3. John, born in Reading, 1640; he was a sergeant ; married. November 13, 1667.
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Hannah Kendall. and had thirteen children. 4. Joseph, born 1642, died 1644. 5. Joseph, born 1645, died 1646. 6. Mary, born Decem- ber 12, 1047 ; married Samuel Dodge, and had eleven children : died 1705. 7. Martha, born March 14, 1649. 8. Nathaniel, born May 16, 1651 ; married. September 24, 1677, Bethia, daughter of John Polly. 9. Sarah, born Sep- tember 30, 1653. died October 26, 1656. 10. Jonathan. born May 18. 1656; served in the Indian wars: died June 10, 1680. 11. Sarah, born May 23, 1658. Three other children die 1 in early life ( "Pope's Pioneers of Massachu- setts" gives names of several other children not given in the Parker Genealogy. )
( II ) Lieutenant Hananiah Parker, second son of Thomas and Amy Parker, was born in 1638, in Lynn. He settled on land adjoining his father's farm in Reading, where he was admitted a freeman, October 15, 1670. One of the leading citizens of the town, he was one of the committee of three appointed in 1679 to build a new meeting house ; was en- sign of the military company in 16So; lieu- tenant in 1684; was appointed by the general court on a committee to settle disputes as to boundaries between Woburn and Reading, and was for seven years deputy for the latter town to the general court. In 1707 Captain John Brown and Lieutenant Hananiah Parker were chosen to provide a schoolmaster for the town school, and hired John Webb. His will was dated May 20, 1703. He married ( first ), Sep- tember 30, 1663, Elizabeth Brown, twin sister of Joseph Brown, born at Reading, Decem- ber 10, 1647, daughter of Nicholas and Eliza- beth Brown. Nicholas was born at Inkber- row, Worcestershire, England. son of Edward Brown, and was a man of property and stand- ing in the community; resident of Lynn for ten years, and deputy to general court. Eliza- beth ( Brown ) Parker died February 27, 1697. Lieutenant Parker married ( second ) Decem- ber 12, 1700, Mary ( Bursham) Bright, daugh- ter of William Bursham and widow of Dea- con John Bright. She died January 4, 1736, aged eighty-seven. Lieutenant Parker died March 10. 1724. aged eighty-six. Children : 1. John, mentioned below. 2. Samuel, born October 24, 1666: married Martha Brown, of Cambridge. 3. Elizabeth, born June, 1668; married, November 17, 1685, Samuel Cow- drey. 4. Mary, married Samuel Poole, of Boston. 5. Sarah, born February 20, 1672, died October 2, 1673. 6. Hananiah, born
November 2. 1074. died January 3. 1077. 7. Ebenezer, born February 13, 1676; married Rebecca Newhall, of Reading. 8. Hannah, born April 30, died August 7, 1681.
(II) John, eklest child of Lieutenant Han- aniah and Elizabeth ( Brown) Parker. was born in Reading, Massachusetts, August 3, 1664. He settled on part of Deacon Thomas Parker's original farm in Reading, in the center of the town adjoining his father's farm. Three of his deeds have been preserved by descendants. In 1699, according to one of them, he bought of John Poole a tract of land at the north end of Great Pond-Lake Quana- powit. In 1705 he bought twenty-one acres of Francis Smith, on bounds of Lynn and Reading. He sold to his cousin, Nathaniel Parker Jr., eleven acres of land in Reading. In 1712 he removed to Lexington, then called Cambridge Farms, and was elected fence view- er there in 1714 and served as tithingman from 1715 to 1731. While residing in Read- ing he served as constable and was a promi- nent and honored citizen of Lexington. being assigned the second best seat in the meeting house in 1731. His home was a small man- sion house on sixty acres of land near the Watertown line. A joiner by trade, he main- tained a shop in which he made furniture and household implements, and taught his trade to his sons, all of whom became skillful wood- workers. He died January 22, 1741, aged seventy-eight years. He married (first), Oc- tober 2, 1689, Deliverence, born March 10 or 15, 1661, died at Lexington, March 10, 1718, daughter of John and Sarah Dodge. He married ( second ) Sarah Chil- dren, born at Reading: 1. Sarah, July 5, died July 9, 1600. 2. Hananiah, October 10. 1691, died 1711, in expedition against Annapolis, Nova Scotia, in Queen Anne's war. 3. An- drew, February 14. 1693; married Sarah Whitney. 4. Josiah, April 11, 1694. 5. Mary, December 4. 1695, died 1709. 6. John. 7. Edie, August 19, 1697, died 1709. 8. John, mentioned below.
(IV) John (2). youngest child of John (1) and Deliverence (Dodge) Parker, was born in Reading, November 8, 1703. He removed in 1712 with the family to Lexington, and about 1730 to Shrewsbury. He married. in Shrewsbury, February 18, 1831, Experience, daughter of Peter and Mary ( Preston ) Clayes. Her parents came from Salem, Mas- sachuetts, and she was born in Framingham,
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November 19, 1702. John and Experience Parker were admitted to the church in Shrewsbury in 1732. The only surviving brother of his wife, Peter Claves, died 1736, and his wife's father induced Mr. Parker to remove to Framingham and take the Clayes homestead, which was deeded to him, January 7, 1737, with the condition that John and Experience Parker should support her parents and give them christian burial. The estate comprised the home lot ( later known as the Colonel David Brewer and the James Fenton place ) with eight acres and a half and build- ings, and also fifty-five acres lying on both sides of the road from Caleb Bridges' to the meeting house. Peter Claves died 1739. and Mr. Parker sold part of the house lot and buildings to James and John Claves, and built where is now the house of the late Dr. Peter Parker, Framingham. John and Experience Parker were admitted to the Framingham church in 1738; he was selectman : member of the Framingham company of alarm soldiers commanded by Captain Henry Eames ; was an overseer of workhouse and poor : died in Fra- mingham, February 23, 1783. His wife Ex- perience died October 13. 1780. His will on file at Cambridge mentions children, Peter and Submit Bent. Children: 1. John, mentioned below. 2. Experience, born in Shrewsbury, October 8. 1733. 3. Hananiah, born in Shrews- bury, baptized September 21, 1735. 4. Abigail, born in Shrewsbury, December 1, 1736. 5. Peter. born in Framingham, October 3, 1738. 6. Submit, born December 3, 1742; married Thomas Bent Jr. 7. Nathan, baptized in Framingham, March 2, 1746.
(V) John (3), eldest child of John (2) and Experience (Clayes) Parker, was born Janu- ary 28, 1732, in Framingham. He resided in Marlboro, Massachusetts. He had a wife, Mary, and children : John, mentioned below : Hannah, born March 15, 1755 : Mary, Septem- ber 16. 1756; Joseph, July 20, 1760; Sarah, September 18, 1763.
(VI) John (4), eldest child of John (3) and Mary Parker, was born January 22, 1753, baptized November 4, 1759, in Marlboro, and died December 27, 1823, in Norwich, New York. He married, May 4, 1780, in Shrews- bury, Olive Temple, born August 31, 1757, in that town, daughter of Jonas and Olive (Keyes) Temple (see Temple VI). Among their children was John, mentioned below.
(VII) John (5), eldest son of John (4) and
Olive (Temple ) Parker, was born January 12, 1783, in West Boylston, Massachusetts, died June 6, 1854. in Cortland, Cortland county, New York. He married. February 4, 1817, Elizabeth Brooks, of Worcester, probably daughter of Elijah and Mary ( Hall) Brooks, born May 25, 1795, in Grafton. Children : Olive, John Brooks, mentioned below ; De- Blois, Gilbert. Hibbard. Jones Henry.
(Vlll) John Brooks, eldest son of John (5) and Elizabeth ( Brooks) Parker, was born August 5. 1823, in Cortland, New York. died there. April 15, 1882. He married, in 1851, Harriet F. Stratton, born January 14. 1825, in Otisville, New York, daughter of Joseph and Sarah ( Beers ) Stratton. Chil- dren: Alton Brooks, mentioned below : Gil- bert, Harriet Olive. Fred H., May L. Gilbert and Harriet Olive died in infancy. Fred H. was for a long time a state bank examiner and later connected officially with a trust com- pany : he is unmarried. May L. married James A. Miles, who was chosen mayor of Derby, Connecticut, in 1910. They have no children.
(IX) Alton Brooks, eldest child of John Brooks and Harriet F. (Stratton) Parker, was born May 14, 1852. After some primary training in the public schools, he attended Cortland Academy at Cortland, and later the State Normal School at Cortland. At the age of sixteen he began teaching school to aid in defraying the expenses of his education, and in the winter of 1870-71 he had charge of a school at Accord, Ulster county, New York. In the following spring he began reading law in the office of Schoonmaker & Hardenbergh. of Kingston, and in September following he entered the Albany Law School, from which he was graduted in May, 1872. On the first of June he entered the office of Augustus Schoonmaker, of Kingston, where he contin- ued until January 1873, when he formed a partnership with W. S. Kenyon Jr., who had been his fellow student at Albany, and they continued practicing at Kingston in partner- ship for six years. Mr. Parker began very early to take an interest in politics, espoused the interests of the Democratic party, and in the campaigns of 1872 and 1876 was very active in advocating his principles. During the latter campaign he made thirty speeches in Ulster county. In 1873 he was elected clerk of the board of supervisors in that county, and continued to serve in the same capacity in 1874-75. In 1877 he was elected surrogate by
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a majority of one thousand votes, being the only Democrat on the ticket to secure an elec- tion.
He was reelected in 1883 by a majority of fourteen hundred votes, serving in all eight years. In 1884 he was delegate to the Na- tional Democratic Convention which nominated Grover Cleveland for the presidency, and in 1885 was chairman of the executive committee of the State Democratic Committee of New York. and conducted the campaign most suc- cessfully.
In 1885 he accepted an appointment from Governor Hill as judge of the supreme court to fill a vacancy and was elected to the office without opposition. lle was appointed in January, 1889, to the second division, court of appeals, and served on this court until its discontinuance in 18)2. He was appointed by Governor Flower judge of the general term. first department, and in 1896 a justice of the appellate division by Governor Black.
In 1897 he was elected by over 60,000 votes chief judge of the court of appeals and continued to serve in this capacity until he resigned to become the candidate of his party for president of the United States in 1904. Since that campaign he has been ac- tively engaged in private practice in New York, and is now a member of the firm of Parker, Hatch & Sheehan.
Had it not been for the importunities of his friends, Judge Parker would never have given up his judicial career, for which he thought himself better fitted. He had, previous to his nomination for president, following his desire to remain out of politics, refused the appointment of assistant postmaster general, offered him by President Cleveland, as he also refused to let himself be nominated for governor of New York in 1902. Governor Hill requested that he be a candidate for sena- tor before the governor finally consented to be elected to the senate in 1891.
Judge Parker in 1906-07 served as presi- dent of the American Bar Association, and was one of the founders and is now president of the New York County Lawyers' Associa- tion, which office he has held for three years. He is also a member of the International Law Association, the New York State Bar Asso- ciation, and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
He married, October 16, 1873, Mary L.
Schoonmaker, of Accord, New York, daugh- ter of M. I. Schoonmaker, of the town of Rochester, U'lster county. Children: John, died in infancy ; Bertha, wife of Rev. Charles Mercer llall, and has two children : Alton Parker and Mary Me. Alister.
(The Temple Line).
( 1) Abraham Temple, the progenitor of the line herein considered, was in Salem, Massa- chusetts, as early as 1636, was accepted as an inhabitant of the town before June 21, of the following year, and died after 1039.
( II ) Richard, son of Abraham Temple, born 1623, or before, in England, settled in Charlestown, Massachusetts, before 1647, re- moved to Concord, same colony, in 1654, and died March 15. 1080. His wife bore the bap- tismal name of Joanna.
(111) Abraham (2), son of Richard and Joanna Temple, was born June 4, 1652, in Charlestown. He resided in Concord, where he died January 4. 1738. He was a soldier of King Philip's war, and wounded in the Nar- ragansett fight. He was a freeholder of Con- cord, but not a freeman until 1089, and was made a freeman in the colony by the general court in 1690. He married. December 4, 1073, Deborah, daughter of John Hadlocke. She died January 28, 1743.
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