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	John Parker (Captain) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Parker was born in [Lexington], Massachusetts on July 13, 1729.
		Captain John Parker's words [top of page], spoken as the British "Redcoats" approached the town, are engraved on the Line of the Minute Men Memorial.
		John Parker had served as a soldier in the French and Indian War, participating in the fighting at Louisbourg and Quebec.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Parker_(Captain) (283 words)

	THEODORE PARKER - LoveToKnow Article on THEODORE PARKER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		His paternal grand-father, Captain John Parker (1729-1775), was the leader of the Lexington minute-men in the skirmish at Lexington.
		Parker assisted actively in the escape of fugitive slaves, and for trying to prevent the rendition of perhaps the most famous of them, Anthony Burns, was indicted, but the indictment was quashed.
		Parkers principal works are: A Discourse of Matters pertaining to Religion (1842); Ten Sermons of Religion (1853); and Sermons of Theism, Atheism and the Popular Theology (1853).
	56.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PA/PARKER_THEODORE.htm (1010 words)

	William Parker. Pirates, Buccaneers, Privateers & Swashbucklers.
		William Parker was a member of the lesser gentry near Plymouth.
		Parker was wounded in the attack but survived & succeeded in capturing a frigate carrying silver which was enroute to San Juan De Ulua.
		Parker was made Vice-Admiral & left on an expedition to the East Indies, but died at Java in 1617.
	www.vleonica.com /parker.htm (266 words)

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		The captain of the schooner arranged to secure the services of the Theora to take his ship to a good berth in the harbor, where it would be allowed to settle into shallow water while waiting for a diver to examine her hull.
		Captain Parker and the crew of the Theora worked all night with hand pumps and siphons assisting the Warmington until the diver arrived to repair her.
		Captain Parker carried no insurance on the craft, but the damage was held to her pilot house, boiler room, and upper deck cabins, allowing the outer hull to remain intact.
	www.portup.com /~dfount/theora.htm (1252 words)

	Parker Ranch Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Parker Ranch is the largest private ranch under single ownership in the United States, spreading approximately 175,000 acres across the Big Island of Hawaii.
		John Parker comes to the attention of the great King Kamehameha I, the monarch who fought to unite the islands in a single kingdom, and John is given important tasks by the king.
		John returns one more time to the sea for adventure in China during the War of 1812, but then returns to Hawaii to stay for good.
	www.parkerranch.com /history.html (604 words)

	Descendants of John Parker
		John Parker was a leader of the Methodist Church in Sampson County.
		John Parker represented Manatee in the House of Representatives in 1860 and 1861.
		John Parker was appointed "Guardian of the Person and Estate of Henry Parker Minor heir of Luke Parker late of Columbia County State of Florida" on October 9, 1851 in Hillsborough County.
	www.lamartin.com /genealogy/parker.htm (9406 words)

	Lexington and Concord
		Parker had the militia line up smartly in a wide, double rank (this would give the illusion of being more than they were).
		Looking off in the distance, Parker noticed that some of the town's villagers had gathered at the church, the Buckman Tavern, and off to his right and to the rear, a cluster of them watched from behind the shield of a granite and stone fence.
		Captain Parker had come to expect a certain reaction based on past experiences in similar confrontations with militia and the regulars.
	www.americanrevwar.homestead.com /files/LEXCON.HTM (2300 words)

	Rice Cousins who emigrated to Nova Scotia - Person Page 57
		Bernard A Parker was born in 1861 at Nova Scotia.
		John Parker was born circa 1870 at Nova Scotia.
		Lucy Parker married Wallace Coggins, son of Deacon Andrew Coggins and Elizabeth Rice, on 11 December 1877 at Westport, Digby Co, Nova Scotia; Wallace was a widower and Lucy was a widow.
	www.widomaker.com /~gwk/Planter/p57.htm (4068 words)

	John Parker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Parker (Captain), (1729-1775), captain of minutemen in Battle of Lexington and Concord
		John Parker (delegate), (1758-1832), South Carolina delegate to the Continental Congress (1786-1788)
		John Parker (Privy Council), (1799-1881), British politician of the Victorian era, Privy Counsellor 1853
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Parker (181 words)

	Parker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Captain Parker was born in that house on Spring Street.
		Captain John Parker was a successful farmer, a skillful joiner and a good mechanic.
		Captain Parker, possessing an ability to organize and a willingness to fight for freedom, was elected captain at age 46.
	hastings.ci.lexington.ma.us /Colonial/LexLife/FamilyHist/Parker.html (399 words)

	LEXINGTON (VA.) - LoveToKnow Article on LEXINGTON (VA.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		On the 11th of June 1864, during the occupation of the town by Federal troops under General David Hunter, most of the buildings in the town and those of the university were damaged and all those of the institute, except the superintendents headquarters, were burned.
		LEYDEN, JOHN (17751811), British orientalist and man of letters, was horn on the 8th of September 1775 at Denhoim on the Teviot, not far from Hawick.
		Dr John Bevis of London suggested, in 1746, the use of sheet lead coatings within and without the jar, and subsequently the use of tin foil or silver leaf made closely adherent to the glass.
	43.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LE/LEXINGTON_VA_.htm (2228 words)

	Elizabeth Baker, wife of John Baker
		John Butler was arrested by Cecil Calvert, Lord Baltimore for treason and threatened with hanging in 1638.
		Woodman was a cousin to Elizabeth Mason and Robert Parker, and possibly explains the migration of Bakers in Sussex County and Somerset County.
		John Nock was the son of William Nock (D1738), and grandson of William Nock (D1717), flsmith, and Anne Wadillow who had descended from Nicholas Waddilow.
	baker.canavancentral.com /John111.html (8489 words)

	Today in History: July 13
		1729: John Parker, leader of the Minutemen, was born in Lexington, Massachusetts.
		Parker would play a prominent role in the first battle of the American War for Independence, as leader of the volunteer American militia known as the
		Parker, Minutemen, or Lexington in Touring Turn-of-the-Century America, 1880-1920.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/jul13.html (918 words)

	Loss of Captain James Richards from the John Parker 1913 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Reporting the loss of her captain, James Richards of LaHave, in a gale on Dec. 11th, the schooner John Parker, from Baradoes to Halifax, arrived at that port on Saturday.
		Captain Richards who was unable to swim was also dressed in heavy clothing and did not have a chance.
		Captain Richards, who is a native of LaHave, was very well known and well liked throughtout the Province, and was a thorough navigator.
	www.lostatsea.ca /richards.htm (331 words)

	John D. Parker, General Authority
		Although we find no record of his baptism, Parker must have been an early convert to the Church for by 1834 he was a member of the Zion's Camp mission to relieve the suffering saints in Missouri.
		Possibly because of the faithfulness demonstrated by Elder Parker during Zion's Camp he was named a year later in 1835 as a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy placing him among the ranks of the General Authorities.
		After the prophet's martyrdom, Elder Parker was on October 11, 1845 appointed captain of the eleventh company for the trek west.
	www.gapages.com /parkejd1.htm (887 words)

	Ctizen Soldier: Timeline to Independence
		John Dickinson, who had helped draft the resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress, set out the colonists' position on the Townshend Acts in a series of essays entitled "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies." (Letters 2 and 4 of 14 are available on the web).
		John Adams, the Massachusetts patriot, responded to Leonard in an address known as the Novanglus.
		The second document, written by Thomas Jefferson and John Dickinson, was an address to the world to show that the colonies were justified in defending their rights by force of arms.
	www.citizensoldier.org /dectimeline.html (7327 words)

	Untitled Document
		Captain Parker died in action September 17 the same year.
		Captain John Parker, commanding some 70 Minutemen, after learning of the arrival of the British from Samuel Prescott, engaged the British.
		There were 70 Minutemen volunteers under Captain John Parker and about 700 British Regulars under Major John Pitcairns, who were on their way to destroy illegal military stores at nearby Concord.
	www.leasingnews.org /American_History/apr_19.htm (3121 words)

	First Generation of Marshals
		John Parker served as Sheriff of Rockingham County, N.H., from 1771 until his appointment as Marshal in September 1789.
		Parker was the oldest man President Washington appointed to the office of Marshal.
		Parker died in 1791 at the age of 58.
	www.usdoj.gov /marshals/history/firstmarshals/parker.htm (195 words)

	JOHNPARKERHAWKINS, USA
		John Parker Hawkins was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on September 29, 1830.
		After the siege, Haupt was brevetted a major, and was given the rank of brigadier, then major general in the Regular Army, as well as major general of volunteers.
		Once the Civil War ended, Haupt joined the Subsistence Department with the rank of captain in the Regular Army, working for 28 years.
	www.multied.com /Bio/UGENS/USAHawkins.html (219 words)

	History
		The first gray wisps of an early spring dawn flashed in the flinty eyes of Captain John Parker as the Lexington Minutemen dozed fitfully in Buckman’s Tavern, across from the Lexington Green, on the epochal morning of April 19, 1775.
		Captain Parker and his seventy-six minutemen took a position in two thin rows on the Green to confront the eight hundred Red Coats approaching from Boston.
		The statue is a representation of Captain John Parker awaiting the arrival of the British Red Coats.
	ci.lexington.ma.us /Police/History.htm (317 words)

	SML-361: Lexington Minuteman
		After a brief exchange of shots in which several Americans were killed, the Americans withdrew and the British advanced to Concord.
		Captain John Parker, the first American to fall in the war, is immortalized in a bronze sculpture on the Lexington Green.
		However, once the rivalry was more closely examined, Captain Isaac Davis, supposedly the figure represented in the earlier Concord statue, was also born in England.
	www.sebastianworld.com /items/sml3/sml361.htm (464 words)

	Parker Heritage \| Parker Genealogy \| Parker Family History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		RE: Descendants of Quanah Parker by Charlene Parker
		Parker married to Alice, Mary or Elizabeth Calvert by Captain John Aston RN Henry Washington Parker and Margaret "Peggy" Colvin Parker by Nancy Fairchild
		RE: RE: Captain John Parker by Carol Holton
	www.parkerheritage.com /forum/aspBoard.asp (3222 words)

	Beneath Old Roof Trees
		John Munroe did well, but loading with two balls, lost a part of the muzzle of his gun.
		The first trophy of the war was held by Captain Parker until his death in the autumn of that year, when it became the property of his son John, the mechanic; and it occupied a position over the door of the dwelling-house of the Parker homestead.
		At the settlement of the estate of Captain Parker I bought a portion of the homestead, and my family occupied a part of the house.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/ma/state/roof/chapter4.html (1942 words)

	Captain Parker's Musket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		And so today we remember the Captain and his courageous soldiers and while doing so we dutifully hand over the fruits of our labor and diminish once again the little scraps of freedom that are left.
		And in the Massachusetts Senate chamber the musket that Captain Parker carried on that glorious day hangs high up on the wall.
		Captain John Parker is an ancestor of my husbands.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/667013/posts (1200 words)

	ABROLHOS ISLANDS SHIPWRECKS
		She had been on charter to carry guano.The captain bought the salvage rights to the vessel, returned to the wreck and recovered all that was removeable, making ‘a handsome profit on the deal’.
		Captain Thomas in the cutter Venus tried to local the gold, as did an expedition using the Perseverance in 1843, and the Champion in 1848.
		A decade previously, under Captain Thomas, she had gone to the Abrolhos Islands to try and find the gold lost when the barque Ocean Queen was wrecked in 1842.
	oceans1.customer.netspace.net.au /abrolhos-wrecks.html (1986 words)

	John Parker: Author: Military, Investigative, Biographical books: Death Of A Hero
		Mystery shrouds the disappearance and death of Grenadier Guards Captain Robert Nairac, GC, kidnapped and murdered by the IRA in May 1977.
		More than twenty years after his death, his story still haunts the imagination, not least because of Nairac's extraordinary courage and the fact that his body was never found.
		John Parker at last answers those questions in this enthralling and disturbing book.
	www.john-parker.co.uk /deathofahero.htm (392 words)

	PARKER, THEODORE (1810-186o) - Online Information article about PARKER, THEODORE (1810-186o)
		Captain John Parker (1729-1775), was the See also:
		Parker's principal works are: A Discourse of Matters pertaining to Religion (1842) ; Ten Sermons of Religion (1853) ; and Sermons of See also:
		Chadwick's Theodore Parker, Preacher and Reformer (Boston, 1900), the last containing a good bibliography.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PAI_PAS/PARKER_THEODORE_1810_186o_.html (1377 words)

	john parker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		John Matthew Parker, 17, was born on April 14, 1986 in Milford, Delaware.
		John often goes by the name of Johnny.
		One of Johnny’s favorite quotes is, “If you give a man a fish, he eats for a day; if you teach a man how to fish, he eats for a lifetime.” He had said that the most memorable moment that he had was at captain’s night.
	www.wsd.k12.de.us /rpt/johnp.html (364 words)

	John Harleston
		John Harleston was elected to replace Edward but declined, and James Ravenel was elected but declined.
		For St. Thomas and St. Denis: Captain Thomas Shubrick, James Akin, John Huger, William Parker, Rev. Robert Smith was elected but did not take his seat and was replaced by Isaac Harleston, John Moore was elected but declined and was replaced by Joseph Fogartie.
		For St. James, Goose Creek: Thomas Middleton (son of Henry), Col. Benjamin Singleton, John Parker, Captain Benjamin Smith, John Izard, John Wright.
	www.ricehope.com /history/JohnHarleston.htm (701 words)

	The Lexington Minute Men
		Captain Parker's Company had a roster of 144 men.
		Killed: Ensign Robert Munroe (on the Common), Isaac Muzzy (on the Common), Samuel Hadley and John Brown (leaving the Common), Jonas Parker (killed by bayonet after being wounded and firing one shot), Jonathan Harrington (wounded on the Common, died at his doorstep), Caleb Harrington (at the meetinghouse), Ashahel Porter (prisoner from Woburn, killed while escaping).
		A character outline form is available for download by members to assist in researching characters.
	users.rcn.com /waynemccarthy/LMM2002/roster.html (231 words)

	Towns & Tales:Old Bernardsville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Phyllis Parker, dauther of Captain John Parker, was deeply in love with a prominent doctor who was accused of being a British spy during the Revolutionary period.
		In the middle of the night Phyllis Parker went curiously looking into the box and discovered her dead lover.
		In briefly researching the whole phenomenon many local history buffs point out that there are no strong records of Captain John Parker having a daughter named Phyllis and sketchy details on her lover.
	www.hometowntales.com /oldbernardsville.html (263 words)

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