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Note: Per Bill Lyman (farnorth-ak@gei.net): A Justice of the Peace named Beebe officiated at their marriage. Robert Parke d. Sep. 18, 1812, (another says Sep. 16, 1813) near Hall' s Corners, (Seneca,) Ontario Co., N. Y., and she at Benton Centre, Yates Co., N. Y., about 1850. He settled in township No. 9, (now Stanley's,) Ontario Co., N. Y., his farm adjoining one owned by his brother, Squire Parke, where both brothers died. Robert Parke was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Ruth, his widow, July 11, 1846, then of Benton, Yates Co., N. Y., aged "84 and upwards," says that Robert Parke, her late husband, was a soldier in the war of Revolution, and resided at Brimfield, near Boston, Mass., at the commencement of the war; that he served eight months in 1775, in Cap. Walbridge's Co., Col. Brewer's Regt. of Mass. Militia. Also that he served during most of the war, but does not remember in whose Company, but thinks, under a Capt. Morgan, a Col. Sheppard, and a Col. Mason; also among the New York troops. He was in the Battle of Germantown, and Ft. Stanwix. Says that she married him Jan. 1 , 1781, at Chatham, Columbia Co., N. Y., a Justice of the Peace, named Beebe, officiating; that her maiden name was Ruth WEBSTER, and that her husband died at Seneca, Ontario Co., N. Y., Sep. 18, 1812, and that she was never previously nor subsequently married. On the same date--July 11, 1846--Percis Chase, a resident of Benton, Yates Co., N. Y., aged 65 years on Oct. 24, 1846, says that she is the eldest child of Robert and Ruth (Webster) Parke, and was b. Oct. 24, 1781, at Chatham, Columbia Co., N. Y., and when about six years old, removed with her parents to Oneida Co., N. Y., where she remained until she was 21 years old, and for the last 27 years she has lived at Benton, Yates Co., N. Y., and further says that her parents removed to Seneca, Oneida (now Ontario) Co., N. Y . in 1804. Mass. records show Parke's service in 1775, in Capt. Amos Walbridge's Co., Col. David Brewer's Regt., Mass, troops. But no other time in other Regiments is alleged. He was out for two tours in 1775. Nathan, Oliver and Squire Parke enlisted together in the 17th New York Regt., Albany Co., N. Y. Oliver, Squire and Robert were brothers.
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