Biography of John Parker

From From HISTORY OF BILLERICA by Rev. Henry A. Hazen, A.M.
A. Williams & Co., Boston, 1883

Section 2, page 105

PARKER, John, was from Bradford; son of Daniel; b. 1720. He was a tanner and lived south of the common. During the Revolution, his business was very prosperous. He m. 1751, Abigail Kidder, dau. of Enoch. She d. 1777, Aug. 17. He d. 1803, May 5, aged 83. Ch. Abigail, b. 1751, Dec. 1. Sarah, b. 1753, Dec. 9; m. Samuel Hill. John, b. 1756, May 9. Anne, b. 1758, Sept. 10; d. 1760, Feb. 27. Stephen, b. 1760, Dec. 1. Anne, b. 1762, Aug. 12; m. 1791, Nov. 17, Thomas Stone, of "Packston." She m. 2d, -- Pritchard; d. 1854, Nov. 29. Martha, b. 1765, March 16; d. Nov. 17. Daniel, b. 1766, Oct. 3; m. 1797, Feb. 17 or 19, Ruth Hunt, dau. of Reuben, of Concord; was a tanner in Charlestown, where he d. 1803, Feb., leaving ch. Ruth, John and Thomas Stone, who lived in Hartford, Conn., a silk-dyer. Elizabeth, b. 1769, Oct. 5; m. James Breed. Samuel, b. 1772, May 25.