Notes for: Richard Parker

Richard and Mary Parker lived on Beech Fork R. in Washington County, Kentucky. By the 1790s he owned more than 2000 acres in Kentucky, including 1000 acres granted by Virginia for his services in the Revolution. Richard Parker's unrecorded will dated Feb 8, 1799 is in the Washington County, Kentucky Courthouse. (For an account of his wife's family, see Nall Families of America, by Sally Nall Dolphin and Charles Fuller Nall, 1978, Palm Beach, Florida.) The following are the children that he names in his will, another daughter, Nancy, not being named.