The 1800 Monmouth NJ census has 14 households, all but one in Shewsbury twp. I'm looking for family for daughter (Dorothy?) Dolly Parker born 1757. According to a Cook family history written in the 1920s, the Parker home was said to have been close by the Monmouth battlefield in 1778. It also suggests the family was Huguenot "who had been driven out of France in the early wars and had settled in New Jersey". To me that could refer to earlier generations and not specifically Dolly's or her parents'. The elder Amasa J Parker is stated in that family history to have been Dolly's brother, but I think that's a stretch, given their age difference. Half-brother, possibly. So much for the speculative part, although there is always some truth in family lore. John COOK was with George Washington in that battle and found wounded on the battlefield early next morning by Dolly, who got him to her father's house where she nursed him to health. They were married the following year. Her father may have been a physician, suggested by Dolly's career of frontierswoman doctoring in the wilds at her new home at what became Delaware Co, NY. Kaye in Texas __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo