In a rare book that I have there is the reference to a James Park (Samuel) who was born in 1760, and died Dec 8, 1811. He was with Col. William Crawford in his disastrous expedition against the Indians in northwestern Ohio in 1782. He married Isabella Craighead. She was born July 15, 1763, and died April 5, 1833. Children: Samuel b. 1802, died 1855. He married Sarah Phillips; they had no children. He conducted a hotel in Wellsville, Ohio in 1832, and in 1839 he was proprietor of a hotel in New Concord, Ohio. George, died young I mention this family because James is one of 5 known children of Samuel Park who settled in Washington County, PA. Samuel was born in Ireland about 1730 and died in Washington County about 1794. He married Margaret Marshall about 1757; they had travelled on the same ship but married after their arrival. They settled in Donegal Township, Lancaster Co., PA and then went into Virginia about the time of the Revolution. Children were John James Mary Isabella Hugh At 08:46 AM 6/23/02 -0400, you wrote: >Sandy this look alot like my great-grandfathers family but I have not been >able to attach a father to my great-grandfather. His mother came from >Pennsylvania and moved down into Harrison Co. after the death of ? Parks >moved back to Pennsylvanic and married a Martin. I have found a book on the >internet and it talks about Parks. Some of the sons started a Ship Building >Company of the Monogahia River between Pittsburg and Virgina, at >Brownsville, Fayette Co. Pennsylvania on one side and Washington Co. on the >other. I was so happy because I thought I could find my missing Parks. >Pennsylvania however does not start keep birth records until 1883. > >David and James Parks went to Ohio. There is a Thomas Parks but he went >back to West Virginia. The older members of the family seem to think that >he is my great grandfather's brother. I will see if I can dig out more >information on those Parks and some that I found in a Church record book in >Pennsylvania. > >One think I have found is that Parks who came into New Jersey though >Pennsylvania and went on are Germany. However the Parks who came into >Maryland though Virginia and up into Pennsylvania are English (Irish or >Scottish) and the one's who settled in Jamestown and Williamburg where >French who lived in England. > >Good luck I have been trying for 5 years. > >Carolynne D. Parks-Deremiah >----- Original Message ----- >From: <Sabeckum@aol.com> >To: <PARKS-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 06:41 >Subject: [PARKS] (no subject) > > > > I have a lot of questions, but no one seems to be able to help. > > > > I have a G-G-G grandfather named James Parks. He was born c. 1780 either >in > > Fayette Co., PA or in Maryland somewhere. His father is believed to be >David > > Parks and we think that he had a brother named David. James married >either > > Elizabeth Davis or Elizabeth Boyd (not sure which), moved to Belmont Co., >OH > > when he was in his young 20's and raised a family of eight >children--David, > > Rachel, Jonathan Davis, Elizabeth, James Jr., John B., Joseph and Thomas. >I > > descend from David. > > > > No matter how I and others in the family try, we just can't seem to go >back > > any further. We think they were Scotch-Irish. Father David we believe >was > > born c. 1750. > > > > I really wish we could find someone who could help tear down the brick >wall. > > > > Sandy > > > > > > ==== PARKS Mailing List ==== > > If you are unsubscribed from the list unintentionally, simply > > resubscribe. A full mailbox, computer error or spam may cause you > > to be unsubscribed. > > > > >==== PARKS Mailing List ==== >To contact the listowner e-mail mailto:tchada@cox.net