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• Suffix	II
  Birth	3 Jun 1580	Preston (Suffolk) England
  Gender	Male
  Buried	Mar 1664	Whitehall Cemetery, Mystic (Stonington) Connecticut
  Died	14 Mar 1664	Mystic (Stonington) Ct
  Person ID	I44184	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	25 Feb 2003 00:00:00
  Father	Robert PARKE, I, b. Abt 1550, Gestingthorpe, England
  Mother	Alice CHAPLIN, b. Abt 1559, Long Melford (Suffolk) England
  Family ID	F19341	Group Sheet
  Family 1	Alice FREEMAN, b. Abt 1592, Preston Capes (Northamptonshire) England
  Married	30 May 1644
  Family ID	F19343	Group Sheet
  Family 2	Martha CHAPLIN, b. 4 Feb 1583, Semer (Suffolk) England
  Married	9 Feb 1601	Semer (Suffolk) England
  Children	1. Martha PARKE, b. 13 Oct 1603, Semer (Suffolk) England   2. Robert PARKE, III, b. 4 Jun 1605, Semer (Suffolk) England > 3. William PARKE, I, b. 21 Apr 1607, Semer (Suffolk) England   4. Richard PARKE, b. 8 Aug 1609, Whatfield (Suffolk) England   5. John PARKE, b. 3 Mar 1611, Ringshall (Suffolk) England   6. Jane PARKE, b. 10 Aug 1613, Ringshall (Suffolk) England   7. Thomas PARKE, I, b. 13 Feb 1616, Hitcham (Suffolk) England   8. Anne PARKE, b. 3 Feb 1618, Hitcham (Suffolk) England   9. Samuel PARKE, Sr, b. 20 Jun 1621, Bildestone, England
  Family ID	F19345	Group Sheet

• Notes

  With the Winthrop Fleet. Robert Parke and his family sailed in the Winthrop Fleet, 29 Mar 1630, from Cowes, Isle of Wight, supposedly on the Ship Arbella. He returned to England the same year, carrying an order by Governor Winthrop to his son John, in England, to pay money which is in my possession and may be the earliest bill of exchange drafted on our side of the water. It is not known just when Robert returned from England, but on 9 Apr 1640, he was made freeman at Wethersfield, Connecticut. He represented that town as Deputy to the Connecticut General Court in August 1642. He moved to Mystic [Stonington], Connecticut about 1655. He acted as "buisness manager" for Gov. Winslow, returning to purchase supplies for the starving colonists. He returned to America in 1639 and settled in Wethersfield, CT

• Sources

  [S500] GENEALOGY OF THE PARKE FAMILIES OF CONNECTICUT, INCLUDING ROBERT PARKE OF NEW LONDON, EDWARD PARKS OF GUILFORD, AND OTHER, Frank Sylvester Parks, (333 pages + 7 pg. addendum, indexed. Originally published 1906, Washington D.C. Reproduced on 4 microfiche, 1988.).