George Parkhurst|b. c 1588|p1062.htm|John Parkhurst|b. 29 Oct 1554\nd. 1611|p2124.htm|Sarah (__________)|b. c 1555|p2125.htm|Christopher Parkhurst||p4248.htm|(__________) (__________)||p4249.htm|||||||
George Parkhurst had the following event: he first appears in New England when it was ordered that a highway should be laid out by his house. When he arrived is unknown. in 1642 at Watertown, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts.1
George Parkhurst moved before 4 October 1645 to Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts, as he sold land on that date and he was "of Boston."1
MovedTo
circa 13 June 1655
He moved circa 13 June 1655 to England when he sold the last of his wife's first husband's land. The conveyance was made by permission of the General Court in response to his petition in which he asserts that he was then "near 67 years old", that he and his wife and most of her children were in destitute condition, that she had had ten children during her twenty years residence in America - 7 sons and 3 daughters (5 sons by Parkhurst therefore), that she had gone to London, England with 6 of her children but found her mother, brothers and sisters unable to do what she had expected, that 4 of her children had remained in America, and that the petitioner desired to sell the land in order that he might go to the aid of his wife. He probably returned to England as soon as possible after the deed, as that was his last act on record in New England.1
Burial*
18 June 1675
He was buried on 18 June 1675 at Saint Lawrence, Ipswich, England.1
[S264] Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New England & Their Origins, John Brooks Threlfall : Madison WI, 1993 SLC 974 D2th film 1697981 #2, pgs 257-259.
George Parkhurst