[Source: Kentucky Ancestors, Vol 10 #3, 1975. Transcribed by Cherie McAllister]

   

FAYETTE COUNTY , KENTUCKY

On the 29^th day of January 1853, personally appeared before the Fayette County court, Jane H. Jenkins, who stated that her maiden name was Jane H. Parker, a daughter of Alexander Parker of Louisa County, Virginia, who was an officer in the Virginia Continental Lines in the Army of the Revolution; appoints Joseph B. Stewart her attorney to demand from the department at Richmond, Virginia, all papers that may be of service to her in establishing her right to land and pension money on account of her father’s services in the war.

 

Alexander Parker was placed on the Pension Roll of Virginia, April 24, 1818.  Certificate of Pension was sent to Wm. A. G. Dade, Judge, Spotsylvania County , Virginia .

May 16, 1818

 

Sept. 4, 1826 in Culpeper County , Virginia , Alexander Parker stated that he was a resident of said county aged 76 years; that he enlisted in the army in January 1776 for two years in the state of Virginia in the Company commanded by Capt. Oliver Towles in the 6^th Virginia Regiment.  He also stated the he had raised 14 children, 13 of whom he supposes to be living.  Most of them have large families and are in indigent circumstances; he has a wife upwards of 70 years of age and a single daughter, a weak and delicate woman, and none of his children are living with him.  Since November, last, he has lived with a friend Mr. William Robertson of Culpeper County , etc.

W. Jones stated Sept. 24, 1826:

“I have examined the will of Charles Smith of the Parish of St. Martin, County of Louisa, Virginia, in reference to the effect of the device of the residue of his estate, real and personal, to John Hawkins, in trust for his son William, and his daughters, Ann and Sarah, the last of whom intermarried with the within named Alexander Parker, and as it is said, became entitled, in virtue of the said device, to certain slaves.  This clears that the device devested in Mrs. Parker, only a use for life in these slaves; remainder at her death to her children.

Reference for foregoing:

National Archives and Records Service, Washington , D. C. 20408

“ Spotsylvania County , Virginia Records,” by Crozier - page 308 - year 1774:

“William Parker of Spotsylvania County , Gent., and his son, Alexander Parker, Jr., give Power of Attorney regarding property in St. Nicholas Parish, Bristol , Great Britain .”

The will of William Parker is recorded in 1797 in Spotsylvania County in Will Book E - page 1611.