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- Naoma Manwaring Harker family group sheet gives the surname as "Parkins"
1. History of Kent County, Maryland
2. Maryland wills Volume 6 page 64
3. Orange County, Virginia deeds (F. Va. O)
book 4 page 193, 194, 201, 202
book 5 page 052, 054
4. F Va F5a (Frederick County wills Book 4 page 269
Virginia F3 Hopewell Friends History Am. 25 Friends Records volume 6
Notes On Isaac Parkins:
Va. F3 "Hopewell Friends History page 18: "Isaac Parkins, 1425 acres, in three separate tracts. His home plantation of 725 acres, in three separate tracts. His home plantation of 725 acres lay just south of, and partly within, the present corporate limits of Winchester. **When the new county of Frederick was erected in 1743 Isaac Parkins ecame very prominent in the conduct of its affairs. He served many years as a justice, a captain of militia, and a vestryman. He was elected to the House of Burgesses, representing Frederick County in the sessions of 1754 and 1755. He used his influence to ameliorate the sufferings of Friends caused by the laws governing those dissenting in religious opinions. ***After the settlement in 1749 in the Shenandoah Valley of Lord Fairfax, withwhom Isaac PErkins was on very friendly terms, he secured several additional grants of land in the Northern Neck, lying in the counties of Frederick and Hampshire. He maintained on his plantation a sawmill and two flour mills, probably the first erected in Frederick County. ** At this house took place the first marriage in the Shenandoah Valley of Friends. ***** Meetings for worship were frequently held in his house and were continued there after his death by his son Isaac Parkins, Jr. The graveyard adjoining Center Meeting was deeded to Hopewell Monthly Meeting as a gift from Isaac Parkins, Jr. The house of Isaac Sr. passed through marriage and purchase to Isaac Hollingsworth who married his granddaughter, Hannah Parkins, and who erected in 1836 on the site of the old home, the present brick mansion. Isaac buiolt nearby a four story stone flour mill. *** On this same tract, about one-half mile east of the mansion house is the burying ground of the Parkins and Hollingsworth families.
F. Va. F5a, book 4 page 269; Will of Isaac Parkins, 9 May 1773
wife Grace (my present wife)
daughter Leah, under 18
daughter Elizabeth under 18
daughter Ann under 18
daughter Hannah McClun
daughter Ruth Cadwallader
sons: Charles, Jonathan, Isaac, Ebenezer
daughter Rachel Hollingsworth
daughter Mary Ball
grandson John Barnet
Orange Co. deeds : Book 4 page 193: 7 May 1740 David Perkins of Kent County, Maryland to Isaac
Perkins of Opechon, Orange County, Virginia -- land on west side of Sherando in Orange
County, granted by paten to David 3 Oct 1734, 518 acres.
page 201: Isaac Perkins of Orange County, Virginia to William Hogg, Jr., trace granted
to Isaac by patent Nov 1731
History of Kent County, Maryland: Three or more of the Perkins family, (Pearkins) came from Wales
about 1700, one went to New England, David to Kent County, Daniel, etc.
Note: The names Ebenezer, Isaac, David, are all in this family, carried down into the
family of Isaac.
Maryland Willis, volume 6 page 64: Isaac Prkins wit. to will of Abraham Redgrave, Kent County Wills
(F. Md. Klf pt. 2) None
Kent County Land records (F. Maryland Kle pt. 1) Daniel appears first in 1710
Isaac appears first in 1769 but this would be a later
Isaac, probably son of Ebenezer.
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