History of Oakland County Michigan a narrative account of its historic progress, its people, its principal interests / compiled from the official records of the county, the newspapers and data of personal interviews, under the editorial supervision of Thaddeus D. Seeley.

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HISTORY OF OAKLAND COUNTY

Connecticut, removing thereto from Cambridge, Massachusetts, in I639.
He had three sons, the youngest, John, settled in New Haven, Connecticut, and also had among other children a son John (2d).
John. 2d was born in I648, married Hannah Bassett in I670 and was
among the early planters at Wallingford, Connecticut, giving the name
of Parker's farm to a locality there west of the village, which name it
still bears.
Among numerous children was one Joseph, the fifth child who married Sarah Curtis in 1705, and among eleven children was one Andrew
who married Susannah Blakesless.
The children of Andrew Parker were Ambros, 1738; Grace, I739,
and Patience; Zeruiah, I74I; Oliver, I743; Ezra, December 13, I745;
Susannah, 1747; Rachael, 1749; Sybil, I753; and Jason, I764. He
moved with the family to Adams, Berkshire county, Massachusetts,
where he died. Jason Parker founded stage lines early in the nineteenth
century and these lines ran to all parts of the state east, west, north and
south, and west as far as Niagara Falls.
JEREMIAH CLARKE
Jeremiah Clarke was born in Preston, Connecticut, in 1760 or 176I.
He lived with his father in Shaftsbury, Vermont, and in the Revolutionary war served under Capt. Bigelow Lawrence, entering service,March
2, 1778; discharged May 2, 1778; in service sixty days. His father, Jeremiah Clarke, Sr., was a member of the first convention of delegates
from towns in July, 1776; major in I777; was member of first Council
of Safety of Vermont, 1778; Judge of the first court, and member of
executive council for years (Vermont Hist. Soc., Vol. I pp. II, I5, 2I,
23, 25; Vermont State Papers, 257, 266, 277, 553, 555).
In his journeying to the westward, after the war, his first stop was
in Bath, New Jersey, where he built one of the first houses. Here he
did not tarry long, however, for we find him one of the early settlers of
Nelson, Madison county, New York. He lived north of Erieville and
built the first sawmill that was put up in the town, where now is the
outlet of the Erieville reservoir. Before I808 he moved to Onondaga
county and finally spent the last years of his life in Clarkston, Oakland
county, Michigan, where his sons had settled and died there June i,
1845, aged eighty-four years. He married Sarah Millington in I780.
She was born in I767; died July I7, 1845, aged seventy-eight years.
They had fourteen children and a goodly proportion of the inhabitants
of Clarkston claim descent from them.
Children: (I.) Julia, m. Elnathan Cobb; lived in Onondaga county,
N. Y.
(II.) Amasa, m. a Mr. Green; went to Illinois over seventy years
ago.
(III.) Lydia, b. I781; d. September 14, I845, Clarkston, Mich.; m.
Nicholas Brown.
(IV.) Henry, left home when eighteen or twenty years of age and
never heard of afterward.
(V.) Amos.