Josiah Parker Papers

Edmund Jacobs (b 1803) was a son of William and Patience (Parker) Jacobs of Rich Square Meeting in Northampton County, North Carolina. His grandfather was Samuel Parker. He was complained of by Rich Square Monthly Meeting in 1825 for holding slaves. His parents were disowned the next year for slaveholding.

Mary Jacobs (d. 1828) was an overseer of Rich Square Monthly Meeting in North Carolina. She was received into membership in 1800, named an overseer in 1809, and died in 1828.

Almeda Johnson--See William and Almeda Parker.

Dempsey Johnson was a resident of Southampton County, Virginia and a member of Western Branch Monthly Meeting. He was disowned in 1769, but was reinstated at some point. He married Martha Butler in 1812 and was named an elder in 1817.

Lazarus and Mary Johnson were the parents-in-law of James S. Butler. Lazarus was an elder in Western Branch Monthly Meeting in Virginina. They removed to Milford Monthly Meeting in Wayne County, Indiana in 1833.

Susannah “Sukey” Johnson (c1786-1861) was the widow of Zachariah Johnson and the mother of Almeda (Johnson) Parker. William Parker often refers to her as “mother” in his letters to his mother and siblings. She was born about 1786. She married Zachariah Johnson. They were members of Western Branch Monthly Meeting in Virginia. They came to Henry County, Indiana in 1831. Sukey died in 1861 at Carthage at the age of 75. She is buried in the Friends Burying Ground there.

William Johnson (b. 1775) was the father-in-law of Eli Townsend. He was born in 1775 in North Carolina. He was a son of Robert and Cecilia Johnson. He was disowned by Deep River Monthly Meeting in Guilford County in 1802 for marriage out of unity. This was to Elizabeth Ham, a daughter of Philip and Priscilla Ham, who was born in 1776. She was disowned by Deep River in 1803 for marriage out of unity. These disownments are unclear. Perhaps they married contrary to discipline, rather than to non-Friends. About 1807, they were reinstated. They were charter member of Union Monthly Meeting in Forsyth County in 1818. In 1819 they transferred to Whitewater Monthly Meeting in Wayne County, Indiana. In 1831 they removed to White Lick Monthly Meeting in Morgan County, Indiana.

Mr. Jones is unknown.

Abijah Jones was a minister present at Indiana Yearly Meeting in 1830.

John Jones was a minister present at Indiana Yearly Meeting in 1830. He was a member of West Branch Quarterly Meeting.

Mary Jones is unknown.

S. Jones is unknown.

Benjamin Jordan was a native of Northampton County, North Carolina, where he was a member of Rich Square Meeting. He married Mourning in 1781 at Western Branch Monthly Meeting in Virginia. He served as an elder and overseer of Rich Square Monthly Meeting. They removed to Western Branch Monthly Meeting in 1797, where Benjamin served as an elder.

Richard (1756-1826) and Pharaby (b. 1752) Jordan (1756-1826) were married in 1778 at Rich Square. He was a son of Joseph and Patience Jordan of Elizabeth Town, Norfolk County, Virginia. He moved to Northampton County, North Carolina in about 1768. He was recorded as a minister by Rich Square Monthly Meeting in 1787. He visited the United Kingdom, Germany, and France on a missionary journey in 1799-1803. Pharaby was the daughter of Thomas and Mary Knox. She served as an elder and overseer at Rich Square Monthly Meeting. Richard took his family to West Hartford Monthly Meeting in Connecticut (but lived at Purchase, New York) in 1804. About 1809 they removed to Newton, Haddonfield, New Jersey. Richard died in 1826.

Carrolus Judkins was a native of Northampton County, North Carolina. He was disowned by Rich Square Monthly Meeting in 1792. He was reinstated in 1795. He married Charity Peele, a daughter of Jeremiah and Elizabeth Peele and sister of Joel Peele, in 1795 under the care of Rich Square. In 1798 they transferred to New Garden Monthly Meeting in Guilford County. In 1811 they transferred to Stillwater Monthly Meeting in Ohio. In 1829 they were disowned for joining the Hicksites.

James Judkins was a son of Nicholas Judkins. He married Martha Stanton in 1783 at Black Water Monthly Meeting in Virginia. She died in 1799. He married Abigail Parker, a daughter of Jacob Parker and a cousin of Josiah Parker, in 1801 at Rich Square. She was born in 1766. They removed to Short Creek Monthly Meeting in Ohio in 1806. Abigail died in 1821 and is buried at Short Creek.

Susanna Karfings (?) is unknown.

John Kindley (1788-1839) was born in North Carolina in 1788. He was a son of Edward and Margaret Kindley. He transferred with his parents from Back Creek Monthly Meeting in Randolph County, North Carolina to Westland Monthly Meeting in Pennsylvania in 1801. They were charter members of Miami Monthly Meeting in Warren County, Ohio. John married Elizabeth “Betty” Wilson, daughter of Joseph and Ann (or John and Sarah) Wilson at Center Meeting in Clinton County, Ohio in 1807. Betty was born in 1791 and came to Ohio from North Carolina by way of Tennessee. In 1809 she transferred to Miami Monthly Meeting. In 1820 John and Betty transferred to Mill Creek Monthly Meeting in Miami County, Ohio. In 1821 they transferred to West Grove Monthly Meeting in Wayne County, Indiana. They were charter members of Milford Monthly Meeting. John was recorded as a minister in 1826. He died in 1839 at Milford.

Pearson Lacy (1796-c1844) was born in North Carolina in 1796. He was a son of Peter and Susanna (Price) Lacy. He came with his parents to Whitewater Monthly Meeting in Wayne County, Indiana from Back Creek Monthly Meeting in Randolph County, North Carolina in 1815. They were members of West Union Preparative Meeting. Pearson married Margaret Morris. She was a daughter of Jesse and Mary (Moore) Morris and was born in 1805. In 1829 they transferred to Duck Creek Monthly Meeting (Walnut Ridge Preparative Meeting). Pearson served as the Treasurer of Walnut Ridge Monthly Meeting. He died about 1844. Margaret remarried twice. She remvoed to White Lick Monthly Meeting in Morgan County in 1854.

Benjamin W. Ladd (c1783-1851) was the Presiding Clerk of Ohio Yearly Meeting from 1820 to 1824 and from 1832 to 1837. He and his wife, Elizabeth, came to Plymouth Monthly Meeting in Ohio from Wayne Oak Monthly Meeting in Virginia in 1814/5. After the death of Elizabeth, Benjamin married Hannah S. Wood at Birmingham Monthly Meeting in 1834. He died in 1851 at the age of 68 at Plymouth Monthly Meeting.

John Lamb is unknown.

P. Lamb is unknown.

Shelly Langford is unknown.

Joseph M. Lewis is unclear. He may have been the Joseph Lewis who came to Short Creek Monthly Meeting in Ohio from Western Branch Monthly Meeting in Virginina in 1836, then returned to Lower Monthly Meeting in Virginina in 1849.

Benjamin Lundy (1789-1839) was born in 1789 in Sussex (Warren) County, New Jersey. He was a son of Joseph and Elizabeth Lundy. He transferred to Concord Monthly Meeting in Ohio in 1810 from Hardwick and Mendham Monthly Meeting in New Jersey. He transferred to Short Creek Monthly Meting in 1812. He married Esther Lewis, a daughter of Henry and Susanna Lewis, in 1815 at Short Creek Meeting House. They transferred to Plainfield Monthly Meeting in 1815, then back to Short Creek in 1822. He began publishing the Genius of Universal Emancipation, an anti-slavery periodical, in 1820. In 1823 they transferred to New Hope Monthly Meeting in Tennessee, then in 1825 to Baltimore Monthly Meeting in Maryland. There, in 1826, he established the Baltimore Free Labor Store. Benjamin Lundy became a Hicksite after the Separation of 1827-28, and moved to McNabb, Illinois in 1838, where he died in 1839.