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Patriot Summary
Ezra Parker (1745-1842) served in the Massachusetts militia as a sergeant in Captains Reubin Hinman and Enos Parker's, Companies, Colonels Seth Warner and Benjamin Symonds' Regiments. He was the orderly sergeant for General Benedict Arnold's march to Quebec. Ezra Parker was born in Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut on December 13, 1745. He was married to Sarah Tuttle and later to Elizabeth Perry. He fathered eleven children. He moved in 1835 to Royal Oak, Michigan. Ezra Parker died July 7, 1842, and is buried in the Royal Oak Cemetery in Royal Oak, Oakland County, Michigan. SAR Patriot Number P-265419 DAR Patriot Number A087434 Find-A-Grave Number 15167043From the History of Oakland County, Michigan by Thaddeus D. Seeley (1912)
One of the two Revolutionary soldiers buried in the township cemetery of Royal Oak is Ezra Parker. He was born in Wallingford, Connecticut, December 13, 1745, and died in Royal Oak, Michigan, July 7, 1842 in the ninety-seventh year of his age.
With the family of his father, Andrew Parker, they removed from Wallingford, Connecticut, to Adams, Massachusetts, about 1770; having previously married Sarah Tuttle. He married as his second wife, Elizabeth Perry of North Adams, Massachusetts, about 1772 and they had ten children, to-wit: Samuel, David, Ezra, William M., Joel, Cratus, Elizabeth, Ira, Abigail and another son, name unknown, who died young.
After the Battle of Lexington, April, 1775, Mr. Parker joined the Berkshire company; was present at the battle of Bunker Hill in Boston, and in September of that year was a sergeant among the picked 1,200 which constituted Arnold’s expedition through the wilds of Maine to Quebec and participated in the entire campaign, returning with the remnants of that expedition. Later a commission was tendered him in the Revolutionary army by the state of Massachusetts, but was declined. He, still as sergeant, was engaged among the troops from western Massachusetts at the battles of Bennington and Saratoga.
In 1793 the family removed to Herkimer county, New York, and in 1795 to Bridgewater, Oneida county, New York. Mr. Parker, however, was the owner of extensive tracts of land in various points, in the state of New York, including St. Lawrence county near Watertown, and upon these tracts he settled his various children. Later, he and Mrs. Parker made their home with their son, William M., in Sangersfield county, New York, from about 1813 to 1835, and removed with his son William to Royal Oak, Oakland county, Michigan, in June, 1835, living there until his death in 1842. His descendants are quite numerous and are scattered all over the United States. The family is connected through various branches with many of the prominent families of the east of that name.