ALLEN PARKER' S SISTER

This is presumably one of two slave girls, Mary or Mily. Millie Parker's children, probably including Mily, were kept and/or hired out in the 1840s and 1850s. The hiring out records for Peter Parker's estate list a slave girl named Mary and a slave boy Jim who were probably a sister and brother of Allen Parker. Estate of Peter Parker,1839+, Chowan County Estate Records, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, North Carolina, and Estate of Peter Parker, Perquimans County Estate Records, North Carolina State Archives.

According to the Chowan County Marriage Bonds, a Mily Parker, born in May 1848, was the daughter of Millie Parker and Jeff Elliott. She married Stephen (sometimes spelled Steven) Welch 4 February 1869 at William Coffield's farm. She lived in Chowan County until at least 1920, when she and her son, Stephen R. Welch, are listed in the Federal Census. Although neither she nor her husband were literate, her eight children seemed to have learned to read and write; one daughter, Annie, taught public school in Chowan County. Chowan County Marriage Bonds, Chowan County Courthouse, Edenton, NC; Tenth, Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Censuses of the United States (1880, 1900, 1910, 1920): Chowan County, North Carolina, Population schedule, National Archives (microfilm, Joyner Library, East Carolina University).

Mary Parker and George Williams may have had a daughter named Rachel in 1862. Rachel married in 1886 to Thomas Parker, who was the son of Jacob (b. 1825) and Penelope Parker (b. 1840) and likely the grandson of Jacob and (b. 1796-1800) Nancy Parker (b. 1800). The older Jacob Parker was probably living at the Parker plantation when Allen Parker was born. Chowan County Marriage Bonds, Chowan County Courthouse, Edenton, North Carolina; Ninth and Thirteenth Censuses of the United States (1870, 1910): Chowan County, North Carolina, Population schedule, National Archives (microfilm, Joyner Library, East Carolina University); Peter Parker Estate Papers, Chowan County, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, North Carolina.