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fathered 15 children:
1M: Elizabeth Childs Dec 22 1788, Anne Arundel County Maryland (1 child)
B:Anne Arundel County, Maryland
1 Elizabeth "Luzy" Parriott
B:Sept 30 1789
2 M:Anne Wood Feb 7 1792, Anne Arundel County Maryland (5 children)
father: William Wood
D:1802 -1804
the 5 children
1 Susannah Parriott B:Mar 8 1793
2 Nathan Parriott B:May 15 1795
3 Samuel Parriott B:Aug 9 1797
4 Wilford Parriott* B:Apr 14 1799 Maryland
5 Nancy Ann Parriott B:Oct 24 1800
*"Wilford Parriott acted as surety for the marriage of his half brother, Roby R, to Miss Abigail Howard in Vermilion County, Illinois in 1831. Abigail's surety was her father, Anthony Howard of Ohio. Wilford was the heir of one eleventh of his grandfather William Wood's estate, and later Wilford he was found on the 1840, 1850, and 1860 census for Porter County, Indiana. In 1850 he was in Union township, dwelling #666; age 52, a farmer. He had $1,500 in real estate and was born in Maryland."
3M: Deborah Robey December 12 1804
9 children*
1 Roby Richard Parriott B:1808 (married Abigail Howard)
2 Caroline Parriott B:1809
3 Knighton Parriott B:1810
4 Owen Parriott B:1812
5 Henrietta Parriott B:1814
6 Cordelia Parriott B:1818
7 Richard Jr. Parriott B:1818
8 Manly Parriott B:1819
9 Mary Ann Parriott B:1821
Taken from Portrait & Biographical Album of Stephenson County Illinois, 1888:
"Richard Parriott was a native of Anne Arundel County, Maryland. In 1808 he removed to Tyler County, West Virginia where he purchased a partially cleared farm and brought a portion to a good state of cultivation. This he occupied until 1826, when he started for the prairies of Illinois via the Ohio and Wabash Rivers. He stopped a few months in Vermilion County, then removed across the line into Indiana where he purchased a partially improved farm, and lived there until 1836. He then sold out his possessions in the Hoosier State and, accompanied by his family, started for Northern Illinois. The removal was made with ox-teams and they proceeded in the pioneer fashion of camping and cooking by the wayside, and sleeping in their wagons at night. They stopped for a time at the home of William Robey, and then Mr. Richard Parriott, proceeding to Green County, Wisconsin, looked about for a location, but not finding anything to suit him, came back and made a claim on what is now section 12 of Buckeye township. This locality was then a part of Jo Davies County, and the land had not been subdivided. Richard put up a log cabin and commenced the improvement of his land, but was cut off in the midst of his labors; his death occurring the following spring."
The Black Americans: "The earliest Negro arrival we know about was a woman, and we do not know her name. Richard Parriott, a native of Maryland living in (West) Virginia, freed his slaves, and being unpopular for his views on slavery, moved to Illinois. It was after the Parriott ox wagons and livestock had traveled too many difficult miles for her to be sent back that a freed black woman allowed herself to be discovered in one of the wagons. The family eventually settled in 1836 on land north of where Cedarville is now. Mr. Parriott had been wounded en route in a fight with highwaymen and died in a few months. He was buried in a plot on the farm. The Negro woman died not long afterward and was also buried there.
Mr. Parriott's body was later moved to Bellview Cemetery when it was established, but no one now knows whether or not the body of the family's black follower was also moved. The widow sold her land claim to John Folgate and moved nearer relatives---the Robey family."
"Religious: The first religious services in the township were held at the house or hotel of R.R.Parriott during the winter of 1854-1855." (Washington township, Butler County, Iowa)
Church meetings held in the barn of James Monroe Caldwell. "It wasn't long before the women of the area demanded to have weekly religious services. A full-time minister could not be supported, so Mr. Roby R. Parriott set out weekly for Rev. Crippen* of Hardin County. Since Rev. Crippen could only come during the week, and nobody knew exactly when Mr. Parriott would return with Rev. Crippen. This was during the winter of 1854-55. During 1855....a church, the Methodist Episcopal Church, was organized by Elder Steward of Hazel Green in the home and hotel of Roby R. and Abigail Parriott. Earlier, in 1849 two school houses were erected; one at Parriott's Grove on section 30, and the other in the eastern part of the village of Aplington." (The township Monroe was named by James Monroe Caldwell)
*Crippen The signal for his return on the following day was to be a blast from the dinner horn of Mrs. Parriott's, in order to call in the hands busy at work in the fields. The sound of the horn on the following afternoon apprised the settlers that their messenger had appeared in sight. Oxen and horses were turned to graze and rest while the barefooted, ragged, and dusty yeomanry assembled to hear the word of the Holy One expounded. Such a luxury could not often be indulged in, consequently the more appreciated.....In 1860, the society that had been organized at the residence of R. R. Parriott, met at the school house in Aplington to worship; Father John Connell being the preacher. In 1869, Elder Gossard started the project of building a church....a church was erected in 1870."(Gossard maybe a typo and could be Goddard.)
Goddard settled south of the township, but claimed some Buckeye land. In the fall, Robert Jones and Levi Lucas arrived. Jones, an Englishman, settled just south of where Buckeye Town Hall was later built; Levi Lucas established his farm just south of Jones. In addition to these came George Trotter (Trott?) and Richard Parriott, who claimed the land where Buckeye Center was later, and Henry and William Hollenbeck. The year 1836 saw the families of William Robey, Jehu Pile, Andrew St. John, Ira, Job, and Daniel Holly move in. Pile settled near the future site of Cedarville....Buckeye Center at the intersection of the two old stage roads (now called Route 26 and Buckeye Road), and was an early settlement begun by Robert Jones and Richard Parriott, Sr. Here a post office was opened in 1876 in Jocob Folgate's country store. William Lied took over the store and post office in 1879 and kept them until 1894 when both were discontinued. The building became part of the Afolkey home which is still occupied."
...in 1857 A man named Shaw, from Waterloo, was the proprietor. R. R. Parriott furnished him with the logs to build a shop...he did not stop long, as he did not find much work...afterward the shop was used as a school."
...the first town meeting held in his house. At that meeting, an oyster can was used for a ballot box". R. R. Parriott was elected Supervisor of Roads for Monroe. He was also Butler County Assessor in 1857, County Drainage Commissioner in 1860 and 1865."
Parriott's Grove, on section 30, and the other in the eastern part of what was the village."
recorded on the 2nd of February, 1858, by the proprietors, Thomas Nash,
R. R. Parriott, Zenas Aplington, and Theodore A. Wilson."
There is a Parriott Street in Aplington."
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These notes are I as found them. I do not know the complete information to print it entirely.
The Last Will and Testament for Richard Parriott Sr.
In the name of God, amen. I Richard Parriott in the county of Ohio and State of Virginia, being weak in body, but of sound mind and of disposing memory for which I thank God, and calling to mind the uncertainty of human life, and being desirous to dispose such worldly estate as it hath pleased God to bless me with. First, I devise that all my just debts, my funeral expenses be paid out of my perishable property. Secondly, I give to my beloved children, Susanna, Wilford, and Ann, with my grandson Wilford, the son of Samuel Parriott deceased, one dollar each. Thirdly, I give the balance of my estate, real and personal, after the payment of the above debts and legacies to my beloved wife Deborah as she remains my widow and no longer. Fourthly, at the death or marriage of my beloved wife Deborah if she should marry..ing, that on the day of her marriage or death either, I give all of the above property both real and personal, and all of my estate whatever, with the exception above of my just debts, funeral expenses, and the four dollars in legacies above mentioned to my beloved children, namely, Roby R., Caroline, Knighton, Owen, Henrietta, Cordelia, Richard, Manly, and Maryanne, to be equally divided between them, which said property I give to them, their heirs, or executives, or administrators. Fifthly, and lastly, I do here by constitute and appoint my beloved wife Deborah executive of this my last will and Testament there by revoking all other wills or testaments heretofore by me made. In witness thereof I have here unto sat my hand and affixed my seal this fifteenth day of December in the year 1824. Rich'd Parriott Signed, sealed and published and declared as and for the last Will and Testament. The above named Richard Parriott in presence of us.
Source: Posted on Marshall County West Virginia Genealogy Page
(Ohio County, Virginia was renamed Tyler County, West Virginia.)
("Mr. Parriott had been wounded en route in a fight with highwaymen and died in a few months.")
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