WEST VIRGINIA Index: Hampshire History, PARKERs, PARKER Timeline, PARKER Map
↳George PARKER, John PARKER, Job PARKER, Thomas PARKER
On this page: Job PARKER, Job's Descendants
Latest update: Saturday, October 13, 2012
Learn more about our PARKERs in the Family Tree Database .
NOTE
Although WEST VIRGINIA is used on this webpage for convenience,
WEST VIRGINIA was part of VIRGINIA until June 20, 1863.
• Pioneer Job PARKER
Descendants in .pdf
See Map for places of Job PARKER.
We have yet to discover documentation on the parentage, birth, or death of Job PARKER. His life can only be seen through
legal documentation, census and tax records, and family trees. There is a family story that Job was a preacher; in fact, Job
was summoned to court for "celebrating matrimony as a minister without legal authority." [See 15 May 1788 below.] However,
while his children are well documented and his descendants are still in WEST VIRGINIA, there is very little public data on Job's
life.
• "1760 - Gollehen, William. Bill to Job Parker for work – “sawing,” “splitting rails,” “helping home with hogs,” “work in harvest,”
etc." (Misc (West) Virginia Court Records; Marietta College Special Collections)
• 1762 April 19: "K-403: Job Parker of Hampshire Co. 421 A. on Mill Cr. above Gap in said Co. Surv. David Vance. Adj.
Benjamin Parker. 19 Apr. 1762" Book K, page 132 (Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775. Vol. II @ Ancestry.com,
• "1763 May 28; Virginia. Hampshire County. To the Sheriff of Hampshire County. Summons for Job Parker to answer petition
of William Gallahugh." (Misc (West) Virginia Court Records; Marietta College Special Collections)
• "1763 October 15; Virginia. Hampshire County. To the Sheriff of Hampshire County. Summons for Job Parker to answer
petition of William Gallahugh." (Misc (West) Virginia Court Records; Marietta College Special Collections, Summons for Job
• "1765 January 5; Virginia. Hampshire County. To the Sheriff of Hampshire County. Summons to testify in the case of John
Petor vs. Job Parker." (Misc (West) Virginia Court Records; Marietta College Special Collections)
• In 1763 and 1765 Benjamin PARKER son of Job PARKER, received FAIRFAX Land Grants along Mill Creek in Hampshire
County, (WEST) VIRGINIA.
"Benjamin received two land grants from Lord Fairfax: The first one is dated March 5, 1763, for 227 acres;
The second is dated January 1, 1765, and is for 214 acres. These grants are preserved, and are in the Parker
history files. This land was all along Mill Creek, in Hampshire County, Virginia (Now West Virginia)."
(Hodge, Parker, McAdams, Junkins Families [S368])
• By the 1782 census, Job was the only original PARKER living in Hampshire County, (WEST) VIRGINIA. Job was enumerated
as "Parker, Job / 7 [whites] / -- [blacks]" We know so little about Job, it is difficult to name the other six people living with him.
His son Benjamin was enumerated as "Parker, Benjamin, 7 [whites] / -- [blacks]" with wife Sarah O’FARRELL and
children
(perhaps some who did not live to adulthood.] • NEEDS VERIFICATION
• In the 1784 census "Parker, Job / 6 / 1 / 2 (Name of head of family / White souls / Dwellings / Other buildings)" was the
enumeration for Job, but his son Benjamin and family were not enumerated.
• 1787: "Neff and Smoot to Welch ~ A Deed ~ 1787... Sealed and delivered in the presence of Samuel Davis, Isaac Miller, Job
Parker, Isaac Welch" (The Smoot Family Association)
• 10 April 1788: "At a Court held for Hampshire County April 10th 1788 - This Deed of Bargain and Sale from Christiana Neff,
Adam Neff, Thomas Barton Smoot and Catherine his wife and Esther Neff to Sylvester Welch was proved by the oaths of
Samuel Davis, Isaac Miller, Job Parker and Isaac Welch, the subscribing witnesses thereto, and ordered to be
recorded." (The Smoot Family Association)
• "15 May 1788: The Commonwealth against Job Parker upon presentment of the grand jury against him for celebrating
matrimony as a minister without legal authority. Page 34." (page 14, BOOK: Hampshire County, Virginia (now West Virginia):
Volume I--Minute Book Abstracts 1788-1802 [S403], Compiler Vicki Bidinger HORTON, Ancestry.com)
• "10 Mar 1791: … surveyor of the road from Job Parker's to Hall's Mill…" (page 49, BOOK: Hampshire County, Virginia (now
West Virginia): Volume I--Minute Book Abstracts 1788-1802 [S403], Compiler Vicki Bidinger HORTON, Ancestry.com)
• "14 April 1791: Andrew Smalley is appointed surveyor of the road in the room of Thomas Smoot on Mill Creek from
Benjamin Hoffman's to Job Parker's… Page 435." (page 50, BOOK: Hampshire County, Virginia (now West Virginia): Volume
I--Minute Book Abstracts 1788-1802 [S403], Compiler Vicki Bidinger HORTON, Ancestry.com)
• "14 Sep 1795: Pursuant to the Act of Assembly entitled "An Act for reducing into one the several Acts concerning the Land
Office; as containing the Terms and manner of granting waste and unappropriated lands; for settling the tithes and bounds of
lands; directing the mode of processioning and prescribing the duty of Surveyors". The court do appoint the following persons
processioners [sic] within this county, to wit. […] Daniel Taylor, Job Parker and Isaac Means in the tenth district with is
contained with the bounds of Captn. Daniel Taylor's militia company. […]" (page 67, BOOK: Hampshire County, Virginia (now
West Virginia): Volume I--Minute Book Abstracts 1788-1802 [S403], Compiler Vicki Bidinger HORTON, Ancestry.com)
• 1799: "This Indenture made the tenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine
between Henry Parker and Marget his wife, one of the daughters of Henry Neff deceased of the County of Hampshire and
Commonwealth of Virginia of the one part and Josias Smoot of the county and state aforesaid of the other part. Witnessed by
Job PARKER" (Smoot Family Association)
• 1800 Upper (Western) District of Hampshire County [Mineral County] Tax, Personal Property Tax Lists -- G W Price
"The first number following the name indicates the number of white tithables. The second number indicates the number of
common horses, and the third number, when shown, indicates the number of slaves over the age of 12."
"Parker, Job; 1 - 2" (BOOK: Hampshire County [West] Virginia Personal Property Tax Lists, 1800-1814 [S252], page 4)
• Job's Descendants
• In 1854, the 1790 "Stone House," now an historic landmark in WEST VIRGINIA, was purchased from the SLOAN family by
Job's great grandsons (Job, Benjamin, John) John, Peyton, Benjamin, and William.
• "Stone House" a.k.a. Sloan-Parker House
• Photos at HistoricHampshire.org
• Four miles west of Romney, Hampshire Co, WEST VIRGINIA, near the Route 50 junction
• 39.312778, -78.848889
• "The Stone House has been owned by two families: the Sloan family until 1854 when it was sold to the Parker brothers:
John, Peyton, Benjamin, and William." Wikipedia
• West Virginia Historic Property Inventory Form; Sites Listed in Hampshire County @ Historic Hampshire County, West
ID / Rating / Name / Location / Owner / Date Constructed / Comments
HM-0034 / NR / Sloan-Parker House "Stone House" / Rt. 50, Junction vicinity / Mr and Mrs. John Henry Parker Jr. /
1790
• National Register of Historic Places
• US Dept. of the Interior, National Register Of Historic Places, Inventory -- Nomination Form @ WVCulture.org
• Sloan-Parker House @ eNotes.com
• Sloan-Parker House @ Facebook