Lorenzo Dow

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Husband Lorenzo Dow ¹

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           Born: 16 Oct 1777 - Coventry, Tolland Co., Conn
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         Father: Humphrey B. Dow (1742-1822)
         Mother: Tabithy Parker (1747-1803)

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General Notes: Husband - Lorenzo Dow

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Lorenzo Dow was a famous, very eccentric, itinerant Methodist preacher in the early 19th century. For more information see the article in Wikipedia or

http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2005/11/who_was_lorenzo.html

PARKER in AMERICA:

On page 460 in Parker in America we find the following history of the Parker family. Apart from the dubious reference to Lord Parker, it is substantially consistent with the history from the Boston Transcript presented on pages 529-47. At the time it would have been difficult to do genealogical research. His description sounds to me like an oral tradition that probably came to him from his mother. It is partly right and partly wrong. For an account of the life of Thomas Parker (1666-1732), first Earl of Macclesfield, see Wikipedia.

In 1828 Lorenzo Dow, a Parker descendant, being then in Louisville, Ky., at the request of Samuel Parker, Jr., then residing in that city, wrote for him the following sketch of his ancestry:
"A man and wife, descendants of Lord Parker of Maclesfield, England, came to Massachusetts; had two sons and a daughter, and were murdered by the Indians. The children escaped from a window. The girl, the oldest, had the baby in her arms; let him fall, but the brother picked him up. The Indians pased near but saw him not in the long grass.
"One of the boys came into Connecticut, and built the first house of hewn logs with port holes for defense. He had four sons: Joseph, John, James and Phineas. He lived to the age of 96. Phineas married a Maraw; experienced religion at seventy and died at seventy-six. His wife died, 1824, at the age of 102 or 103, having experienced religion at the age of fourteen, under the ministry of George Whitefield.
"James, the brother of Phineas, had Elijah by his first wife, and Cordee and four girls by the second wife, one of whom was my mother Tabitha, who died 1803."
Mr. Stiles O. Parker, of Norwood, Ohio, who furnishes us a genealogical statement of his line, and who forwarded the above in connection with it, says he "does not know how much, if any, of this statment is reliable. My father Zenas D. Parker, told me that Mr. Dow made quite an extensive research to obtain this genealogical data."

1 Susan Whitney Dimock, "Births, Marriages, Baptisms and Deaths from the Records of the Town and Churches in Coventry, Connecticut 1711-1844," 1897, pg 40. Repository: http://www.archive.org/stream/birthsmarriagesb00dimo#page/n5/mode/2up.