Talk:Josiah Parker

WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008
Article reassessed and graded as stub. --dashiellx (talk) 16:39, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

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while one record says he only had a daughter, additional Josiah Parkers appear in census and later military records in Isle of Wight county. I could not quickly find his parents' names online, and the probate index extracts are not for this man's will, but for those of other men, so it's unclear whether he had some state role in settling estates (as commissioner of accounts) before his election to the federal post, since according to state law, federal service was a disqualification from state office. Since one of the men of the same name and year of birth was a Massachusetts Quaker, it's also conceivable this war hero was "forgotten" for enforcing manumission clauses in wills, or for manumitting slaves himself.Jweaver28 (talk)