Adelaide D. Parke and her husband, John M. Watson, lived at Portland Place in Saint John were John followed the sea. He received his Sea Captain's license in 1884. His Marine examination read: Rec'd Certificate of Competency as Masters in the costal trade, Feb. 5, 1884.

The young couple faced disaster very early in their marriage. They lost their young son, John, at three years of age and the following year Adelaide herself died from consumption.

Captain John M. Watson's death followed shortly after. They had one daughter who escaped this dreaded disease and she married Robert John McKenzie and out lived him.

The familyh is interred in the Old Cedar Hill Cemetry, Saint John.

His funeral was at Newburg Junction, below Grafton, NB. His tombstone lists his age as 64 years old. He is buried beside a Sarah Maude Parks.

A band of Lenni Lenape Indians occupied the vacant tract next to Annie's land and their wagons could be seen for many years but they were on friendly terms with the Parkes family. Eventually they left never to return.

Annie and her husband lived on the 100 acre farm her father purchased for her in 1698.

10/10/1877 St John Daily Times d. Portland Sunday morning 10/7/77 of heart
disease, Annie, age 11 mos. 8 days, youngest daughter of Annie and Lorenzo D.
Parks

Ships and Vessels built by Archibald Parks & Sons at St. Martins, New Brunswick (1869 to 1883)

Rig Name of Vessel Month Year Tons
Schooner Vincent White 09/30/1869 140
Brig Laura B. 04/04/1870 278
Bark W.J. Whiting 06/19/1872 633
Bark Exile 11/20/1873 Fast 934
Bark General Wolseley 08/04/1874 760
Full Rig Ship A. MacKenzie 11/10/1875 1000
Ship F.M. Stokes 04/31/1876 1300
Ship Lord Lytton 08/21/1876 1350
Schooner Nettie Parks 01/27/1877 1390 91/100
Bark Leffey 08/21/1877 Cpt. McKellar 933
Bark Venezuela 06/16/1879 1100
Schooner Ethel B. 05/02/1882 944
Schooner J.F. Whittaker 04/26/1883 1050

(Copied from Record kept by Wallace Parks, a Son of Archabald (Archabald is the spelling in this) Parks Ship Builder of St. Martins, New Brunswick (also known as Quaco or West Quaco) by A.K.M. Parke .. Wife of Melvin Parke son of Wallace Parks (Parke)

Daniel Parks, 1818 - son of David and Phoebe (Ellis) Parks married Phoebe Knight, the daughter of Samuel and Sophie (Holland) Knight. Samuel Knight was a school teacher. Daniel and William Parks married sisters, both daughters of Samuel and Sophie Knight.

After Daniel was married he petitioned for a lot of land (F6648) dated 11 May 1843, Queen's County. In 1855/09/06 he was awarded 100 acres of virgin land. It was Clear wilderness, but it had a large stream running through it, and land reserved for a road. This land was Lot 0, Block A. There were fifteen lots in this block and the settlement was named 'Union Settlement', it is thought the name was chosen because it joined the two lakes, Grand and Washademoak. Daniel Settled down, cleared land, and raised his family there, he had twelve children.

When Daniel was young, he was a Presbyterian, but the New Life Baptists came and had revivals in the community, soon Daniel became converted. He would preach if the minister was unable to come. The revival meetings were held in the homes or the school. There was no church in the settlement. The new converts were baptized in the Park's Brook (in History of Wiggin's Cove Church). After about five years the people decided to build a church. They had land given to them in the settlement, but Mrs. Wiggins, from Wiggin's Cove wanted the church to be half way between Wiggin's Cove and Union Settlement. Hence, the church was built at Wiggin's Cove.

In 1881, on 9 July, Daniel and Phoebe sell their farm to their son, Daniel. They continue to live there, and 1901 census show Phoebe as a widow. They would be interred on the family farm, because they had a family cemetery on the property. It was to be kept, with a road to it and a fence around it, but this has not happened. It has become an abandoned farm, with the building burned and the property sold for the lumber. The property has changed hands several times, and now the area near the cemetery has been cleared up, it is under the shade of pine trees, by the brook, once can visit it easily. By Gertrude Weir Urquhart, daughter of Lillian Parke Weir.

Daniel Slocum Parks use to tell about skating up the Grand Lake to see Martha Maltise Barton. After they were married, he purchased the family farm from his father, but, they continued to live there.

There was a family cemetry on the farm, and all the children who died young were buried there. The last person to be buried in this cemetry is Daniel Park. Marth Maltise Barton Parks has the only stone in all the cemetry and it still remains good.

Daniel Parks was a good respected man in the community, he belonged to the Orange Lodge, the Baptist Church, and was an avid hunter and trapper. He entertained with stories about the adventures he had in the woods hunting, working in the woods in the winter, stream driving into the spring and farming in the summer.

Daniels's wife died about 1900, and he was left a widower with a family to keep. He sold the farm to his eldest daughter thinking she would remain there and look after them. This worked for some time then the house burned and she removed to Saint John. By this time his youngest daughter, Lilliam Ether, had returned home with a husband and two children.

After a few years, Danile and his son in law, Samuel Parks, built a house in Waterboro where the family lived until the children grew up.