(1767, SC Ð 1860, TN) (Represented), married Jane Thompson (1775, TN-1838, TN) in 1792, Maury City, Crockett Co., TN. This is no longer considered an immigrant line. DNA testing would be a definite plus for this lineage.

There is confusion as to the parentage of this Samuel Park. Some researchers believe that his fatherwas a William Park who immigrated from Scotland before the Revolutionary War, settling in South Carolina.

However there exists a considerable number of researchers who claim the ancestor as a John Park, born 1736, lived and died 1779 in SC, who married a Ann (Unknown), circa 1759, who was also born in SC and had perhaps six children.

What to do? The lines from Samuel and Jane on down seem to have good paper trails. No definitive evidence has been offered for either William or John as the predecessor to Samuel, and yet there isextant some information as to the household of John which does include the said Samuel which fitsnicely into the scheme of things. So while there is no proof certain at this time of exactparentage of Samuel The Society has chosen to create a group sheet for John (01VX1) with Samuelbeing the fifth child (02VX5). The other children of this John with approximate dates of birth are:Joseph, 1759; Mary, 1761; Margaret, 1763; John, 1765; and William, 1769.

William Park, from Scotland about the time of the Revolutionary War, settling in SouthCarolina.

• Samuel Park, his son (c1767, Scotland-c1855, Maury Co., TN) (represented), married Jane Thompson in 1792, possibly in South Carolina. One child known from the Lineage Application, perhaps more.

  
  

  Per member “My knowledge of the family prior to their Tennessee residence is very scant, but Iunderstand that three brothers came to the Philadelphia area prior to the Revolutionary War – onewent further north to Massachusettes [sic], one remained in Pennsylvania, and one [William, above]went south to South Carolina.” David L. Parke, then Historian, surmised that this line might betied to the so called Arthur line, Lineage Key A, but no DNA testing has been done on this line toconfirm this possibility.

• John Joseph Andrew Park (1813, TN – 1904, TN), married Elizabeth Winifred Steele. Had issue.

Perhaps other children.