Mary Parker, second wife of John Robertson, was the daughter of Richard and Grizzel (Nalle) Parker. Gizzell’s parents were John and Mary (Brown) Nalle.

John, the oldest child of Martin and Mary (Aldin) Nalle, was born near Tappahannock, Essex County, Virginia about 1703. He married Mary Brown, the daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Coleman) Brown about 1725. John proved beef and flour to military units during the Revolutionary War and was awarded 400 acres in Spotsylvania County (later Culpeper County), Virginia by Royal Lieutenant Governor William Gooch. John died prior to 19 August 1782 when his will was probated in Culpeper County, Virginia. John and Mary had 12 children including Grizzell who married Richard Parker.

Martin Nalle was born about 1765 in England. He was among 62 persons transported to the Colony of Virginia by Chicheley Corbin Thacher about 1701. Martin was probably an indentured servant whose name appears in the public records of Essex County Virginia in 2 February 1705/1706. Martin married Mary Aldin probably in Essex County Virginia about 1702. Mary was christened in Christ Church Parish in Middlesex County, Virginia on 21 August 1681. Her parents were Robert and Ellianor (Willis) Alden. Martin and Mary had 8 children including John who married Mary Brown.

Richard Parker’s parents were John and Elizabeth (Taliaferro) Parker. Upon John’s death Elizabeth married Edward McGuire. On 12 June 1765 a deed was drawn up in Hampshire County, Virginia (now West Virginia) dividing 1,459 acres of the John’s land among the children of John and Elizabeth: Robert Parker, Richard Parker, Nathaniel Parker, Aaron Parker, William Foreman (husband of Catherine Parker), and John Nall(e) (husband of Elizabeth Parker.) On 21 May 1786 Elizabeth made a will in which she granted her stepson, William McGuire, land from the “estate of John Parker . . . which she now possesses.”

The information on this page came from the book Through Gap by Charles E. Deusner.

The exact date of Richard’s birth is not known. Nothing about him is known until 1758 when he was listed along with William Nalle, Jr., Mark Hardin and William Robertson in the Militia Rosters in Henings Virginia Statue at Large. They served under Robert Slaughter of Culpeper County, Virginia in General John Forbes’ “Expedition on Ft. Duquesne.” As a result of his service and the Virginia Land Law of 1779, Richard received a Virginia Land Office Warrant No. 103 for fifty acres of land for his service in the French and Indian War.

Richard was the son of Robert and Elizabeth Parker. Elizabeth was the daughter of Robert and Jane Taliaferro.