Middlesex County, Massachusetts was created on May 10, 1643. The county originally included Charlestown, Cambridge, Watertown, Sudbury, Concord, Woburn, Medford, Wayland, and Reading.
Martha Fiske Parks was born on January 12, 1670/1671 in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Lieutenant Nathan Fiske and Elizabeth Fry.
She married Edward Parks (Park, Parks, Parke) on March 13, 1694/95. Edward was born on April 8, 1661. His parents were Thomas Park and Abigail Dix.
Their children included:
Nathan Parks,
Martha Parks (April 18, 1699),
Edward Parks (April 18, 1701), and
Thomas Parks (1703, married Elizabeth Harrington).
Edward died March 1, 1745 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
First printed in Boston 1745
Watertown was settled in 1630 by English Puritans in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.