== The first recorded Parchman in America found was Nicholas Parchman, on a tax list of Bedford County,
Pa. in 1773. Bedford County, in the Allegheny Mountains east of Pittsburgh, was barely opened for
settlement, mostly by Scotch-Irish and Germans (Pennsylvania Dutch).
There were a number of Indian massacres nearby and the colonists had to organize for protection.
The Pennsylvania Colonial Assembly (mostly Quakers who felt friendly toward the Indians) was
not very responsive to pleas from the besieged frontiersmen. I presume that Nicholas was the
father of the "3 brothers from Germany" who founded the American branches of the family
according to family legend around Clarksville, Tennessee. Nicholas was also listed on another
tax list of Allegheny Co, Pa in 1783, alone with another Parchman, Peter. Both names
were then spelled Parchment.
Crest of the town of Parchim, Mecklenburg, Germany
== The name Parchman is so unusual in any census that there are almost no families with a similar
first syllable. Rarely there is a Percher or a Parchmore and often a Parkman, but
anyone with a last name resembling Parchman or Perchment has proved to be related to
one of the three "brothers" or their slaves! (In a letter I received from the Arboitsgemeinschaft
fur mitteldeutsche Familienforschung e.V. in Hesse-Kassel West Germany, the name is even rare
in Germany [as Parchmann]. I have correspondence with several Parchmanns listed in
the Berlin telephone directory that confirms their ancestry several generations ago
around the Parchim region of Mecklenburg, now in East Germany, from which information
is now very difficult to come by.)
Source: "The Parchman Family Tree", Compiled by Lonnie Gerald Parchman
| Gen01-G6-Nicholas Parchman (b.abt.1730 GER-d.1772-1827 Bedford Co., PA)
| | married yr? to Firstname? Lastname? (b.yr?-d.yr?)
| | Gen02-Peter Parchman/Parchment (b.1755-d.Feb. 12, 1844 Wilkins Twp., PA)
| | | married 1790 to Mary Powell (b.yr?-d.yr?)
| | | Gen03-John Parchman b: 1796-d.yr?)
| | | | Gen04-John Parchman/Perchment (b.yr?-d.yr?)
| | | | Gen04-Peter D. Parchman (b.yr?-d.yr?)
| | | | Gen04-Son Parchman (b.yr?-d.yr?)
| | | Gen03-Mary Parchman (b.1798-d.yr?)
| | | | married yr? to Hugh Forsythe (b.yr?-d.yr?)
| | | Gen03-Peter Parchman (b.1801-d.yr?)
| | Gen02-John Parchman (b.1770 GER?PA?-d.1832 Guices Creek, Stewart Co., TN)
| | | married abt.1795 to Margaret Lastname? (b.yr?-d.yr?)
| | | Gen03-Nancy Parchman (b.1796 Guices Creek, Stewart Co., TN-d.yr?)
| | | | married yr? to Joel Mann (b.yr?-d.yr?)
| | | Gen03-Elizabeth Parchman (b.aft.1796 Guices Creek, Stewart Co., TN)
| | | | married yr? to Abraham Stanley (b.yr?-d.yr?)
| | | Gen03-James Parchman, Sr. (b.1801 TN-d.1873
| | | | married yr? to T.E. (Luona) Lastname? (b.1812 MS-d.yr?)
| | | | Gen04-Jacob Parchman (b.abt.1830 Henderson Co., TN-d.abt.1862 TN)
| | | | | married abt.1857 TN to Mahala Jane Record (b.Sep. 16, 1834 TN-d.Jan. 24, 1878 McNairy Co., TN)
| | | | | Gen05-Nancy Jane (T.?) Parchman (b.Jan. 06, 1858 McNairy Co?., TN-d.Apr. 10, 1938 Lauderdale Co., TN)
| | | | | | married Nov. 11, 1880 to James Alfred Criner, Sr. (b.Apr. 14, 1859 Henderson Co., TN-d.Dec. 26, 1894 Lauderdale Co., TN)
| | | | | Gen05-James R. Parchman (b.1859-d.1938 Lauderdale Co., TN)
| | | | | | married Jan. 09, 1883 Lauderdale Co., TN to Ella C. Reviere (b.1861-d.1891 Lauderdale Co., TN)
| | | | Gen04-Fredonia Parchman (b.abt.1832 Henderson Co., TN-d.May 10, 1910 Henderson Co., TN)
| | | | | married yr? to Michael C. Watlington (b.Feb. 02, 1826 Knox Co., TN-d.May 10, 1910 Henderson Co., TN)
| | | | Gen04-Saffronia Parchman (b.abt.1835-d.yr?)
| | | | Gen04-John H. Parchman (b.1837 TN-d.aft.1900 Chester Co., TN)
| | | | | married abt.1860 TN to Mary E. Tull (b.1842 TN-d.yr?)
| | | | | Gen05-Dovie Parchman (b.abt.1861-d.yr?)
| | | | | Gen05-Jennie Lee Parchman (b.Mar. 01, 1863-d.1919)
| | | | | | married yr? to Sterling Patrick Sauls (b.1860-d.1946)
| | | | | Gen05-John Thomas Parchman (b.1864)
| | | | | | married yr? to Helen Reed (b.yr?-d.yr?)
| | | | | Gen05-Mitchell Parchman (b.abt. 1866-d.yr?)
| | | | | | married yr? to Pearl Lastname? (b.yr?-d.yr?)
| | | | | Gen05-Hugh Parchman (b.abt.1868-d.yr?)
| | | | | Gen05-Mollie Parchman (b.1869-d.1929)
| | | | | | married 1889 to Robert Criner (b.1854-d.1911)
| | | | | Gen05-James Thomas Parchman (b.Oct. 26, 1870 Henderson Co., TN-d.Mar. 25, 1936 Chester Co., TN)
| | | | | | married 1899 to Cornelia Layn (b.1874 Madison Co., TN-d.1924 Chester Co., TN)
| | | | | Gen05-Carrie Parchman (b.1875-d.yr?)
| | | | | Gen05-Ona Parchman (b.1877-d.yr?)
| | | | Gen04-Elizabeth Parchman (b.abt.1839-d.yr?)
| | | | Gen04-James Parchman, Jr. (b.abt.1841 Henderson Co., TN-d.yr?)
| | | | | married yr? to Elizabeth Lastname? (b.yr?-d.yr?)
| | | | Gen04-Nancy Parchman (b.abt.1843 Henderson Co., TN-d.yr?)
| | | | Gen04-Jesse Parchman (b.abt.1847 Henderson Co., TN-d.yr?)
| | | Gen03-Mary "Polly" Parchman (b.abt.1803-d.yr?)
| | | | married yr? to William Curtis (b.yr?-d.yr?)
| | | Gen03-Jacob Parchman (b.Mar. 16, 1807-d.yr?)
| | | | married Oct. 31, 1839 Stweart Co., TN to Emily Tomlinson (b.yr?-d.yr?)
| | | | Gen04-John Tomlinson Parchman (b.Jul. 24, 1840 Stewart Co., TN-d.yr? Stewart Co., TN)
| | | | | married Aug. 02, 1858 Stewart Co., TN to Caroline Tobithy Dunbar (b.1839 Stewart Co., TN-d.yr? Stewart Co., TN)
| | | | | Gen05-Helen Ann Parchman (b.May 10, 1859-d.yr?)
| | | | | Gen05-George Stacker Parchman (b.April 01, 1863-d.yr?)
| | | | | Gen05-James B. Parchman (b.Jul. 16, 1865-d.yr?)
| | | | | Gen05-John Nine Parchman (b.Aug. 11, 1867-d.yr?)
| | | | | Gen05-T. Jacob Parchman (b.Sep. 02, 1869-d.yr?)
| | | | | Gen05-Miles Russell Parchman (b.Nov. 07, 1871 Stewart Co., TN-d.Dec. 28, 1938 Stewart Co., TN)
| | | | | | married yr? to Ida Mae Sykes (b.1878 Stewart Co., TN-d.1958 Stewart Co., TN)
| | | | | Gen05-William E. Parchman (b.Apr. 17, 1875-d.yr?)
| | | | | Gen05-Patsy Tull Parchman (b.Jan. 15, 1878-d.yr?)
| | | | | Gen05-Thomas Clay Parchman (b.Mar. 04, 1886-d.yr?)
| | | | Gen04-Cordelia Parchman (b.1851-d.yr?)
| | | | | married Jan. 23, 1869 Stewart Co., TN to Thomas Vickers (b.yr?-d.yr?)
| | | | Gen04-Jacob Parchman (b.1853-d.yr?)
| | | | Gen04-Mary Parchman (b.1854-d.yr?)
| | | | Gen04-Sarah Parchman (b.1854-d.yr?)
| | | | Gen04-Henry Clay Parchman (b.1859-d.yr?)
| | | | Gen04-James Parchman (b.1863-d.yr?)
| | | | Gen04-Uriah Parchman (b.1865-d.yr?)
| | | | Gen04-Elizabeth Parchman (b.1868-d.yr?)
| | | Gen03-John Parchman (b.1810 TN-d.yr?)
| | | | married bef. 1840 to Firstname? Lastname? (b.yr?-d.yr?)
| | | | married again Sep. 17, 1841 Dover, Stwerat Co., TN to Sally Kelly (b.yr?-d.yr?)
| | | | Gen04-Benjamin K. Parchman (b.1837 TN-d.yr? Des Arc, AR)
| | | | | married Nov. 28, 1857 to Theroa G. Dowdy (b.Jan. 02, 1839 TN-d.Aug. 02, 1903 Des Arc, AR)
| | | | | Gen05-Jacob A. Parchman (b.Aug. 23, 1860-d.1901 Des Arc, AR)
| | | | | | married yr? to Mary Ellen Tarkington (b.Dec. 25, 1859-d.1900 Des Arc, AR)
| | | | Gen04-Mary Parchman (b.abt.1839-d.yr?)
| | | | | married October 21, 1864 Stewart Co., TN to James Parchman (b.yr?-d.yr?)
| | | | | Gen05-Triona Parchman (b. yr? AR-d.yr?)
| | | Gen03-Jesse J. Parchman (b.1813-d.abt.1848)
| | | | Gen04-M. J. Parchman (b.yr?-d.yr?)
| | | Gen03-Leonard "Larner" Parchman (b.1816-d.abt.1849 Guices Creek, Stewart Co., TN)
| | | | married Jun. 26, 1844 to Nancy E. Dowdy (b.yr?-d.bef.1850)
| | | | Gen04-John Parchman (b.1846-d.1868)
| | | | Gen04-William Parchman(b.1848-d.yr?)
== Regarding Philip Parchman, the Rev. War soldier from PA and later Robertson and Lawrence
Counties in TN:
... Robertson Co. Court House, Springfield, TN, Deed book B, 1798-1800, pg. 103: Phillip Parchment to Margit Guffey 1 March 1798. This indenture made 18 Sept. 1797 between Margit Guffy of Robertson Co., TN and Phillip Parchment of the County and State aforesaid of the United States South of the River Ohio. Phillip Parchment for $200.00 doth confirm unto Margit Guffey a parcel of land containing 113 acres in Robertson Co. on Millers Creek waters of the Sulphur Fork of Red River, being the East half of a 228 acre tract granted by North Carolina to Nicholas Conrod. Grant #2420, dated 31 Dec 1793. Signed, Phillip Parchment. Witnesses: Mary Warren, William Flewallin.
... Deed Book B 1798-1800, pg. 114 12 Apr 1798 Phillip Parchman to Margot Guffey. This Indenture made 18 Sept 1797 between Phillip Parchman of Robertson Co., TN and Margit Guffey of the County and State aforesaid, of the United States South of the River Ohio. Phillip Parchman for $500.00 doth confirm unto Margret Guffey a parcel fo land containing 440 acres in Robertson Co. on Calebs Creek waters of the Sulpher Fork of Red River, join Josiah Ramseys east corner, ... mines, minerals to the said Margret Guffey. Signed, Phillip Parchman. Witnesses: Wm Flewellen, Mary Warren.
... Robertson Co., TN Will/Inventory Records 1796-1817 (extracted from LDs Film #425197)
In the name of God Amen, I, Margaret Guffey of the State of Tennessee and the County of Robertson, being very sick and weakened in body but perfect mind and memory thanks be to God calling unto mine the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, make and ordain this my last Will and Testament, that is today principally and first of all, I give and recommend my Soul into the hands of Almighty God that gave it, and my body I recommend to earth to be buried in decent christian burial at the discretion of my Executors nothing doubting but at the ___(?) resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty Power of God, and as touching such worthy estate wherewith it has pleased God to help me with in this life I give, devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form, first I give to Philip Parchman my son-in-law all my lands and tenements together with all my household goods, ___(?) and movable property. Further I give to my son Henry Guffey 5 shillings out of my estate. I leave to my daughter Jane four shillings. I give to my son James Guffey 5 shillings. I give to my son Alexander Guffey 5 shillings. I leave to my daughter Elizabeth four shillings. Willed and bequeathed notifying and confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and my seal this 17th day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred.
/s/ Margaret (X) Guffey
Witness: Geo. Murphy Robinson Murphy
| | Gen02-G5-Phillip Parchman/Parchment (b.1763-d.1825)
| | | married yr? to Mary Guffey (b.abt.1765-d.yr? TN)
| | | Gen03-John Parchman (b.bet.1780-1790-d.yr?)
| | | Gen03-Jesse Parchman (b.abt.1792-d.yr?)
| | | Gen03-James Parchman (b.1793-d.yr?)
| | | Gen03-Sarah ? Parchman (b.abt.1794-d.yr?)
| | | | married yr? to Henson Day (b.yr?-d.yr?)
| | | Gen03-Aquilla Parchman (b.abt.1795-d.1835-40 Monroe Co., MS)
| | | | married Oct. 03, 1822 Monroe Co., NS to Martha Dilworth (b.abt.1805 KY-d.yr?)
| | | | Gen04-Keziah P. Parchman (b.abt.1824 Monroe Co., MS-d.yr?)
| | | | | married Mar. 05, 1847 Monroe Co., MS to Toliver G. Thompson (b.1826 Monroe Co., MS-d.yr?)
| | | | Gen04-Mary D. Parchman (b.abt.1826 Monroe Co., MS-d.yr?)
| | | | | married Oct. 18, 1848 Monroe Co., MS to William E. Gordon (b.abt.1829 Monroe Co., MS-d.yr?)
| | | | Gen04-Amanda Elizabeth Parchman (b.abt.1827 Monroe Co., MS-d.yr?)
| | | | | married Jan. 18, 1844 Monroe Co., MS to Valentine Hilliard (b.yr?-d.yr?)
| | | | Gen04-James Andrew Parchman (b.Oct. 20, 1830 Monroe Co., MS-d.Oct. 03, 1862)
| | | | | married Jan. 25, 1854 Monroe Co., MS to Mary Jane Burdine (b.Sep. 01, 1834 Monroe Co., MS-d.Jun. 02, 1868)
| | | | | Gen05-Jane Parchman (b.abt.1855-d.yr?)
| | | | | Gen05-Martha Parchman (b.abt.1858-d.yr?0
| | | | | Gen05-James Absalom Parchman (b.Aug. 19, 1861 Monroe Co., MS-d.Jan. 02, 1908)
| | | | | | married Nov. 29, 1882 Monroe Co., MS to Mary Ellen Jones (b.Jul. 23, 1865-d.May 20, 1958)
| | | | Gen04-Nancy M. Parchman (b.abt.1835-d.yr?)
| | | | | married Jan. 25, 1854 Monroe Co., MS to James C. Burdine (b.abt.1832 Monroe Co., MS-d.yr?)
| | | | Gen04-James Absalom Parchman (b.abt.1836 Monroe Co., MS-d.yr?)
| | | Gen03-Elizabeth ? Parchman (b.abt.1798-d.yr?)
| | | | married yr? to Andrew Dilworth (b.yr?-d.yr?)
| | | Gen03-Henry D. Parchman (b.bet.1800-10-d.yr?)
| | | Gen03-Peter Parchman (b.1805-d.yr?)
| | | | Gen04-John P. "Jake" Parchman (b.abt.1825-d.yr?)
| | | | | married abt.1850 to Uncie Green De Priest (b.yr?-d.yr?)
| | | | | Gen05-Aquilla Henderson Parchman (b.Oct. 14, 1851 Monroe Co., MS-d.yr?)
| | | | | | married 1880 Monroe Co., MS to Caroline Ellis (b.Feb. 11, 1857-d.1895 TX)
| | | | | Gen05-Waits Parchman (b.abt.1855-d.yr?)
| | | | | Gen05-James Beauregaurd Parchman (b.abt.1857 Monroe Co., MS-d.yr?)
| | | | | | married yr? to Ephemia Tanner (b.yr?-d.yr?)
| | | | | Gen05-William Jefferson Parchman (b.abt.1862 TN-d.yr?)
| | | | | | married yr? Monroe Co., MS to Mary C. Harmon (b.abt.1818 Monroe Co., MS-d.yr?)
| | | | | Gen05-Louella Parchman (b.Aug. 15, 1865-d.yr?)
| | | | | | married yr? to Frank Harmon (b.yr?-d.yr?)
| | | | | Gen05-George Martin Parchman (b.Feb. 08, 1871-d.yr?)
| | | | | Gen05-Martha Parchman (b.abt.1873-d.yr?)
| | | | | | married yr? to Thad Hilliard (b.yr?-d.yr?)
| | | | | Gen05-Dolphus Parchman (b.abt.1875-d.yr?)
| | | | Gen04-Will Parchman (b.yr?-d.yr?)
| | | | Gen04-Jefferson Parchman (b.yr?-d.yr?)
| | | | | Gen05-Martha E. Parchman (b.abt.1837-d.yr?)
| | | | | Gen05-Stephen H. Parchman (b.abt.1838-d.yr?)
| | | | | Gen05-John J. Parchman (b.abt.1839-d.yr?)
| | | | | Gen05-Lucy Parchman (b.abt.1842-d.yr?)
| | | | | Gen05-Mary A. Parchman (b.abt.1844-d.yr?)
| | | | | Gen05-Elvira C. Parchman (b.abt.1845-d.yr?)
| | | | | Gen05-William H. Parchman (b.abt.1848-d.yr?)
| | | | Gen04-Martin Parchman (b.yr?-d.yr?)
| | | | Gen04-Christopher Clay Parchman (b.yr? Monroe Co., MS-d.yr?)
| | | | | married Jul. 10, 1851 Monroe Co., MS to Adeline Dillingham (b.1832 Monroe Co., MS-d.yr?)
| | | | Gen04-Henderson Parchman (b.yr?-d.yr?)
| | | | Gen04-Martha Parchman (b.yr? Monroe Co., MS-d.yr?)
| | | | | married yr? to John Dillingham (b.abt.1820 Monroe Co., MS-d.yr?)
| | | | Gen04-Mary Ann Parchman (b.yr? Monroe Co., MS-d.yr?)
| | | | | married yr? to Thomas R. Tanner (b.abt.1823 TN-d.yr?)
| | | Gen03-Milly ? Parchman (b.abt.1809-d.yr?)
| | | | married yr? to John G. King (b.yr?-d.yr?)
| | | Gen03-G4-Nancy Parchman (b.abt.1802-07-d.1867 Nixon, TX)
| | | | married 1822 TN to William McLean (b.1802-d.yr?)
| | | | | | | | | Please refer to EXTENDED DETAILS OF LINEAGE: MCLEAN for additonal children.
| | | | Gen04-G3-Samuel Phillips McLean (b.1824 TN-d.1909)
| | | | | married 1844 to Martha Adeline McCown (b.1828 Lincoln Co., TN-d.1846 Falkner, Tippah Co., MS)
| | | | | | | | | Please refer to EXTENDED DETAILS OF LINEAGE: MCLEAN for additional children.
| | | | | Gen05-G2-Sarah Jane McLean (b.1846 MS-d.1902)
| | | | | | married 1868 to James Edward "Ed" Reed Jr. (b.1844-d.1937)
| | | | | | | | | Please refer to EXTENDED DETAILS OF LINEAGE: REED for additional children.
| | | | | | Gen06-G1-Lee Walter Herring 3. (b.1881 Oxford, TX-d.1945)
| | | | | | | married 1907 to Pearl Josephine Reed (b.1883 Burnet Co., TX-d.1980)
| | | | | | | Gen07-G-Lillian Corinne Herring (b.Jan. 29, 1921 Prescott, AZ)
| | | | | | | | married 1940 AZ to Edmund Richard Long (b.Jan. 25, 1917 Minneapolis, MN-d.1997 CA)
| | | | | Please refer to EXTENDED DETAILS OF LINEAGE: LONG / LONGBOTTOM for additional children.
| | | | | | | | Gen08-F-Ronald Richard Long (b.Feb. 10, 1942 Grand Canyon, AZ)
| | | | | | | | | married Oct. 14, 1961 Whittier, Los Angeles Co., CA to Margery Ann Pawloski (b.Jan. 18, 1943 Hastings, Sherman Co., NE
| | | | | Please refer to EXTENDED DETAILS OF LINEAGE: LONG / LONGBOTTOM for additional children.
| | | | | | | | | Gen09-S-Jeffrey Richard Long (b.May 03,1962 Norwalk, Los Angeles Co., CA)
| | | | | | | | | | married Aug. 07, 1993 Valinda, Los Angeles Co., CA to Diane Marie Silvers (b.Aug. 06, 1957 South Bend, IN) no issue
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