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PARKER, WILLIAM (?-?). William Parker, one of Stephen F. Austin's^qv Old Three Hundred^qv colonists, received title to a sitio^qv of land in what is now Brazoria County and a labor^qv in what is now Waller County on July 8, 1824. The census of March 1826 classified him as a farmer and stock raiser, a single man aged between twenty-five and forty. Parker died sometime before January 1, 1830, when Thomas Marshall Duke,^qv administrator of the estate, gave notice that he would be in San Felipe on March 4, 1830, to sell Parker's land.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Lester G. Bugbee, "The Old Three Hundred: A List of Settlers in Austin's First Colony," Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association 1 (October 1897). Texas Gazette, January 23, 1830.

The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article.

Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "," http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/PP/fpa30.html (accessed September 6, 2008).

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