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PARKS, WILLIAM (?-?). William Parks was a partner of Joshua Parker^qv as one of Stephen F. Austin's^qv Old Three Hundred^qv families. They received title to a sitio^qv now in Wharton County on July 24, 1824. The census of the Colorado District for December 1825 listed Parks as a farmer and stock raiser, but his name did not appear in the colony census for March 1826. He may be the William Parks, a single man from New York, aged twenty-four, who applied for land on the west side of Trespalacios Creek.

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).

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/fpajy.html (accessed October 10, 2008).

(NOTE: "s.v." stands for sub verbo, "under the word.")

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