![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He graduated from Columbia College of Columbia University in New York City in 1793, and then became a merchant in Manhattan, New York City, but on the death of his father returned to Perth Amboy. Parker moved to Perth Amboy after the Revolution. Cortlandt Skinner, the last Royal Attorney General of New Jersey and a Loyalist with the New Jersey Volunteers, also known as Skinner's Greens, during the Revolutionary War. Peter's Church in Perth Amboy) and Elizabeth (née Van Cortlandt) Skinner (the daughter of Stephanus Van Cortlandt, the first native born mayor of New York). ![]() Through his father, Parker's great-grandfather was James Parker, a prominent colonial American printer and publisher. His father was on the provincial council before the Revolution, an active member of the board of proprietors of the colony, and the owner of large landed properties. Parker was born at "Shipley", his father's farm in Bethlehem in the Province of New Jersey on Mato James Parker Sr. He served as the Collector of the Port of New Jersey in Perth Amboy from 1829 to 1833. (Ma– April 1, 1868) was a United States representative from New Jersey. ![]()
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