Family
On the 27 August 1834, he married Harriet Langdon Roberts, daughter of diplomatist Edmund Roberts, emissary to the Far East, and granddaughter of Woodbury Langdon, one of New Hampshire's representatives to the Continental Congress. They had four children, among them General Amasa J. Parker, Jr. of the National Guards of the State of New York, and Mary Parker who married Erastus Corning (1827–1897) and was the mother of Edwin Corning and Parker Corning.
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