Christopher Parker is my paternal first cousin 4x removed. I can tell you most definitely he was NOT descended from the Sparrow family. His younger sister Minerva married Edward Sparrow of Louisiana, so he was related only by marriage. As for his grandfather James Armstrong being at Valley Forge with George Washington, I'd love to see the documentation on that. Our family stories do say that Christopher's mother's(our records give her name as ABIGAIL b 23 Feb 1787, d 1817)father was a soldier from VA who eloped with a Richmond boarding school student named Elizabeth Morris (b abt 1765) on 27 Nov 1781. Abigail's two brothers were both commodores in the U.S. Navy.