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At the Battle of Trenton, Parker had the honor to receive Hessian Colonel [[Johann Rall]]'s sword of surrender and he alone holds a sword in the painting, ''[[The Capture of the Hessians at Trenton, December 26, 1776]]'' by [[John Trumbull]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Ward|first1=Harry M.|title=For Virginia and for Independence: Twenty-Eight Revolutionary War Soldiers from the Old Dominion|chapter=Josiah Parker|date=2011|pages=60–61|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=scNEB1PtH_8C&pg=PA60|isbn=9780786486014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/IsleofWight/046-5049_Colonel_Josiah_Parker_Family_Cemetery_2004_Final_Nomination.pdf|title=NRHP Nomination: Col. Josiah Parker Family Cemetery| date=2004|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources|page=15}}</ref> |
At the Battle of Trenton, Parker had the honor to receive Hessian Colonel [[Johann Rall]]'s sword of surrender and he alone holds a sword in the painting, ''[[The Capture of the Hessians at Trenton, December 26, 1776]]'' by [[John Trumbull]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Ward|first1=Harry M.|title=For Virginia and for Independence: Twenty-Eight Revolutionary War Soldiers from the Old Dominion|chapter=Josiah Parker|date=2011|pages=60–61|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=scNEB1PtH_8C&pg=PA60|isbn=9780786486014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/IsleofWight/046-5049_Colonel_Josiah_Parker_Family_Cemetery_2004_Final_Nomination.pdf|title=NRHP Nomination: Col. Josiah Parker Family Cemetery| date=2004|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources|page=15}}</ref> |
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Parker resigned from the army on July 12, 1778 and Isle of Wight voters elected as one of Isle of Wight county's two (part-time) representatives in the [[Virginia House of Delegates]] (again alongside John Sarsbrook Wills.) |
Parker resigned from the army on July 12, 1778 and Isle of Wight voters elected as one of Isle of Wight county's two (part-time) representatives in the [[Virginia House of Delegates]] (again alongside John Sarsbrook Wills.) Howeever the legislative session was in two parts, and fellow legislators refused to seat him at the first session because he was a colonel of the 5th Virginia Regiment on election days, and thus ineligible to serve as a legislator, so Samuel Hardy was elected to replace him on October 3, 1778 and sat in the December session.<ref>Leonard p. 130 n.1</ref> Voters elected Parker to the Assembly of 1779, and he again served alongside John Scarsbrook Wills, although again replaced by Samuel Hardy for the Assembly of 1780-1781.<ref>Leonard p. 134</ref> During [[Cornwallis]]'s Virginia campaign in 1781, the notorious Colonel [[Tarleton]] ransacked Parker's home.<ref>{{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/oldchurchesmini00meadgoog | title=Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia | author=William Meade| page=[https://archive.org/details/oldchurchesmini00meadgoog/page/n253 229]| publisher=J.B. Lippincott & company| year=1891 }}</ref> |
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In August 1781, Lafayette sent Parker to [[Portsmouth, Virginia]] on a reconnaissance. He found the British had embarked for Yorktown. Parker recovered 25 cannons the British had thrown into the sea to prevent their capture.<ref>{{cite book| author=David A. Clary| title=Adopted Son| year=2007| page=[https://archive.org/details/adoptedsonwashin00clar/page/324 324]| publisher=Bantam Books| isbn=978-0-553-80435-5| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/adoptedsonwashin00clar/page/324}}</ref> |
In August 1781, Lafayette sent Parker to [[Portsmouth, Virginia]] on a reconnaissance. He found the British had embarked for Yorktown. Parker recovered 25 cannons the British had thrown into the sea to prevent their capture.<ref>{{cite book| author=David A. Clary| title=Adopted Son| year=2007| page=[https://archive.org/details/adoptedsonwashin00clar/page/324 324]| publisher=Bantam Books| isbn=978-0-553-80435-5| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/adoptedsonwashin00clar/page/324}}</ref> |
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