When Nathaniel Parks was born on 1 February 1678, in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Edward Parks, was 34 and his mother, Deliverance French, was 30. He married Abigail Hughes on 29 September 1703, in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 18 December 1764, in his hometown, at the age of 86, and was buried in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.