Daniel Parker (Baptist)

Daniel Parker
TitleElder
Personal life
Born(1781-04-06)April 6, 1781
DiedDecember 3, 1844(1844-12-03) (aged 63)
Resting placePilgrim Cemetery, Elkhart, Texas
Spouse
Martha "Patsy" Dixon
(m. 1802)
Children11
Parents
Religious life
ReligionProtestantism
DenominationBaptist
Church
  • Turnbull Baptist Church
  • Pilgrim Predestinarian Regular Baptist Church
PhilosophyPredestination, Serpent seed
SectPrimitive Baptist
Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists
InitiationBaptized
January 19, 1802
Member of the Illinois Senate
from the Crawford County district
In office
December 2, 1822  December 4, 1826
Preceded byJoseph Kitchell

Daniel Parker (April 6, 1781 – December 3, 1844) was an American minister in the Primitive Baptist Church in the Southern United States and the founder of numerous churches including Pilgrim Primitive Baptist Church at Elkhart, Texas, the location of the Parker family cemetery. As an elder, Parker led a group who separated from that church and formed the Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists. Parker is one of the earliest documented proponents of the doctrine of Serpent Seed among Protestant Christianity.