On December 4, 1833, William Parke signed the “Testimony of 51 Neighbors,” later printed in Mormonism Unvailed. William was a deacon in the first Baptist Church of Palmyra. In 1828, he was a trustee of the First Baptist Church.[1]
[1] Howe, Mormonism Unvailed, pp. 366–367; Vogel, Early Mormon Documents, 2:53.