[2] who received a legislative divorce from her abusive husband after the father's death, though her son Leopold Copeland Parker Cowper would follow his maternal grandfather's path into politics.

[3] Isaac Fulgham represented the county alongside John Scarsbrook Wills during the Fifth Virginia Convention.

He successfully ran as a Federalist and won election to the Fourth through Sixth United States Congress.

Declaring it was time to "wipe off the stigma" of slavery that stained America, Parker became the first national legislator in American history to formally introduce an antislavery motion in Congress, and was one of seven representatives to vote against the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793.

Parker died in 1810, and was buried in the family cemetery on his plantation, "Macclesfield", in Isle of Wight County, Virginia.

[14] His grandson, Leopold Copeland Parker Cowper, born to his daughter the year after Col Parker died, served two terms representing Isle of Wight County in the Virginia House of Delegates, and became as lieutenant Governor in the Restored Government of Virginia after the American Civil War.