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David Palmer

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Birthplace: Stonington, New London, Connecticut Colony
Death: September 06, 1781 (39)
Fort Griswold, Groton Heights, New London County, Connecticut, United States (Killed in defense of Fort Griswold)
Immediate Family:

Son of Nathaniel Palmer, I and Mary Palmer
Husband of Abigail Palmer
Father of Mary Kibbe; David H. Palmer and Martha Palmer
Brother of Anna Palmer; Lucretia Whiting; Lucy Palmer; Nathaniel Palmer, II; Mary Brown and 1 other

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About David Palmer

DENISON GENEALOGY, ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS OF CAPTAIN GEORGE DENISON, Of Stonington Connecticut, by John Denison Baldwin and William Clift, Worcester, MA, 1881, p 12



HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF STONINGTON, County of New London, Connecticut, from its first settlement in 1649 to 1900, by Richard Anson Wheeler, New London, CT, 1900, p. 516, 520

Died in defense of Fort Griswold, September 9, 1781.

David was in the Revolutionary War and was killed at the massacre of Fort Griswold.

In the Old Palmer Ground near the head of Palmer's Cove at Noank, is the following inscription: In Memory of Mr David Palmer who was flain in Fort Griswould fep 6th 1781 in y 38 year of his Age

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David Palmer's Timeline

1742
June 4, 1742
Stonington, New London, Connecticut Colony
1781
May 9, 1781
Groton, New London County, Connecticut, United States
September 6, 1781
Age 39
Fort Griswold, Groton Heights, New London County, Connecticut, United States
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