Lt. William Palmer, of Plymouth, Yarmouth & Newtown, LI

William Palmer

• Birth: Feb 9 1610 - Norfolk, England
• Death: Nov 10 1661 - Newtown, NY
• Wife: Judith Ferris
• Children: James Palmer, Judith Palmer, Susannah Palmer, Joseph Palmer, William Palmer, John Palmer, Ephraim Palmer

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Lieutenant William PALMER Sr. was born between 1610 and 1615 in London, England. He died about 1660 in Middleboro, NY.

The earliest history of this family begins with William Palmer who is first found in America in the Plymouth Colony, Mass. records where it is recorded that on Jan. 7, 1638 at a Court of Assistants for that Colony, and on Sept. 3, 1639, he was "propounded to be free at the next court as an inhabitant of Yarmouth Mass., and on Sept. 1, 1640 he was admitted a freeman and took the oath (from the Records of Colony of New Plymouth Mass. Vol. 1, pp.108,132, 161)

Yarmouth, Mass. as granted by the Plymouth Court as a settlement at this time and William Palmer was among the first persons to take up residence there in the early part of 1639. Yarmouth is located on Cape Cod in about the center of the Cape, just east of Barnstable, Mass.

On Sept. 27, 1642 he was made Lieutenant by the Court at Plymouth. The Court on that date ordered that the company against the Indieans should have Miles Stanish as Captain and William Palmer as Lieutenant.. (Plymouth Colony Rec. Vol.11, p.65 & p. 88).

In 1652 a company of English from various places in Mass. and Conn. arrived in Newtown, L.I, N.Y. and made a settlement there under the jurisdiction ofthe Dutch in New Netherlands. This settlement was originally calledf Middleboro until 1665 when the name was shanged to Newtown. This settlement is now in the Borough of Queens, NY. It was located between Long Island City and Jamaica, N.Y. Amoung these English settlers was Lieut. William Palmer. He died in Middleboro abt 1660.

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From an article in the NYG&B Record, Vol. 86 (1955) by George McCracken, . 132, July issue, entitled "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London & Colonial America":

"She (Judith Feake) married, first, most probably at Watertown, Massachusetts, and before 5 December, 1639, Sergeant (afterwards Lieutenant) William Palmer, of Plymouth, Yarmouth and Newtown, Long Island, who died in the last named placed ca. 1661. His parents are unknown; though he was at Plymouth in 1638 about to move to Yarmouth at its founding, he was not the William Palmer of Duxbury, nailer, or either of the nailers 2 sons, both named William.

There is some reason to think that William may have come from Swaffham or Great Yarmouth, Norfolk County. William and Judith were the parents of four sons and one daughter whose births were not recorded but whose names are certain: William, Ephraim, James, Joseph, Judith.

William and Judith Palmer were the parents of fours sons and one daughter: William, Ephraim, James, Joseph, and Judith, whose births are not recorded but whose names are certain. Judith Feake married, second, in 1662 or thereafter, as third and last wife, Jeffrey Ferris of Greenwich, CT, who died May 31, 1666, and, third, before May 6, 1667, John Bowers who married again, following Judith's death, the widow Hannah (Close) Knapp, and made his own will on March 16, 1693/4. Judith's death occurred, according to Spencer B. Mead, in 1667, but he cites no evidence and the year seems early. Connecticut Vital Records do not supply any of the missing dates.

Several sketches of William Palmer are in print of which the only trustworthy one is by Donald Lines Jacobus and appears in Lillian L. M. Selleck's "One Branch of the Miner Family (New Haven, 1928) pp 142.

See also Spencer B. Mead, "Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich (New York, 1911), pp. 618-30, where, for the first time to our knowledge, William Palmer is called Henry and the true Henry's family gets mixed up with William's. This error was copied by Marion H. Reynolds and Anna C. Rippler, "History and Descendants of John and Sarah Reynolds" etc (Brooklyn, 1924) p. 31 note, and by Josephine C. Frost in THE RECORD 71:362.

The late Dr. Byron S. Palmer's sketch No. 2150, Part II, in the "Boston Transcript" for aug. 26, 1925, avoids the main errors but wrongly gives William and Judth Palmer a son John who died at Greenwich before Oct. 26, 1672, estate settled at Greenwich April 24, 1724, these papers supplying the names of William Palmer's children. We think this John may have been the John Palmer who m. at Swaffham, Norfolk, on Oct. 13, 1631, a wife named Margaret Pratt, and he was probably brother of that Henry Palmer who married in the same parish on Nov. 3, 1635, Katherine Springell. Henry Palmer of Wethersfield, Conn. is known to have had a wife named Katherine, and, among others, a son Ephraim, born at Wethersfield ca. April 25, 1648. As William Palmer had a son Ephraim, we are inclined to think that he, Henry Palmer of Swaffham and Wethersfield, and John Palmer of Swaffham and Greenswich, were brothers.

No William Palmer appears in the marriage registers of Swaffham, but as we suppose our William married Judith Feake at Watertown, this absence is a help, rather than a hindrance, to our theory."

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From my Heritage side -

William Palmer

• MyHeritage Family Trees
• Summers Family Site (23andMe), managed by Debra Summers (Contact)
• Birth: 1610 - Somerset England
• Death: 1661 - Middleboro, Long Island, New York
• Parents: William Palmer, Frances Blossom
• Wife: Judith Feake
• Children: Susanna Palmer, Ephraim Palmer, Judith Palmer, John Palmer, James Palmer, William Palmer, Joseph Palmer

William Palmer

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• Roe (Hodgson) Family Site (23andMe), managed by Coleen Roe (Hodgson) (Contact)
• Birth: 1610 - Long Island, NY
• Death: 1661 - Middleboro, LI, NY
• Wife: Judith Ferris (born Feake)

A tree on Geni had him as the son of:

• Thomas PALMER
• Place of Burial:Surrey, , England
• Birth: circa 1575 Cutney, Surrey, , England
• Husband of Sara WORRINGTON Father of Lt. William Palmer; Thomas PALMER and Sara PALMER
• Added by: Duane Harley Roen on August 2, 2009
• Managed by: Duane Harley Roen

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William Palmer

• FamilySearch Family Tree
• Birth: Feb 11 1610 - Kent, England
• Death: Nov 29 1661 - Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
• Parents: Ephraim Palmer, Mrs. Ephraim Palmer
• Wife: Judith Feake
• Brother: Henry Palmer

Lieutenant William Palmer

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• Birth: 1610 - Parham, Somerset, England
• Death: Nov 29 1661 - Yarmouth, MA
• Wife: Judith Ferris
• Children: James Palmer, Martha Palmer, William Palmer, Susannah Palmer, Ephraim Palmer, John Palmer, James Palmer, Judah Reynolds, Joseph Palmer

(Lt) William Palmer

• FamilySearch Family Tree
• Birth: Feb 9 1610 - Stepney, London, England
• Death: Nov 10 1661 - Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA