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1. Source cited below notes William was a magistrate and surveyor. He was also a Lieutenant in the Massachusetts Militia under Capt. Miles Standish. Alternate birthplace is also noted as London.
2. "Great Migration Newsletter," Vols. 1-15, by Robert Charles Anderson, 2007, p. 6, (1990 issue) in commenting on Watertown prior to 1644:
"At the opposite end, there were about ten grants of one acre in each of these two tracts. Men such as Richard Sawtell and Henry Cuttiss had not yet acquired families in 1636 and 1637, so for these individuals the grants are accurate. Just this bit of information helps us with identifying the Wiliam Palmer who was resident in Watertown at this time. In these two divisions he is receiving one acre at a time, yet he has been consistently equated with the William Palmer from Ormesby, co. Norfolk, who appears in Hampton, New Hampshire, with wife and Children. The fact that the William Palmer being granted land in Watertown in these years was a single man precludes this identification, and makes it much more likely that the Watertown man was the one who appears soon after in Yarmouth, having married Judith Feake, niece of Robert Feake of Watertown."
3. "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record," 86(1955):132-148, 209-221, "The Feake Family of Norfolk, London, and Colonial America," by George E. McCracken:
"48. James Feake, elder son of James Feake (no. 32) by wife Judith Thomas... Children: 2...
87. i. Judith,1 b. in London, probably in 1621, omitted from all the pedigrees. She probably accompanied the Dixons to Germany and may also have crossed the Atlantic with her brother Tobias. She married, first, most probably at Watertown, Mass., and before Dec. 5, 1639, Sergeant (afterwards Lieutenant) William Palmer; of Plymouth, Yarmouth, and Newtown, Long Island, who died in the last-named place ca. 1661. His parents are as yet unknown; though he was at Plymouth in 1638 about to move to Yarmouth at its founding, he was not the William1 Palmer of Duxbury, nailer, or either of the nailer's two sons, both named William. There is some reason to think that William may have come from either Swaffham or Great Yarmouth, co. Norfolk. William and Judith Palmer were the parents of four 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, Conn., 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 f. See also Spencer B. Mead, "History of the Town of Greenwich," (New York, 1911), pp. 618-20, where... true Henry's family gets mixed up with William's. This error was copied by Marion H. Reynolds and Anna C. Rippier, "History and Descendants of John and Sarah Reynolds, etc." (Brooklyn, 1924) p.31 note, and by Josephine C. Frost, "Ancestors of Evelyn Wood Keeler" (1939) pp. 60 f., but corrected by Mrs. 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 Judith 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 named Ephraim, born at Wethersfield ca. April 25, 1648. As William Palmer also had a son Ephraim, we are inclined to think that he, Henry Palmer of Swaffham and Wethersfield, and John Palmer of Swaffham and Greenwich, 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. The baptismal and burial registers of Swaffham should be examined..."
4."The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record," Article: "Town Records of Newton, Long Island," by Amos Canfield, in two parts:
Vol. 63 (1932), p. 360: "P. 22-29. Nov. 1661. Judah Palmer, of Middleborrough assigns to Jams Cristie a house and land, with a crop of tobacco, for which Cristie agrees to satisfy all of Judah's creditors. Wits: Jonathan Fish and Elias Bayly."
Vol. 64 (1933), p. 30: "P. 132. Note of a sale 1 Aug. 1659, William Palmer to Samuel Salles & Richard Fidoe, house & lot between Dowty & Richard Gildersleve, and a right in Smith's meadow, formerly bought of Matthew Edwards."
5. The book "One branch of the Miner family...," by Lillian Lounsberry Miner Selleck (New Haven, 1928), pp. 142-43:
"WILLIAM1 PALMER
LIEUT. WILLIAM1 PALMER appeared in Yarmouth, Mass., as early as Jan. 1639, and resided there until 1652. He married JUDITH FEAKE, born about 1620, daughter of James Feake, goldsmith, of London, Eng.
In December 1639, Robert Feake of Watertown, Mass., as guardian of Tobias Feake, aged seventeen, together with Sergeant William Palmer and Judith his wife of Yarmouth, son and daughter of James Feake, deceased, of London, goldsmith, signed a power of attorney to their uncle, Tobias Dixon of London, to sell a house on Lombard Street, London. Robert Feake of Watertown was uncle of Judith and Tobias.
Palmer was a Deputy to the Plymouth General Court, 1642, 1643, 1644, 1648, 1649, and 1650; and was appointed Lieutenant 22 Sept. 1642, under Capt. Miles Standish. In 1653 he moved to Newtown, Long Island, where he was a Magistrate from Mar. 1658 to Mar. 1660. He conveyed property in Newtown, 1 Aug. 1659, and his widow Judith conveyed 29 Nov. 1661, showing that he died between those dates; probably later than 9 Mar. 1660 when he was on the tax list.
Judith married second, Jeffrey Ferris, of Greenwich, Conn., and took her children to Greenwich with her. Ferris died 31 May 1666, and in his will dated 6 Jan. 1664 left ten pounds each to the "four boies" of his wife. Judith married third, John Bowers, who by deed 5 Apr. 1675 conveyed land to his "son Ephraim Palmer." Judith died before her last husband; and Bowers in his will dated 16 Mar. 1693/4, gave property that was her mother's to "my loving daughter-in-law [step-daughter], Judith Reynolds."
John Palmer, perhaps a brother of William Palmer, though usually given as his son, died at Greenwich prior to 26 Oct. 1672. Application was made for settlement of his estate, 24 Apr. 1724, in which it was stated that he died many years ago and that no settlement had been made. The next of kin were stated as William Palmer, Ephraim Palmer, James Palmer, Joseph Palmer, and Judith Reynolds. John must therefore have been their brother or their uncle; and as the "four" Palmer boys specified in their step-father's will are all accounted for, it is more likely that John was their uncle, and brother of William.
Children:
1. William2, m. Mary Tyler, daughter of William and Abigail (Terrill) Tyler of Milford, b. about 1660; they removed to Westchester County, N. Y.
+2. Ephraim2, m. Sarah2 Messenger.
3. James2, of Greenwich, d. 28 Feb. 1717; m. Sarah Denham.
4 Joseph2, m. Elizabeth Tyler, b. about 1663, sister of his brother William's wife; they probably removed to Bedford, N. Y.
5. Judith2, m. John Reynolds."
6. The book "Note-Book Kept by Thomas Lechford, Esq. Lawyer in Boston, Mass. Bay, from June 27, 1638 to July 29, 1641," edited by Edward Everett Hale, Jr. (Camden, ME; 1988), p. 231-32:
'[141] To write for Willm Palmer to Mr. Dixson at the goat in Lumbard street mercer to excuse a bill of Exr. charged upon him to one Edmund Anger1 of Cambridge for his occasions a new plant & his wife lying in & to advise of the Le'r of Attorney & further writing. to buy 10 lbs of butter & to spend the rest in linnen & wollen cloath for a suit & coate & a gowne for his wife of good broadcloth, viz buckram & a piece of good stuffe for pettycoates a Dozen of shooes halfe a dozen for women 7ns & so many for men 9ns six paire of russet bootes 9ns 3 for winter & 3 for summer. & a coppy of the le'r of attorney. [1s. 6d.]"
Footnote 1: "Edmund Angier had lived with John Cotton in Lincolnshire, and had intended to embark with him. He did not, however, come over until 1636, and was not made freeman until 1640."
7. FHL book 974.44/w5 V28w, v.1 "Watertown Records Comprising the First and Second Books of Town Proceedings with the Lands Grants and Possessions...," by the Historical Society (Watertown, 1894, "Lands" section of the book:
p. 5: "1636. July 25. A Grant of the Great Dividents... The Third Division. Lot 28. William Palmer. Twenty Acres."
p. 7. "1636. February 28, A Grant of the Plowlands at Beverborke Planes... Lot 81. William Palmer. One Acre."
8. The book "Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, in New England; Vol. 1," by Nathaniel B. Shurtleff:
P. 108: 7 Jan 1638/9, The Court of Assistants grant of land at Mattacheset, now called Yarmouth, which includes Willm Palmer among nine men proposed to take up their freedom at Yarmouth.
P. 132: 3 Sep 1639, before Gov. Bradford, Willm Palmer of Yarmouth proposed to be made freeman at the next Court.
8. The periodical "The American Genealogist," 26(1950):95, 183-84, "Palmer of Westchester," by Winifred Lovering Holman, S.B., F.A.S.G. My interest in this article is in the William Palmer of Yarmouth, who is an ancestor, and not the William Palmer of the article. The following are applicable quotes:
"Various assertions, quite erroneous, have been made in print about William Palmer of Westchester County, New York. It has been claimed that he was identical with others of the name, such as William of Watertown, Mass., who was clearly later of Newbury, and finally of Hampton, N.H. [see Gen. Dict. of Me. and N.H., 527; Essex Files, 2:347-9; New Eng. Register, 51:309; 68:259; 69:284, 342; 75:79, 158, 318; 98:184); Lieut. William of Yarmouth, Mass., and Newtown, Long Island, a son of whose did later settle in Westchester, thereby adding to the confusion [N. Y. Record, 71:362; Selleck, Miner Family (1928), 142-3], William of Plymouth and Duxbury; William Jr. of the same, perhaps a nephew of the last-named; and others.
There was also a William, early of Wethersfield, and never of Watertown, and a William of Branford, both in Connecticut. It is the writer's opinion, based on research thus far made, that William of Westchester was identical with both the Wethersfield settler and the Branford sojourner…
As an addendum, a few notes will be given relating to the Palmer family [of Yarmouth] … Mead's Hist. of Greenwich (1911), 618-628, reprints the usual errors about the early generations. However, Lieut. William Palmer of Yarmouth, Mass., and Newtown, Long Island, died about 1661, and the subsequent remarriages of his widow brought the children to Greenwich, Conn. Among them, were Ephraim2 and William2.
Ephraim married in 1668, Sarah, daughter of Andrew Messenger and had but two sons: Ephraim3 and John3.
William2, born about 1658, married Mary Tyler of Milford, Conn., and removed to Westchester County. He had: William3, b. 6 Nov. 1694, d. 1786, of Charlotte Precinct, Dutchess County, a Friend; m. Rachel -___, and had issue, see N.Y. Wills, 14:87. Phebe, by 4 July 1696. Peter, b. 23 July 1703, removed to Dutchess County and had issue, see N.Y. Wills, 13:114. Abraham, b. about 1705, removed to Dutchess County…"
SOURCES_MISC:
1. FHL book 929.273-K727kf: "Knapp's N' Kin, The Ancestral Lines of Frederick H Knapp and Others," compiled by: Frederick H Knapp, Rt. #2, Box 438C, AB Hwy, Richland, Missouri, 65556; 1987; Revised/Updated 1991. It notes the following sources, none of which I have yet reviewed:
-NYG&H Rec V11 & 86.
-7 Gen. of Judith's, by A. Gibson.
-Gen Frangments, by J.J. Latting.
-Feake Fam. Gen, by G. McCrackern (1955).
-Ancient Heads of Fam., by Holmes.
2. Mentioned in the book "The Great Migration Directory, Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640," by Robert Charles Anderson, NEHGS, 2015. Sources reviewed and transcribed above:
"Palmer, William: Unknown; 1636; Watertown, Yarmouth, Newtown [NY] [WaBOP 7; Lechford 231; PCR 1:108, 132; TAG 26:95, 101, 183-89 [sic: 101, 183-84]; NYGBR 63:360, 64:30; Miner Anc 142-43].
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