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- RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The following partial excerpt concerning this individual is from the biography of Jeffrey Ferris in the "Great Migration" book. These are highly reliable summaries of early pre-1636 colonists and the entire biography can be read in Jeffrey's notes:
"Jeffrey Ferris...
Migration: 1634
First Residence: Watertown
Removes: Wethersfield 1635, Stamford 1641, Greenwich by 1650, East Town 1655, Greenwich by about 1659...
Estate: ...In his will, dated 6 January 1664(/5?] and proved 9 March 1666/7, "Jeaffrey Ferris" bequeathed to "my wife that now is [KP: Judith Feake], all the estate which she can make appear that she brought with her" and £l0; to "her four children, that is to say, those four boys which I brought up and kept" [KP: In no particular order: Ephraim, James, William, and Joseph Palmer]..."
2. The book "Ancestry of Elizabeth Barrett Gillespie (Mrs. William Sperry Beinecke)," by Paul W. Prindle, 1976, p. 105:
"...Mr. Thomas Denham and his wife Sarah had six known children:
v. Sarah Denham, who before 2 May 1688 married James Palmer, son of Lt. William Palmer and his wife, Judith Feake. James died 28 February 1717/8 and Sarah had presumably died by 22 February 1723/4, when her brother Isaac in his will left £100 to her children."
[Note: According to other information inferred to in this entry, the father Thomas was a minister and probably living at Sheepscott, Maine at about the time Sarah was probably born.]
3. 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."
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.
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Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
Abt 1652 - 1718 (~ 66 years)