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Joseph Palmer

Male Abt 1656 - 1724  (~ 68 years)


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  • Name Joseph Palmer 
    Born Abt 1656  Newton, Long Island, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 1724  Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I4777  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father William Palmer,   b. 1610, , Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef Oct 1661, Newtown, Suffolk, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age < 51 years) 
    Mother Judith Feake,   b. Abt 1621, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1670, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 49 years) 
    Married Bef 5 Dec 1639  Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2161  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth Tyler,   b. Abt 1665, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married Abt 1688  Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F1566  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • 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]..."

      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.