About William Palmer, Sr. 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
Posted on: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:13:56 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015