Section AGE: Descendants of Walter Palmer

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Generation One

1. WALTER1 PALMER was born between 1587 and 1595[2] in Frampton, Dorset, England, United Kingdom[2], and died on 10 Nov. 1661[22] in Stonington, New London Co., Connecticut, United States[22]. He married (1st) MRS. ANNA ELIZABETH PALMER, who was born about 1585[3] in England[3], and died about 1635[3] in Connecticut[3]. He married (2nd) in Charlestown, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts, United States, on 1 June 1633, (ALU-2) REBECCA SHORT of Charlestown, daughter of (ALU-1) Thomas and Ann (_____) SHORT, who was born in 1589 of Charlestown, was christened on 1 June 1633, died on 15 July 1671 in Charlestown, and was buried in Wequetequock, Burying Ground, Stonington. [1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 15, 18, 20, 21, 22]
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"Walter PALMER's parents are UNKNOWN. They were NOT John Palmer and Elizabeth Verney of Somerset, England. This myth has been disproved."
Arrived in Connecticut in 1658.[5]
In a 1986 publication, Buys says he was born 1585 in Yetminster, Dorset, England, presumably based on the Banks Mss., but a 2020 Register article by Perry Streeter addresses this and argues that the Yetminster origin is unfounded, and that an origin in Frampton, Dorset is much more probable.[1, 11]
Children of: Walter1 PALMER and Mrs. Anna Elizabeth PALMER:
2i.GRACE2 PALMER, b. on 9 May 1612 in Engl, Or, Charleston, England, Massachusetts; d. on 12 Oct. 1690 in Stonington; bur. in 1690 in Wequetequock Cemetery, Stonington; m. on 23 April 1634[3, 19] in Charlestown, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts[3, 19] THOMAS MINOR.
3ii.JOHN PALMER, b. about 1615[19]; d. on 24 Aug. 1677[4].
4iii.ELIZABETH PALMER, b. in 1628[2] in Frampton, Dorset, England, United Kingdom[2]; d. about 1700.
5iv.WILLIAM PALMER, b. about 1619[22]; d. about 1710[23].
6v.JONAH PALMER, b. in 1627[2, 23] in Frampton, Dorset, England, United Kingdom[2, 23]; d. about 1700.

Children of: Walter1 PALMER and Rebecca SHORT:
7i.HANNAH2 PALMER, bp. on 15 June 1634[23] in Charlestown, Middlesex Co.[23]; d. about 1700.
8ii.ELIHU PALMER, bp. on 24 JAN 1635/6[23] in Charlestown, Middlesex Co.[23]; d. on 5 Sept. 1665[23] in Stonington[23].
9iii.NEHEMIAH PALMER, bp. on 23 Nov. 1637[23] in Charlestown, Middlesex Co.[23]; d. about 1700; m. on 20 Nov. 1662[13, 23] in Stonington[13, 23] HANNAH LORD STANTON, b. in 1644[3], d. in 1727[3].
10iv.MOSES PALMER, bp. on 6 April 1640[23] in Charlestown, Middlesex Co.[23]; d. about 1700.
11v.BENJAMIN PALMER, b. on 30 May 1642[23] in Charlestown, Suffolk Co.[23]; d. about 1700.
12vi.DEA. GERSHOM PALMER, b. on 16 June 1644 in Rehoboth, Bristol Co., Massachusetts; d. on 27 Sept. 1718 in Stonington; bur. on 30 Sept. 1718 in Stonington; m. on 28 Nov. 1667[13, 23, 25] in New London Co.[13, 23, 25] ANN DENISON, b. in Connecticut[3] on 20 May 1649[3], d. in Connecticut[3] in 1694[3].
+13vii.REBECCA PALMER, bp. on 1 July 1647 in Charlestown, Suffolk Co.; d. on 2 May 1713[7] in Stonington[7]; m. (1) on 20 April 1665[13, 24] in Stonington[13, 24] ELISHA CHEESBROUGH, b. in Boston, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom[26] on 4 June 1637[26]; m. (2) on 24 July 1672[7, 17, 24] in Stonington[7, 17, 24] (DE-18) JOHN BALDWIN, chr. in Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom[7, 9, 17] on 28 Oct. 1635[7, 9, 17], d. in Stonington on 19 Aug. 1683[8], son of (DE-8) Sylvester and Sarah (_____) BALDWIN.
14viii.ELIZABETH PALMER of Charlestown, Suffolk Co., b. about 1650 of Charlestown, Suffolk Co.; d. about 1700.

Generation Two

13. REBECCA2 PALMER (Walter1), daughter of (1) Walter1 and (ALU-2) Rebecca (SHORT) PALMER, was christened on 1 July 1647 in Charlestown, Suffolk Co., died on 2 May 1713[7] in Stonington[7] and was buried in May 1713. She married (1st) in Stonington[13, 24], on 20 April 1665[13, 24], ELISHA CHEESBROUGH, who was born on 4 June 1637[26] in Boston, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom[26]. She married (2nd) in Stonington[7, 17, 24], on 24 July 1672[7, 17, 24], (DE-18) JOHN BALDWIN, son of (DE-8) Sylvester and Sarah (_____) BALDWIN, who was christened on 28 Oct. 1635[7, 9, 17] in Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom[7, 9, 17], died on 19 Aug. 1683[8] in Stonington, and was buried in Milford, New Haven Co., Connecticut. [7, 14, 16, 26]
Children of: Rebecca2 PALMER and John BALDWIN: See (DE-18) John BALDWIN


1. Perry Streeter, "Walter Palmer of the Great Migration: Probable Origins in Frampton, Dorset," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 174 (Winter 2020): 21-25.
2. Ibid., specifically 21.
3. "Lefayre Heslehurst Palmer".
4. Ibid., 3:1381.
5. R. R. Hinman, First Puritan Settlers (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1968), 61; digital images, Archive.org (http://www.archive.org).
6. Carlton A. Palmer Jr., Ancient Family of Palmer of Plymouth Colony (Livermore, California: C.A. Palmer, 1988), 33.
7. Charles Candee Baldwin, Baldwin Genealogy From 1500 to 1881 (Cleveland, Ohio: Leader Printing Co., 1881), 239; digital images, Archive.org (http://www.archive.org).
8. Ibid., 240.
9. "English Origins of New England Families, Series 2, Volume 1", 85.
10. Doris Palmer Buys, Walter Palmer of Charlestown and Rehoboth, Massachusetts and Stonington, Connecticut (Orem, Utah: Historical Publications, 1986).
11. Ibid., 1.
12. Paul K. Randall, Genealogy of a Branch of the Randall Family, 1666 to 1879 (Norwich, New York: Chenango Union, 1879); digital images, Archive.org (http://www.archive.org).
13. Ibid., 10.
14. Ibid., 15.
15. Verna R. Sanders Rozanski, A History of the Walter Palmer Family of Stonington, Connecticut With Fifteen Allied Lines (Assumption, Illinois: Daughters of the American Revolution, 1968).
16. Ibid., 42.
17. N. Grier Parke II and Donald Lines Jacobus, The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley & his wife Emma Arabella Bosworth (Woodstock, VT: No publisher, 1960), 184.
18. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).
19. Ibid., 1:1381.
20. Ibid., 3:1379.
21. Ibid., 3:1380.
22. Ibid., 3:1381.
23. Ibid., 3:1382.
24. Ibid., 3:1383.
25. Scott Andrew Bartley, "Marriages from the New London County Court Records, 1667-1670," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 170 (Winter 2016): 22-24, specifically 23.
26. Ancestral File, CD-ROM database (Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1998).