Grace PALMER

Female - 1690


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  • Name Grace PALMER  [1
    Birth England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Death 31 Dec 1690  Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Notes 
    • "Groups of Palmer Families from Walter Palmer of Charlestown and Rehoboth, Mass., Stonington, Conn. (1901) (NewEnglandAncestors.org)

      Grace Palmer, daughter of Walter and Elizabeth Palmer, was born in England between the years 1608-10. She became a member of the First Church in Charlestown, Middlesex County, Mass., June 1, 1632, at the same time her father and step-mother united with it. She married, in Charlestown, Thomas Minor, who was born in Chew Magne, county Somerset, England, April 23, 1608, and was of the tenth generation in the Minor family. He came in the fleet which bore John Winthrop, future governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which put into port at Cape Ann, now Salem, Essex Co., Mass., Saturday, June 12, 1630.
      Thomas Minor received Lot 18 in the first division of land at Mystic Side, now Charlestown, on the sixth of the first month, 1637. His future father-in-law, Walter Palmer, receiving Lot 15.
      From Charlestown, Thomas Minor migrated, first to Hingham, Plymouth County, where four children were born, thence to Stonington, New London County, Conn., where he bouth a large tract of land lying on the borders of Wequetequack Cove, in 1652, whereon he built his house, having made a brief previous residence in Hingham, Plymouth Co. Mass. going thence to New London in 1645, where he had a grant of one home lot and built a house, but sold the whole to settle at his final abode in Stonington, where he met with some difficulty, by the fact that a grant of three hundred acres of land from the town of New London to Governor Haynes, and sold by the latter to Walter Palmer, being found to cover Minor's lot. He, however, signed the conveyance, qualifying it by the reservation that he should inhabit the place until he should have time to erect another dwelling at Mistupet. He held a very prominent place in all the stirring events which ensued in the settlement of this plantation where he died October 23, 1690. She died October, 1690, and is said to have been born the same year as her husband.
    Person ID I43129  Main Tree
    Last Modified 13 Feb 2022 

    Father Walter PALMER,   b. Aft 1585, Yetminster, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Nov 1661, Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age < 74 years) 
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    Mother Ann/Elizabeth ?,   b. England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. England Find all individuals with events at this location 
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    Marriage Abt 1615  England Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Family ID F02709  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Thomas MINER,   b. 23 Apr 1608, Chew Magna, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Oct 1690, Quiambaug, New London, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years) 
    Marriage 29 Apr 1633/4  [1, 3
    Children 
     1. John MINER   d. 17 Sep 1719, Woodbury, Litchfield Count, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [Birth]
    +2. Clement MINER,   c. 4 Mar 1638, Hingham, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Oct 1700, New London, New London, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 62 years)  [Birth]
     3. Thomas MINER,   c. 10 May 1640, Hingham, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Apr 1662, Narragansett, Washington Co., Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 21 years)  [Birth]
     4. Ephraim MINER,   c. 1 May 1642, Hingham, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 May 1724, Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 82 years)  [Birth]
     5. Joseph MINER,   c. 25 Aug 1644, Hingham, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 Jan 1710/1, Stonington, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 66 years)  [Birth]
    +6. Manasseh MINER,   b. 28 Apr 1647, New London, New London, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Aug 1728, Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years)  [Birth]
     7. Ann MINER,   b. 28 Apr 1649, New London, New London, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Aug 1652, New London, New London, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 3 years)  [Birth]
     8. Maria MINER,   b. 05 May 1651, New London, New London, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Jan 1660, Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 8 years)  [Birth]
     9. Samuel MINER,   b. 04 Mar 1652, New London, New London, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1682 (Age 29 years)  [Birth]
    +10. Hannah MINER,   b. 15 Sep 1655, New London, New London, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [Birth]
    Family ID F03428  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 13 Feb 2022 

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  • Sources 
    1. [S9214] Richard Anson Wheeler, History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut.

    2. [S03430] The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records: Stonington.

    3. [S01839] Ancestry.com: Wyoming & Lackawanna Valleys, Pennsylvanis Genealogies & Families Histories, Vol 1-11, Harding/Rice Family.

    4. [S9347] New England Marriages Prior to 1700.