FATHER

Jonathan Palmer

MOTHER

Elizabeth Hawkins

HUSBAND

Ichabod Church

CHILDREN

1. Asa Church  b. 04 Sep 1788  Lebanon, Grafton Co., NH

2. Abiah Church  b. 02 March 1793  Chelsea, Orange Co., VT

3. Hannah Church  b. 13 June 1795 Montpelier, Washington, VT

4. Lucinda Church  b. 01 Nov 1797 Montpelier, Washington, VT

Hannah Palmer
by Susan Brooke
Feb 2023

Hannah Palmer was born June 17, 1760 in Concord, Middlesex, MA. (1) The parents of record were Jonathan and Elizabeth Palmer. (2)
In 1773 the family moved to Alexandria, Grafton Co., NH where her father was a blacksmith.  She would have been thirteen years old.  Mehitable, her younger sister by two years, married in Lebanon, Grafton Co on April 2, 1784 and afterwards lived in "Enfield."  Three years later on Oct 8, 1787, Hannah, at the age of 27, married Ichabod Church in the same place,  Lebanon, Grafton Co., NH. (3)  In 1790 there was a Jonathan Palmer and William Palmer in Alexandria, Grafton, NH and another Jonathan Palmer living in Enfield, Grafton, NH.  They were the father and brothers of Hannah Palmer.   On Dec 6, 1793 Ichabod Church sold land in Grafton Co with a Sarah Palmer signing as witness.  This may be the older sister of Hannah Palmer.  Elizabeth Sarah Palmer was born Jan 21, 1758.

Ichabod and Hannah must have sold their land in Grafton County because they were moving to Chelsea, Orange County, Vermont.  Their daughter Abiah Church was born there on March 2, 1793. But by 1795 they were in Montpelier, Washington ,VT where their daughters, Hannah and Lucinda were born in 1795 and 1797.  Her father and brothers were in Waitsfield, Montpelier, Washington, VT at the same time.  There was a female listed in the Ichabod Church household, Montpelier, VT, for 1800 between the ages of 26-44. And she was still there in 1810 listed as over 45. Ichabod Church remarried in 1818, so we can assume Hannah had died by that time.

Sources

 

(1) Concord MA births, marriages and deaths Hannah Palmer Daughter of Jonathan Palmer and Elisebeth his wife was born June 17 1760

(2) Hannah. the daughter of Jonathan Palmer, was in the same location as her father.  She married Ichabod Church in 1787 in Lebanon, Grafton, NH and her sister, Mehibable, married in the same place in 1784.  And her father was living in Alexandria, Grafton, NH which was about 25 miles from Lebanon.   He was in the 1790 census for Grafton.  In the early 1790's they all left New Hampshire and went to Vermont.  Hannah had a daughter born in Orange Co. Vt in 1793 and her next two children born in Montpelier, Washington, VT in 1795 and 1797.  Jonathan and his sons were in Waitsfield, Washington, VT by 1795.  Montpelier is about 20 miles from Waitsfield. 

We also know this is the correct baptismal record from a DNA match with two of her siblings.

DNA Matches

(3) Marriage Record
Taken from Town Record Book # 1 of Lebanon, Grafton Co., NH
Ichabod Church & Hannah Palmer both of Lebanon were married October 8th 1787
Asa Church son to Ichabod & Hannah Church was born Sept 4th 1788.

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