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FATHER

Thomas Palmer

MOTHER

Ann

WIFE

Hannah Johnson

CHILDREN

1. John Palmer
    b. 9 Dec 1678
    d. soon

2. Samuel Palmer
    b. 2 Apr 1682
    d. soon

3. Samuel Palmer    
    b. 22 May 1686
    m. 06 Nov 1707 Mary Felt
    d. 04 Mar 1730

4. John Palmer
    b. 19 Oct 1688
    d. 28 Mar 1727  

4. Timothy Palmer
    b. 10 Jan 1694/5 Rowley
    m. 28 Mar 1722 Patience Perrson
    m. 13 Nov 1730 Mrs. Jane Syles
    d. 29 Dec 1773

Thomas Palmer, Jr.
by Susan Brooke
Feb 2023

Thomas Palmer, Jr. was born  in Rowley, Essex, MA in Aug of 1650.  His parents were listed as Thomas and Ann Palmer. (1) His father died in 1669 when Thomas was 19 years old.  His father's will left him the "merrimack land."  (2)  In 1675 Thomas Palmer, Jr. served under John Johnson in King Philip's War.  (3) Two years later he married Hannah Johnson, his daughter,  in Rowley on 9 Jan 1677. (4) Their first two children died shortly after their birth, but they had three sons that grew to adulthood.  In 1720 Thomas Palmer distributed land to those three sons. (5) He died September 30, 1732, aged 82 years.  (6)

Sources

(1) Birth Record
"Thomas Palmer, son of Thomas and Ann, borne the sixth moneth"

(2) Brief Genalogical History of the Ancestors and Descendants of Deacon Stephen Palmer, of Candia, Rockingham County, NH. by Frank Palmer, Josiah Palmer, 1886  page 17

I Thomas Palmer being very weake of body and full of paine, yet of perfect memory and understanding do make and ordain this my last will and testament. 

Inprimis I will and give unto my wellbeloved wife Ann two cowes and cow gates and my meddow in bachelours meddow, and my meddow next to M Rogers beyond the Cow Bridge, and two acres of Salt marsh i bought of John Tod, near sha-creeke, with half of my land at home to be devided through out the lott, with one roome in the house, the which shee shall have her choice off, and of the lott when it is devided, and also convenient rooms in the barne, to lay her come and hay in, and to sett her cattell in.  Also I will and give unte her, the one halfe of all my household goods, of which shee shall choose, all which Land, and goods, and cattell I will and give unto her during her natural life, and at her decease, my will is that it shall be in her will and power to give and dispose it to all or any one of my children, as shee shall in her discresion see most meete and convenient. 

Item as for the rest of my estate my will is that it be devided amongst my three sonns Samuell, Timothy and Thomas, only my will is that my sonn Samuell shall have thirty pounds more than the other, and my will is that my sonn Samuell shall have his share in the house and land at home, my sonn Timothy my will is that he have the village land, my sonn Thomas my will is that hee have my merrimack land and that there pars of land that thus I will to them be equally made up in the rest of my estate acording to my will, and being that my sonn Timothy  is at service and is to have part of his wages in meddow which I account as part of my estate as well as the rest, that soe my other children, espechally my eldest son be not wronged by his exspecting to have it for himselfe, my will is that my sonn Timothy shall have the meddow in part of his portion according as it may be valued. 

My will is that my wellbeloved wife Ann Palmer, and my Eldest sonn Samuell Palmer to be executors to this my last will and testament unto which this my last will I sett to my hand this 2th of August 1669 

by his markes  Thomas Pallmer

THOMAS PALMER, JR.,
  The third son of Thomas and Ann, was born in Rowley' Mass., in the 6 Mo, 1650. He married there January 9, 1677-8, Hannah Johnson (daughter of Capt. John Johnson and Hannah [Crosby]), who was born there 20-9 mo., 1656. He died September 30, 1732, aged 82 years; his widow dying the 5th of the October following. They had five children (sons):  John (died soon), Samuel (died soon), Samuel, John, Timothy.

The first recorded mention of this Thomas is in connection with King Philip's War. He was a young man of twenty-five when this war broke out in the attacks by the Indians on Swanzey, Plymouth Colony, the 24th of June, and on Mendon the 10th of July, 1675. ----  John Johnson, Thomas Palmer's father-in-law was the ensign of this company. 

In times of peace Thomas Palmer found an honest livelihood in the summer labors of the field and winter's busy employment in his cooper's shop; prudent and active, he was a man, according to the Apostolic injunction, "diligent in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord."
The following entry on the church record is not without interest to his descendants:
"1707. Ordered, That Goodman Thomas Palmer ring the bell on "Sabbath days, and at nine o'clock every night, and on other occasions, "and sweep the meeting-house clean once every week, and to have "£5:10:0.

ISSUE:
I. John, born 9 Dec. 1678; died young.
II. Samuel, born 2 Apr. 1682; died soon.
III. Samuel, born 22 May 1686; married 6 Nov. 1707 Mary Felt (daughter of Samuel5 Felt [George2, George1] by his wife Elizabeth). He removed from Rowley to Mendon, Mass., 24 Jan'y 1722-3; died there before 1729-30. His widow married in Upton, Mass., 5 July 1760 Samuel Walker of Hopkinton. He had six children (all born in Rowley),  

(4) Marriage Record
Thomas Palmer to Hannah Johnson 9 Jan 1677 Rowley, Essex, MA

(5) Essex Deed BK 37 document 191
FHL film 866030  image 506  24 Dec 1720
Thomas Palmer to his sons Samuel, John and Timothy Palmer for £300
"sell & deliver unto my Son Samuel my now Dwelling house, etc."

(6) Death Record
Thomas Palmer in ye 82 year of his age    30 Sep 1732     Ipswich, Essex, MA