Mary (Grant) Palmer (1770 - 1856)

Born 8 Aug 1770 in Stonington, New London County, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of Elijah Palmer — married 14 Nov 1791 in Stonington, Connecticut

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Biography

Mary Grant, born 8 Aug 1770 at Stonington, Connecticut, was the ninth child of Oliver Grant and Ann Borodel Billings.

She married 14 Nov 1791 at Stonington, Connecticut, Elijah Palmer. This family moved away from their birthplaces in the secure coastal villages of southern Connecticut to the woodland wilderness of eastern central New York State during the post-Revolutionary War period as the population undertook a mass westward migration. They had at least 5 children, all born at Columbus and Brookfield, New York.

Mary (Grant) Palmer died 4 Feb 1856, most likely in Madison County, or nearby Chenango County, New York.

Sources

• The Grant Family (1898), p. 41: https://archive.org/details/grantfamilygenea00gran/page/n41/mode/1up

• National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage, (various by volume (1-152) to 1938, NSDAR, 1776 D. Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006-5392), Volume 126, page 127, DAR ID Number: 125383. (Source: Larry Chesebro'. http://chesebro.net)

• Wheeler, Richard Anson. History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, p. 402, no. 42: https://archive.org/stream/historyoftownofs00whee_1#page/n424/mode/1up

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Larry Chesebro' for starting, adopting, correcting or adding to this profile and/or merging it with other profiles of the same person.

Stanley Wood contributed to this profile.