Thomas Palmer (1745 - 1820)

Born 16 Oct 1745 in St.Georges, Knox County, Maine

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret (Wiswall) Palmer — married 8 May 1766 in Newton, Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Died 2 Jul 1820 at age 74 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts,United States of America

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Biography

Thomas was born in 1745. Thomas Palmer ... ^[1]

Thomas went with his parents to Newton where he soon married and settled on the land that was given to him by his father-in- law, Noah Wiswall. He later built a farmhouse on this land, which he and his descendants occupied for about 140 years until the farm was sold out of the family in 1909.

Thomas died in Newton on 02 July 1820.^[2] The children of Thomas and Margaret (Wiswall) Palmer were born in Newton (dates not recorded):^{[3] [4]}

1. Mary Palmer
2. Thomas Palmer
3. John Palmer, d. 08 Jun 1809?
4. William Palmer, mar. Charlotte Hyde 05 May 1811, dau. of Elisha Hyde. He took the homestead and had William H. 1812, Catherine E. 1816, Charlotte A. 1818, Thomas W. 1820, Lavina, George and Caroline.^[4]
5. Margaret Palmer^[4]
6. Sarah Palmer, poss. mar. Obadiah Morse 18 Jan 1803
7. Ann(a) Palmer, mar. Palmer McIntyer 03 Dec 1803
8. Alice Palmer
9. Francis Palmer
10. Joseph Palmer
11. An unnamed child of Thomas, d. 17 Oct 1766.

Sources

1. ↑ Entered by Janine McLean, May 10, 2012
2. ↑ NEHGS, Vital Records of Newton, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1905) p. 435.
3. ↑ NEHGS, Vital Records of Newton, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1905) p. 147. Link on Archive.org
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Jackson, Francis, A history of the early settlement of Newton, county of Middlesex, Massachusetts : from 1639 to 1800 (Boston : Stacy and Richardson, 1854) p.

• Smith, Samuel F., History of Newton, Massachusetts : town and city, from its earliest settlement to the present time, 1630-1880 (Boston : American Logotype, 1880) pp. 128, 147, 313 mentions land held successively by John Palmer, Thomas Palmer and William Palmer on the east side of the Dedham road, by Palmer Brook.