Benjamin
Palmer
Born in Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island, British Colonial America
Ancestors 
Son of John Palmer
and Alice (Shaw) Palmer
Brother of
Peleg Palmer, Bathsheba (Palmer) Head, Judith (Palmer) Brown, Dudley Palmer, Alice Palmer, Elizabeth (Palmer) Brown, Alice Palmer, John Palmer and Perez Palmer
Husband of
Sarah (Davenport) Palmer
— married
28 Oct 1758 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay
Descendants 
Father of
Rhoda (Palmer) Shaw and Benjamin Palmer
Died
at about age 45
in Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island, British Colonial America
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Biography
Benjamin Palmer was born 04 Feb 1728, in Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island, British Colonial America The son of John Palmer and Alice Shaw. He died in 1774 in Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island, British Colonial America
He married Sarah Davenport
(1729–1807) on 30 November 1758.
Sources
- Note
!See notes for wife. "Little Compton Families" by B. F. Wilbour, says son of John Palmer and Alice Shaw of Dartmouth. LDS proxy temple ordinances are in the IGI from temple records. 8 "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FKPZ-XX3), Benjamin Palmer and Sarah Devenport, 28 Oct 1758: citing Marriage Notice, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 0070101711.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Benjamin by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Benjamin:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Benjamin by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Benjamin:
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