Gershom PALMER[1] was born about 1644, at Rehoboth, Massachusetts[2]. He was the sixth child of Walter Palmer with his second wife Rebecca Short, and was their first child of his birth family to be born outside of Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay Colony. At the time he was born, his birth family had moved away from the Boston area to Rehoboth; subsequently they continued on to Stonington, Connecticut, where they settled.
Gershom Palmer married (1st) 28 Nov 1667 at Stonington, New London, Connecticut[3][4] [5][6][7], Ann Denison [Minor Diary 199]; they had 10 children during the timespan through July 1694, at which time Ann died.
He married (2nd) 11 November 1707 at Stonington,[5] Elizabeth (Peck) Mason, widow of Samuel Mason (son of JOHN MASON) [Stonington Hist 461 (which promises but does not deliver a copy of the marriage jointure)]. [8][4]
He served in King Philip's War in 1675-1676 and received a parcel of land in Voluntown, Conn., for his service. He took the freeman's oath in 1666 and his name appears on the list of freemen of Stonington dated 5 Oct. 1669. Gershom served as selectman in Stonington in 1691, 1700, 1701, and 1704 and in 1706 was a deputy to the General Assembly of Connecticut. [9]
Gershom Palmer died 27 September 1718 at Stonington, New London County, Connecticut.[2]
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