Person:Deborah Palmer (11)

m. Bef 1643
  1. Deborah Palmer1642/43 - 1740
  2. Hannah Palmer1645 -
  3. Ephraim PalmerEst 1648 -
  4. Dorcas Palmer1650 -
  • HLewis JonesEst 1635 -
  • WDeborah Palmer1642/43 - 1740
m. 4 Dec 1660
  1. Mary JonesEst 1662 - 1740
  2. Hannah JonesAbt 1664 -
  3. Margaret Jones1667 - 1738
  4. Katherine Jones1671 -
  5. Jonathan Jones1673 - 1738
  6. Samuel Jones1676 - Aft 1745
  7. Ephraim Jones1685 -
m. 21 Mar 1697/98
m. 26 Dec 1709
m. 6 Mar 1716
Facts and Events
Name[1] Deborah Palmer
Gender Female
Birth[1][2] 5 Feb 1642/43 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Marriage 4 Dec 1660 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesto Lewis Jones
Marriage 21 Mar 1697/98 Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United Statesto Henry Champion
Marriage 26 Dec 1709 Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut, United Statesto Captain Henry Crane
Marriage 6 Mar 1716 Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut, United Statesto Richard Towner
Death[4] 5 Dec 1740 Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States

Her father was Henry Palmer, born 1617 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Conn. [He could not have been born in Wethersfield, as it was not settled until the 1630's, when he arrived there. He was probably from Watertown.] He died November 29, 1661 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Conn. Her mother was Katherine, born 1624 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Conn and died at that same place Abt. April 07, 1650.


From Savage's Genealogical Dictionary

HENRY, Wethersfield, by w[ife]. Catharine had Deborah, b[orn]. 1642; Hannah, 1645; a s[on]. whose names is not disting[uished]. in the rec[ords]. 1648; Dorcas, 1650; freem[an]. 1657, and liv[ing]. 1663.

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Henry Palmer, in Adams, Sherman W. (Sherman Wolcott), and Henry R. (Henry Reed) Stiles. The History of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut: Comprising the Present Towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington; and of Glastonbury Prior to its Incorporation in 1693, from Date of Earliest Settlement Until the Present Time with Extensive Genealogies and Genealogical Notes on Their Early Families. (New York: The Grafton Press, 1904)
    2:525.

    Deborah (Palmer), b. (Wethersfield) 5 Feb., 1642-3.

  2. Wethersfield Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
    205.

    Palmer, Deborah, d. Henry & Ruth, b. Feb. 5, 1642 [LR1:16].

  3.   Towner, Mrs. Norman E. Richard Towner Early Resident of Connecticut. Connecticut Nutmegger (Connecticut Society of Genealogists). (Dec 1998)
    31:398.

    (Richard Towner's) second wife was Deborah (Palmer) Crane. … Richard was her fourth husband. Deborah married first Lewis Jones in 1660, and married second, Henry Champion in 1698, and third to Henry Crane in 1709, She died after Oct. 1727.

  4. Scott, Kenneth, and Pennsylvania) American Weekly Mercury (Philadelphia. Genealogical abstracts from the American Weekly Mercury, 1719-1746. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Genealogical Pub. Co., c1974)
    [1].

    1740
    TOWNER, Deborah, of Lyme - died Dec. 5 in her 104th year; she had four husbands, Jones (by whom she had 7 children), Crane, Champion and Towner; she left 6 children, 43 grandchildren, 178 great-grandchildren and 26 grandchildrens' grandchildren - Boston dispatch of Dec. 10 [1/3]