Person:Gershom Palmer (6)

WALTER PALMER OF CHARLESTOWN AND REHOBOTH, MA & STONINGTON CT, a 400-Year (1585-1985) Family History, Compiled, Edited, Typed and Partly Researched by Doris Palmer Buys, pages 103-4.

Following the path of his parents, brothers and sisters, Gershom was devoutly religious and he and his wife, Ann, were admitted 19 Aug 1677 to the First Congregational Church at Stonington (known as "The Road Church") according to the church records. In 1675 Gershom Palmer, then aged thirty-one years, participated in King Philip's War and served as a lieutenant of a Stonington company. The Pyron Plamer typescript manuscripts, page 997, "His name appears as a soldier in that war on the records of the town of Voluntown, which town was given by the General Court of Conn. to the soldiers of that war." The comprehensive account of that conflict was written by George Madison Bodge, A.B. in his book entitled "Soldiers in King Philip's War" reprinted in 1976 by Genealogical Publishing Co., of Baltimore, Maryland. In a chapter headed "The Narraganset Townships, Grantees and Claimants" page 406, is recorded on 10th December 1675 a proclamation was made to the soldiers, in the name of the Governor of the Mass. Colony that "if they took the fort and drove the enemy out of the Narraganset country, … they should have a gratuity of land, besides their wages. "On 4 June 1685 (ten years later) a petition was presented to the General Court in session at Boston for the grant of land which had been promised but many years passed before this was accomplished. On 5 June 1684 Gershom received from his brothers Nehemiah, Moses and Benjamin, 500 acres of land in Stonington as part of their father's estate. (Town Records, Vol. 1, page 129).

ELDRED AND ASSOCIATED FAMILIES, Researched by: Catherine Matson & Clarice McNiven, Compiled by: Carol & Susan Matson, pp. 102.

Gershom Palmer on 5 Jun 1684 received from his brothers, Nehemiah, Moses and Benjamin 500 acres of land in Stonington, CT as a part of their parents' estate. Also on 3 May 1693 was laid out to Lt. Gershom 50 acres, then 100 acres, and then another 50 acres. On 23 Dec 1708, he have his sons George and Walter all his farm, they to allow him, for the rest of his natural life, one-third of the produce of the land, to dwell in the east end of the new dwelling house, and they were to fulfill the agreement he made his new wife, Elizabeth, before their marriage. This agreement was drawn up 1 Nov 1707, but on 16 Jun 1718 he made another deed, in which he states that he had, before marriage, agreed to give his wife 20 pounds before his own decease and that he had ordered his sons to pay this, but since he had been boarding his wife's 2 daughters for some time he had caused different arrangements to be made. Ann (Borodell) Denison's mother, Mrs. Ann Denison, was of a fine old family and from her, young Ann inherited such stately and gracious manners that she was commonly called "Lady Ann."

Gershom and Ann Palmer had 10 children.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 "Walter Palmer", in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
   III:1382-1383.

   'GERSHOM, b. say 1644; ...'

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Leavitt, Emily Wilder. Palmer Groups : John Melvin of Charlestown and Concord, Mass., and His Descendants. (Boston, Massachusetts: Press of David Clapp & Son, 1901-1905)
   32-33.
3. ↑ Gershom Palmer, in Find A Grave.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Minor, Manasseh; Frank Denison Miner; and Hannah Miner. The Diary of Manasseh Minor Stonington, Conn., 1696-1720. (Frank Denison Miner, 1915)
   pages 142-43.

   'September 1718 ...
   27 deken Gersham dyed
   30 deken Gersham was buryed'