"Nicholas (Palmer) (Sgt.), early sett, at W.; lands gr. … freeman, 1669. His wife (name unknown) d. 1646, the first of 6 deaths on O. C. R. in that yr. He was Sgt. in the Pequot fight at Mystic. Savage shows that he m. (2) Oct. 29, 1646, Joan (wid. John) Purchase of Salem, an orig. ppr. of Htfd., who had d. Oct., 1645. She is prob. the 'Goodwife Palmer' who contrib. 2s. 10d. to Conn. Relief Fund for Poor of other Colonies, 1676.— O. C. R. She d. 26 (Htfd. Co. Mem. Hist., 16) Apl., 1683. He d. 30 Aug., 1689."