Person:Rebecca Short (1)

The Walter Palmer Society records Rebecca's death as "shortly before June 5 1684" because that was when the division, by sons Nehemiah, Moses and Benjamin, of land occurred which "our father left for our mother to divide".

Colonial Families of the United States of America: Volume 3 page 377 records this wife as "Esther", parents of Nehemiah.

Walter and Rebecca were members of the First Church of Charlestown, Massachusetts in 1632.

1.   Palmer, Elmer Hall. Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Walter Palmer of Charlestown, Seacuncke, Stonington. (The Walter Palmer Society, 2002).
2. ↑ Rebecca Short Palmer, in Find A Grave.
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Walter Palmer, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
   3:1381.

   'MARRIAGE: ... (2) By 1633 REBECCA SHORT "a maid servant, she came in the year 1632 & was married to [blank] Palmer a godly man of Charlestowne church" [RChR 77].'
   'She died Stonington 15 July 1671 ("Saturday at night Mother Palmer departed this life" [Minor Diary 93]).'

4.   Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   3:342.

   "WALTER, Charlestown 1629, prob. younger br. of Abraham, charg. in Sept. 1630, with k. Austin Bratcher, freem. 18 May 1631, was constable 1633, on 1 June of wh. yr. he, with new w. Rebecca, and d. Grace, unit. with the ch. so that it is plain that the d. was by a former w.; had Hannah, bapt. 15 June 1634; Elihu, 24 Jan. 1636; Nehemiah, b. 23 Nov. 1637; Moses, 6 Apr. 1640; Benjamin, 30 May, bapt. 5 June 1642; all by Rebecca Short, a mem. of Roxbury ch. who came in 1632, as a serv. says the rec. of R. ch. rem. to Rehoboth, was rep. 1646 and 7, being the first from that town, had more ch. and rem. again, to Stonington, 1653. His will, of 19 May 1658, made at S. pro. 11 May 1662, cont, in Suffk. reg. (for S. then call. Southerton, was claim. as pt. of our Co. strange as such civil geography now seems), names w. Rebecca and eleven ch. John; Grace; Jonas; William; Gershom; Elihu; Nehemiah; Moses; Benjamin; Hannah, w. of Thomas Huet; and Elizabeth and omits to name d. Rebecca, wh. m. 20 Apr. 1665, Elisha Cheesbrough; and was, perhaps, unable to count the gr.ch."