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abt. 1720 Robert & Elizabeth Ferrell arrive in Massachusetts from Northern Ireland - settling first at Rutland but moving to Palmer by 1727
fom "Our Country and Its People" A History of Hampden Co. MA v. 3 by Alfred Minott Copeland:
1736 The first gristmill was built at the lower part of the present Thorndike in 1736 by Robert Farrell and Thomas Harmon
The Last French and Indian War 1763. — Soon after its organization as a town, Palmer was called upon to furnish its proportion of men to meet the exigencies of another war between the mother country and France. The citizens responded with alacrity, and out of its sparse population furnished no less than 76 men during the continuance of the war, as shown by the following list: Samuel Allen, Daniel Allen, Isaac Aplin, David Bratten, Stephen Blackmer, John Blackmer, Simeon Brooks, Francis Breckenridge, David Brewer, Jesse Beers, William Carlyle, Abner Chapin, Stephen Crawfoot, Moses Cooley, Luke Chapin, Joel Camp, Jonathan Chapin, John Davis, Thomas Dunham, David English, Samuel Frost, Timothy Farrcll, Josiah Farrell, Isaac Farrell, William Fleming, Thomas Ferrand, Jr., William Geary, John Hill, Thomas Hill, Thomas Henderson, Stephen Hatch, Benjamin Hutchinson, Nathaniel Hews, John King, Jonathan King, Benjamin King, William King, David King, John Lamberton, Samuel Lemon, John Lemon, Robert McMaster, Joshua McMaster, James McMighill, James McNitt, Thomas McClanathan, James Moor, John Moor, Jr., William Man, James Man, William Mitchell, John Millard, Isaac Magoon, Aaron Nelson, James Nelson, William Nelson, Samuel Paterson, Moses Paterson, Joseph Paterson, John Kecky, Samuel Smith, Hugh Smith, John Sloan, David Shaw, William Shaw, Matthew Spencer, Moses Scott, Jonathan Samson, Hugh Tackels, Capt. John Thomson, James Taylor, Benjamin Thomson, Henry Webber, Sylvanus Walker, Jesse Warner.
References
- Our Country and Its People" A History of Hampden Co. MA v. 3.
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