John Palmer
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In brief
Born about 1640 in Boston, Massachusetts. He died July 1707 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Family
Children
- John Palmerb. August 28, 1679, in Boston, Massachusetts
- Abigail Palmerb. February 6, 1685, in Boston, Massachusettsm. Abraham Wacom, May 12, 1709, in Boston, Massachusetts
- Arminall Palmerb. March 4, 1687, in Boston, Massachusettsm. Daniel Morse, November 15, 1709, in Boston, Massachusetts
- Alice Palmer · in this linem. Joseph Covel, February 27, 1685, in Woburn, Massachusetts
- Elizabeth Palmerm. John Russell, December 27, 1682, in Woburn, Massachusetts
- Mary Palmerm. Eliah Tottingham/Totman
Life story
A Maine Fisherman's Land Fight
John Palmer was born around 1640 and settled in Dunstan, Maine, working as a fisherman and receiving fifty acres of land in 1662 as part of his wife's dowry — land he later had to petition Governor Andros to defend after a neighbor tried to illegally claim it, arguing he had cleared and lived on it by hand for a decade before King Philip's War drove him off it. John served as Dunstan's selectman in 1671 and spent the war years in Boston, formally admitted as a resident there in 1682, before eventually returning to Maine. He died in July 1707, leaving everything to his wife Elizabeth.
Sources (1)
- Sibyl Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012), 525-526; digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/genealogicaldict0000noye : accessed 5 August 2026).