The Tennant Family and Other Related Families:Information about Walter Palmer
Walter Palmer (b. October 1590, d. 1661)
Notes for Walter Palmer:
According to Groups of Palmer Families from Walter Palmer of Charlestown and Rehoboth, Mass., Stonington, Conn. p. 9 "There are various traditions pertaining to his English home, chiefly pointing to some town or village in Nottinghamshire, and claiming Abraham Palmer as his brother.May 14, 1634, Abraham and Walter Palmer, both citizens of Charlestown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, were made freemen by the Great and General Court of Massachusetts Bay."This source has many great details about the life of Walter Palmer after he came to New England.On p. 11 it noted his move to "Wequetequoc", Massachusetts in 1652-3 and that all of his family, except for his son Jonas, went with him.After settling with his son-in-law, Thomas Minor, for a part of the land Walter now owned about 1200 acres.
The History of Stonington, Connecticut by Wheeler shows a long list of marriages and births to connect Walter Palmer to his great, great, great, great, great, great grandson - Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.The line is traced through his oldest daughter Grace by his first wife.A shortened genealogy of the connection goes as follows:
Walter Palmer & First Wife = Grace Palmer
Grace Palmer & Thomas Minor = John Minor
John Minor & Elizabeth Booth = Grace Minor
Grace Minor & Samuel Grant = Noah Grant
Noah Grant & Martha Huntington = Noah Grant, Jr.
Noah Grant, Jr. & Susannah Delano = Noah Grant, 3rd
Noah Grant, 3rd & Rachel Kelly = Jesse Grant
Jesse Grant & Hannah Simpson = Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
More About Walter Palmer:
Occupation: Farmer.1410
Residence 1: 1653, Stonington, New London Co., Connecticut.1411
Residence 2: 18 May 1631, Massachusetts Bay Colony.1412
More About Walter Palmer and Rebecca Short:
Marriage: Bet. 1623 - 1632
Marriage Notes for Walter Palmer and Rebecca Short:
According to Groups of Palmer Families from Walter Palmer of Charlestown and Rehoboth, Mass., Stonington, Conn. p. 15 this marriage probably to place in Roxbury, Mass.Rebecca had been admitted a member of Rev. John Eliot's First Church of that town.Walter and Rebecca Palmer along with his daughter Grace Palmer joined the First Church of Charlestown in 1632.
Children of Walter Palmer and Rebecca Short are: