William Palmer

Abt 1581 - 1637  (~ 56 years)

• Name	William Palmer
  Birth	Abt 1581  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Between 7 Nov 1637 and 13 Nov 1637	Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts   [1]
  Person ID	I9941	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	27 May 2019

  
  

  Family	Frances   d. Bef 1637
  Marriage	Bef 1606  [1]
  Children	1. (Unknown) Palmer,   b. Abt 1610
  Family ID	F5571	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Nov 2015

  
  

• Notes

  Emigrated to Plymouth, 1621, on the Fortune. Later removed to Duxbury. He was a nailer, and quite certainly not a son of Sir John Palmer and Elizabeth Verney, descendants of Edward III, as ridiculously asserted on the website of the Joseph Smith, Sr. Foundation. He may have been the William Palmer baptized 13 Aug 1581 at Upper Clatford, Hampshire, son of William Palmer (Sr.) and Alice Knight, the latter of whom married one another 2 Oct 1580 at Upper Clatford. That William Palmer's baptismal entry is just three lines following the entry for Mayflower passenger Stephen Hopkins, and our William Palmer seems to have had an association with Hopkins in Plymouth. In the 1627 division of cattle at Plymouth, William Palmer, his wife Frances, and son William are all included within Hopkins's household. But the identity of the Plymouth immigrant with the individual baptized at Upper Clatford has yet to be proven.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1647] The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New York Historic Genealogical Society, 2004.