Grace Palmer

  Noted events in her life and other information:

• Background Information. ⁵⁸²
Thomas Minor married Grace, a daughter of Walter Palmer, and the names of his children were recorded in New London. His boy was named Manasseh, born 28 Apr 1647, who is given the distinction as the first born male at the settlement of New London. He had two daughters who died in infancy. A son Samual, born 4 Mar 1652, and Hannah, born 15 Sep 1655. He also had several son who were born before the other children who were born in New London. They were John, Joseph, Thomas, Clement and Ephraim.

• Background Information. ⁵⁸¹
Grace Palmer was the daughter of Walter and Elizabeth Palmer. She was born in England between the years 1608-10. She became a member of the First Church in Charlestown, Middlesex County, Mass., 1 Jun 1632, at the same time her father and step-mother united with it.

Grace married, in Charlestown, Thomas Minor, who was born in Chew Magna, county Somerset, England, 23 Apr 1608, and was of the tenth generation in the Minor family. He came in the fleet which bore John Winthrop, future governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which put into port at Cape Ann, now Salem, Essex County, Mass., Saturday, June 12, 1630.

Thomas Minor received Lot 18 in the first division of land at Mystic Side, now Charlestown, on the sixth of the first month, 1637. His future father-in-law, Walter Palmer, receiving Lot 15. From Charlestown, Thomas Minor migrated, first to Hingham, Plymouth County, where four children were born, thence to Stonington, New London County, Connectict, where he bought a large tract of land lying on the borders of Wequetequack Cove, in 1652. He made a brief previous residence in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, and them moved to New London in 1645. Here he was granted one home lot and built a house. He sold the whole to settle at his final abode in Stonington.

~Groups of Palmer Families from Walter Palmer..., pp. 19-20

• Children:

• Captain John Miner b: Bef 30 Aug 1635 in Charlestown, Massachusetts
• Clement Miner b: Bef 4 Mar 1638/39 in Hingham, Massachusetts
• Thomas Miner , Jr. b: Bef 10 May 1640 in Hingham, Massachusetts
• Ephraim Miner b: Bef 1 May 1642 in Hingham, Massachusetts
• Joseph Miner b: 25 Aug 1644 in Hingham, Massachusetts
• Judah Miner b: 1646 in Hingham, Massachusetts
• Manassah Miner b: 23 Apr 1647 in New London, Connecticut
• Ann Miner b: 28 Apr 1649 in New London, Connecticut
• Eunice Miner b: Abt 1651 in New London, Connecticut
• Marie (Mary) Miner b: 5 May 1651 in New London, Connecticut
• Elizabeth Miner b: Abt 1653 in New London, Connecticut
• Samuel Miner b: 4 Mar 1652/53 in New London, Connecticut
• Hannah Miner b: 15 Sep 1655 in Stonington, Massachusetts

Grace married Thomas Minor, son of Clement Miner and Sarah Pope, on 23 Apr 1634 in Charleston, Massachusetts.^{75 ,446 ,582}(Thomas Minor was born in Apr 1608 in Chew Magna, Somersetshire, England ⁷⁵, christened on 23 Apr 1608 in Chew Magna, Somersetshire, England,⁷⁵ died on 23 Oct 1690 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut ^75,582 and was buried in Stonington in the Wequetequock Cemetery, New London, Connecticut.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Alt. Marriage Location: Rehoboth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. ⁷²