Notes: Deliverance PALMER

NOTE 2: Walter Palmer was likely born in the village of Yetminster, Dorsetshire, England sometime around 1585. As a Separatist Puritan, in an effort to seek religious freedom, on April 5, 1629 he sailed from Gravesend England on a boat called "Four Sisters" - one of six ships; the others being the Talbot, Lyons Whelp, George Bonaventure, Lyon, and The Mayflower. Walter arrived in Salem, Massachusetts on June of 1629 and settled in Charlestown Massachusetts with his five children and Abraham Palmer, possibly his brother. Walter became very prominent in the affairs of Charlestown, holding public office and is listed among the first group of men who took the Oath of Freemen on May 18, 1631.  Walter was married for a second time to Rebecca Short of Roxbury on June 1, 1633 through which this line comes. They were married in Roxbury Church. Rev. John Eliot was their Minister. (Note: The first Bible printed in America was in the native Algonquin Indian Language by John Eliot in 1663) She was one of the first members of his church upon her arrival in America in 1632. Reverend Eliot's records of the Roxbury First Church state: "Rebeckah Short, a maide srvant, she came in the yeare 1632 and was married to Walter Palmer a Godly man of Charlestown Church."

In 1635 Walter was elected a Selectman of Charlestown, and in 1636 Constable. On March 26, 1638 he received an additional land grant … On May 13, 1640 a committee was required to be appointed in every town to appraise all livestock. The committee for Charlestown included Walter Palmer.." In August of 1652 Thomas Minor built a house for ... Walter Palmer on the opposite side of Wequetequoc Cove … During the first four years in Wequetequock Cove, Walter and his family had to travel 15 miles and across two large rivers to New London to attend church. On September 1, 1654 the first petition of the Stonington settlers for a separate town and church was refused by the General Court of Connecticut. On March 22, 1657 the first religious service was held in Stonington in the home of Walter Palmer with the Reverend William Thompson being the minister.  Walter Palmer died in Stonington on November 20, 1661 and is buried in the Wequetequock burying ground. A rough wolf stone about 9 feet in length covers his grave.