Display Patriot - P-264823 - Amos PALMER

Amos PALMER

SAR Patriot #: P-264823

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State of Service: RI      Qualifying Service: Private
DAR #: A086469

Birth: 27 Mar 1729 Stonington / New London / CT
Death: 04 Jun 1797 Exeter / Washington / RI

Qualifying Service Description:

Served under Colonel JOHN TOPHAM


Additional References:
  1. Rhode Island State Archives Index to Militia and Naval Records, 1774-1805, FHL Roll #934769
  2. DAR Patriots Index, Vol 63, pg 224
  3. Military Returns State Archives 1195, pg 512

Spouse: Mary York
Children: Phineas; Ezra; Asahel; Stephen; Ziba; Mary; Comfort; Roswell; Mary; Eleanor; Hannah;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1979-06-19 RI Unassigned Richard Leslie Hall Palmer (113219) Phineas   
1982-02-19 RI Unassigned Earl Sweet Palmer Jr (119825) Phineas   
2000-05-25 AZ 6455 Louis Moreland Newton MD (140482) Eleanor   
2003-12-22 NY 18427 Timothy Ernest Newton (161862) Eleanor   
2018-12-14 SC 84133 Daniel Wallace Newton (209880) Hannah   
2020-05-22 MI 91822 Robert Frederick Moeller (215366) Mary   
Burial:
Palmer-Burdick-Appley Lot (C-0180726)
Location:
Hopkinton / Washington / RI / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
2370215
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
n/a
Find A Grave Memorial #:
58647168
Marker Type:
SAR
SAR Grave Dedication Date:
bef 01 Mar 2011

Comments:

Photo provided with permission from Karen Beck, Find-a-Grave member#47489489



Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
  • From TF Green Airport, Providence: Get on T.F. Green Airport Connector Road. Follow I-95 S to RI-138 W at Richmond. Take exit 3B from I-95 S. Follow RI-138 W to Kenney Hill Road, turn left, travel 430 feet
  • Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Hopkinton #034. Location: 100 ft north of KENNEY HILL ROAD (A DIRT ROAD IN 1997) at TEL pole # 5Tax Assessors Map #: 19 Plat #: Lot #: 11. 150 ft x 100 ft in fair condition enclosed with granite posts. 78 burials with 26 inscriptions from 1797 to 1901
  • NOTE: The Appley stones are surrounded by an ornate iron fence. The Lucinda Burdick stone is surrounded by granite posts and iron rails. The western half of the whole cemetery is surrounded by granite posts, the eastern half with a stone wall


Author: D Homer Wright

Amos Palmer was born 27 August 1729 at Stonington, New London County, Connecticut, a son of Elder Wait Palmer and Mary Brown.  He married Mary York, of Stonington, 5 November 1749.   The ceremony was conducted by his father, Elder Wait Palmer.1  Amos and Mary had the following children: Amos, Uriah, Asahel, Joel, Stephen, Ziba, Boswell, Ezra, Phineas, Benjamin, Ezra, Desire, Comfort, Hannah, Polly, and Ellen.3

Amos Palmer purchased land at Exeter, Rhode Island in 1747, and 1784.  In 1790, Amos Palmer appears in the 1790 U.S. Census at Hopkinton, Washington County, Rhode Island with a family of eight members.  In 1793, purchased 83 acres of land at Ashford, Connecticut.2  

Amos Palmer was a private in Colonel John Topham’s Regiment of the Rhode Island Militia.4   In 1781, Amos Palmer commissioned a ship outfitted with five guns and a crew of 15. A bond of $20,000 was provided by Palmer, Nathan Palmer, and Winthrop Saltonstall.  It was to be used as an armed transport ship of supplies for the troops and residents on Long Island Sound.5

Amos Palmer died 4 June 1797 at Exeter, Washington County, Rhode Island.  He was buried at Palmer-Burdick-Appley Lot, at Hope Valley, Rhode Island.  Mary York Palmer died in 1820 at Exeter, Washington County, Rhode Island.  She is reported buried in the same cemetery, however; her grave does not appear to be marked.

 

References:

1. Connecticut Town Marriage Records, pre-1870, Barbour Collection, Pg.  278.

2. Helen Johnson Rhoades, History of the Walter Palmer Family of Stonington, Connecticut, (DAR 1968).

3. North American Families, 1500-2000, DAR, Volume 63, Pg. 152.

4. North American Families, 1500-2000, DAR, Volume 63, Pg. 224.

5. Louis Frank Middlebrook, History of Maritime Connecticut during the American Revolution, 1775-1783.  Pg. 211.  Essex Institute: 1925.

6. Fold3, Amos Palmer, Topham’s Regiment, Cards 37135371, 37135099.

 

 


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