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Samuel Palmer, second child of Jonas and Elizabeth (Griswold) Palmer, was born at Rehoboth, Bristol county, Massachusetts, November 29, 1659. He was a soldier under Major William Bradford in the expedition against the Narra- gansett Indians in 1675-76, and held a number of municipal positions. In 1701 he purchased of Isaac Magoun, a Scotchman, part of a large tract of land called Scotland, in the unsettled portion of Windham, Connecticut, later known as Scotland Parish, and in March, 1702, sold his lands and house at Rehoboth, and
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removed to his new purchase in Windham county, where he resided until his death, November 18, 1743. His will dated July II, 1728, describes him as of "Windham in the County of Windham, Colony of Connecticut".
Samuel Palmer married (first) at Rehoboth, Bristol county, Massachusetts, February 29, 1681, Elizabeth Kinsley, who was born at Rehoboth, January 29, 1662-3, daughter of Eldad and Mehitabel Kinsley. She died at Scotland Par- ish, Windham county, Connecticut, May 17, 1717, and Samuel Palmer married ( second), December 6, 1727, Ann Durgy, who survived him and died February 17, 1761, at the age of eighty years.
Samuel Palmer, second son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Kinsley) Palmer, was born at Rehoboth, Bristol county, Massachusetts, January 4, 1683-84, and re- moved with his parents to Scotland Parish, Windham county, Connecticut, in 1702. He married, in Windham, April 8, 1707, Hepzebeth Abbe, who was born in Salem village, now Danvers, Essex county, Massachusetts, February 14, 1688-89, daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Solsby) Abbe.
Rev. John Palmer, seventh of the eleven children of Samuel and Hepzebeth (Abbe) Palmer, was born in Scotland Parish, Windham county, Connecticut, March 6, 1720-21. Soon after the date of John Palmer's birth, the Scotch-Irish people residing in that section began to agitate the question of being allowed a separate church, more in accordance with the forms of worship of the Presby- terian church of Scotland of which they were strong adherents. In this meas- ure they were joined by a number of others, dissatisfied with the Established Church, among them members of the Palmer family. The controversy contin- ued several years, and a separate church was finally allowed in 1735, called the "Third Church of Windham" in which regular ministers of the gospel preached for several years. An entirely separate organization was effected in 1746, and members of the congregation conducted services for a time. John Palmer, hav- ing a gift as a teacher, began to officiate at about this time with the result that he was arrested by the civil authorities at the instance of the adherents of the Established Church, and was sentenced to four months imprisonment in Hart- ford jail for preaching without a license. This only increased the opposition to the Established Church, and John Palmer continuing to exhort for the dissent- ers was called to the ministry, and on May 17, 1749, was regularly ordained as the pastor of the Windham Church, which he continued to serve until his death, August 13, 1807, in his eighty-seventh year.
Rev. John Palmer married (first), May 18, 1749, Esther Cleaveland, born November 5, 1727, daughter of Benjamin and Ann (Church) Cleaveland. She died October 28, 1754, and he married (second), October 28, 1755, Lydia Eames.
Captain Levi Palmer, eldest son of Rev. John and Esther (Cleaveland) Pal- mer, was born in Scotland Parish, Windham county, Connecticut, July 7, 1750. On July 4, 1767, when only seventeen years of age, he married, at East Had- dam, Connecticut, Elizabeth Cone, born July 1, 1751, daughter of Josiah and Elizabeth (Gates) Cone, and settled in Bashan Parish, East Haddam, where he operated a tannery. He was a captain of Connecticut militia during the Revo- lutionary War, a fact proven by the inscription on his tombstone in Bashan Par- ish Churchyard. He died at Bashan, February 14, 1835, and his widow died June 2, 1840.
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George Palmer, seventh of the thirteen children of Captain Levi and Elizabeth (Cone) Palmer, was born at East Haddam, Connecticut, May 22, 1781, and lived there all his life. He married (first) Roxanna Brainerd, by whom he had three children. He married (second), in 1813, Catharine Chauncy Rawson, born at East Haddam, Connecticut, February 4, 1788, daughter of Edmund Grindal Rawson, of East Haddam, and his wife, Sarah Holmes, by whom he had two sons, Joseph Rawson Palmer and Henry Holmes Palmer. Catharine C. (Rawson) Palmer died in 1826, and he married (third) Louisa Brooks, by whom he had two daughters, Jane and Ellen.
Edward Rawson, the pioneer ancestor of Catharine C. (Rawson) Palmer, was born at Gillingham, county Dorset, England, April 16, 1615, and was a son of David Rawson, and his wife, Margaret Wilson, the latter a sister of Rev. John Wilson, long pastor of the First Church of Boston; and a grandson of Edward Rawson, of the town of Colebrooke, parish of Langley, county of Bucks, and his wife, Bridget. David Rawson, the father, whose will states that he was born in Colebrook, county of Bucks, was a "Citizen and Merchant Tailor of London".
Edward Rawson, who became one of the most prominent men in the found- ing and development of the New England Colonies, "whose acts pervade the whole early history of Massachusetts," married, in England, about 1636, Rachel, daughter of Richard and Rachel (Green) Perne, of Gillingham, county Dorset, and at about that date came with her to Massachusetts and settled at Newberry, of which town he was the second town clerk, chosen April 19, 1638. He con- tinued to serve as town clerk and selectman of Newbury, and frequently as commissioner, attorney, etc., until his removal to Boston to accept the position of secretary of the Colony of Massachusetts in 1650. He was elected deputy to the General Court, or legislative body of Massachusetts Bay Colony in May, 1638, and regularly reelected thereafter to 1645, when he was chosen clerk of the House of Deputies, which position he filled at every session thereafter, until May 22, 1650, when he was chosen by that body secretary of the colony, to which position he was annually reelected until the government was usurped by Governor Edmond Andross in 1686. He was a leading spirit in all important matters of legislation by the House of Deputies, and exercised a wide influence in shaping the policy of government. In 1645 he was granted five hundred acres of land at Pequot "so as to go with business of powder making, if the Salt Peter comes".
He and his family became members of the First Church of Boston, of which his uncle, Rev. John Wilson, was pastor, on their removal to that city in 1650, and he was very prominent in church matters, acting for several years as the agent of the Society for the Propagation of Gospel in Foreign Parts, in the re- ceipt and distribution of supplies sent by that Society from England for the support of the church in New England. He was also for many years recorder of the county of Suffolk. He died in Boston, August 27, 1693. Rachel Perne, wife of Edward Rawson, was a descendant of a sister of Edward Grindal, Arch- bishop of Canterbury during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and one of the prom- inent leaders of the Reformation during the reign of Edward VI, seeking refuge in France during the reign of "Bloody Mary".
Rev. Grindal Rawson, son of Edward and Rachel (Perne) Rawson, was born at Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated at Harvard in 1678, and studied for
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the ministry. He preached his first sermon at Medfield, and after two months preaching at various places, was called to the church at Mendon, Worcester county, Massachusetts, October 4, 1680, and continued to serve that church during the remainder of his life. He was sent on a mission to the Indians by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in 1698, and was one of the prom- inent divines of his day. He was a classmate and intimate friend of Cotton Mather, and was the author of a number of religious works, which with a number of his sermons were later published.
Rev. Grindal Rawson married his distant cousin, Susanna Wilson, daughter of Rev. John Wilson, pastor of the First Church of Boston, and his wife, Sarah Hooker, daughter of John Hooker, whose wife was also a Grindal.
Grindal Rawson, son of Rev. Grindal and Susanna (Wilson) Rawson, born at Mendon, Worcester county, Massachusetts, September 5, 1707, graduated at Yale in 1728, and on June 17, 1729, was selected to teach a school for his native town, and was thus employed until 1732, when he became the settled minister of the church at South Hadley, Massachusetts, where he remained until his resig- nation in 1741, to accept the pastorate of the church at East Haddam, Connecti- cut, where he was settled for the remainder of his life and died March 27, 1777. He married, May 19, 1738, Dorothy Chauncy, daughter of Rev. Isaac Chauncy, D. D., the second president of Harvard College. She died at East Haddam, Con- necticut, in 1780, at the age of seventy years.
Edmund Grindal Rawson, eldest of the six children of Rev. Grindal and Dor- othy (Chauncy) Rawson, born at South Hadley, Massachusetts, February 7, 1739, graduated at Yale, studied for the ministry, and subsequently preached at different churches occasionally. He married, in 1768, Sarah, daughter of Christopher Holmes, a deacon of his father's church at East Haddam, and re- sided in that town, where he died July 21, 1823, in his eighty-fifth year. Cath- arine Chauncy Rawson, the tenth of the eleven children of Edmund Grindal and Sarah (Holmes) Rawson, became the second wife of George Palmer, of East Haddam, Connecticut, in 1813.
Joseph Rawson Palmer, son of George and Catharine Chauncy (Rawson) Palmer, was born at East Haddam, Connecticut, January 1I, 1814. In 1833 he began the publication of a newspaper called the Middlesex Gazette, and in 1834 established a type and stereotype foundry in Boston, Massachusetts. He later went south and in 1841 published a daily evening paper in New Orleans, Louis- iana. In 1846 he established a newspaper at Matamoras, Mexico, called The American Flag, which he conducted for several years. In 1854 he located at Brownsville, Texas, where he resided for ten years, filling during this period many important offices there. He was politically an "old Line Whig", and dur- ing the Civil War a pronounced Union man. In 1864 he came north with his family and after residing for two years at Brooklyn, New York, located at New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he spent his remaining days.
Joseph Rawson Palmer married, at Brownsville, Texas, December 2, 1854, Emily, daughter of Captain Benjamin Godfrey. They had nine children, of whom Harriet Cooper Palmer, born at Brooklyn, New York, February 28, 1865, wife of John Lloyd, of Philadelphia, was the sixth.
John and Harriet Cooper (Palmer) Lloyd had three children : Catharine God- frey Lloyd, born April 5, 1900; John Palmer Lloyd, born July 23, 1901 ; Ed- mund Grindal Lloyd, born December 10, 1903.
NATHANIEL SEYMOUR THOMAS.
REV. NATHANIEL SEYMOUR THOMAS, rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Holy Apostles, Philadelphia, and his wife Edith Ellsworth Prince, both trace their ancestry to early Puritan stock.
On the paternal side Dr. Thomas is a descendant of John Thomas and Abi- gail, his wife, who were among the earliest settlers of Rhode Island; the former born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1646, and died in 1728.
COLONEL GEORGE THOMAS, an officer of the Provincial troops of Rhode Island, born August 20, 1680, died, June 22, 1740, was a son of John and Abigail Thomas, above mentioned. He married, January 20, 1704, Alice Gorton, (1684- 1738), daughter of Benjamin Gorton, and his wife, Sarah Carder, a daughter of Richard and Mary Carder.
SAMUEL THOMAS, son of Colonel George and Alice (Gorton) Thomas, was born December 2, 1720, and died in 1780. He married, in 1739, Ruth Gould, a daughter of Jeremiah Gould (1683-1745) and his wife, Elizabeth Ward; and granddaughter of Daniel Gould, born 1656, and his wife, Mary Clark ( 1662- 17II).
CAPTAIN SAMUEL THOMAS, of North Kingston, Rhode Island, the great- great-grandfather of Rev. Nathaniel Seymour Thomas, was a son of Samuel and Ruth (Gould) Thomas, and was born April 2, 1743, and died in 1839. He was commissioned a captain in the Second Regiment, Rhode Island Militia, March, 1776, and served in the field with that regiment until May, 1777. He also served as private in Captain Richard Updycke's Artillery Company, and assisted in the capture of the British vessel "Cyons". Captain Samuel Thomas married Hope King.
RICHARD THOMAS, son of Captain Samuel and Hope (King) Thomas, born January 22, 1777, married, February 17, 1799, Mary Nichols, born July 24, 1774, died February 29, 1868, daughter of George Nichols, who married, Aug- ust 16, 1772, Rachel, daughter of Robert Allen, of Warwick, Rhode Island.
ALLEN MASON THOMAS, of Wickford, Rhode Island, son of Richard and Mary (Nichols) Thomas, was born July 25, 1806, and died April 3, 1887. He married, March 7, 1833, Charlotte Proctor Smith, born December 23, 18II, died April 6, 1872; daughter of Elisha Peck Smith, of Warren, Rhode Island, born December 21, 1776, died September 12, 1832; by his wife, Hannah Proc- tor Phillips, daughter of Nathaniel Phillips, of Warren, Rhode Island, and his wife, Roby Waterman, born 1761, died 1835. The latter being a daughter of William Waterman, of Patuxet, Rhode Island, and granddaughter of Resolve Waterman.
Elisha Peck Smith, above mentioned, was a great-great-great-grandson of Christopher Smith and Alice, his wife, who about 1643 settled at Providence, Rhode Island, and removed thence to Newport, in the time of King Philip's War, for refuge from the Indians, and died there. From the fact that this in- cident of his life is mentioned in Friends' records it is presumed that he was a member of the Society of Friends. His wife, Alice, was a daughter of Thomas
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Arnold by his wife, Alice Golley, daughter of John Golley, residing near Ches- elbourne, England, where Alice was baptized, September 24, 1533.
Benjamin Smith, son of Christopher and Alice, born in England in 1631 did not accompany his parents to America, but followed them in 1658, having pre- vious to his emigration been a soldier in Cromwell's army. He was a sergeant of a military company at Patuxet, Rhode Island, in 1659; eight years a deputy there, and nineteen years an assistant at Warwick, Rhode Island. His wife, Lydia Carpenter, who was baptized in Rhode Island by Roger Williams, was a daughter of William Carpenter and his wife, Elizabeth Arnold, who was a daughter of William Arnold, of Dartmouth, England, who with his wife, Chris- tian Peck, settled in Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1635, and removed, with the Peck family, to Patuxet, Rhode Island, in 1638. Benjamin Smith, (1661-1730), son of Benjamin and Lydia (Carpenter) Smith, married Phebe Arnold (1670- 1730), daughter of Stephen Arnold, son of William and Christian (Peck) Arnold, above mentioned.
Stephen Smith, son of Benjamin and Phebe (Arnold) Smith, born at War- wick, Rhode Island, February 20, 1713, married Mary Sabine, and their son, Captain Simeon Smith, born March 5, 1746, died March 3, 1843, was a member of the Patuxet Rangers, in 1774, and served in the Revolutionary War, his name appearing in the list of Revolutionary pensioners. He married, December 12, 1773, Martha Peck, born August 24, 1756, died January 6, 1833; daughter of Elisha and Mary (Arnold) Peck, of Providence, Rhode Island, great-grand- daughter of Elisha and Martha (Lake) Peck; and great-great-granddaughter of Nicholas Peck, born in Norfolk, England, in 1630, who came to Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1638, with his parents, Joseph and Rebecca (Clark) Peck. The said Joseph Peck being a son of Robert Peck, of Beeches, Suffolk, Eng- land, born about 1546, by his wife, Helen Babbs, daughter of Nicholas.
THE RT. REV. ELISHA SMITH THOMAS, D.D., father of Rev. Nathaniel Sey- mour Thomas, was a son of Allen Mason and Charlotte Proctor (Smith) Thomas, and was born March 2, 1834, in Rhode Island, and died in Topeka, Kansas, where he was the Bishop of the Diocese, March 9, 1895. He married, October 2, 1861, Georgine Mary Brown, daughter of George Spencer Brown, of North Kingston, Rhode Island, born November 1, 1796, died May 13, 1833, who married in 1828, Mary Sophia Backus, born February 19, 1809, died May 2, 1884; daughter of Simon Backus, of New York City, born January 6, 1777, died December, 1836; by his wife, Eunice Linus, daughter of Robert and Mary (Dunlap) Linus, the former a native of Marseilles, France, and the latter of Scotch-Irish ancestry.
Simon Backus, above mentioned, was a son of Rev. Simon Backus, of Strat- ford, Connecticut, born February 19, 1739, died August 7, 1823, by his wife, Rachel Moseley, born October 24, 1745, died July 25, 1825; grandson of Rev. Simon Backus, born February II, 1700, died at Cape Breton, February, 1746, graduated at Yale, in 1725; by his wife, Eunice Edwards, (1705-1788), daugh- ter of Rev. Timothy Edwards, of Windsor, Connecticut, and his wife, Esther Stoddard, daughter of Rev. Solomon Stoddard; and granddaughter of Richard and Elizabeth (Tuthill) Edwards, of Hartford, Connecticut.
Rev. Simon Backus, the elder, was a son of Joseph Backus, of Norwich, Connecticut, born September 6, 1667, and his wife, Elizabeth Huntingdon, born 1669; grandson of William Backus, of Norwich, Connecticut, and his wife,
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Elizabeth Pratt, born 1641; and great-grandson of William and Sarah (Charles) Backus, of Norwich Connecticut.
George Spencer Brown, the maternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a son of Beriah Brown, of North Kingston, Rhode Island, who was born July 23, 1768, and died January 8, 1854; married, September 29, 1794, Penelope Spencer, daughter of George and Mary Spencer, of East Greenwich, Kent county, Rhode Island.
Beriah Brown, father of the above named Beriah, was born at North King- ston, Rhode Island, April 19, 1744, and died July 13, 1819, by his wife, Amy Sherman, born June 2, 1766, died February 14, 1855, daughter of Abial Sher- man, of South Kingston.
Beriah Brown, father of Beriah, last mentioned, born 1714, died 1792, was sheriff of Washington county, Rhode Island, in which North Kingston is lo- cated. He married (second) Elizabeth Babcock, daughter of George Waite Babcock, of South Kingston, Washington county, Rhode Island.
Beriah Brown, last above mentioned, was a son of Alexander Brown, of North Kingston, by his second wife, Honor Huling, daughter of Alexander Hu- ling, of North Kingston; and grandson of Beriah Brown, of the same place (1640-1685), by his wife, Abigail Serril Phenix, daughter of Alexander and Abigail (Serril) Phenix. Alexander Phenix and his father-in-law, Thomas Serril, were the first two settlers of Kingston, Rhode Island.
NATHANIEL SEYMOUR THOMAS was born June 20, 1867. He received his education in the local schools of Minneapolis and St. Paul and the University of Minnesota, graduating from the latter institution in 1890; after which he went to England, and spent eighteen months in the University of Cambridge. Return- ing to America in the autumn of 1891, he entered the Kansas Theological School, at the same time ministering to the congregation of Grace church, Ot- tawa, Kansas. In 1894 he became rector of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church at Leavenworth, Kansas, where he remained until 1897, and then be- came rector of St. Matthew's Church, at Wheeling, West Virginia, resigning that charge in 1899, to become rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Holy Apostles, Philadelphia, which rectorship he still fills. Dr. Thomas was admitted a member of the West Virginia State Society, Sons of the Revolution, April 22, 1898, as a great-great-grandson of Captain Samuel Thomas, of the Second Rhode Island Regiment, above mentioned ; and on April 9, 1901, trans- ferred his membership to the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the Revolution. He is a member of the Union League Club, of Philadelphia; of the Delaware County Field Club; the Twilight Club, of Wheeling, West Virginia, and the Philobiblion Club, of Philadelphia. Dr. Thomas was elected Bishop of the Missionary District of Western Kansas, in 1902, but declined to accept the position.
Rev. Nathaniel Seymour Thomas married, November 4, 1895, Edith Ells- worth Prince, daughter of Colonel Edward Prince, of the Seventh Regiment, Illinois Cavalry, in the Civil War, and his wife, Virginia Arthur.
Colonel Prince is a lineal descendant of Robert Prince, of Danvers, Massa- chusetts, and his wife, Sarah, who after having married his Redemptioner Alex- ander Osburn, was burned as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts, during the prev- alence of the horrible delusion of witchcraft there in the latter part of the sev- enteenth century.
SELLERS FAMILY.
The Sellers family earliest identified with Pennsylvania and with the Revo- lutionary period was founded in the Province by Samuel Sellers, who came from Belper, in Derbyshire, England, and settled near Darby in 1682. His ancestry is traced to a remote period in Derbyshire and the adjoining county of Nottingham, where the name first appears in the records as de Salor or de Sal- lowe, by which name was designated also the manor held by the family in the twelfth century, near the present village of Sawley, in Derbyshire.
The direct line of descent of Samuel Sellers in Belper is through Robert de Salor (or de Sallowe) of Sandiacre, and his wife Mary, daughter of Richard de Grey of Codner, county Derby, temp. Edward III, and whose son, Robert de Sallowe, by marriage with Elena, daughter of Thomas Bella Aqua (or Bel- lais) of Holm, Nottinghamshire, acquired the Manor of Aldsworth, which was held by their descendants for several generations. Their grandson, William Sallowe (whose name appears as Seler) was also Lord of this Manor and High Sheriff of Nottingham at the time of Henry IV, and through him the line of descent continues to Robert Sellers of Belper (circa 1580-1618), who died in 1618, and who married Mary, daughter of Ralph Francis, of All Saints, Derby, a descendant of William le Franceys, of Tyckenhall, temp. Edward I, who held half of the Manor of Nether Haddon. It was his kinsman, Gilbert le Franceys, who acquired the Manor of Haddon through his marriage with Hawyse de Vernon, whose son, Richard le Franceys, assumed the surname of Vernon and is the ancestor of the present owners of Haddon Hall.
Thomas Sellers, eldest son of Robert and Mary (Francis) Sellers, of Belper, and his wife, Elizabeth, had issue :-
John, born 20 August, 1648; Elizabeth, born 13 January, 1649; Mary, born 7 September, 1651; George, born 13 February, 1652; SAMUEL, born 3 February, 1655; Sarah, born 20 June, 1663.
George and Samuel Sellers, the only surviving sons, removed to the Prov- ince of Pennsylvania, and upon the death of the former in 1686 his estate passed to his brother, the land forming part of the one hundred acres which Samuel Sellers secured by patent in 1690, the original "Sellers Hall" plantation in Darby township, now Upper Darby, Delaware county.
In the year 1684 Samuel Sellers married, at Darby, Anna, daughter of Henry and Eleanor Gibbons, who came from Parwich, Derbyshire, England, in 1682, their intention of marriage being the first entry in the records of Darby Monthly Meeting of Friends. Her family was of Welsh origin, Henry Gibbons, her father, being descended from Gibbon ap Ithel Fychan, who married Elen, daugh- ter of Gruffydd ap Gwilym ap Ieuan Lloyd, of Wales.
SAMUEL SELLERS was an active member of the Society of Friends, and his wife
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Anna, an overseer of the Women's Meeting at Darby. He served as constable, juryman and fence viewer in the township. His death occurred at "Sellers Hall", November 22, 1732, in his seventy-eighth year. Anna (Gibbons) Sel- lers, his widow, died January 19, 1742-3. Both were buried at Darby.
Of the six children of Samuel and Anna (Gibbons) Sellers, four lived to maturity, namely : Sarah Sellers, born July 13, 1685, married, 1703, John Ash- mead; Mary Sellers, born December 13, 1687, married (first) William Marshall, and (second) Isaac Vernon, both of Chester county; Samuel Sellers Jr., born May 12, 1690, of whom presently ; and Anna Sellers, born April, 1693, married Thomas Pritchett.
SAMUEL SELLERS JR., only surviving son of Samuel and Anna (Gibbons) Sel- lers, was born in Darby township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, May 12, 1690. He received during the lifetime of his father, in 1714, a conveyance of the "Sel- lers Hall" homestead of one hundred and seventy-five acres of land, his parents retaining a life interest in one half. He was supervisor of highways in Darby township, in 1725 and 1730, and subsequently filled the same position in Upper Darby in 1752, besides serving as constable in 1748, after the division of the township. He died at "Sellers Hall", June 3, 1773, and was buried near his parents at Darby.
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