Notes for Bridget PALMER
Roger Barton of Westchester County, NY, and Some of His Earlier Descendants by George E. McCracken (NEHGS) page 292
In November 1692 (NYG&BR v43, page 281), Bridget Palmer was as yet unmarried, but it was very soon after this that she married Roger2 Barton, since by 1698 she had given birth to five children. She was the youngest daughter of John2 Palmer (William1) and his wife Bridget, the latter previously wife of Capt. Thomas Baxter but divorced from him at the time of her marriage to John Palmer, and she may have been a daughter of Capt. Robert Clark (see The American Genealogist, 26.102). John Palmer had been one of the justices who conducted the investigation of the riot of 16 July 1688.
The Baxter Family: descendants of George and Thomas Baxter of Westchester County, New York. Frances Baxter, 1913
Page 1
“The census of Westchester village was taken in 1690. Among the settlers were: Thomas Baxter, wife Rebecca, children Rebekah, Mary, Abigail, John Carcas, Elizabeth, Keziah, Mereum. Servants, Joseph, Peter, Briant
Thomas Baxter, Jr., wife Abigail; no children at that time.
Israel Honeywell, wife Mary/ children, Israel, Mary, Samuel, Richard. Servants, John Hessones, Charity. One slave, Jake.
Roger Barton, wife Bridget. Children, Palmer, Bridget, Roger, Abigail, Elisha.”
ONLY ONE OF THE ABOVE TWO STATEMENTS CAN BE TRUE. EITHER ROGER AND BRIDGET WERE MARRIED AND HAD FIVE CHILDREN BY 1690 OR ALL THE THE CHILDREN WERE BORN AFTER 1692.
Early Wills of Westchester County, New York: from 1664 to 1784. William S. Pelletreau page 34, item #53:
Thomas Baxter Sr., Westchester.
Mentions wife Rebecca, and sons Thoms, John and James, who will be 19 years and 4 months old on May 1, 1721. He leaves to him all lands and 50 pounds Commonage. Mentions daughters Elizabeth, Keziah, Glover, Myriam, Phebe, “my daughter Palmer,” Mary Kinison, Abigail wife of Joseph Betts, “my daughter Drake”, “my daughter Tippett.”. His son John is to have 6 acres adjoining to his 10 acre lot next to David Huestis, and 10acres by John Stevensons, to be taken on the west side of his lot for the water side to the highway, and 2 acres salt meadow at a place called Pritchetts Hammock and ½ my lands at the Long Reach. Makes his wife Rebecca, and sons in law John Palmer and Joseph Betts executors.
Dated July 2, 1714, Proved Jan 18, 1715
Liber 8, page 388
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