Suggested edit: John was a member of the "Religious Society of Friends" and was subjected to persecution because of this relationship. In "Our Ancestor" complied by many Palmer family members, it was reported that he was engaged to Christiana's sister who consistently refused to migrate to Americas. He then turned to Christiana who agreed to go with him. Christiana and John sailed from Scarborough, England on the ship PROVIDENCE, arriving on Dec 1683. The ship master was Robert Hopper. He was Identified as John of Cleveland, in Yourkshire, husbandman, and Christiana his wife. John brought his "Certificate of Removal from the Gilbug M.M. held at Knowsby in England.
He was born at Hatton near Storby in Yorkshire in Old England, having lived with his father till about the age of 24 years, about which time he began to frequent the meeting of the People called Quakers and for those three years and a half hast lived with one John Robinson near Gainsborough within the said county. on the same ship were Joshua Hoopes and Isabel his wife and their children; Dan, Mary, and Christian.
The Palmers located upon a tract of 1000 acres of land in what is now Lower Makefield. This land was a wilderness inhabited by Indians and wild beasts. They lived in a cave until their home was built. The Brook railroad demolished the remnants of the building. the family held portions of the homestead until the 1900's In the back yard was a Berganot Pear Tree that was presented to John by William Penn when it was a sapling. The Family Bible brought from England was in the possession of a descendant of the family. In the inside cover was a copy of the First Land Grant, William Penn, Proprietary and Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania and the Territories thereunto belonging, at the request of John Palmer. Palmer and Joshua Hoops purchases of five hundred acres that I would grant them to take up and require those forthwith to survey or acuse to be surveyed unto them the said number of acres in the aforementioned county where not already taken up according to thereof into my secretary's office. Given at Philadelphia, 31st of October 1683. In 1683, he and Jonathan Scaife were appointed fence viewers for the Middle Neshaminah area. This position was considered to be similar to a constable. Birth records are noted in "Bucks County Births" He is listed on he 1693 Philadelphia Tax List and in the Makefield Township Tax Records in 1693, Pennsylvania.
--Bio by Anne Baker
Contributor: Beverly Bender (Snyder) (48591519) • [email protected]
He was born at Hatton near Storby in Yorkshire in Old England, having lived with his father till about the age of 24 years, about which time he began to frequent the meeting of the People called Quakers and for those three years and a half hast lived with one John Robinson near Gainsborough within the said county. on the same ship were Joshua Hoopes and Isabel his wife and their children; Dan, Mary, and Christian.
The Palmers located upon a tract of 1000 acres of land in what is now Lower Makefield. This land was a wilderness inhabited by Indians and wild beasts. They lived in a cave until their home was built. The Brook railroad demolished the remnants of the building. the family held portions of the homestead until the 1900's In the back yard was a Berganot Pear Tree that was presented to John by William Penn when it was a sapling. The Family Bible brought from England was in the possession of a descendant of the family. In the inside cover was a copy of the First Land Grant, William Penn, Proprietary and Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania and the Territories thereunto belonging, at the request of John Palmer. Palmer and Joshua Hoops purchases of five hundred acres that I would grant them to take up and require those forthwith to survey or acuse to be surveyed unto them the said number of acres in the aforementioned county where not already taken up according to thereof into my secretary's office. Given at Philadelphia, 31st of October 1683. In 1683, he and Jonathan Scaife were appointed fence viewers for the Middle Neshaminah area. This position was considered to be similar to a constable. Birth records are noted in "Bucks County Births" He is listed on he 1693 Philadelphia Tax List and in the Makefield Township Tax Records in 1693, Pennsylvania.
--Bio by Anne Baker
Contributor: Beverly Bender (Snyder) (48591519) • [email protected]
Suggested edit: John was a member of the "Religious Society of Friends" and was subjected to persecution because of this relationship. In "Our Ancestor" complied by many Palmer family members, it was reported that he was engaged to Christiana's sister who consistently refused to migrate to Americas. He then turned to Christiana who agreed to go with him. Christiana and John sailed from Scarborough, England on the ship PROVIDENCE, arriving on Dec 1683. The ship master was Robert Hopper. He was Identified as John of Cleveland, in Yourkshire, husbandman, and Christiana his wife. John brought his "Certificate of Removal from the Gilbug M.M. held at Knowsby in England.
He was born at Hatton near Storby in Yorkshire in Old England, having lived with his father till about the age of 24 years, about which time he began to frequent the meeting of the People called Quakers and for those three years and a half hast lived with one John Robinson near Gainsborough within the said county. on the same ship were Joshua Hoopes and Isabel his wife and their children; Dan, Mary, and Christian.
The Palmers located upon a tract of 1000 acres of land in what is now Lower Makefield. This land was a wilderness inhabited by Indians and wild beasts. They lived in a cave until their home was built. The Brook railroad demolished the remnants of the building. the family held portions of the homestead until the 1900's In the back yard was a Berganot Pear Tree that was presented to John by William Penn when it was a sapling. The Family Bible brought from England was in the possession of a descendant of the family. In the inside cover was a copy of the First Land Grant, William Penn, Proprietary and Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania and the Territories thereunto belonging, at the request of John Palmer. Palmer and Joshua Hoops purchases of five hundred acres that I would grant them to take up and require those forthwith to survey or acuse to be surveyed unto them the said number of acres in the aforementioned county where not already taken up according to thereof into my secretary's office. Given at Philadelphia, 31st of October 1683. In 1683, he and Jonathan Scaife were appointed fence viewers for the Middle Neshaminah area. This position was considered to be similar to a constable. Birth records are noted in "Bucks County Births" He is listed on he 1693 Philadelphia Tax List and in the Makefield Township Tax Records in 1693, Pennsylvania.
--Bio by Anne Baker
Contributor: Beverly Bender (Snyder) (48591519) • [email protected]
He was born at Hatton near Storby in Yorkshire in Old England, having lived with his father till about the age of 24 years, about which time he began to frequent the meeting of the People called Quakers and for those three years and a half hast lived with one John Robinson near Gainsborough within the said county. on the same ship were Joshua Hoopes and Isabel his wife and their children; Dan, Mary, and Christian.
The Palmers located upon a tract of 1000 acres of land in what is now Lower Makefield. This land was a wilderness inhabited by Indians and wild beasts. They lived in a cave until their home was built. The Brook railroad demolished the remnants of the building. the family held portions of the homestead until the 1900's In the back yard was a Berganot Pear Tree that was presented to John by William Penn when it was a sapling. The Family Bible brought from England was in the possession of a descendant of the family. In the inside cover was a copy of the First Land Grant, William Penn, Proprietary and Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania and the Territories thereunto belonging, at the request of John Palmer. Palmer and Joshua Hoops purchases of five hundred acres that I would grant them to take up and require those forthwith to survey or acuse to be surveyed unto them the said number of acres in the aforementioned county where not already taken up according to thereof into my secretary's office. Given at Philadelphia, 31st of October 1683. In 1683, he and Jonathan Scaife were appointed fence viewers for the Middle Neshaminah area. This position was considered to be similar to a constable. Birth records are noted in "Bucks County Births" He is listed on he 1693 Philadelphia Tax List and in the Makefield Township Tax Records in 1693, Pennsylvania.
--Bio by Anne Baker
Contributor: Beverly Bender (Snyder) (48591519) • [email protected]
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