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• Birth	9 May 1608	England
  Gender	Female
  Died	31 Oct 1690	Stonington,New London Co.,Connecticut
  Buried	Wequetequock Burying Ground,Stonington,New London Co.,Connecticut
  Person ID	I110553	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	15 Jul 2000 00:00:00
  Father	Walter PALMER, b. 1585, England
  Mother	Elizabeth Ann, b. Abt 1600, England
  Family ID	F46344	Group Sheet
  Married	23 Apr 1634	Charlestown,Middlesex Co.,Massachusetts
  Family ID	F46346	Group Sheet

• Notes

  HISTORY OF STONINGTON CT, by Wheeler, page 507. WALTER PALMER, by Doris Palmer Buys, page 44. THE GROTON AVERY CLAN, THE AVERYS OF GROTON. VITAL RECORDS OF STONINGTON, CT., Vol. 1, page 78. Minor, Grace, Mrs., d. Dec. 31, 1690. REFERENCES: Genealogy:PG/p. 20---Dr. BS{/p. 2---PF/pp. 9,10---Savage/Vol. 3, p. 216---HIST. STON./1916, pp. 466, 507. Grace Palmer was born in England between 1608 and 1610. She became amember of the First Church in Charlestown, Middlesex Co., MA on 1 Jun1632 with her father and setep-mother, Rebecca. She married Thomas Minorwho was born in Chew Magna, Sommerset Co., England on 23 Apr 1608. Hecame in John Winthrop's fleet which landed at Capt Ann, now Salem, EssexCo., MA on 12 Jun 1630. Thomas Minor received lot 18 in the first division of land at Mysticside, now Charlestown, MA. on the sixth of the first month 1637. Hisfuture father-in-law Walter Palmer, receiving lot 15. From CharlestownThomas Minor migrated, first to Hingham, where four of his children wereborn and thence to Stonington, New London Co., CT. where he bought alarge tract of land lying on the border of Wequetequock Cove, in 1652. Hethereon built his house. In 1645 he went to New London, CT, where he hada grant of one home lot and built a house, but sold the whole to settleat his final abode in Stonington, where he met with some difficulty. Bythe fact that a grant of three hundred acres of land from the town of NewLondon to Governor Haynes and sold later to his father-in-law being foundto cover Thomas Minor's lot. He, however, signed the coveyance,qualitfing it by the reservation that he should inhabit the place untilhe should have time to erect another dwelling at Mistupet, he held a veryprominent place in all the stirring events which ensued in the settlementof this plantation where he died 23 Oct 1690. Grace also died in Oct1690, and is said to have been born in the same year as her husband. Along stone of rough granite lies in the Ancient Burial Ground atWequetequock, hwich bears the inscription "Here Lyeth the Body of Lieut.Thomas Miner, aged eighty three years, departed 1690". Thomas Minor andfamily located themselves at Quimbog and at Tongwonk. Researching this line is cscox@gci.net