Hannah Palmer

1634 - Aft 1681  (> 47 years)

• Name	Hannah Palmer
  Born	15 Jun 1634	., Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts
  Christened	15 Jun 1634	., Stonington, New London, Connecticut
  Gender	Female
  _UID	19911D9FC1096F46A79075194EDA7AD420E4
  Died	Aft 25 Aug 1681	Stonington, New London, CT
  Person ID	I7536	Crandall Pember Legacy
  Last Modified	7 Jun 2021

  
  

  Father	Walter Palmer,   b. Abt 1585, Of, , Nottinghamshire, England ,   d. 10 Nov 1661, , Stonington, New London, CT -OR- Charlest  (Age ~ 76 years)
  Mother	Rebecca Short,   b. 1606,   d. 1671  (Age 65 years)
  Married	1 Jun 1633	Roxbury Church, Roxbury
  _UID	07825A965F6E3542B214D3FF13648566B71B
  Family ID	F2338	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Thomas Hewitt
  Married	26 Apr 1659	Stonington, New London, Connecticut
  _UID	8BB42B7CDF554641B46F15C835727A3F016E
  Last Modified	25 Aug 2021 16:45:14
  Family ID	F3461	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Roger Or Sterry Stury
  Married	27 Dec 1671	Stonington, New London, Conn
  _UID	E78EC370360C8D4F9B389EF17E6B306FB042
  Last Modified	25 Aug 2021 16:45:14
  Family ID	F3462	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 3	John Fish
  Married	25 Aug 1681	, , Conn.
  _UID	267F9306F2B784419424AC24AC2D5A61C873
  Last Modified	25 Aug 2021 16:45:14
  Family ID	F3463	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  !The Sterry Family Author: Walter Burges Smith Call Number: CS71.S8393 This book contains the history and genealogy of the Steery fam i ly of Connecticut. Bibliographic Information: Smith, Walter Burges. The Sterry Fa m ily. Privately Printed. Israel. 1973. ROGER1 STERRY, the founder, was born about 1630 in England or the West I n dies and died about 1680 (after the birth of his son in 1674 and before mid- 1 681 when his wife appears of record as a widow), probably in southern New England or at se a . He married on December 27, 1671 at Stonington, Conn., Hannah Palmer, who was then the wid o w of Capt. Thomas Hewitt of Stonington, whom she had married August 26, 1659. Hannah was t h e daughter of two original settlers, Walter Palmer (born about 1602, died November 10, 16 6 1) and his second wife Rebecca Short (born about 1610, died 1671). Hannah was baptiz e d June 15, 1634 at Charlestown, Mass., and died after 1701, presumably at Stoning t on, Conn. As Roger Sterry's widow she married for a third time on August 25, 1681 at Stoni n gton an original settler, John Fish, born 1621 at Great Bowden, England, and died 1689 at Groton, C o nn. Hannah and John Fish had no issue. The first known record of Roger Sterry in America is that of h i s marriage to Hannah in 1671 at Stonington, Conn. The only other record, other than the birt h s of his two children, is in the proceedings of the New London County Court. On September 16, 1 6 73 the Court noted that it had issued a warrant for Roger and his wife to Page 4 appear and they had not done so (the reasons for the warrant and the non - appearance are not given). The paucity of record forces one to wonder if Roger may not ha v e been a mariner, a trapper, or a soldier lost in the Great Swamp Fight against the Narraganse t t Indians (at Kingston, R.I.) on December 19, 1675. Many residents of New London, County, Conn . , took part in that key battle of King Phillip's War. The town of Stonington from its foundi n g was important as a port, and its inhabitants lost many men in shipwrecks. The matter of Roger's English origins is discussed elsewhere. Although it was known at the time that the first husband of Ro g er's wife, Capt. Thomas Hewitt of Stonington, was lost at sea in 16 6 2, an order of the Connecticut Court nevertheless was necessary in 1670 to free her to remarr y . Roger presumably was living in Stonington by that time. As Roger's widow Hannah obtained in 1 6 81, before entering into her third marriage, a house and some land from her third husband with t h e right to will this property to her two Sterry children (no mention of her two Hewitt children, Th o mas born in 1660 and Benjamin born in 1662). However, in 1701 she sold this property with t h e permission of her two Sterry children, now adults, to Samuel Fish of Stonington, who probab l y was her stepson. The children of Roger and Hannah (Palmer) Sterry, born at Ston i ngton: 2. i. HANNAH2 STERRY (1672-1751) 3. ii. SAMUEL STERRY (1674-1734). Page 5 _______________________________________________ Three Hundred Colonial Ancestors and War Service Author: Elizabeth M. Leach Rixford Call Number: R929.1 R62t This book contains three hundred colonial ancestors which incl u des Royal Ancestry and Mayflower lines. Bibliographic Information: Rixford, Elizabeth M. Leach. Thre e H undred Colonial Ancestors and War Service. Tuttle Company. Vermont. 1934. THOMAS1, Stonington, 1651, Mariner, on voyage May, 1662, not heard of after; m. Hannah Palmer, bapt. June 15, 1634, dau. of Wa l ter and Rebecca (Short) Palmer of Charlestown, Mass. Page 146