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PALMER, BARNABAS, 1725-1816
He was born in Dublin, Ireland, 29 May, 1725. He died in Milton, N. H., 27 November, 1816. Although born in Ireland, he was of English descent, both paternal and maternal. He was graduated from Dublin University in 1743. Soon after graduation he came to America, landing in New York. Later he came to Boston and engaged in business as a merchant. In 1745 he enlisted in the 8th company of the Massachusetts Regiment that was being raised to go with Sir William Pepperrell to Cape Breton Island to engage in the siege 'of Louisburg. In that siege his company was part of that detachment of troops which destroyed the warehouse containing naval stores, ancl he helped capture the Royal battery. On June 16 of that campaign he lost his right arm by wounds received in battle; for his bravery he was breveted, or promoted to the rank of Major, by which title he was known during the rest of his long life; he lived to be ninety-one years old, vigorous to the end.

In 1747 he married Elizabeth Robinson, daughter of Christopher ancl Elizabeth (Hilton) Robinson. She was a descendant of the Colonial Governors Winthrop and Dudley. She was born 16 August, 1729. Her father was a soldier in the Louisburg expedition, and died there while engaged in the siege. Their first home was at Londonderry, where he engaged in business a few years. Their first child. was born in that town; they gave her the name Mary Palmer. Soon after that he removed to Rochester, NH, where he resided many years and was one of the prominent business men of the town. He built a large house on Rochester Hill, which was elegantly furnished for those times. That was his home for many years; in it were born 11 of his 12 children, a remarkable family of sons ancl daughters.

Mr. Palmer was largely engaged in the lumber business. He owned timber lots in Rochester, Wakefield, Moultonborough, and Milton. He had several sawmills and gristmills at the falls in those towns in which he sawed the lumber and ground the corn ancl wheat for the farmers' families in the neighborhood of the mills. He was a very busy, honorable, and upright man; though he had but one arm, having lost his right arm at Louisburg, Major Palmer made his brains do what the lack of that arm prevented him from doing. For sixty years he was an active member of the Church on the Hill there, he and his wife having joined the Church, by confession of faith and baptism, 26 May, 1748.

Major Palmer was one of the few college educated men of the town at that time, and being such he was much called on to attend to public business, and act as scrivener for his less educated fellow citizens. As he was a good soldier in the Colonial wars, he was equally a good patriot in the Revolutionary war; though he was past the age to do military service in the field, he nevertheless did equally valuable work for the cause in his town at home. He signed the Association Test Oct. 15, 1775, and was one of the Selectmen much of the time during the war; his last year of service in that office was in the year 1780. He was chairman of the board nearly every year. He was Representative for Rochester in the General Court for the years 1788, 1789, 1790, 1791. He was delegate in the Convention that ratified the Constitution of the United States that made the Union complete in 1788. He was one of the influential members of the convention and had much to do in getting the members to vote to adopt the Constitution. He was delegate in the convention that was held in 1791-92 that revised the Constitution of New Hampshire, which had been adopted in 1784.

Major Palmer's beloved wife, Elizabeth, died in 1804. They had lived a married life fifty-seven years; their home was one of the happiest and most prosperous in Rochester. He was then nearly 80 years old, and it was thought best that he give up his old home and pass the remainder of his years in Milton, on Plumer's Ridge, where his son William had a fine farm, and afforded his father a comfortable home.—otium cum dignitatie.

He died 27 November, 1816, aged 91 years, 6 months.

Children:
(1) Mary, b. 2 July, 1748; m. Josiah Main, son of Rev. Amos Main, the first minister of Rochester. The Main statue stands on Rochester Square.
(2) Margaret, b. 29 Aug., 1749; m. Col. David Copp; he was a friend of Gen. Washington in Revolutionary War times.
(3) Jonathan, b. 2 July, 1751 ; m. Polly Roberts of Somersworth; he d. 1843.
(4) Samuel, b. 18 Oct., 1755 ; m. Anna Garland.
(5) William, b. 19 Oct., 1757; m. Susannah Twombly.
(6) Elizabeth, b. 23 Dec., 1759; m. John Merrick of Bangor.
(7) Barnabas, b. 29 Dec., 1761 ; died young.
(8) John, b. 6 Jan., 1763; m. Dorothy Ricker. No children.
(9) Barnabas, b. 18 Feb., 1765; m. Mary Place; d. at Athens, Me., 1822.
(10) Benjamin, b. 5 Aug., 1766; m. Martha Hartford; d. in Augusta, Me., 1806.
(11) Joseph, b. 16 June, 1769; m. Mercy Hanson of Dover.
(12) Mercy, b. 20 Aug., 1770; d. young.
(13) Dudley, b. 16 April, 1775; m. Abigail Pickering of Milton; they had 8 ch.; she d. and he m.
(2) Hannah Folsom; they had one child; she died and he m.
(3) Mary Jewel1 ; they had 8 children

Dudley by the three wives he had 17 children. He lived to be 80 years old, and was proud of his family. He died in 1855.

Descendants: Mrs. Bertha Palmer Greene; Mrs. Elizabeth Palmer Place.

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