+Robert PALMATORY
Ellinor PALMATORY
John PALMATORY
Susannah PALMATORY
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Robert Palmatary Book: "Robert Palmatary of Duck Creek HD is the earliest Palmatary on record in Delaware State Archives. On 6 Jan 1680 a tract of land was surveyed for him on a warrant from Hoornkill (Lewes) Court. This tract, containing five hundred acres, was located on the south side of Duck Creek in what is now Kent co, and he named it , "Robert's Chance."
A month later, on 4 Feb 1680 Robert made his mark, "R'" on a taxpayers' petition to have the county seat moved "to a more convenient location." Hoornkill was approximately fifty miles from Robert's land.
In March of 1682, Robert was one of thirty-four settlers to obtain a warrant from the St. Jones (Kent) County Court, provided he settle on an improve his claim within one year of the survey. The court ordered the survey in June and it was done in December. On 26 Mar 1684, Robert was granted his five hundred acres by William Penn for a quitrent of one bushel of wheat per hundred acres per year. Sometime later, Robert obtained and adjoining tract of two hundred nine acres, called "Golden Grove."
The names and birth dates of Robert and Janna's children are on record in the Delaware State Archives, copied years ago from and unknown source.
A copy of Robert's will was made evidently when the original was in a state of deterioration and the date already obliterated. However, a later document concerning his land stated that date of his will as 20 Nov 1691. He may not have died on that date, as one early census record lists him in 1693 in both Duck Creek hundred and Little Creek Hundred.
Kent Co Will on microfile DE Archives A 1-3 "In the name of God Amen I Robert Palmatary of the County of Kent in the territories of the province of Penna. Being of weak of body but of perfect memory do make this my last will and testament revoking all former wills imprimis First I do give my soul to God that gave it and my body to return to the earth from whence it was taken and do dispose of my worldly estate as follows 2ndly I do give to my sons Robert and John after the decease of my wife Joanna my now dwelling plantation with one half of the tract of land joyning to the same the other half to my daughters Eleanor Susannah the called by the name of Roberts Chance 3rdly I do give my wife Janna full power to make sale of four acres of land and to make alienation of the same for herself and my children the land called Newberry 4thly I do give to my wife one stone horse and my sons each guns also I do give to my four children two head of all of them breeders together with their increase for the familys use and for the rest of my worldly equally divided amongst them as they come at age wife to have four head of cattle In witness here unto put my hand and seal this twentieth signed and sealed and delivered in the sight and presence of Jeffry F T Thomson John Bradshaw
Samuel Jennings register Gen of the province of Penna and countires
At the time Robert dictated his will, he owned, in addition to "Robert's Chance," a four hundred acre tract of land called "Newberry." He gave his wife, Joanna, permission to sell it after his death, to support herself and the children. Robert had already sold "Golden Grove." "Robert's Chance" was to be equally divided between the four children after Janna's death. By 1697, Joanna was married to Thomas Sharp and together they.
Where did Robert Palmatary come from? On or before 27 Jan 1679, he was one of eight persons transported from the Colony of Virginia to the Province of Maryland. A year later, he applied for a land grant in St Jones County, present-day Kent Co DE. When and where he married Joanna, or where their first child was born is not known. How he got to Virginia and what county he came form may never be known.
What is certain is that Robert did stake out a claim in the wilderness that would one day become the State of Delaware. There is no doubt that he was a man of courage and physically strong enough to clear his land build a house, provide for his family and start a dynasty of Palmatary
[13395] [S198] "Robert Palmatary of Duck Creek, DE"
_Christopher VANDEGRIFT ______________+
| (1781 - 1857) m 1804
_Andrew Jackson VANDEGRIFT _|
| (1815 - 1880) m 1838 |
| |_Lydia ASPRIL widow of Elias Walraven_+
| (1778 - 1845) m 1804
_John Barr VANDEGRIFT ___|
| (1846 - 1915) m 1876 |
| | _John PRICE __________________________
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| |_Anna PRICE ________________|
| (1819 - 1900) m 1838 |
| |_Susannah ____________________________
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|--Alberta VANDEGRIFT
| (1879 - ....)
| _Joseph EATON ________________________+
| | (1792 - 1854) m 1814
| _William Scott EATON _______|
| | (1816 - 1885) m 1843 |
| | |_Deborah POULSON _____________________+
| | (1793 - 1867) m 1814
|_Angeline Cleaver EATON _|
(1852 - 1938) m 1876 |
| ______________________________________
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|_Lamer Jane BROWN __________|
(.... - 1887) m 1843 |
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[5798] [S24] Journal of Susannah Elizabeth Vandegrift
[5799] [S147] DE Archives Bible Records File Folders
[5797] [S20] Family Bible Vandegrift, Andrew Jackson Vandegrift
[15623] [S147] DE Archives Bible Records File Folders
[15624] [S20] Family Bible Vandegrift, Andrew Jackson Vandegrift
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