In Their Footsteps
A 500 Year Genealogical Odyssey
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In Their Footsteps is a Genealogical compilation of approximately 900 individuals and the story of how this Palmer Family came to be and where it came from. As one might expect, the geography of a complicated genealogy such as this one has several disparate locations of importance. Thankfully, these ancestors chose to cluster around a select few well documented locales: New England, lower New York State, Northeastern New Jersey, Central New York State and the upper Saint John River valley in New Brunswick, Canada. It also tells the story of how and why Samuel Benson Leydecker chose exile in the wilderness of New Brunswick over the prospects of staying in the Hackensack River valley of New Jersey after the American Revolution.
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In Their Footsteps is a Genealogical compilation of approximately 900 individuals and the story of how this Palmer Family came to be and where it came from. As one might expect, the geography of a complicated genealogy such as this one has several disparate locations of importance. Thankfully, these ancestors chose to cluster around a select few well documented locales: New England, lower New York State, Northeastern New Jersey, Central New York State and the upper Saint John River valley in New Brunswick, Canada. It also tells the story of how and why Samuel Benson Leydecker chose exile in the wilderness of New Brunswick over the prospects of staying in the Hackensack River valley of New Jersey after the American Revolution.
About the Author
Mr. Palmer’s compilation is the culmination of more than forty-five years work as a family historian and genealogist. This work traces two of his paternal lines to the very earliest beginnings of the history of the United States of America. One extends through the Massachusetts Bay Colony of 1630s, and the second through Neuwe Amsterdam in 1650. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Geography from Syracuse University in 1973 and has been an avid historical re-enactor involved in the portrayal of an American Revolution soldier and later as a period land surveyor. He has built and displayed is own equipment at many historical events in the northeastern United States.