Abbreviations used
Date January 7 1882
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper The Daily Telegraph
The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.
Readers of the 'Telegraph' may recollect an account of the PALMER reunion which took place at Stonington, Conn. in which some 1,800 descendants of Walter PALMER who landed in America in August 1781 participated. The first colume of the Palmer records to be published will contain a poem by the great-great grandson of WalterPalmer, H.L. SPENCER of (St. John) city and the second volume will have a sketch ofhis life, accompanied by a portrait.