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Palmer Appointed Judge

21 June 1688

"John Palmer, one of the judges of New York, whom Dongan had sent to London with his dispatches in September, 1687, now returned to New England, of which he had been named a counselor by the king. As the dominion was enlarged by the annexation by the annexation of New York, Andros appointed Palmer to be one of the judges of its Superior Court, along with Dudley, Stoughton, and Bulkley."

p. 511

History of the State of New York
John Romeyn Brodhead,
Second Volume
First Edition
New York:
Harper & Brothers, Publishers,
Frannklin Square.
1871

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