[Footnote 57: Joseph Palmer, a gentleman of some fortune who had
emigrated from Great Britain in 1746. He had married the sister of Mr.
Cranch, who came too, and had settled upon a beautiful spot in
Braintree, then and still known as Germantown. A brief account of his
services during the Revolution is to be found in the _New Englander_,
for January, 1845.]