Palm Origins

Palm Migrations

These maps show the "whole world" of the Palm folks in my family tree.

In the 1760s Johannes (John) Palm came to an area of Pennsylvania called Lancaster County that area became Dauphin County (green 1785) and later became Lebanon County (red 1813). In 1776 he founded the town of Palmyra.

John's son Michael (b: 1770) was in Lancaster County originally (see above). Michael and his son, George (b:1790) were in the Lebanon County 1840 census. George's son, David (b:1821) was still in Lebanon County in 1860. David's son, William, was in the 1860 census of Mill Creek, Lebanon County, PA.

The red star indicates where Samuel Moyer Palm was born - Manheim, PA. I do not know if it was the township near Lancaster or the borough northwest of Lancaster.

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William moved to Manheim in Lancaster County (blue) and to Reading in Berks County (purple). Later he lived with his son in Lower Gwynedd in Montgomery County (gray).

William's son, Samuel (b:1882 in Manheim) lived in Manheim in Lancaster County (blue), in Allentown in Lehigh County (orange), in Paxtang in Dauphin County (green), in Yeadon in Delaware County (yellow), and in Lower Gwynedd in Montgomery County (gray).