Lydia (Loomis) Palmer & dau. Sophia M., Thetford, VT
Seeking the parentage of Sophia M. Palmer, b. 2 Mar 1811 either at Thetford, Orange County, VT, or was from Thetford when she married Matthias Joslyn {q.v. Joslin} on 4 Oct 1832. Immediately following their marriage, Matthias and Sophia were assigned as missionary teachers to the Choctaw and Cherokee Indians in Mississippi and thereafter at Dwight Mission to the Cherokee in present-day eastern Oklahoma.
Information claims that Sophia was the daughter of Lydia Loomis and an unnamed Palmer, but I cannot find any reference to a Palmer-Loomis marriage in any published Palmer and Loomis genealogy. Two Josephs and a Joshua Palmer are in the 1810 census of Thetford, VT and in 1820 there is a Josiah, Joshua and widow Lydia Palmer, the latter whose household included several females who could have been born in 1811.