John Palmer (Rockaway, Queens landowner)

John Palmer was an Englishman who purchased the land comprising much of the neighborhood now known as Far Rockaway in the borough of Queens in New York City in 1685 from the Native American chief Tackapousha for 31 English pounds. Palmer sold most of the land to Richard Cornell in 1687.

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