John Palmer's son, John Jr. lived near "the junction of the roads southeast of Church Hill" (near Tiffany Rd. and River St.). In 1660 John Sr. built "John Palmer's Log Bridge" over the Third Herring Brook, near where River Street today crosses into Hanover. John Jr., the shipbuilder, worked the Fox Hill shipyard with Nathaniel Church beginning about 1690.  

The descendants of Nathaniel Church and John Palmer probably continued building ships at this site. The next names that appear in the records for Fox Hill Shipyard are those of Barker Turner, Michael Ford and his brother-in-law, William Copeland.