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Webster, New Hampshire
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 Abt 1617 - 1690 (~ 73 years)
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| Name |
Peter FOLGER |
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Abt 1617 |
England  |
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| Gender |
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| Died |
1690 |
Nantucket Island, Nantucket County, Massachusetts |
- Peter [Folger], "Came to Nant. in 1663," h. Mary Morrell, s. John ("came from the city of Norwich in England in 1638"), ——, 1690, P.R.38. [1]
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| Person ID |
I57866 |
Webster, New Hampshire |
| Last Modified |
29 Apr 2024 |
| Family |
Mary MORRILL, b. maybe 1624, England , d. 1704, Nantucket Island, Nantucket County, Massachusetts (Age ~ 79 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1644 |
Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts |
- FOLGER, Peter (1617-1690) & Mary [MORRILL] (-1704); ca 1644; Salisbury/Martha's Vineyard/Nantucket {Keeler-Wood 146; Reg. 10:269, 12:129; Pepoon-Phelps 61; Swift (1955) 116; Salisbury Fam. 103; Allen (#10) 106; R. Barker 18; Bowen 212; Coleman 7; Jordan: Franklin 20; Mott (#6) 322; Woodruff (1925) 29; Ring-Mailer 155}. [2]
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| Children |
| | 1. Joanna FOLGER, b. maybe 1647, Massachusetts , d. 1719 (Age ~ 71 years) |
| | 2. Bethiah FOLGER, b. maybe 1648, Massachusetts , d. 1669 (Age ~ 20 years) |
| | 3. Eleazer FOLGER, b. Abt 1648, Massachusetts , d. 1716 (Age ~ 68 years) |
| | 4. Dorcas FOLGER, b. maybe 1655, Massachusetts , d. Aft 1675 (Age ~ 20 years) |
| + | 5. Bathsheba FOLGER, b. maybe 1658, Massachusetts , d. Aft 1726 (Age ~ 68 years) |
| | 6. John FOLGER, b. Abt 1659, Massachusetts , d. Aft 1689 (Age ~ 31 years) |
| | 7. Patience FOLGER, b. maybe 1660, Massachusetts , d. Aft 1680 (Age ~ 20 years) |
| | 8. Experience FOLGER, b. maybe 1665, Nantucket Island, Nantucket County, Massachusetts , d. Aft 1689 (Age ~ 24 years) |
| | 9. Abiah FOLGER, b. 15 Oct 1667, Nantucket Island, Nantucket County, Massachusetts , d. Aft 1689 (Age 22 years) |
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| Last Modified |
29 Apr 2024 |
| Family ID |
F11195 |
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| Notes |
- Excerpts. John Folger and his son Peter (the name was then frequently written Foulger), are said to have crossed the Atlantic in the same ship with Hugh Peters, in the year 1635. They came from Norwich, in the county of Norfolk, England. Peter was then about 18 years of age. At what time they settled at Watertown, Mass., is not known, but in 1642 John Folger was possessed of a homestead in that town, and owned six acres of land.
It is probable that John and Peter Folger accompanied Thomas Mayhew, Jr., to Martha's Vineyard in 1641 or 1642. John owned a house, upland, commonage and meadow land at the Vineyard, as appears by the Vineyard records. John Folger died about 1660. Meribell Folger his widow, was living in 1664. Her surname is said to have been Gibbs. According to tradition, John was a widower when he came over; if this be correct, he must have married her after his arrival in America.
Peter Folger, son of John, born in England, accompanied his father to America in 1635, and probably emigrated with him to the Vineyard in 1642. He married in 1644, Mary Morrill, who had been an inmate in the family of Hugh Peters, and according to tradition, a fellow passenger with him from England.
Whilst at the Vineyard he taught school and also practiced as a surveyor of land. He also assisted the younger Thomas Mayhew in his work of Christianizing the native Indians. Rev. Experience Mayhew, in a letter to John Gardner, Esq., dated 1694, he left the care of his church or mission with Peter Folger. Peter became a Baptist in his sentiments, and after his removal to Nantucket is said to have baptized two persons in Waiptequage pond.
Whilst a resident at the Vineyard he acquired the Indian language, which was of great service to him in his business affairs and in enabling him to communicate religious instruction to the natives.
In the summer of 1659, he is said to have accompanied as an interpreter, Tristram Coffin and others who visited the island of Nantucket to view it about the time of the purchase from Mayhew. He was there in 1661 and 1662, surveying, and on the 4th of July, 1663, the proprietors of Nantucket granted him half a share of land on Nantucket, or half as much as one of the twenty purchasers, provided he would come to inhabit with his family on the aforesaid island within one year after that date, and attend the English in the way of an interpreter between the Indians and them upon all necessary occasions. He accepted the grant and move there with his family within the specified time.
On the 21st of July, 1673, he was chosen clerk of the courts, which office he held some years. In his poem--"A Looking Glass for the Times," published April 23, 1676, he shows himself an advocate for religious liberty, and strongly condemns the persecuting spirit exhibited in New England in his day.
Dr. Benjamin Franklin, his grandson, when in England, found no arms for the Folgers at the Herald's office, and concluded that they were a Flemish family who came over in the time of Queen Elizabeth. There were others of the name in England besides John Folger and son, as in the latter part of the last century a young man named Thomas Folger, Jr., son of Thomas and Mary (Rant) Folger of Norfolk, England, came over and married Abigail, dau. of Daniel Folger, at Easton, N.Y. This Thomas Folger moved to Charlton, Saratoga county, N.Y., where he died May 22, 1838, aged 80 years. [3]
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- [S23] NEHGS, website: www.americanancestors.org, Massachusetts Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, vol. 5, pg. 273.
- [S23] NEHGS, website: www.americanancestors.org, New England Marriages to 1700, vol. 1, pg. 557.
- [S34] NEHGR, New England Historic Genealogical Society Register, vol. 16 (1862), pgs. 269-70.
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