652. Documentation for Eleazer Folger
(1648 to Dec 19, 1716)
father of Peter Folger
(Oct 28, 1674 to bef. Jun 19, 1707)


Eleazer Folger(1)(2) was born in 1648 in Edgartown, Dukes County, Massachusetts. He died December 19, 1716, in Nantucket, Massachusetts. He was the son of Peter Folger and Mary Morril. He married Sarah Gardner about 1671 in Nantucket, Massachusetts.(3) Sarah Gardner(4)(5) born Abt. 1655; died Bet. 1677 - 1745. She was the daughter of 26. Richard Gardner and 27. Sarah Shattuck.
Children of Eleazer Folger and Sarah Gardner are:
i. Eleazer Folger, Jr.(6) was born about 1672. He married Beth. Gardner. She was born between 1667 - 1677.
ii. Mary Folger was born about 1674. She married John Arthur. He was born between 1664 - 1674.
iii. Peter Folger was born October 28, 1674, in Nantucket, Massachusetts. He died before June 19, 1707, on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts \ (prob.). He married Judith Coffin between 1690 - 1701.
iv. Sarah Folger was born August 24, 1676. She married Anthony Oder. He was born between 1666 - 1676.
v. Nathan Folger( was born in 1678. He married Sarah Church on December 29, 1699. She was born between 1678 - 1688.
vi. Elisha Folger was born 1681.
vii. Mary Folger was born February 14, 1683/84. She married John Arthur. He was born betwen 1675 - 1685.
viii. Daniel Folger was born in 1686.
ix. Ruth Folger was born in 1686. She died July 16, 1729.

Witness to deed transferring Nantucket Island from an Indian to Tristram Coffin et. al.

REFERENCES

1. Family Records, Undated Letter c. 1940-1941 from Margie Loomis to her Aunt Ella Laura Malott Evans ref. Town Clerk, Nantucket & Savage.

2. No Author, American Genealogical Record, The Robinson, (Genealogical Record Publishing Company, San Francisco, 1897), Vol. 2, p. 196, 201.

3. Nantucket, Mass., Vital Records to 1850, 5 vols. Boston, 1925-28, 3:447, (Hereafter Nantucket VR), Folger, Eleazer, s. Peter and Mary Morrell, and Sarah Gardner, d. Richard 1st. and Sarah (Shattuck), _______, 1671,* P.R. 38. (*Intention not Recorded.)

4. Family Records, Undated Letter c. 1940-1941 from Margie Loomis to her Aunt Ella Laura Malott Evans ref. Town Clerk Nantucket & Savage.

5. No Author, American Genealogical Record, The Robinson, (Genealogical Record Publishing Company, San Francisco, 1897), Vol. 2, p. 201.

6. No Author, American Genealogical Record, The Robinson, (Genealogical Record Publishing Company, San Francisco, 1897), Vol. 2, p 201.