1304. Documentation for Peter Folger
(Bet. 1617 - 1618 to abt. 1690)
father of Eleazer Folger
(1648 to Dec 19, 1716)


Folger image #1 from History of Nantucket.

Folger image #2 from History of Nantucket.

Witness to Nantucket Island purchase.

24. Peter Folger(87)(88)(89) born Bet. 1617 - 1618 in Norwich, Norfolk, England; died Abt. 1690 in Nantucket, MA. He was the son of John Folger and Meribah Gibbs. He married 25. Mary Morril June 23, 1644 in Watertown or Nantucket, MA.

25. Mary Morril(90)(91) born Abt. 1620 in Norwich, Norfolk Co., England; died Abt. 1704 in Nantucket, MA.

Peter Folger and Mary Morril were the maternal grandparents of Benjamin Franklin.

 Children of Peter Folger and Mary Morril are:
 i. Bethia Folger(92)(93)(94) born 1643 in Martha's Vinyard, Dukes, MA; died June 06, 1669 in \ (drowned); married John Barnard February 26, 1666/67 in Nantucket, MA \ (no children; born January 2, 1641/42 in Salisbury, MA; died June 6, 1669 in \ (drowned when canoe overturned).
ii. Dorcas Folger(95)(96)(97) born 1645; died 1762; married Joseph Pratt February 12, 1674/75; born Abt. 1645; died December 24, 1712 in
Charleston, MA.
iii. Joanna Folger(98)(99) born 1645 in Martha's Vinyard, Dukes, MA; died July 18, 1719 in Nantucket, MA; married John Coleman Abt. 1666;
born Abt. 1644; died December 07, 1715.
12 iv. Eleazer Folger born 1648 in Edgartown, Dukes, MA; died December 19, 1716 in Nantucket, MA; married Sarah Gardner Abt. 1671 in Nantucket, MA.
v. Bethsheba Folger(99) born 1650 in Martha's Vinyard, Dukes, MA; died 1726; married John Or Joseph Pope 1676 in Salem Village, Essex, MA; born Bet. 1640 - 1650.
vi. Patience Folger(100) born 1652 in Martha's Vinyard, Dukes, MA; died January 1716/17 in Nantucket, MA; married (1) Hephzibah Harker; born Bet. 1640 - 1652; married (2) Jas Gardner; born Bet. 1640 - 1655.
vii. John Folger(101) born 1659 in Nantucket, MA; died August 23, 1732 in Nantucket, MA; married Mary Barnard 1688 in Nantucket, MA; born February 24, 1666/67 in Nantucket Island, MA; died October 06, 1737.
viii. Abiah Folger(102)(103) born August 15, 1667 in Nantucket, MA; died May 18, 1752 in Boston , MA; married Josiah E. Franklin November 25, 1689 in Old South Church, Boston, MA \ (10 children); born December 23, 1657 in Ecton, Northamptonshire, England; died Abt. 1745 in of Boston, Suffolk, MA. Mother of Benjamin Franklin.
ix. Experience Folger(104) born 1668 in Martha's Vinyard, Dukes, MA; died June 4, 1739; married John Swain Abt. 1687; born September 1, 1664 in Nantucket Island, MA; died Bef. March 2, 1738/39.

REFERENCES

87. Jordan, John W., Colonial Families of Philadelphia, (Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago 1911), 567.


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

89. No Author, American Genealogical Record, The Robinson, (Genealogical Record Publishing Company, San Francisco, 1897), Vol., 2, p. 195.

90. (great grandmother of the author), Malott, Ella Laura, (Indianapolis, IN), Undated Letter from Margie Loomis to her Aunt Ella Laura Malott Evans.

91. No Author, American Genealogical Record, The Robinson, (Genealogical Record Publishing Company, San Francisco, 1897), Vol., 2, p. 195, PETER
FOLGER Son of John Folger (904) and Meribah Gibbs. Born in England in 1618. Married Mary Morrill in 1644, and moved to Nantucket in 1673. Died in
Nantucket in 1704.

92. Savage, James, Savage Dict of First Settlers of New England, Vol. 2, p. 101.

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

94. The Barnard Family, (www/billputman.com/barnard.pdf).

95. Pratt, Eleazer Franklin, Phineas Pratt and some of his descendants, (T. R. Marvin & Sons Printers, Boston, 1897), 56, 60.

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

97. James Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Vol III, 474.

98. Macy: Silvanus J. Macy Genealogy of the Macy family from 1635-1868, Albany, Joel Munsell, 68.

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

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

101. No Author, Ancestral Records and Portraits, (The Grafton Press, 1910), Vol. 1, 70-71, Another son of Peter and Mary (Morrill) Folger, John Folger, was born 1659, and died October 23, 1732. He was a miller and farmer of Nantucket, and a member of the Society of Friends. He married Mary, the daughter of Nathaniel and Mary (Barnard) Barnard, of Nantucket. She was born February 24, 1667, and died October 6, 1737. Among their children was Bethiah, who married Samuel Barker.

102. Bowen, Edward Augustus, Lineage of the Bowens of Woodstock, Connecticut, (Cambridge Mass, Riverside Press, 1897), 212.

103. No Author, American Genealogical Record, The Robinson, (Genealogical Record Publishing Company, San Francisco, 1897), Vol., 2, p. 196, Abiah (m.
Josiah Franklin, and was mother of Benjamin Franklin) 15 Aug. 1667.

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