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 1618 - 1690 (72 years)
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| Name |
Peter FOLGER |
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I |
| Born |
1618 |
England  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
1690 |
Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts [1] |
| Person ID |
I843 |
Sturgis |
| Last Modified |
7 Jun 2005 |
| Family |
Mary MORRELL, d. 1704, Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts |
| Married |
1644 |
Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts [1] |
| Children |
| | 1. Joanna FOLGER, b. Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts , d. 18 May 1719, Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts |
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| Last Modified |
14 Oct 2018 |
| Family ID |
F136 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Nantucket VR: "Came to Nant. in 1663. Came from the city Norwich in England in 1638."
- " PETER, Nantucket, s. of the first John, went early from Watertown, prob. with Thomas Mayhew, to the Vineyard, m. Mary Morrill, bestow. great pains in teach. the Ind. as successor to Mayhew, and rem. a. 1663, to the isl. where his name has ever since been in high regard, had Eleazur, b. a 1648; and John, a. 1659, beside seven ds. Joanna wh. m. John Coleman; Bethia, wh. m. 25 Feb. 1669, John Barnard, and with him was drown. 6 June foll. when her younger br. Eleazur was saved; Dorcas, wh. m. Joseph Pratt; Bathshua, wh. m. Joseph Pope of Salem vill.; Patience, wh. m. Ebenezer Harker, and next, James Gardner; Experience, wh. m. John Swain, jr. He d. 1690, and his wid. Mary d. 1704. His youngest ch. Abiah, b. 15 Aug. 1667, m. Josiah Franklin as his sec. w. and was mo. of the celebr. Benjamin, wh. in his geneal. inq. was led to infer that the fam. was Flemish, and came to Eng. in the days of Elizabeth Some verses by him, occasion. by Philip's war, under the whimsic. title of Looking-Glass for the Times, [[vol. 2, p. 178]] print. after ninety yrs. circulat. in MS. are sought for sometimes, less for poetical value, than bibliogr. curiosity." [2]
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- [S24] Nantucket Vital Records, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA, 1928).
- [S94] Savage, Savage, James.
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