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J. A. Folger

Ancestry of
J. A. Folger

Founder of Folger Coffee Company


    Rebecca Slocum

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    • Grandmother of J. A. Folger — 3rd Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • Birth Date:
    • 19 May 1758 
    • Birth Location:
    • Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts 
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    • Death Date:
    • 13 Aug 1832 
    • Death Location:
    • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
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    • Marriage Date:
    • 23 Jul 1778 
    • Marriage Location:
    • Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts 
    • Notes: 
    • "Born 19th day of fifth month, 1758" - The month is assumed May since a switch was made to the Gregorian calendar in 1752, but it could actually refer to July based on the old calendar. Her death also assumes the Gregorian calendar was used in reference to the month

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  • Sources for Rebecca Slocum

    • 4 Vital Records of Nantucket, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1925), Nantucket Marriages, Vol. 3, p. 468.
    • 5 Grover, Harriet M., Highlights of the Folger Family with a Brief Genealogy, Berkeley, California: Unknown (1939), 52.
    • 6 Hinchman, Lydia S., Early Settlers of Nantucket: Their Associates and Descendants, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company (1896), 128.
    • 8 Slocum, Charles Elihu, A Short History of the Slocums, Slocumbs and Slocombs of America, Syracuse, New York: Published by the Author (1882), 115-116.