Ancestry of
Maria Mitchell

Astronomer

Jonathan Folger

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Maria Mitchell — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 28 
  • Father:
  • John Folger 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Barnard   
  • Birth Date:
  • 10 Feb 1696 
  • Birth Location:
  • Nantucket County, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 6 Mar 1777 
  • Death Location:
  • Nantucket County, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Margaret Gardner
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Mar 1717 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Ruth Folger

  Dinah Folger

  Reuben Folger

  Abigail Folger

  Jonathan Folger (Ahnentafel No:14 )

• Additional marriages for Jonathan Folger

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  • Spouse:
  • Deborah Paddock
  • Marriage Date:
  • 29 Aug 1728

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  • Spouse:
  • Susannah Gorham
  • Marriage Date:
  • 24 Feb 1752
  • Marriage Location:
  • Sherborn, Nantucket, Massachusetts

• Sources for Jonathan Folger

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 5, p. 260, Death record for spouse Deborah Folger.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 5, p. 266, Death record for son Jonathan Folger.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 3, p. 454, Marriage of Jonathan Folger and Margaret Gardner.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1862, Vol. 16, p. 276.
  • ⁵ Austin, John Osborne, American Authors' Ancestry: Including some others who have influenced life wisely . . ., Providence, Rhode Island: Freeman Company, Printers (1915), 64.
  • ⁶ Nantucket Historical Society, The Barney Genealogical Record, (accessed 05/08/2020).
  • ⁷ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 342.