Ancestry of
Maria Mitchell

Astronomer

Lydia Folger

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• • Grandmother of Maria Mitchell — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 7 
  • Father:
  • Jonathan Folger 
  • Mother:
  • Lydia Barnard   
  • Birth Date:
  • 14 Oct 1764 
  • Birth Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Apr 1840 
  • Death Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Andrew Coleman
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Nov 1791 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Lydia Coleman (Ahnentafel No:3 )

• Sources for Lydia Folger

  • ¹ Massachusetts, U.S., Death Records, 1841-1915, Death record for daughter Lydia Mitchell.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 1, p. 489, Birth record for Lydia Folger.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 5, p. 208, Death record for Lydia Coleman.
  • ⁴ Nantucket Inquirer (Nantucket, Massachusetts), 17 APR 1840, p. 3, Obituary of Lydia Coleman.
  • ⁵ Austin, John Osborne, American Authors' Ancestry: Including some others who have influenced life wisely . . ., Providence, Rhode Island: Freeman Company, Printers (1915), 64.
  • ⁶ Townsend, Mrs. Charles Delmar, et. al., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 8, 2nd ed., Degory Priest, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2008), 103.