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Maria Mitchell

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    Peter Folger

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    • 4th Great-grandfather of Maria Mitchell — 7th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 98 
    • Birth Date:
    • ABT 1617 
    • Birth Location:
    • Norfolk, England 
    • Christening Date:
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    • Christening Location:
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    • Death Date:
    • 1690 
    • Death Location:
    • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
    • Burial Date:
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    • Burial Location:
    • Founders Burial Ground, Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
    • Marriage Date:
    • 1644 
    • Marriage Location:
    • Nantucket, Massachusetts 
    • Children:

    • Bethiah Folger

      Eleazer Folger

      John Folger

      Abiah Folger

      Joanna Folger (Ahnentafel No:49 )

      Dorcas Folger

      Basheba Folger

      Patience Folger

      Experience Folger

    • Notes: 
    • Came to Nantucket in 1663.

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  • Sources for Peter Folger

    • 5 Memorial Biographies of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Vol. 2, 1853-1855, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1881), 321.
    • 9 The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Philadelphia: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1899, Vol. 23, No. 1, p. 19.
    • 10 Austin, John Osborne, American Authors' Ancestry: Including some others who have influenced life wisely . . ., Providence, Rhode Island: Freeman Company, Printers (1915), 64.
    • 11 Banks, Charles Edward, M.D., The History of Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts, Vol. 2, Town Annals, Boston: George H. Dean (1911), 67-70.
    • 12 Barthelmas, Della Gray, The Signers of the Declaration of Independence: A Biographical and Genealogical Reference, Jefferson, N.C. and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers (1997), 76-77.
    • 13 Brands, H. W., The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, New York: Doubleday (2000), 14.
    • 14 Cornell, Thomas C., Adam and Anne Mott: Their Ancestors and Their Descendants, Poughkeepsie, New York: A.V. Haight, Printer (1890), 322.
    • 16 Hinchman, Lydia S., Early Settlers of Nantucket: Their Associates and Descendants, 2nd Edition, Philadelphia: Ferris and Leach (1901), 64.
    • 17 Hough, Franklin B., Papers Relating to the Island of Nantucket, with Documents Relating to the Original Settlement of that Island . . ., Albany: J. Munsell (1856), 16-19, 89-98.
    • 18 Hughes, Thomas Patrick, American Ancestry: Giving the Name and Descent in the Male Line of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the U.S., Vol. 01, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons (1887), 28.
    • 19 Jordan, John W., Franklin as a Genealogist, Philadelphia?: Unknown (1899), Reprinted from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (April 1899), 18, 21-23.
    • 21 Starbuck, Alexander, The History of Nantucket County, Island and Town including Genealogies of First Settlers, Boston: C. E. Goodspeed and Co. (1924), 740-741.
    • 22 Starbuck, Alexander, The History of Nantucket County, Island and Town including Genealogies of First Settlers, Boston: C. E. Goodspeed and Co. (1924), 670.