Ancestry of
Robert Frost

Poet and Playwright

John Folsom alias Smith

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Robert Frost — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 324 
  • Father:
  • (probable) Adam Smith alias Folsham 
  • Mother:
  • (probable) Agnes -----   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Birth Location:
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  • Christening Date:
  • ABT 1615 
  • Christening Location:
  • Hingham, Norfolk, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 27 Dec 1681 
  • Death Location:
  • Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Gilman
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Oct 1636 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  Samuel Folsom

  John Folsom

  Peter Folsom (Ahnentafel No:162 )

  Mary Folsom

  Ephraim Folsom

  • Notes: 

  • 18 MAY 1672 deed states "Whereas there is an Intent of marriage between George March the son of Hugh March of Newbery and mary ffoulsam the daughter of John ffoulsam alias Smith of Exeter." (The Ancestry of Abel Lunt, pp. 148-149)

• Sources for John Folsom alias Smith

  • ¹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 118.
  • ² Chapman, Jacob, A Genealogy of the Folsom Family: John Folsom and His Descendants 1615-1882, Concord, New Hampshire: The Republican Press Association (1882), 17.
  • ³ Davis, Walter Goodwin, The Ancestry of Abel Lunt, 1769-1806, of Newbury, Massachusetts, Portland, Maine: The Anthoensen Press (1963), 147-149.
  • ⁴ Welch, William Lewis, Francis Lyford of Boston and Exeter, and Some of His Descendants, Salem, Massachusetts: Printed for the Essex Institute (1902), 15.