Ancestry of
Amy Poehler

Actress and Comedienne

John Folger

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• • 9th Great-grandfather of Amy Poehler — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2904 
  • Father:
  • Peter Folger 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Morrill   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1659 
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  • Death Date:
  • 23 Oct 1732 
  • Death Location:
  • Nantucket, Massachusetts 
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  • Mary Barnard
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  Jethro Folger (Ahnentafel No:1452 )

  Abigail Folger

  Jonathan Folger

• Sources for John Folger

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 5, pp. 266, Death record for John Folger.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 1, p. 485, Birth record for son Jethro Folger.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 5, p. 266, Death record for son Jethro Folger.
  • ⁴ New England Ancestors Magazine, 2008, Vol. 9.4, p. 29.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, July 1862, Vol. 16, pp. 270, 272, 274, 277.
  • ⁶ The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Philadelphia: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1899, Vol. 23, No. 1, p. 19.
  • ⁷ Austin, John Osborne, American Authors' Ancestry: Including some others who have influenced life wisely . . ., Providence, Rhode Island: Freeman Company, Printers (1915), 64.
  • ⁸ Nantucket Historical Society, The Barney Genealogical Record, (accessed 05/08/2020).
  • ⁹ Starbuck, Alexander, The History of Nantucket County, Island and Town including Genealogies of First Settlers, Boston: C. E. Goodspeed and Co. (1924), 670.
  • ¹⁰ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 342.

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