Ancestry of
Abiah Folger

(1667–1752)

Abiah Folger

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Peter Folger 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Morrill   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Aug 1667 
  • Birth Location:
  • Nantucket, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 8 May 1752 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Granary Burial Ground, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 

• Marriages for Abiah Folger

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  • Spouse:
  • Josiah Franklin
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Nov 1689
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

• Sources for Abiah Folger

  • ¹ American Ancestors Magazine, 2010, Vol. 11.4, p. 48.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/09/2011).
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket Births, Vol. 1, Page 466.
  • ⁴ New England Ancestors Magazine, 2008, Vol. 9.4, p. 29.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1857, Vol. 11, p. 17.
  • ⁶ The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Philadelphia: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1899, Vol. 23, No. 1, p. 19.
  • ⁷ Banks, Charles Edward, M.D., The History of Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts, Vol. 2, Town Annals, Boston: George H. Dean (1911), 70.
  • ⁸ 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.
  • ⁹ Brands, H. W., The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, New York: Doubleday (2000), 14-15, 240.
  • ¹⁰ Cornell, Thomas C., Adam and Anne Mott: Their Ancestors and Their Descendants, Poughkeepsie, New York: A.V. Haight, Printer (1890), 322.
  • ¹¹ Jordan, John W., Franklin as a Genealogist, Philadelphia?: Unknown (1899), Reprinted from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (April 1899), 18-19.
  • ¹² Starbuck, Alexander, The History of Nantucket County, Island and Town including Genealogies of First Settlers, Boston: C. E. Goodspeed and Co. (1924), 741.
  • ¹³ Wikipedia, "Josiah Franklin', (accessed 09/09/2011).
  • ¹⁴ Wikipedia, "Mary Morrill", (accessed 09/09/2011).