Ancestry of
Henry Clay Folger

Founder of Folger Shakespeare Library and Chairman of Standard Oil

Rachel Gardner

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Henry Clay Folger — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 143 
  • Father:
  • John Gardner 
  • Mother:
  • Priscilla Grafton   
  • Birth Date:
  • 3 Oct 1662 
  • Birth Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Brown
  • Marriage Date:
  • 31 Aug 1686 
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  Hannah Brown

  Abial Brown (Ahnentafel No:71 )

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  • Spouse:
  • James Gardner
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 1696

• Sources for Rachel Gardner

  • ¹ Essex Antiquarian, 1909, Vol. 13, p. 148.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 2, p. 67, Birth record for Rachel Gardner.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1870, Vol. 24, p. 152.
  • ⁴ Hinchman, Lydia S., Early Settlers of Nantucket: Their Associates and Descendants, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company (1896), 132.
  • ⁵ Hinchman, Lydia S., Early Settlers of Nantucket: Their Associates and Descendants, 2nd Edition, Philadelphia: Ferris and Leach (1901), 261.