Ancestry of
Henry Clay Folger

Founder of Folger Shakespeare Library and Chairman of Standard Oil

Priscilla Grafton

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of Henry Clay Folger — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 287 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Grafton 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Moore   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1626 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1717 
  • Death Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Founders Burial Ground, Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • John Gardner
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 Feb 1653/1654 
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  • Children:
  
  

  John Gardner

  Priscilla Gardner

  Rachel Gardner (Ahnentafel No:143 )

  Mary Gardner

  Ruth Gardner

  George Gardner

• Sources for Priscilla Grafton

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/10/2016).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 3, p. 37, Marriage record for John Arthur and daughter Priscilla Gardner.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 5, p. 315, Death record for Priscilla Gardner.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 2, p. 67, Birth record for daughter Rachel Gardner.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 2, p. 71, Birth record for daughter Ruth Gardner.
  • ⁶ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1861, Vol. 15, pp. 147-148, Will of spouse John Gardner.
  • ⁷ Sons of the Revolution in State of Virginia Quarterly Magazine, 1922, Vol. 1, No. 1, p. 44.
  • ⁸ Allen, Orrin Peer, The Allen Memorial, First Series: Descendants of Edward Allen of Nantucket, Mass., 1690-1905, Palmer, Massachusetts: Press of C. B. Fiske and Co. (1905), 105.
  • ⁹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 734.
  • ¹⁰ Gardner, Frank Augustine, Thomas Gardner, Planter, (Cape Ann, 1623-1626; Salem, 1626-1674) and Some of His Descendants, Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute (1907), 20, 69-74.
  • ¹¹ Macy, Silvanus Jenkins, Genealogy of the Early Generations of the Coffin Family in New England, Boston: David Clapp and Son, Printers (1870), 4.
  • ¹² Nantucket Historical Society, The Barney Genealogical Record, (accessed 10/28/2018).
  • ¹³ Starbuck, Alexander, The History of Nantucket County, Island and Town including Genealogies of First Settlers, Boston: C. E. Goodspeed and Co. (1924), 699, 703.