Ancestry of
Henry Clay Folger

Founder of Folger Shakespeare Library and Chairman of Standard Oil

Nathan Folger

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Henry Clay Folger — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 64 
  • Father:
  • Eleazer Folger 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Gardner   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1678 
  • Birth Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 2 Sep 1747 
  • Death Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Church
  • Marriage Date:
  • 29 Dec 1699 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Nantucket, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Abisha Folger (Ahnentafel No:32 )

• Sources for Nathan Folger

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket Deaths, Vol. 5, Pages 256, 272, 277.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket Births, Vol. 1, Page 495.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, July 1862, Vol. 16, Pages 271, 274-275.
  • ⁴ Vital Records of Nantucket, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1925), Nantucket Marriages, Vol. 3, Page 461.
  • ⁵ Cornell, Thomas C., Adam and Anne Mott: Their Ancestors and Their Descendants, Poughkeepsie, New York: A.V. Haight, Printer (1890), 322.
  • ⁶ Hughes, Thomas Patrick, American Ancestry: Giving the Name and Descent in the Male Line of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the U.S., Vol. 01, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons (1887), 28.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 204.
  • ⁸ Starbuck, Alexander, The History of Nantucket County, Island and Town including Genealogies of First Settlers, Boston: C. E. Goodspeed and Co. (1924), 741, 743-744.