Ancestry of
J. A. Folger

Founder of Folger Coffee Company

Ruth Gardner

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of J. A. Folger — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 117 
  • Father:
  • John Gardner 
  • Mother:
  • Priscilla Grafton   
  • Birth Date:
  • 26 Jan 1676/1677 
  • Birth Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 4 Oct 1748 
  • Death Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • James Coffin Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • from 19 Mar 1692 to 19 May 1692 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  George Coffin (Ahnentafel No:58 )

  Sarah Coffin

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources give Ruth Gardner's death date as “4th, 10 mo. 1748” indicating DEC and not OCT. However the dates come from private records of the 19th century's William C. Folger and have been interpreted as though written in the 19th century.

• Sources for Ruth Gardner

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 1, p. 272, Birth record for son George Coffin.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 2, p. 71, Birth record for Ruth Gardner.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 3, p. 274, Marriage record for James Coffin Jr and Ruth Gardner.
  • ⁴ Nantucket Historical Society, The Barney Genealogical Record, gives Ruth's death date as 04 OCT 1748, (accessed 10/28/2018).
  • ⁵ Reynolds, Cuyler, Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: A Record of the Achievements of the People of the . . ., Vol. 1, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1911), 482.