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J. A. Folger

Ancestry of
J. A. Folger

Founder of Folger Coffee Company


    Mary Morrill

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    • 5th Great-grandmother of J. A. Folger — 8th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 129 
    • Father:
    • Mother:
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    • Birth Date:
    • ABT 1620 
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    • Death Date:
    • 1704 
    • Death Location:
    • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
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    • Burial Location:
    • Founders Burial Ground, Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
    • Marriage Date:
    • 1644 
    • Marriage Location:
    • Nantucket, Massachusetts 
    • Children:

    • Bethiah Folger

      Eleazer Folger (Ahnentafel No:64 )

      John Folger

      Abiah Folger

      Joanna Folger

      Dorcas Folger

      Basheba Folger

      Patience Folger

      Experience Folger

    • Notes: 
    • Researcher Della Gray Barthelmas (The Signers of the Declaration of Independence, 1997, p. 77) states that Mary Morrill was the granddaughter of Isaac Morrill and Sarah Clement. There are a number of problems with this statement.

      First, Sarah Clement married Abraham Morrill and not his brother Isaac (see Robert Charles Anderson's The Great Migration series of books, specifically the entries for Abraham and Isaac Morrill).

      Second Mary Morrill was born about 1624 based on her marriage. Isaac's known children were born about this time, so she could not have been a grandchild of Isaac. Isaac's brother Abraham was born about 1614 and didn't marry Sarah Clement until 1645. So Isaac and Sarah were contemporaries of Mary Morrill.

      Perhaps Mary Morrill is the sister of Abraham and Isaac Morrill. More research is needed.

      Some online family trees show the parents of Mary Morrill as Abraham Merrill and Abigail Powell, but no sources are given to back this claim.

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  • Sources for Mary Morrill

    • 5 Memorial Biographies of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Vol. 2, 1853-1855, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1881), 321.
    • 9 The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Philadelphia: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1899, Vol. 23, No. 1, p. 19.
    • 10 Banks, Charles Edward, M.D., The History of Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts, Vol. 2, Town Annals, Boston: George H. Dean (1911), 70.
    • 11 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), 76-77.
    • 12 Brands, H. W., The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, New York: Doubleday (2000), 14.
    • 13 Cornell, Thomas C., Adam and Anne Mott: Their Ancestors and Their Descendants, Poughkeepsie, New York: A.V. Haight, Printer (1890), 322.
    • 14 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.
    • 15 Jordan, John W., Franklin as a Genealogist, Philadelphia?: Unknown (1899), Reprinted from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (April 1899), 21-29.
    • 17 Starbuck, Alexander, The History of Nantucket County, Island and Town including Genealogies of First Settlers, Boston: C. E. Goodspeed and Co. (1924), 740-741.
    • 18 Starbuck, Alexander, The History of Nantucket County, Island and Town including Genealogies of First Settlers, Boston: C. E. Goodspeed and Co. (1924), 670.