Ancestry of
J. A. Folger

Founder of Folger Coffee Company

George Folger Jr.

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• • Grandfather of J. A. Folger — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4 
  • Father:
  • George Folger 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Coleman   
  • Birth Date:
  • 16 Aug 1756 
  • Birth Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 5 May 1809 
  • Death Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Rebecca Slocum
  • Marriage Date:
  • 23 Jul 1778 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Samuel Brown Folger (Ahnentafel No:2 )

  • Notes: 
  • "Born 16th day of sixth month, 1756" - The month is assumed May since a switch was made to the Gregorian calendar in 1752, but it could actually refer to July based on the old calendar. His death also assumes the Gregorian calendar was used in reference to the month.

• Sources for George Folger Jr.

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Dartmouth Marriages, Vol. 2, p. 184.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket Deaths, Vol. 5, pp. 263, Death record for George Folger.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket Births, Vol. 1, p. 480.
  • ⁴ Rhode Island: Vital Records, 1636-1850, p. 237769, Death record for George Folger, Jr. at Nantucket.
  • ⁵ Vital Records of Nantucket, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1925), Nantucket Marriages, Vol. 3, p. 468.
  • ⁶ Grover, Harriet M., Highlights of the Folger Family with a Brief Genealogy, Berkeley, California: Unknown (1939), 52.
  • ⁷ Hinchman, Lydia S., Early Settlers of Nantucket: Their Associates and Descendants, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company (1896), 128.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 18.
  • ⁹ Slocum, Charles Elihu, A Short History of the Slocums, Slocumbs and Slocombs of America, Syracuse, New York: Published by the Author (1882), 115.
  • ¹⁰ Starbuck, Alexander, The History of Nantucket County, Island and Town including Genealogies of First Settlers, Boston: C. E. Goodspeed and Co. (1924), 755.