Ancestry of
J. A. Folger

Founder of Folger Coffee Company

John Palmer

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of J. A. Folger — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 52 
  • Father:
  • (probable) William Palmer 
  • Mother:
  • (probable) Susanna -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 18 May 1665 
  • Birth Location:
  • Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island 
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  • Death Date:
  • 13 Oct 1753 
  • Death Location:
  • Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Richmond
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1686 
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  Elizabeth Palmer

  William Palmer (Ahnentafel No:26 )

• Sources for John Palmer

  • ¹ Rhode Island: Vital Records, 1636-1850, Newport County, Vol 4, p. 6-139, Death record for John Palmer.
  • ² Rhode Island: Vital Records, 1636-1850, Newport County, Vol 4, p. 6-139, Death record for spouse Elizabeth Palmer.
  • ³ Rhode Island: Vital Records, 1636-1850, Newport County, Vol 4, p. 6-139, Birth record for John Palmer.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1956, Vol. 32, p. 45.
  • ⁵ Austin, John Osborne, The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: Comprising Three Generations of Settlers Who Came Before 1690, Albany, New York: Joel Munsells Sons (1887), 163, gives John's year of death as 1752.
  • ⁶ Richmond, Joshua Bailey, The Richmond Family, 1594-1896 and Pre-American Ancestors, 1040-1594, Boston: Joshua Bailey Richmond (1897), 15, give father's name as Henry.
  • ⁷ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 248.
  • ⁸ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., ""Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 338.