Ancestry of
J. A. Folger

Founder of Folger Coffee Company

George Folger

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• • Great-grandfather of J. A. Folger — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8 
  • Father:
  • Abisha Folger 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Mayhew   
  • Birth Date:
  • 24 Jul 1730 
  • Birth Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Dec 1813 
  • Death Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Coleman
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Dec 1752 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Sherborn, Nantucket, New York 
  • Children:
  
  

  George Folger Jr. (Ahnentafel No:4 )

  Alexander Folger

• Additional marriages for George Folger

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  • Spouse:
  • Sarah Shove

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  • Spouse:
  • Rebecca Tucker
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 Mar 1782
  • Marriage Location:
  • Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts

• Sources for George Folger

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket Marriages, Vol. 3, p. 450.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket Deaths, Vol. 5, p. 277.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Dartmouth Marriages, Vol. 2, p. 184.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket Deaths, Vol. 5, pp. 263, 275.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket Births, Vol. 1, p. 480.
  • ⁶ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, July 1862, Vol. 16, p. 274.
  • ⁷ Hinchman, Lydia S., Early Settlers of Nantucket: Their Associates and Descendants, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company (1896), 125, 127.
  • ⁸ Hinchman, Lydia S., Early Settlers of Nantucket: Their Associates and Descendants, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company (1896), 128.
  • ⁹ Hinchman, Lydia S., Early Settlers of Nantucket: Their Associates and Descendants, 2nd Edition, Philadelphia: Ferris and Leach (1901), 258.
  • ¹⁰ Slocum, Charles Elihu, A Short History of the Slocums, Slocumbs and Slocombs of America, Syracuse, New York: Published by the Author (1882), 115.
  • ¹¹ Starbuck, Alexander, The History of Nantucket County, Island and Town including Genealogies of First Settlers, Boston: C. E. Goodspeed and Co. (1924), 749, 755.