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  FOLGERS OF NANTUCKET
W.C. Folger agrees but goes on to say it was "probable" that John and Peter were with Mayhew on the Island in 1641 or 1642.[13] Bond in his History of Watertown gives this land grant a date in both 1642 and 1644[11/222, 1009].
John's son Peter is said to have removed to the Vinyard with Maynew and his daughter Joanna Folger is said to have been born on the Island in 1645 or 1646.
SARAH FOLGER was born on 24 Aug. 1674 on Nantucket, Nantucket Co., MA and died on 23 Mar 1732/33 on Nantucket.
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 FOLGER - Scraps of Family History
Peter Folger seems to have been very versatile as he was a miller, weaver, flsmith and keeper of the Island’s records.
Peter Folger was fined five pounds, remanded to jail and disenfranchised for his part in the fight between Gardner and Coffin but by order of Governor Andros, the above action was declared null and void.
Peter’s daughter Abiah was the mother of Benjamin Franklin and the picture below (?) Taken by the water in 1916 shows the fountain erected to her memory and the site of Peter Folger’s house which was about 150 feet back from the fountain.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~mcronin111/folger.htm   (483 words)

  
 Peter Folger Information
Peter Folger (1905-1980) was an American coffee heir, socialite, and member of the prominent United States Folger family.
Born and raised in California, Folger studied business and graduated from Yale University where he was an athlete on their football, track and field, and polo teams.
Folger died at the age of 75 in 1980 and was buried in the Folger family plot at Mountain View Cemetery, in Oakland, California.
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 My Family
Judith FOLGER was born on JUN 3 1726 in Nantucket,Nantucket Co.,MA.
Lydia FOLGER was born in 1722 in Nantucket,Nantucket Co.,MA.
Peter FOLGER was born on JUN 24 1708 in Nantucket,Nantucket Co.,MA.
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 Abigail Folger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Her parents were Peter Folger Chairman and President of the Folger Coffee Company and Mejia the daughter of a prestigious California land grant family.
She is the of J.A. Folger the founder of Folgers Her Catholic parents divorced in 1952 when Abigail was still young.
Her debutante ball was of the high lights of the social with Folger wearing a yellow Christian Dior gown that she had purchased in Paris France the previous summer.
www.freeglossary.com /Abigail_Folger   (1790 words)

  
 Twelfth Generation
Peter became a Baptist and after his removal to Nantucket is said to have baptized two persons and in his old age became a Quaker.
Peter married Mary Morrill in 1644, having bought her of Hugh Peters, to whom she owed service, and paid the sum of 20 pounds, which he very gallantly declared was the best appropriation of money he had ever made.
Abiah (Abigail) Folger was born on 15 Aug 1667 in Nantucket, MA.
www.jhowell.net /ancpage/bookj/b3735.htm   (795 words)

  
 "Benjamin Franklin Folger, Nantucket's First Genealogist" Historic Nantucket article from the Nantucket ...
Folger was also something of an intellectual snob, refusing to read any literature that was not at least a century old and taking particular delight in the Greek classics.
Folger's belief in the sanctity of the oral tradition was such that visitors to his cottage were not allowed to write anything down in his presence.
When he turned seventy, Folger discovered that the inheritance he had hoped would support him in his declining years was "lost to him." It was then that Folger's friends, led by Eliza and Nathaniel Barney, began the process that would preserve much of what Folger had previously kept only in his memory.
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 Lora Hunt Jeffries' Indiana Home Page:Information about Peter Folger
Peter Folger was born 1617 in Norwich,Norfolk, England, and died 1690 in Nantucket, Massachusetts
Peter Folger, son of John, born in England, accompanied his father to America in 1635, and probably emigrated with him to the Vineyard in 1642.
Folger was the author of "A Looking Glass for the Times"." It was written in 1675" said his grandson in his autobiography " and in the homespun verse of that time and people and addressed to those then concerned in the government there.
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 GO - pafg22 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Peter FOLGER [Parents] was born 1617 in Norfolk, England.
Peter FOLGER was born in 1617 in Norwich, Norfolk County, England.
Peter FOLGER was born 1617 and died 1689.
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 My Family
Eliphaz FOLGER was born on JUN 26 1713 in Nantucket,Nantucket Co.,MA.
Eunice FOLGER was born in 1724 in Nantucket,Nantucket Co.,MA.
Hepzibah FOLGER was born in 1729 in Nantucket,Nantucket Co.,MA.
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 Abigail Folger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Abigail Anne Folger (August 11, 1943 – August 9, 1969) was an American coffee heiress, debutante, socialite, volunteer social worker, civil rights devotee and member of the prominent United States Folger family.
Abigail Folger's body was returned to San Francisco and taken to Crippen and Flynn Mortuary in Redwood City.
Following a Catholic requiem mass, Abigail Folger was entombed inside the Main Mausoleum at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, California.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abigail_Folger   (2270 words)

  
 Geological Society of America - CSF - Peter F. Folger
As a Congressional Science Fellow, Folger worked on issues spanning resource development and environmental preservation, and public health policies, and gained experience in the knowledge transfer process between the scientific community and policymakers.
Folger applied his experiences in private industry, government research, and academia to the complicated issues of formulating a proper balance between resource development and economic and environmental impact.
Folger received an A.B. with distinction in geology from Dartmouth College in 1982, and a masters in geology in 1988 from the University of Montana.
www.geosociety.org /science/csf/folger.htm   (191 words)

  
 Folger Estate Stable History
Although now part of Wunderlich Park in Woodside, the Folger Stable and the 942 surrounding acres were originally part of a 12,000-acre land grant in the 1840s made to John Coppinger, an Irishman and one of the first non-hispanic Europeans to live on the peninsula.
J.A. Folger worked in San Francisco for the Pioneer Steam Coffee and Spice Mills, which he bought in 1872, renaming it J. Folger and Co. When he died in 1889, the business was taken over by James A. Folger II, the builder of the estate and stable in Woodside.
In 1956, Peter Folger sold the stables and 942 acres of land to Martin Wunderlich, retaining the mansion in the Folger family.
www.parksupport.org /preservation/stablehistory.html   (337 words)

  
 Thomas Folger - 1758-1838 - Town of Charlton, Saratoga County, NY
Born in England in 1758, Folger volunteered in the spring of 1775 and was assigned to the company of Captain Thomas Wasson, second Albany County Militia....In1777 he was at Fort George when destroyed by the American Troops, and took part in Schuyler's retreat.
Peter FOLGER was born on 12 Mar 1787.
Abigail FOLGER was born on 31 Mar 1794.
www.townofcharlton.org /HCC_fam_folger.html   (442 words)

  
 Family Trees of Thomas Jefferson and Other Famous Americans - pafg101 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Peter FOLGER [Parents] was born in 1617/1618 in Norwich, Norfolk, England.
Eleazer FOLGER was born in 1648 in, Edgartown, Dukes, Ma.
Bathsheba Or Bethshus FOLGER was born in 1652 in Martha's, Vineyard, Dukes, Ma.
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 Charles Manson Trial - Serial Killer Charles Manson
Abigail Folger was an American coffee heiress and a victim of the Charles Manson murders.
Her debutante ball was one of the highlights of the social season with Folger wearing a bright yellow Christian Dior gown, that she had purchased in Paris, France, the previous summer.
Folger donated both some of her time and plenty of her money to the Kennedy campaign.
www.2violent.com /abigail-folger.html   (2198 words)

  
 Nantucket Features   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
A horse mill (later replaced by a water mill at Lily Pond) was built, and Peter Folger, jack-of-all-trades that he was, took on the role of miller as well.
Folger, the Clerk of the Court, refused to record the proceedings or turn over the court records; when a constable appeared with a warrant for their seizure, Folger fled (perhaps down Crooked Lane to West Chester) carrying the records, and sought sanctuary at John Gardner's house, where he was eventually arrested.
Folger, in a petition endorsed by Richard Gardner, Edward Starbuck, and Thomas Coleman, pled with Governor Andros for his release, laying out the facts of the case as he saw them, and asking him to take pity on an old man (he was about 60 years old at the time).
www.yesterdaysisland.com /05_articles/satire/king3.html   (3304 words)

  
 CharlieManson.Com - Heiress' Search Leads to Tragedy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Her father, board chairman Peter Folger of J. Folger Coffee Company, said she had "more or less commuted" between Southern California and the family mansion in Woodside during the last six months.
His grandsons, James III and Peter Folger, built the family firm into the third largest coffee wholesaler in the United States before selling it in 1963 to Proctor and Gamble for 1,650,000 shares of PandG common stock.
Miss Folger's Catholic parents divorced in 1952 when her mother, member of a prestigious California land grant family, divorced Peter Folger on the grounds of extreme cruelty.
www.charliemanson.com /news-archive/news-1969-08-17d.htm   (764 words)

  
 Descendants of John Folger
JOHN2 FOLGER (JOHN1) was born 1594 in Diss, County of Norfolk, England (Source: "Genealogy of the Gordon-Macy Hiddleston-Curtis and Allied Families", by Jessie Gordon Flack and Maybelle Gordon Carman, Pub.
ABIAH LEE4 FOLGER (PETER3, JOHN2, JOHN1) was born 15 Aug 1667 in Nantucket, MA (Source: (1) The Folger Family, Compiled by William Coleman Folger of Nantucket, a Corresponding Member of the N. Historic-Genealogical Society., (2) "Genealogy of the Gordon-Macy Hiddleston-Curtis and Allied Families", by Jessie Gordon Flack and Maybelle Gordon Carman, Pub.
MARY6 FOLGER (PETER5, ELEAZER4, PETER3, JOHN2, JOHN1) was born 10 Jun 1705 (Source: The Folger Family, Compiled by William Coleman Folger of Nantucket, a Corresponding Member of the N. Historic-Genealogical Society.), and died 03 Dec 1763 (Source: The Folger Family, Compiled by William Coleman Folger of Nantucket, a Corresponding Member of the N. Historic-Genealogical Society.).
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 History of Nantucket - Scraps of Family History
William Worth was chosen clerk and Gardner and Folger were arbitrarily disfranchised and refused any participation in the affairs of the town.
Peter Folger was arrested for contempt of His Majesty’s authority and for "contemptous carrg"
Tobias Coleman and Eleazur Folger and his wife Sarah..(Richard Gardner’s daughter) were arrested and fined for criticizing the Court.
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 Henry Clay Folger-Folger Shakespeare Library
Young Henry Folger was a tenth-generation descendant of the Nantucket settler Peter Folger, a surveyor and school-teacher.
Peter Folger’s daughter, Abiah, was the mother of Benjamin Franklin, and another family member, Maria Mitchell, was the first female astronomer in America.
Henry Folger became chairman of the board of Standard Oil of New York in 1923, and retired in March 1928 to devote himself full-time to plans for the Folger Shakespeare Library.
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 Franklin's Autobiography: APPENDIX No. I of 81
There is a tradition in the family, that John Folger, and his son Peter Folger, (the name was then written Foulger) crossed the Atlantic in the same vessel with Hugh Peters, in the year 1635.
Peter was then eighteen years old, and of course was born in the year 1617.
His son, Walter Folger, known as the astronomer of Nantucket, was born in 1765, and is still living (in 1839).
www.ushistory.org /franklin/biography/app01.htm   (2406 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Peter Folger
Peter Folger (December 26, 1905- August 27, 1980) was an American coffee heir, socialite, and member of the prominent United States Folger family.
Folger, and the father of Manson murder victim Abigail Folger.
However, he and the Folger family continued to operate Folgers as a P&G subsidiary.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Peter_Folger   (287 words)

  
 Folger, Peter - HighBeam Encyclopedia
Folger, Peter fōl´jer, 1617-90, British settler on Nantucket.
Folger was a Baptist and was opposed to the intolerance of the Massachusetts leaders.
Folger Puck's Happy Mending; Library Set to Unveil Restored Marble Imp And His Metal Twin
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 History of Folgers — Folgers
During the Atlantic crossing, Peter Folger, age 18, met and fell in love with a girl named Mary Morrell.
The Folger family had enough money to pay for their passage to San Francisco, but was unable to provide enough money for all three boys to travel from there to the mining towns.
Folgers and Co. developed an entirely new vocabulary to describe the "cup" qualities of their various coffees.
www.folgers.com /pressroom/history.shtml   (770 words)

  
 Thirteenth Generation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
John Folger and his son Peter (their name then being frequently written Foulger) are said to have crossed the Atlantic in the same ship with Hugh Peters (who at one time was chaplain to Oliver Cromwell) in 1635; the ship was possibly the Abigail.
Peter Folger was then about 18 years old.
It is probable that John and Peter Folger accompanied Thomas Mayhew, Jr.
www.jhowell.net /ancpage/bookj/b3755.htm   (178 words)

  
 Folgers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Folgers Coffee is a major brand of coffee in the US, part of the food and beverage division of Procter and Gamble.
Under the mid-20th century leadership of his great-grandson, Peter Folger (the father of murder victim Abigail Folger), it became one of the largest coffee concerns in North America, which has traditionally been the largest market for coffee in the world.
Folgers was known for many years for television advertising, with one of its best-known campaigns involving "Mrs.
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 American Geological Institute - Serving the Geosciences Since 1948
Currently Peter Folger is Public Affairs Manager for the American Geophysical Union, an international scientific society of Earth and space scientists with over 35,000 members headquartered in Washington, D.C. Peter graduated in 1982 from Dartmouth College with an Earth science degree.
Appreciative of and interested in ionizing radiation, Peter obtained his Ph.D. in geological engineering from the Colorado School of Mines funded studying the transport of radon and its parent radionuclides in a fractured rock aquifer and impacts on indoor air quality.
Peter tries to keep AGU members informed of events on Capitol Hill that impact the geophysical sciences, and members of Congress informed of geophysical events that impact their constituents.
www.agiweb.org /associates/conference/2000/wrapper.html?Speaker=folger.html   (543 words)

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