Mary Morrill

- 1704

• Name	Mary Morrill  [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	1704	Nantucket, Massachusetts   [3, 4]
  Person ID	I17443	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2020

  
  

  Family	Peter Folger,   b. Abt 1617, Norwich, Norfolk, England d. 1690, Nantucket, New York (Age ~ 73 years)
  Marriage	1644	Nantucket, Massachusetts   [3]
  Children	+ 1. Bathshua Folger   2. Bethia Folger   d. 6 Jun 1669   3. Eleazer Folger + 4. Abiah Folger,   b. 15 Aug 1667, Nantucket, New York d. 8 May 1752, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age 84 years)   5. Experience Folger,   b. 1668, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts d. 4 Jun 1739, Nantucket, Massachusetts (Age 71 years)
  Family ID	F10706	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Sep 2019

  
  

• Notes

  From Moby-Dick, chapter 24: But if, in the face of all this, you still declare that whaling has no aesthetically noble associations connected with it, then am I ready to shiver fifty lances with you there, and unhorse you with a split helmet every time. The whale has no famous author, and whaling no famous chronicler, you will say. The whale no famous author, and whaling no famous chronicler? Who wrote the first account of our Leviathan? Who but mighty Job! And who composed the first narrative of a whaling-voyage? Who, but no less a prince than Alfred the Great, who, with his own royal pen, took down the words from Other, the Norwegian whale-hunter of those times! And who pronounced our glowing eulogy in Parliament? Who, but Edmund Burke! True enough, but then whalemen themselves are poor devils; they have no good blood in their veins. No good blood in their veins? They have something better than royal blood there. The grandmother of Benjamin Franklin was Mary Morrel; afterwards, by marriage, Mary Folger, one of the old settlers of Nantucket, and the ancestress to a long line of Folgers and harpooneers--all kith and kin to noble Benjamin--this day darting the barbed iron from one side of the world to the other.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2310] Nathan W. Murphy, "Gibbs and Robertson Ancestry of Merrable Gibbs, Wife of John Folger of Martha's Vineyard, and Anne Gibbs, Wife of Rev. John Fiske of Chelmsford, Massachusetts." The American Genealogist 88:286, October 2016. [S4425] Benjamin Franklin's Family: Volume I, English Ancestors by Michael J. Leclerc. 2019. [S2274] William Coleman Folger, "The Folger Family." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 16:269, 1862. [S4303] Lineage of the Bowens of Woodstock, Connecticut by Edward Augustus Bowen. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1897., year only.