Mary Folger

Aft 1617 - Bef 1685  (< 66 years)

• Name	Mary Folger
  Birth	Aft 1617  [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Bef 18 Jul 1685  [1]
  Siblings	1 sibling
  + 1. Peter Folger ,   b. Abt 1617, Norwich, Norfolk, England d. 1690, Nantucket, New York  (Age ~ 73 years) ▻ Mary Morrill ,  m. 1644 + 2. Mary Folger ,   b. Aft 1617   d. Bef 18 Jul 1685  (Age < 66 years) ▻ Jeremiah Vail ,  m. 24 May 1660
  Person ID	I22445	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of GFS
  Last Modified	11 Jan 2019

  
  

  Father	John Folger,   b. Norwich, Norfolk, England d. Abt 1660, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
  Mother	Merrable Gibbs   d. Aft 1663, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
  Marriage	Bef 25 Jan 1609  [2]
  Notes	Some confusion has transpired over whether Merrable Gibbs was the mother of Peter Folger. In his 1862 NEHGR article "The Folger Family," William Coleman Folger wrote "John Folger died about 1660. Meribell Folger his widow was living in 1664. Her surname is supposed to have been Gibbs. According to tradition, John was a widower when he came over [in 1635]; if this be correct, he must have married her after his arrival in America." But Benjamin Franklin was certainly aware that Merrable Gibbs was the mother of his grandfather Peter Folger. In 1759, M. Foulger of Illington, Norfolk wrote to Franklin that "John Foulger married to Mirriba Gibbs in Old England by hir he had one sone named Peter and one Daughter than married a Pain on Long Island." And in 1932 George Andrews Moriarty discovered and published the will of "John Gibbes of Frendes in the County of Norff[olk] yeoman," dated 25 Jan 1609, which included a bequest to his daughter "Merrable Folser." So the "tradition" that John Folger emigrated as a widower would appear to have been incorrect; he was certainly married to Merrable Gibbs before 25 Jan 1609, and she certainly outlived him by four years and died on Martha's Vineyard in or after 1664.
  Family ID	F10708	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jeremiah Vail,   b. Abt 1618, England d. 1687, Southold, Suffolk, Long Island, New York (Age ~ 69 years)
  Marriage	24 May 1660	Southold, Suffolk, Long Island, New York   [1]
  Children	+ 1. John Vail
  Family ID	F13635	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Jan 2019

  
  

• Sources

  [S2811] Bill Lander, "Some Descendants of John Folger of Watertown and Martha's Vineyard, Ma.". [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.