• Peter Folger or Foulger (died 1690) was a poet and an interpreter of the American Indian language for the first settlers of Nantucket. He was instrumental...
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  • Mayhew Folger (1774–1828), American whaler and grandfather of William M. Folger Peter Folger (1905–1980), American businessperson Peter Folger (Nantucket settler)...
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  • 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...
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    once was a man from Nantucket..". Elin Hilderbrand's novels are set on Nantucket. Nantucket is the setting for the Merry Folger series of mystery novels...
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    was always at a premium, but Admiral William Mayhew Folger, a descendant of early settler Peter Foulger, left a bequest to the NHA in 1929 that honored...
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  • Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket: Inquirer and Mirror Press, 1895, OL 13999275M Isaac H. Folger (1875), Handbook of Nantucket, Nantucket:...
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  • (1925–2021), British naval architect Peter Foulger, also Peter Folger (1617–1690), Nantucket settler, teacher, poet Folger This page lists people with the...
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    born in Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay Colony, on August 15, 1667, to Peter Folger, a miller and schoolteacher, and his wife, Mary Morrell Folger, a former...
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  • Lovelace (died 1657), English Cavalier poet Peter Folger (died 1690), English-born poet, Nantucket settler, and maternal grandfather of Benjamin Franklin...
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    Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and the Elizabeth Islands by Thomas Mayhew of Watertown, Massachusetts from two New England settlers. He had friendly relations...
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    when Nantucket sent out sailing vessels to fish for whales offshore, the whalers would still come to the shore to boil the blubber. In 1715, Nantucket had...
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    parentage. He was the son of Robert Barker and Sarah (née Folger) Gardner, who was born on Nantucket. His mother was a widow of Hezekiah Gardner, with whom...
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