John Folger1

M, b. circa 1590, d. circa 1660
     John was born circa 1590 in Diss, County Norfolk, England. John married Merribah Gibbs, daughter of John Gibbs and Alice Elmy, before 1609 in Norwich, County Norfolk, England.2 John & Maribah, along with their children, left England about 1635, bound for New England. The name of their ship is not known.3 The family first settled in Dedham, Massachusetts and soon moved to Watertown. Peter went to Martha's Vineyard in 1641 with Thomas Mayhew to teach the Indians. John and Merribah followed sometime around 1652 and remained there for the remainder of their lives. John made his will in 1660 at Edgartown, on Martha's Vineyard, Duke's County, Massachusetts. John left his estate to his wife except for one cow which went to his daughter, Mary, and a second cow at the time of his wife's death. His son Peter was to get nothing as "he had spent or put away so much before". His house and land went to Peter's son Eleazer, after his wife's death. John departed this life circa 1660 in Martha's Vineyard, Duke's County, Massachusetts.

Family

Merribah Gibbs b. c 1593, d. b 18 Oct 1664
Children

Citations

  1. [S1493] Harriet M Grover, Highlights of the Folger Family with a breif genealogy, page 1.
  2. [S1495] Andrews Moriarty, Miscellaneous Records of Various Families, page 257 - [John Folger] . . . was from Diss, co. Norfolk; and his wife, Meribah Gibbs, was the daughter of John Gibbs of Freudes Hall in that neighborhood, as is proved by the will of John Gibbs, 1609, in which he mentioned his daughter "Merraba Folger".
  3. [S1494] George N. Mackenzie, Woodruff Genealogy: Matthew Woodruff of Farmington, Conn. 1640-1, page 29.