Resultado de búsqueda
Young Henry Folger was a 10th-generation descendant of the Nantucket settler Peter Folger, a surveyor and schoolteacher. 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 was the oldest of eight children.
15 de sept. de 2020 · Douglass was the most photographed person in America of his day. To mark the 400th anniversary of Peter Folger’s birth in 1617 and the 350th anniversary of Abiah Folger Franklin’s birth in 1667, the Nantucket Atheneum (the island’s public library) invited me to lecture on the Folger family, concentrating on the founder of the Folger ...
mother of Benjamin Franklin
Marriage to Abiah Folger. In November 1689, Josiah Franklin married his second wife, Abiah Folger (1667–1752), in the Old South Church. Abiah of Nantucket, Massachusetts, was the daughter of Peter and Mary Morrill Foulger. Peter Foulger was a schoolmaster, a miller and a surveyor.
16 de oct. de 2023 · Franklin was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1706 to Josiah Franklin and Abiah Folger. He was the 15th and youngest son of Josiah’s seventeen children. Franklin learned the printing trade while working for the weekly Boston newspaper, New England Courant. The paper was owned by his brother James.
Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on Jan. 17, 1706. The 10th son of Josiah, a candle maker, and Abiah Folger, Franklin was educated at Boston Grammar School. He apprenticed with his father and then his half-brother, Peter, a printer in Boston. Young Franklin struck out on his own in 1723 and eventually found employment as a journeyman ...
8 de abr. de 2018 · Abiah Franklin was born Abiah Folger in 1667 in Nantucket. In 1689, the freshly widowed Josiah Franklin, who already had at least five living children, married Abiah at the Old South Church in Boston.
