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About Abiah Franklin
Abiah Folger
Buried in the Old Granary Burying Ground on Tremont Street in Boston.
- Birth: Aug. 15, 1667
- Death: May 8, 1752
Mother Of Benjamin Franklin.
Family
Parents:
- Peter Folger (1617 - 1690)
- Mary Katherine Morrell Folger (1620 - 1703)
Spouse:
- Josiah Franklin (1655 - 1744)
Children:
- James Franklin (1697 - 1735)*
- Ebenezer Franklin (1700 - 1700)*
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)*
- Lydia Franklin Scott (1708 - 1758)*
Siblings:
- Joanna Folger Coleman (____ - 1719)*
- Eleazer Folger (1648 - 1716)*
- John Folger (1659 - 1732)*
- Experience Folger Swain (1663 - 1739)*
- Abiah Folger Franklin (1667 - 1752)
- Calculated relationship
Burial:
- Granary Burying Ground
- Boston
- Suffolk County
- Massachusetts, USA
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Franklin#Marriage_to_Anne_Child
In November 1689, Josiah Franklin married his second wife, Abiah Folger, in the Old South Church. Abiah of Nantucket, Massachusetts, was the daughter of Peter and Mary Morrill Foulger.[4] Peter Foulger was a schoolmaster, a miller and a surveyor.
Abiah bore Josiah 10 children: John (1690), Peter (1692), Mary (1694), James (1697), Sarah (1699), Ebenezer (1701), Thomas (1703), Benjamin (1706), Lydia (1708), and Jane (1712)
GEDCOM Note
Category: Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Massachusetts
Biography
: Abiah is the mother of 6th president of Pennsylvania, Benjamin Franklin. She was born in 1667 to Peter Folger and Mary Morrill, and is the second wife of Josiah Franklin.<ref name=wright /> She died in 1752.
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: Abiah Folger<ref name=wright>Wright, E. (1997). Franklin of Philadelphia, (8th ed, pp.14-15). Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Print.</ref><ref name=grave>Findagrave Page</ref> : b. 15 Aug 1665/6/7 Marthas Vineyard, MA<ref>Godfrey Memorial Library. American Genealogical-Biographical Index. Middletown, CT, USA: Godfrey Memorial Library. Ancestry.com, 1999.</ref><ref name=grave /> : d. 18 MAY 1750/1 or 08 May 1752<ref name=grave/> or 18 Jun 1752 Boston, MA.<ref name=AC>#S-1406879784 Family Data Collection - Deaths: Edmund West, comp. Ancestry.com Provo, UT, 2001; #S-1415793532 Family Data Collection - Individual Records: Edmund West, comp. Ancestry.com, 2000</ref> (age 84)<ref name=wright />
: bur. Granary Burial Ground Boston, MA<ref name=grave/>
Family
: m. Josiah Franklin 25 NOV 1687/8/9 Boston, MA.<ref name=AC/> Issue: 10<ref name=wright />
Sources
<references />*U.S. Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970: Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls. Ancestry.com
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[3026504.ged] Mother of Benjamin Franklin
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Abiah Franklin's Timeline
| 1667 |
August 15, 1667
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Nantucket, Duke's, Massachusetts
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| 1690 |
December 7, 1690
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Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
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| 1692 |
1692
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Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1695 |
September 26, 1695
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Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
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| 1697 |
February 4, 1697
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Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
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| 1699 |
July 9, 1699
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Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
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| 1701 |
September 20, 1701
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Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
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| 1703 |
December 3, 1703
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Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
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| 1706 |
January 17, 1706
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Milk Street, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Record of Birth
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