Mary Morrill (akas: Morrel/Morrills/Morill) (b. circa 1620 – died 1704) was the grandmother of Benjamin Franklin, American printer, journalist, publisher, author, philanthropist, abolitionist, public servant, scientist, librarian, diplomat, statesman and inventor. Mary immigrated to Massachusetts Bay Colony as an indentured servant probably belonging to Hugh Peters. Mary married Peter Foulger in 1644. He had been one of the few white men in Marthas Vineyard and Nantucket, Massachusetts (as a successor of Thomas Mayhew), and who was a teacher and translator for the Wampanoag Indians. Peter Folger paid Hugh Peters the sum of 20 shillings to pay off Marys servitude, which he declared was the best appropriation of money he had ever made. Their daughter, Abiah Folger (Benjamin Franklins mother), was born on August 15, 1667 in Nantucket. Mary was mentioned by name as a historical figure in Herman Melvilles fictional Moby-Dick in chapter 24 which is entitled The Advocate. This chapter is a defense of Nantuckets whaling industry. In it, Melville sets up a series of objections to that industry, one of which is No good blood in their veins? His response to this objection is: They have something better than royal blood there. The grandmother of Benjamin Franklin was Mary Morrel; 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 to noble Benjamin—this day darting the barbed iron from one side of the world to the other. Other notable descendants Ezra Cornell, co-founder of Cornell University. See Hiram Sibley history. See Sibley~Whipple family history James Athearn Folger, founder of Folgers Coffee Company Henry Clay Folger founded the Folger Shakespeare Library with his wife. Mayhew Folger, captain of the sealing ship, Topaz, that rediscovered the Pitcairn Islands in 1808 Rev. Phebe Ann Coffin Hanaford, author, poet, suffragist, editor, and the first female minister in New England Maria Mitchell, astronomer Lucretia Coffin Mott, feminist. See Dea.Tristran Coffin and Rev Thomas Parker history at Newbury, Mass near the Parker River and Plum Island. See Dr. Jonathan Parker and Dorothy Coffin. See Rev. Edward L. Parker forty+ year ministry at Londonderry, NH. Rev. Parker was the son of Robert Parker, a world-class scholar and Father of Non-Conformity. Rachel Miner, actress See Henry B. Gibson history. Mary Gibson was married to John Sibley, president of Western Union. See Gardiner Greene Hubbard and Professor Alexander Graham Bell history. Henry B. Gibson great grandfather was Peter Folger. See Nantucket Whaling station history. See New Bedford, Mass. history. See ownership history of Naushon Island: First owner, Gov. Thomas Mayhew, apostle to the Indians. See John Winthrop, Wait Winthrop; Gov. James Bowdoins grandson was Robert Charles Winthrop. His classmates were Rev. John Singleton Copley Greene, Charles Francis Adams, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. They were students of Edward Everett and his brother Alexander. Everett was married to Charlotte Brooks, daughter of Peter Chardon Brooks. Brooks was married to Ann Gorman, sister of Nathanial Gorman. See Phelps and Gorman Purchase. See Robert Morris history. See Gerrit Smith history. See Holland Land Company. See Henry Bicker Gibson and Sarah Sherman history. See Roger Sherman history. See Roger Sherman Baldwin and John Adams history as counsels for Chief Cinque on the Spanish slave ship, the Amistad Slave. The Amistad was found adrift in the Atlantic near Boston. One of slaves returned to the United States and graduated from Oberlin College in Ohio.
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