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• Occupation: Fisherman
• Confirmed Ancestor?: Y
• Cause of Death: Drowned off Small Point near Phippsburg, Maine

Notes:

Lived and traded in Lee, Madbury, and Limerick, Maine
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Having entered the harbor, he left the ship in a small punt or wherry, which was upset by a rough sea. He righted the boat, put the other man into it, where he was saved; but as he was swimming toward the shore, he was chilled and sank.

Peter married Sarah DAM about 1768 in New Hampshire. Sarah (daughter of Samuel DAME and Elizabeth ”Betsy” HICKS) was born on 13 Dec 1747 in Newmarket, Rockingham, New Hampshire; died about 1801 in Phippsburg, Sagadahoc, Maine; was buried in unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Husband and wife are 4C1R.

1. Elizabeth FOLSOM was born in 1780 in Waterboro, York, Maine; died in 1850 in Limerick, York, Maine.
2. Joseph FOLSOM was born on 21 Mar 1762; died in in Maine.
3. Sarah “Sally” FOLSOM was born in 1769 in Lee, Strafford, New Hampshire; died on 2 Sep 1863; was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, Brownfield, Oxford, Maine.
4. Ann Nancy FOLSOM was born on 12 Nov 1801 in Limerick, York, Maine; died on 23 Oct 1867 in Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried in unknown.
5. Peter FOLSOM was born on 18 Jun 1773 in Newmarket, Rockingham, New Hampshire; died on 19 Dec 1839 in Limerick, York, Maine; was buried in Folsom Family Cemetery, Limerick, York, Maine.
6. Jeremiah FOLSOM was born in 1784 in Madbury, Strafford, New Hampshire; died in 1821 in Waterboro, York, Maine.
7. John FOLSOM was born in 1786 in New Market, Rockingham, New Hampshire; died in 1878.
8. Lidia FOLSOM was born in 1788; died in in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
9. Mary FOLSOM was born in 1790; died in ? in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
10. Samuel FOLSOM was born in 1796.

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• Noteworthy: Minuteman
• DAR#: A040254
• Military Event: American Revolution - NH: Lt Col
• Served American Revolution?: Y
• Military Flag: Y
• Historical Notes: Landmarks in Ancient Dover, New Hampshire by Mary P. Thompson, Durham, N.H. ©1892, Printed by the Republican Press Association, Concord, N.H. LANDMARKS: Hull’s Meadow NAMES: HULL, Benjamin; RAND, John; WADLEY, Robert; HILTON, Richard; DARLING, Thomas; FROST, John; FROST, Nathaniel; TUTTLE, Nicholas; FOLSOM, Jeremiah, Jr.; TASH, John; TASH, Thomas; DAVIS, David 3d; STEVENS, Jonathan; Hull’s Meadow. So named from Benjamin Hull, who had a grant adjoining the Pascassic mill in 1659. (See Indian Graves.) Benjamin Hull of Dover, Dec. 12, 1678, conveyed to John Rand 120 acres of land in Dover, bounded N.E. by Lamperel river, and S.W. by the Dover line. John Rand of ye township of Dover, in ye Co of Portsmouth, conveyed to Robert Wadley of Dover, Aug. 26, 1679, "120 acres of land and meadow ground, lying by Lamperell river, between ye Island Falls and ye second Falls of ye aforesd river, commonly called by ye name of Benjamin Hull’s meadow." The Hull land was acquired Jan. 12, 1695, by Richard Hilton, who, Dec. 5, 1735, conveyed to Thomas Darling of Portsmouth 120 acres of upland and Meadow in Durham, beginning at a pitch-pine tree on or near the line between Durham and Exeter, thence up said line W. and by N. 170 rods to a black oak on said line or town bounds then north 160 rods to a hemlock on the bank of Lamperel river, then down said river as far as it bears east nearest, then E. and by N. six score rods to a pine , thence to ye pitch pine first mentioned, standing on ye town bounds, near to ye Indian graves. Thomas Darling of Durham, Oct. 27, 1742, out of love, good-will and affection to his well-beloved son-in-law, John Frost of Portsmouth, conveyed to said Frost one half of his homestead estate-- that is, half the upland he bought of Richard Hilton, except 40 acres then owned by Nathaniel Frost, together with one half of ye meadow commonly called Hull’s meadow. That same day Thomas Darling conveyed to his beloved son-in-law Nicholas Tuttle the other half of his homestead estate, and half of ye meadow commonly called hull’s meadow on the north side. Nicholas Tuttle conveyed his part to Jeremiah Folsom, Jr., Feb. 10, 1752. John Frost, Sept. 20, 1752, conveyed to Thomas and John Tash, both of Durham, a tract of upland and meadow in Durham, part of the land formerly granted to Benjamin Hull, bounded N. by Nathaniel Frost’s land, and S. and W. by that of Jonathan Stevens and David Davis ye 3d. The Tash land, between the Pascassic river and Lee Hook, is still pointed out. PG 110
• Baptism: 25 Jul 1719

Notes:

The battle of Lexington, on the 19th of April, 1775, aroused our people to a more vivid sense of their danger. Couriers bringing the startling news reached Newmarket about daybreak, April 2Oth. At once the drum beat to arms. In less than three hours minute-men were on the march for Boston. Tradition includes among those first to enlist the names of Colcord, Folsom, Hilton, and Pike. At Exeter they joined other volunteers under Capt. John Taylor Gilman. That night they reached, by way of Haverhill, Bragg's tavern, in Andover. On the night of the 21st they reached Cambridge, and were assigned quarters in the college buildings.
http://files.usgwarchives.net/nh/rockingham/history/rockinghamco/chapter40.txt
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JEREMIAH FOLSOM TO NEW-HAMPSHIRE ASSEMBLY.
New-Market, March 19, 1776.
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR HONOURS: I ask leave to inform you that it was just intimated to me by a member of the honourable Court, that it was expected I should attend on a Committee appointed to sit on Tuesday, 19th March, instant, at Exeter; but for what purposes, I have not been made acquainted. I therefore should not have been prepared to answer any matters, could I have given myself the pleasure of attending on the honourable Committee. But I have the misfortune, from receiving such violent colds in attending in the late storms, to be confined to my house and bed, which has put it out of my power to have obeyed your Honours' citation, if I had received one, which I shall always esteem it my duty and pleasure readily to obey, although the complaints and allegations were as false and maliciously fabricated against me, as those that have lately been by a small number of disappointed, and, therefore, disaffected persons belonging to the Fifth Company, in Colonel Gillman' s Regiment, who have retarded and hindered the settlement of the whole regiment, and who, without your Honours' interposition, will continue the same. Confiding, therefore, in the known knowledge and justice of your Honours, in justifying the innocent when falsely accused, think myself happy that I am at the tribunal, and in the protection of this honourable Court; to whose determination and order I shall render the steadiest and firmest obedience, when it is signified to me, if God in his Providence shall admit me health and opportunity to fulfil it.
I am, may it please your Honours, your Honours' most humble servant,
JEREMIAH FOLSOM.
To the Honourable Council and House of Representatives for the Colony of New-Hampshire.
http://amarch.lib.niu.edu/islandora/object/niu-amarch%3A98621
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Jeremiah Folsom was a delegate to the Convention in 1775 and a member of commission on supplies 1782.

Jeremiah married Mary HERSEY on 28 Mar 1742. Mary (daughter of Peter HERSEY and Elizabeth GILMAN) was born in 1720 in Newfields, Rockingham, New Hampshire; died in 1806 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire; was buried in unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Husband and wife are 3rd cousins.

Other Events:

• Occupation: Highway surveyor, businessman

Notes:

Successful in business. Left much to his 8 children in his will.
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In 1719 Jeremiah Folsom built his two-story brick garrison house on the hill between Newfields and Lamprey River, where it stood until 1874, more than a century and a half, when it was demolished.

Jeremiah married Mary BASFORD on 26 Jan 1709 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire. Mary (daughter of Col Jacob BASFORD and Elizabeth CLIFFORD) was born on 28 Aug 1687 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire; died on 8 Oct 1744 in Newfields, Rockingham, New Hampshire; was buried in unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Peter married Elizabeth GILMAN in 1706 in Newfields, Rockingham, New Hampshire. Elizabeth (daughter of James GILMAN and Mary DOLLOFF) was born about 1691 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire; died in 1743 in Newfields, Rockingham, New Hampshire; was buried in unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Occupation: Selectman, constable, state representative
• Baptism: 3 Oct 1641, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Notes:

Ancestor to President Stephen Grover CLEVELAND
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Made a will in Exeter, Rockingham Co, NH, 24 Nov 1715, proved 6 Dec 1715.
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A Genealogy of the Folsom Family by John Chapman.

Dea. John Folsom was a man of high standing and good property, active both in church and in political affairs. He is among the worthies of the first centuries of Exeter, of whom Judge Smith, in his centennial address, July 4, 1838. says that "they filled acceptably the municipal and public offices conferred upon them." He was frequently sent to the general assembly.
?In the first volume of "Provincial Papers," already quoted with reference to his father, there is a deposition (pp. 554-7) from the son, as constable, bearing date 1684, "that he had received a list of names in Exeter, with fines annexed, amounting to 50£; that he was required by the Governor & council to go & demand the sum; but the people refused to pay, saying the taxes should be raised by the General Assembly, which answer he gave to Gov. & council : whereupon they took the scroll out of his hands & delivered it to Thos. Thurton, provost marshall, & he was ordered by a warrant from the Secretary to aid the said Thurton."
?This summary treatment was honorable to him from such a government as that of Cranfield's, and shows how "acceptably," at least to the people if not to the party in power, he filled that special office of constable by forbearing to push the demand for oppressive and unconstitutional taxes and fines.

The following quotation from the same portion of the "Provincial Papers" will show the sort of " aid" he gave to the provost marshal, and that he could turn with wrath and contempt on the public foes, deacon though he was. Under date of December 29, 1684, there is a deposition of this Thurton, that "being sent to collect those fines, and one of 50 shillings on John Foulsham for neglecting the duty of his office as constable, Foulsham told him that if he came to levy execution at his house, he should meet him with a red-hot spit and scalding water ; and bade him go, like a rogue as he was."

The women of the Gilman family must also have some of the fame of this affair; for the provost marshal adds, that "being at the house of Edward Gilman [s/o the first Edward, and lost at sea abt. 1653] the wife of James Gilman [grands/o the first Edward, b. 1659] told him she had provided a kettle of scalding water for him, if he should come." He thought it rather rough treatment, especially as no money had yet been demanded of them. In one instance, in which Dea. John's wife had been slandered by his sister-in-law Hannah, wife of his brother Nathaniel, he was determined the offender should smart for it ; and accordingly, making complaint before Mr. Commissioner Dalton, he obtained sentence against her that she should "make acknowledgment at some public town-meeting."
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WILL OF DEA. JOHN FOLSOM, EXETER,
NOVEMBER, 1715.
I John Foulsam of Exeter, in the Province of Newhampshire, being weak of body, but of sound & perfect memory, praise be therefore given to Almighty God, do make & ordain this my present last will & testament, in manner & form following. That is to say, First & principally, I commend my soul into the hands of Almighty God, hoping through the merits, death & passion of my Savior, Jesus Christ, to have full & free pardon & forgiveness of all my sins, & to Inherit everlasting life ; And my body I commit to the Earth to be decently buried, at the discretion of my Executrix, hereafter named. And as touching the disposition of such temporal estate, as it hath pleased God, in his providence to bestow upon me, I give & dispose of as followeth.

Imp'r. I will that my Just debts & funeral charges be payed.
Item. I give unto my son Abraham Foulsam, four acres of salt marsh, at Hampton, to be taken out of the South end of the great Lot ; & I give him three fifths of my Lower pasture, in Exeter, known by the name of Pine hill pasture, he taking his part next to Jonathan Smith's land.
Item. I give to my son John Foulsam, twenty acres of land, lying upon Pickpocket Road, on this side of the great River; & thirty acres, on the other side of the great River, where now he lives.
Item. I give to my son Jonathan Foulsam my house & barn & the land adjoining to it ; & all my marsh, both in Hampton & Exeter not already disposed of, & three acres of land in the common field, & three acres of swamp in the neck, & the whole of my upper & lower pasture, not already disposed of, & my part in the saw mill. ?Item. My will is that my sons, Abraham & Jonathan shall not have their portions till after my wife's decease. ?Item. I give to my son Jeremiah Foulsam, an hundred acres of land at Lamperele River where now he lives. ?Item. I give to my daughter Abigail Gillman, seven pounds. ?Item. I give to my daughter Sarah Stevens twelve pounds. ?Item. I give to my daughter Mary's two children each five pounds apiece. ?Item. I give to my son John Foulsam, & to my daughters, Lydia Stockman & Mercy Dudley all my Land at the white pine plains & over the great River, known by the name of Foulsam's Meadow, being by estimation, two hundred acres, be it more or less to be equally divided between them. ?Item. My will is that my son Jonathan Foulsam shall pay my just debts & funeral charges, & that he shall pay his two sisters, Abigail Gilman t& Sarah Stevens, their portions as above named, & likewise his two cousins, my daughter Marys children immediately after his mothers decease.
Item. I give to my well beloved wife Abigail Foulsam, the use of my dwelling house & barn & the land, adjoining it, — of my saw mill & all my marsh both at Hampton & Exeter, & all my upper & lower pasture lying by son Abraham's & my land both in the common field & neck, during her life ; and I give her the whole of my stock & moveable estate both within doors & without, as her own proper estate, & to dispose of to whom she sees fit.
?Finally. My will is & I do hereby appoint my beloved wife, Abigail Foulsam, to be full and sole executrix to this my last will & testament, and do hereby revoke disannul and make void all former wills and Testaments by me heretofore made.
?In witness whereof I the said John Foulsam have to this my last will & Testament set my hand & seal this twenty fourth day of November Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and fifteen Annoq. R : Regis George Brittanniae &c. Secundo. Signed Sealed & owned in the presence of, — John Foullsam ?John Odlin [SEAL] ?Thomas Edgerly ?Daniell Thing ?Portsmouth De. ye 6 1715 ?John Odlin & Daniel Thing personally appearing before me, Richard Waldron Esqr. Judge of Probate of Wills &c and made oath that they were present and saw John Foulsam sign seal & declare the foregoing instrument to be his Last Will & Testament, and that they also saw Thomas Egerly who was then present sign as a witness, & that Mr. Foulsam at the same time was of a sound & disposing mind & memory. Coram Rich'd Waldron.

John married Abigail PERKINS on 10 Nov 1675 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire. Abigail (daughter of Abraham PERKINS and Mary WYETH) was born on 12 Apr 1655 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire; died in 1716 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire; was buried in Congregational Church, Exeter, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jacob married Elizabeth CLIFFORD. Elizabeth was born on 30 Jun 1659 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire; died on 27 Mar 1708 in Chester, Rockingham, New Hampshire; was buried in Chester Village Cemetery, Chester, Rockingham, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

d/o John CLIFFORD
Children:
James Basford ( 1685-1756 )
Mary Basford ( 1687-1744 )
Elizabeth Basford ( 1692-1772 )
Margaret Basford ( 1693-1730 )
Hepzibah ( 1699-1785 )

Other Events:

• Occupation: Tailor

John married Sarah RICHARDS on 18 May 1669 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of Edward RICHARDS and Susannah HUNTING) was born on 25 May 1651 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 17 Jan 1732 in Cohasset, Norfolk, Massachusetts; was buried in unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Children:
1 Judith Hersey, b 28 September 1672
2 Nehemiah Hersey, b 12 Dec 1673
3 Abigail Hersey, b 02 Feb 1674
4 Mariah Hersey, b 12 Jan 1677 
5 Jaell Hersey, b 01 June 1680; Honoring child who died as an infant on 20 Oct 1681 in Hingham, Massachusetts.
7 Jeremiah Hersey, b 18 June 1697

Other Events:

• Birth: 31 May 1665

James married Mary DOLLOFF about 1686 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire. Mary (daughter of Christian DOLLOFF and Rachel MOULTON) was born on 17 Sep 1667 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire; died after 1739; was buried in unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mary Dolloff was the first child of Christian Dolloff and Rachel Moulton.

Mary Dolloff had two brothers: John b. February. 17, 1669 who was killed by Indians on September 15, 1707 and another brother James who was born on Dec. 25th, 1670 and who also was killed by "heathens" on Aug. 4,1691 at Casco, ME.