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• Occupation: Husbandman
• Baptism: 3 Oct 1641, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts

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A Genealogy of the Folsom Family by John Chapman

He was probably not so successful in pecuniary matters as some of his younger brothers. He dealt some in lumber, and in 1667 promised a large quantity to Mr. Cutts, of Portsmouth. Being paid in advance, he mortgaged his land to secure the delivery of it. In Jan., 1692, he was appointed administrator upon the estate of "John & Mary Folsom both deceased." In the performance of this business, he provoked his brother, Dea. John, who in his passion, by violent language, exposed himself to prosecution for a violation of the law; but after some deliberation the trouble was amicably settled.

Samuel married Mary ROBIE on 22 Dec 1663 in New Hampshire, USA. Mary was born on 3 May 1644 in Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mary FOLSOM was born on 27 Sep 1664 in Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire; died on 3 Jul 1741 in Stratham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.
2. Ebenezer FOLSOM was born about 1667 in Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire; died on 22 Dec 1750 in Stratham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.
3. Ruth FOLSOM was born about 1670 in Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire; died in 1704 in Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.
4. Israel FOLSOM was born about 1673 in Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.
5. Deliverance FOLSOM was born about 1676 in Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.
6. Ann FOLSOM was born about 1677 in Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.

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• Also Known As: FOULSHAM, SMYTH
• Occupation: Selectman, farmer, surveyor, sawmill owner
• Immigrant?: Y
• Baptism: 1615, Hingham, Norfolk, England
• Migration: 26 Apr 1638, “Diligent”
• Residence: 1645, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Notes:

John and Mary are the ancestors of all the Folsoms in America, with the exception of one family, as related by Mr Abraham Folsom of Boston:
His younger brother, James Madison Folsom, went to Savannah, GA, 1829, and died before the rebellion, had two sons, Dr. Robert W., who fell in the battle of the Wilderness, the colonel of his regiment, and James M., a young lawyer and colonel on the staff of Gov. Brown. As Col. James was passing with a Georgia regiment through Sumter, SC, a crowd of gentlemen and ladies had gathered at the depot to greet them - the ladies throwing bouquets to the officers and soldiers. Col. James caught one, and on his depature found in it a slip of paper, on which was wirtten the name “Rosa Folsom.” His curiosity being greatly excited, he wrote to know about the family, and received the following reply from the young lady’s father: “We are descended from one who espoused the cause of liberty under Cromwell, but who died during the Protectorate. At the Resotration his estates were confiscated; and soon afterwards the sons embarked for America, and landed at Albermarle Sound [this must have been, if at all, at the settlement of the second colony at that place, 1667]. Two of the brothers married in America. Shortly after they simplified their name by spelling it “Folsom”. Col. James M. is the author of the “Heroes of Georgia” and is now clerk of the court of the county of Straffod, NH.
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A Genealogy of the Folsom Family, by Jacob Chapman, Introduction by Rev. N. S. Folsom, D.D., Lawrence, Mass

On the 26th of April, 1638, the ship "Diligent of Ipswich," England, of 350 tons burden, John Martin, master set sail from the mouth of the Thames for Massachusetts bay, having on board nineteen families and six or eight single persons, - in all, one hundred and thirty-three. Twelve of these families, numbering eighty-four souls, were from old Hingham, - the rest from the immediate vicinity; and they had all embarked for the purpose of joining a colony settled in Hingham, Mass, (1633-1637),consisting of ten families and five single person (in all, forty-nine), who had been their friends and neighbors in old Hingham. Among those now emigrating were John Foulsham of Hingham then twenty-three or twenty-four years of age, and his young wife, to whom he had been married about a year and a half. They were attended by two servants. His wife's father and mother (Edward and Mary Clark Gilman, of Hingham), three younger brothers (Edward, not quite twenty-one years old, John and Moses) two younger sisters (Sarah and Lydia who married Daniel Cushing, - 1645), and three servants of the family, were fellow-passengers. The rector of the parish, Rev. Robert peck, with his family, consisting of his wife, two children, and servants, also formed part of the company. The immediate occasion of their departure seems to have been trouble in ecclesiastical matters. Their rector, doubtless with the sympathy and aid of most of those constituting the emigrating party, had pulled down the rails of the chancel and alter, and leveled the latter a foot below the church, as it remains to this day. Being prosecuted by Bishop Wren, he left the kingdom, together with his friends, who sold their estates at half their real value, promising to remain with them always.

The party having landed at Boston, Massachusetts, August 10, 1638, immediately proceeded to their place of destination, about fourteen miles south-east from Boston. An Adam Foulsham, probably a s/o the Adam who died in 1627, and a cousin, if not brother of John Foulsham, came from Hingham, Eng. To Hingham, Mass., in about 1639, but returned and died - 1670. Their rector remained about three years, when, hearing that the bishops were deposed, he returned to England in 1641 (the date given by Daniel Cushing), resumed his rectory, and died in 1656. Edward Gilman had with others obtained a grant of land eight miles square in a place now called Rehoboth, near the Rhode Island line, in 1641. In 1647 his name is recorded in Ipswich. Soon afterward, he went to Exeter, N.H., where his sons were already established in business. John Folsom and wife, with their children, followed her father and mother to Exeter, probably no earlier than 1650, the first authentic record of their residence in that town being in the year 1655.
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The orthography and pronunciation of the name have varied in the family itself, as well as among others writing and pronouncing it. The first Anglo-American bearing the name spelt it "Foulsham." His son, Dea. John, wrote it " Fullsom " in 1709 ; and it is signed " Foullsam " in his last will — 1715. In one instance, in the Hingham town records, it is spelt "Fulsham," but always afterward "Foulsham." In the Exeter records it is uniformly written "Folsom" from the year 1659, with one exception in 1681, when the town clerk wrote "Foulshame." In the records of the first parish, Haverhill, Mass., — 1749-64, —it is spelt "Foulsham," "Foulsam," "Folsham,” and "Fulsom." on occasion of the baptism of children of “Josiah Foulsham." Originally it was doubtless spelt "Foulshame," its etymological significance being the fowls home, or breeding-place or mart. The old syllabic division must have been Fouls-hame, the final syllable becoming shortened into "ham," with the first letter silent, pronounced like urn, as may now often be noticed in words ofthat termination. A further shortening appears in 1504, — how extensively practised is uncertain, — in a Latin inscription on a monumental stone in the floor of the church of Repps, Norfolk county, which, translated, is, "Pray for the soul of Mr. Thomas Folsham, Baccalaureate of the Chapel." (Hist, of Norfolk Co., vol. xi, p. 182.) This last mode of spelling appears on modern maps of England, designating the town ; but everywhere it is now written Folsom by those bearing the name.
?In regard to the pronunciation of this word, it is now generally pronounced by the family quite like wholesome. The writer has never known but one exception. And we suggest that this is a preservation of the old way of pronouncing the name : that in the first syllable, "Fouls," the diphthong "ou" was sounded as in "souls," "poultry," &c. Certain it is that this old spelling — fouls (or foules) — of our modern word "fowls" occurs in Chaucer, as in his "House of Fame," and in his "Legend of Nine Good Women," --
”As this foule, when hit, beheld.”
”I hear the foules sing.”

Our suggestion is, moreover, fully borne out by similar phenomena of pronunciation in modern times. We hear " bowling-alley" (once written ’bouling-alley’ , and the sphere or ball, boule) pronounced in two ways, with the first syllable like "ow" in howl and in the drinking-vessel bowl. "Johnson, Elphinstone, and Perry declare for the former, — i. e., as in howl; Sheridan, Scott, Rennell, and Smith pronounce it like hole. Garrick corrected Walker for pronouncing it like 'howl.’” (Early English Pronun., vol. I. p. 152.) Even the pronunciation of the word, when written as Dea. John Folsom wrote it, "Fullsom," has authority in the old pronunciation of the word "Cowper" like that of wound, a hurt, as now heard, with the ‘ou’ as in "group," or, possibly, nearer the sound of o-oo, the sound of the ‘ow’ in "Cowper," as in howl, being "given it only by those who do not know the family.",,

John married Mary GILMAN on 4 Oct 1636 in Hingham, Norfolk, England. Mary (daughter of Edward GILMAN and Mary CLARK) was born about 1615 in Hingham, Norfolk, England; died about 1692 in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Immigrant?: Y
• Baptism: 6 Aug 1615, Hingham, Norfolk, England
• Migration: 26 Apr 1638, “Diligent”

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Mary Gilman, bpt 1615 in Hingham, Norfolk, England, daughter of Edward Gilman, the immigrant. She married in Hingham in 1636 John Folsom, emigrated with him and her parents in 1638, settled initially in Hingham, then they all went to Exeter, NH; she died in 1691.

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Will proved 7 Jun 1627 at Hingham, naming his sons, John, Adam, and Peter.

Adam married Agnes SMITH in 1614 in Hingham, Norfolk, England. Agnes was born in 1593 in Hingham, Norfolk, England; died in 1627 in Hingham, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Immigrant?: Y
• Baptism: 20 Apr 1587, Hingham, Norfolk, England
• Migration: 26 Apr 1638, “Diligent”
• Residence: 1647, Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire

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Edward emigrated with his wife Mary Clark, six children and three servants. Edward was born about 1587 in Hingham ENG, s/o Edward Gilman born about 1557. Mary Clark was a daughter of John and Elizabeth Clark of Hingham ENG, and was born 1590. Only five children are listed under Edward in the passenger list because his eldest daughter Mary was by 1638 the wife of John Folsom (below). Other than daughters Lydia and Sarah, who married Daniel Cushing and John Leavitt respectively, much of the family did not reside long in Hingham MA and eventually settled around Exeter NH. Edward (Sr.) moved to Rehoboth, Bristol MA in 1643 and to Ipswich MA soon after, where he was in 1647. After that to Exeter NH where he died on 22 Jun 1655. His widow Mary returned to Hingham MA to live with daughter Lydia and her husband Daniel Cushing. Mary died 22 Jun 1681 at Hingham (her sister Rebecca, who died in 1637, was the first wife of the Joseph Peck who was also on the Diligent).
Children of Edward and Mary (Clark) Gilman:
1. Mary bp. 6 Aug 1615 Hingham, Norfolk; d. 1690 Exeter NH. Married John Folsom of Hingham, Norfolk 4 Oct 1636. They had seven children.
2. Edward bp. 23 Dec 1617 Hingham, Norfolk; d. 1653 lost at sea going back to England for machinery parts for his lumber mill. Married Elizabeth Smith, dau. of Richard of Ipswich MA, about 1637 in Ipswich MA. They moved to Exeter NH in 1647 and had three children.
3. Lydia bp. 1619 Hingham, Norfolk; d. 12 Mar 1688/89 Hingham MA. Married Daniel Cushing, s/o Matthew and Nazareth (Pitcher) Cushing, on 19 Jan 16444. They had six children.
4. Sarah bp. 19 Jan 162 22 Hingham, Norfolk; d. 26 May 1700 Hingham MA. Married John 'Deacon' Leavitt of Hingham MA on 16 Dec 1646. They had eight children.
5. John b. 10 Jan 1623/24 Hingham, Norfolk; d. 24 Jul 1708 Exeter NH. Married Elizabeth Trevorgye, dau. of James and Catherine (Shapleigh) Treworgye, on 20 Jun 1657 in Exeter NH. They had sixteen children.
6. Moses bp.11 Mar 1629/30 Hingham, Norfolk; d. 6 Aug 1702 Newmarket NH. Married Elizabeth Hersey, dau. of William and Elizabeth (___) Hersey, about 1658 in Hingham MA. They had ten children.
Sources: The Story of the Gilmans & a Gilman Genealogy - Constance Ames (1950)
http://homepages.rootsweb..com/~ski/scott/diligent.html
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They also had four sons born in England who died young: namely, twins Moses and Joshua baptized 15 September 1619 and buried 19 September 1619: Jeremy baptized 27 November 1628 and buried 19 August 1635. and Daniel baptized 29 August 1633, buried 21 April 1634.
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Time and weather has erased the location of his grave.

Ancestor of all the Gilmans in America. Came over on the ship "Diligent" in 163 8. Religious persecution, the cause which expelled the first emigrants from Old England, sent Edward Gilman and his family to Massachusetts; and from this one family has sprung a multitudinous progeny.

Edward married Mary CLARK on 3 Jun 1614 in Hingham, Norfolk, England. Mary (daughter of John CLARK and Elizabeth HOBSON) was born in 1590 in Hingham, Norfolk, England; died on 22 Jun 1681 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts; was buried in Hingham Cemetery, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Immigrant?: Y
• Migration: 26 Apr 1638, “Diligent”

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• Baptism: 1560, Besthorpe, Norfolk, England

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Had a home in Hingham and lands in Besthorpe.«s1 30:211»

Adam married Grace in 1586 in Hingham, Norfolk, England. Grace was born in 1564 in County Norfolk, England; died on 20 Oct 1630 in Hingham, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 20 Apr 1557

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Ancestor of President Abraham LINCOLN through daughter Bridget
Ancestor of President Gerald Ford though son Edward
Ancestor of President George Herbert Walker BUSH through daughter Mary.

Edward married Mary HAWES in ?. Mary was born about 1561 in Caston, Norfolk, England; died on 9 Mar 1618 in Caston, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Questions: Gateway ancestor?

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s/o Thomas Clarke & Elizabeth Egglesfield.

John married Elizabeth HOBSON in 1585 in Hingham, Norfolk, England. Elizabeth (daughter of James HOBSON and Isabel OVERTON) was born on 19 Dec 1564 in Hingham, Norfolk, England; died on 11 Apr 1602 in Hingham, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]