Lt Peter FOLSOM

1649 - 1718  (68 years)

• Name	Peter FOLSOM
  Prefix	Lt
  Born	3 Apr 1649	Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts
  Gender	Male
  Baptism	8 Apr 1649	Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts
  Military Event	Militia
  Military Flag	Y
  Died	5 Mar 1718	Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire
  Person ID	I11108	Main
  Last Modified	29 Jul 2017

  
  

  Father	John FOLSOM,   b. 2 Dec 1613, Hingham, Norfolk, England ,   d. 27 Dec 1681, Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire  (Age 68 years)
  Mother	Mary GILMAN,   b. Abt 1615, Hingham, Norfolk, England ,   d. Abt 1692, Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire  (Age ~ 77 years)
  Married	4 Oct 1636	Hingham, Norfolk, England
  Family ID	F2356	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Susanna MILLS,   b. 1651, Wells, York, Maine ,   d. 1717, Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire  (Age 66 years)
  Married	6 May 1678	Maine   [1]
  Children	1. Mary FOLSOM,   b. Abt 1690, Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire + 2. Peter FOLSOM,   d. ? + 3. John FOLSOM,   b. Abt 1685, Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire ,   d. 1757, Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire  (Age ~ 72 years) + 4. Elizabeth FOLSOM,   d. 8 Apr 1756 + 5. Susanna FOLSOM,   b. 27 Sep 1682, Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire ,   d. May 1746, Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire  (Age 63 years) + 6. Benjamin FOLSOM,   b. 1696,   d. 1752  (Age 56 years)
  Last Modified	7 Nov 2023
  Family ID	F1950	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 3 Apr 1649 - Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts Baptism - 8 Apr 1649 - Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts Married - 6 May 1678 - Maine  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  He lived on the Hampton Road east of the village of Exeter on the southwest corner where the road leaves the Hampton Road and goes to Kensington. It has generally been in the possession of the Folsom family. He was a shrewd and active businessman of affairs and acquired much property. He was known as Lieutenant Peter in the records of the town church. —— Lt Peter Folsom was given “Credit for Military Service” Oct 24, 1676, in John Hull’s ledger. (Bodge’s “Soldiers in King Phillip’s War,” p 449) He was “Ensign” in 1692, and was also Lieutenant. From Mar 5 to April 2, 1696, he was in Captain Kinsley Hall’s “first company of militia in Exeter.” (History of Exeter, p 218). —— The home of Peter Folsom was at the corner of Hampton and Kensington roads (now High Street), on the site of the present house of Charles W. Barker. It was through Lt. Peter Folsom’s field that this road to Kensington was laid out in 1704. The memorial to John Folsom and his wife Mary Gilman was erected on a triangular plot of land at the juncture of these roads, the land originally a part of the homestead of Lt Peter Folsom. http://interactive..com/10263/dvm_GenMono000085-00041-0/63?backurl=http://person..com/tree/1122756/person/-1992500777/facts/citation/5427909523/edit/record

  
  

• Sources

  [S1] New England Historical and Genealogical Register, The, (NEHGS, Boston, MA), 30:213.