Folger (mtDNA)
Contents
Status summary
As of February 24, 2023
- Page created for Dorcas Folger.
- recruitment of individuals who are mtDNA descendants of Dorcas. Folks who are mtDNA descendants are encouraged to contact MayflowerDNA1620@gmail.com
Biography
First Generation
Dorcas Folger, daughter of Peter Folger and Mary Morrill[1] was born Plymouth Aug 1645 and died there aft Jul 1712. She married Charlestown 12 Feb 1674/5 Joseph Pratt and they had nine children: Mary (1675), Joseph (1676), Bethia (1679/80), Benjamin (1681/2), Dorcas (1683-1683), Phineas (1684), Joshua (1686), Lydia (1688-1694) Sarah (1690).
Second Generation
Mary Pratt was born Nantucket 16 Sep 1675 and died prob. Dudley bef 6 Aug 1746. She married (intentions Charlestown & Lynn 25 Oct 1707) Joseph Edmunds and they had seven children: Hannah (1708/9), John (1711 d.y.), Joseph (1714), William (1716), Mary (1719), Sarah (c1721) and Benjamin (c1724).
Bethia Pratt was born Charlestown 11 Feb 1679/80 and died Nantucket 19 Jun 1741. She married Nantucket abt 1701 Sampson Cartwright and they had six children: Phineas (c1701 d.y.), Alice (1702), Dorcas (1703 prob. d.y.), Hazadiah (c1707), Mary (1710 d.y.) and Thomas (1712 d.y.).
Sarah Pratt was baptized Charlestown 19 Oct 1690 and died Nantucket 4 Jun 1762. She married twice, first Nantucket 20 Jan 1714/5 Jeremiah Coleman and second Nantucket 7 Feb 1739/1740 John Renuff (no children). By her first husband Sarah had six children: Peter (1716), Lydia (1717/8), Sylvanus (1720-1736), Joanna (1722), Enoch (1724/5) and Jeremiah (1729).
Third Generation
- ↑ See https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/288553/who-was-mary-morrill-ca-1617-1704-m-peter-folger for a discussion about Mary's unknown parentage and emigration to New England.
mtDNA Results V
One matrilineal descendant of Dorcas has posted on WikiTree where they have taken a HVRI & HVRII mtDNA test at FTDNA and was predicted to fall under Haplogroup V. Other matrilineal descendants are encouraged to contact MayflowerDNA1620@gmail.com
Lineage of tester
One individual claiming to be a matrilineal descendant of Dorcas Folger has posted on WikiTree their lineage and their mtDNA result.
Dorcas Folger (1645-p1712)
Mary Pratt (1675-b1746)
Hannah Edmunds (1708/9-c1739)
Lois Nowell (c1738- )
Meriam Bacon (c1764-1862)
Eda Atwood (1798-1874)
Harriet N. Folger (1822-1897)
Ellen Marie Severance (1859-1947)
Gladys Ellen Smith (1893-1993)
Esther Marion Mills (1913-1989)
mother of tester
tester
References and External Links
- Wakefield, Robert S., ed. Mayflower Families through Five Generations:Vol. 8: Degory PriestGeneral Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA 1994
- Lovelace, Jayne Pratt, The Pratt Directory. Rev. ed. Chandler, Ariz.: Ancestor House, 1995
