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Female Experience Folger Click to view Experience Folger in the family tree

Experience was born in Martha's Vineyard, Ma.1   Experience's father was Peter Folger and her mother was Mary Morrill.  Her paternal grandparents were John (Foulger) Folger and Meribell Meribah Gibbs. She had two brothers and six sisters, named Eleazor, John, Abiah (Abia), Bethiah, Bethshua, Dorcas, Joanna and Patience.  She died on June 6th, 1739 in Nantucket, Nantucket County, Ma.2 


Experience's family with John Swain

‌Experience and John were married in a religious ceremony in Nantucket, Nantucket County, Ma.3   They had five sons and four daughters, named William, Stephen, Eliakim, George, John, Catharine, Ruth, Hannah and Priscilla.

1 The History of Nantucket @ p. 741 (no date)
2 New England Historic Genealogical Society Register @ 16:272 (6 mo. 4, 1739)
3 The History of Nantucket @ p. 741
4 Vital Records of Nantucket Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Volume II (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, @ p. 574 (O.S.)
5 The History of Nantucket @ p. 814
6 The Coffin Family @ p. 185
7 New England Historic Genealogical Society Register @ 16:272
8 New England Historic Genealogical Society Register @ 16:272 July 1862

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