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A Genealogy of the Folsom Family Gc M. 11. 929.2 P7304C 1281086 GENEALOGY COLLECTION ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 01239 7706 lO -^ CD < < o w" o o o DCo : A GENEALOGY ^ OF THE FOLSOM FAMILY: JOHN FOLSOM AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 1615-1882. BY JACOB CHAPMAN, A. M. CONCORD, K H. PRINTED BY THE KEPUBLICAX PRESS ASSOCIATION". 1882. 1281086 PREFACE ^x In early life I loved the society of aged people, and com- mitted to writing many facts relating to our family. After- ward, during a residence of thirty years outside of my native state, I learned to value these records, and enlarged them from time to time. The secretary of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, John W. Dean, Esq., suggested to me the idea of including in these records, so far as possible, all the known descendants of our ancestor, John Foulsam ; and I soon found others willing to aid in the difficult work of collecting materials to be published and preserved. To none am I more indebted than to the collections of the late Judge John Kelley, published in the Exeter News-Letter from 1S38 to 1S50. Edward P. Coffin, Esq., late of Skowhegan, Me., the Rev. Moses Folsom, late of Effingham, deceased, Charles Burleigh, of Portland, author of the Burleigh Geneatogy, Joseph Foster, of the U. S. Navy, and many others, whose names will be found in the fol- lowing pages, deserve the thanks of the family for their contri- butions to the work. Of the imperfections of this work none can be more sensible than the writer ; but after so many years of toil, it seems best to offer the results of his researches to the family, who can never know the amount of time and labor he has spent on it. The names of many will not be found on these pages, because they would not take the trouble to send me their records. I do not know as they belong to our family, although I have found none of the name, except in the Southern states, who can trace their origin to any other than our ancestor, John Folsom^ It has been impossible to fix all the dates exactly correct. Many 4 PREFACE. have been careless in copying their records ; and when records differ, I have not often any means of correcting the errors^ and deciding which is the true record. When I have found evidence of an error, I have corrected it. Some will be disajDpointed that they and their friends receive "no more extended notice in this work. Had I given full bio- graphical sketches of all the good people named in this volume, I should have madej'fz'e volumes instead of one. Would those ^who complain be willing to pay their proportion oi Jive times the expense ? Besides, if they are able and vv'illing to pay five times what I ask for this volume, the expense of such a large work would put it beyond the reach of hundreds who would gladly pay for this volume, and highly value it. So I have ibeen obliged to abridge many interesting sketches that I have in my possession, and have not obtained others that I might have procured. It would be interesting to trace back our family into the place from which they received their surname—Folsham—in Norfolk county, England ; but more than one hundred years ago the records of that old church and parish were destroyed by fire, so that manv old families, descended from citizens of that place, are unable to trace their ancestry. Our ancestors left Folsham some centuries before John Folsham came to America. After long and perplexing study of the records of families and of chvnxhes, of towns and of counties, I have succeeded in trac- ing many of the descendants of Israel"^ and Nathaniel^'^ whose connection with their ancestors, we supposed, had been lost beyond recovery. Many of the earlier generations would re- ceive more notice, as they really deserved ; but I cannot repro- duce the records which have been lost. It might be interesting to some to know the authorities upon which I have founded some of the statements which are con- tained in this book, and the long and laborious processes by which I have reached the conclusions found on these pages ; but it would require much more space and labor to describe and refer to all these authorities, and to explaiii all the evidences which have led me to the conclusions that I joresent here. The majority of readers, I presume, would not read all these par- ticulars, or would not thank me for them, if they did. PREFACE, 5 The introduction was prepared by Rev. N. S. Folsom, d. d. (now of Lawrence, Mass.), for the article upon the "Folsom Family " in The New England Historic- Genealogical Reg- ister^ in April, 1S76, which was reprinted in a pamphlet. I much regret that he has not been able to continue his valuable assistance in the remainder of the work. In the body of this work I make use of the materials collected by Dr. Folsom and Judge Kelly so frequently that I do not often use quotation marks when I copy their language. J. CHAPMAN. Exeter, N. H., September, 18S2. INTRODUCTION. BY REV. N. S. FOLSOM, D.D., LAWRENCE, MASS. On the 26th of April, 163S, the ship ''Diligent, of Ipswich," Eng., 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, num- bering 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. (1633-37), consisting often families and five single persons (in all, forty-nine), who had been their friends and neighbors in old Hingham. Among those now emigrating were John Foul- sham,* of Hingham, then twenty-three or twenty-four years of * As to the original derivation of the name Foulsham, Hon. George Folsom, in one of the MSS. left by him, says, —"It arose, upon the adoption of surnames in England, from the town of Foulsham, a village in the county of Norfolk, England [six or eight miles north of Hing- ham], in which county the family was seated for many centuries, pos- sessing estates in fifteen different places." Thus, John of Foulsham became John Foulsham. 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 " FuUsom" in 1709; and it is signed " Foullsam in his last will — J715. In one instance, in the Hingham town records, it is spelt " Fulsham," but always afterward " Foulsham." In the Exe- '^^'''^ ter records it is uniformly written " Folsom" from the year 1659, one exception in i68r, when the town clerk wrote " Foulshame." In the records ot 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 doubt- less spelt " Foulshame," its etymological significance being the/^w/'j home, or breeding-place or mart. The old syllabic division must have — — 8 INTRODUCTION. 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 Gihnan, of Hingham), three younger brothers (Edward, not quite twenty- one years old, John, and Moses), two younger sisters (Sarah, and Lydia who married Daniel Gushing — 1645), and three servants of the family, were fellow-passengers. The rector of the parish, Rev. Robert Peck, with his family, consisting of wife, two children, and two servants, also formed part of the company. The immediate occasion of their departure seems to have been trouble in ecclesiastical matters. Their rector, doubt- less with the sympathy and aid of most of those constituting the emigrating party, had pulled down the rails of chancel and been Fouls-hame, the final syllable becoming shortened into "ham," with the first letter silent, pronounced like 21711, as may now often be noticed in words of that 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 Fol- sham, 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 Folsoj/i by those bearing the name. In regard to the pronunciation of this word, it is now generally pro- nounced by the family quite like w/iolesojne. 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 mod- ern 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 writ- ten bouling-aWty, and the sphere or ball, boule) pronounced in two ways, with the first syllable like " ow " in howl and in the drinking-ves- sel bowl.
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