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Morrill Surname Origin

Morrill Lineage
Mary Morrill 1620-1704

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Morrill Migration
Norfolk, England > Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts

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Mary Morrill, Bill's 8th & 9th Great-Grandmother
1620-1704
b. Norfolk, England
d. Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts

Founders Burial Ground
Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts

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Parents & Maternal Lineage TBD

Spouse: Peter Folger 1617-1690

Married: 1644

Children:

1. Joanna Folger 1644-1719
2. Eleazar Folger 1648-1716
3. Bethsua Folger 1651-1725
4. John Folger 1658-1732
5. Experience Folger 1663-1739
6. Abiah Lee Folger 1667-1752

 Noted in her Find a Grave memorial bio:

Maternal grandmother of Benjamin Franklin: Mary Morrill 1620-1704 > Abiah Lee Folger 1667-1752 > Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790  

Third great grandmother of Capt Mayhew Folger (1774-1828) who was the captain the ship Topaz when he rediscovered the Pitcairn Islands in 1808

5th great grandmother of James A. Folger(1835-1889), the founder of Folgers Coffee in San Francisco California. 

Mentioned by name in Chapter 24 of Herman Melville's "Moby Dick":

"No good blood in their veins? They have something better than royal blood there. The grandmother of Benjamin Franklin was Mary Morrel; afterwards, by marriage, Mary Folger, one of the old settlers of Nantucket, and the ancestress to a long line of Folgers and harpooneers-all kith and kin to noble Benjamin-this day darting the barbed iron from one side of the world to the other."

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Bibliography 

Ancestry ®. "Public Member Trees Database.” © 1997-2025 Ancestry®.  Ancestry.  ancestry.com/ Lawson-Robertson Family Tree. www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/10075800/family  User profile for William Harris Lawson, Jr., user Livingweb. Accessed 1 December 2025.

Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63676434/mary-folger: accessed December 1, 2025), memorial page for Mary Morrell Folger (1620–1704), Find a Grave Memorial ID 63676434, citing Founders Burial Ground, Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by Rosemarie Robson (contributor 50188319).

Geneanet. "Public Member Database." © 1996. Geneanet. en.geneanet.org Accessed 1 December 2025.

Google. "AI Overview." Search term, "Morrill Surname Origin." Google. 

https://www.google.com/search?q=Morrill+Surname+Origin  Accessed 1 December 2025.

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