Patience Harker

Patience FOLGER - b. about 1653, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes Co., MA; d. Jan. 1716/7, Nantucket, Nantucket Co., MA. She married John Harker.

Patience is said to have been married second in Mar. 1717/8 to James GARDNER, but New England Marriages Prior to 1700 declares this to be "wrong." Daughter of Peter FOLGER and Mary MORRILL.

Children of John and Patience Harker

  1. Sarah - b. Sep. 21, 1681, Boston, Suffolk Co., MA; d. Jun. 13, 1754, Canaan, Litchfield Co., CT. Married Richard STEVENS.

2. John - b. Jul. 21, 1684, Boston, Suffolk Co., MA.
3. ? Patience - b. 1686. A daughter named Patience appears in some compilations, unsupported by evidence.
4. Ebenezer - b. Feb. 26, 1688/9, Boston, Suffolk Co., MA; d. Jun. 1, 1765, Harkers Island, Carteret Co., NC. His will was dated Sep. 4, 1762 and proved in June 1765 Court of Carteret Co., NC, naming his three younger sons and two married daughters. Inventory was recorded Sep. 1765 listing the usual estate items and "one English Dicksonary." Ebenezer purchased Harkers Island (then Crany Island) on Sep. 15, 1730 from the heirs of Thomas POLLACK for £400 and a twenty foot boat. He sold half the island (about 1200 acres) to his nephew John STEVENS for £300, but with so many use restrictions attached that John sold his share back for £200. Various records indicate that he was a mariner, ship captain, whaler and ship builder. On Jun. 8, 1750, he was appointed sheriff of Carteret County, serving through 1758. For further details on his life and family, refer to Ebenezer Harker, Island Namesake, by Robert G. Lewis (1999, Carteret County Historical Society, Inc., Morehead City, NC 28557). Ebenezer was married about 1720 to Elizabeth (d. about May 1777, Carteret Co., NC), said to be the daughter of either Henry BROOKS or John BROOKS. The will of Elizabeth HARKER, dated Apr. 12, 1777 and proved Jun. 9, 1777 in Carteret Co., NC, names sons Ebenezer, James, and Zachariah; daughter Sarah FRESHWATER; and John BROOKS; with executors being sons James and Zachariah and witnesses being Joseph YEOMAN, Sarah HARKER, and Elias REES. Children of Ebenezer and Elizabeth HARKER: John married Anne SHACKELFORD; Sarah married first William FRESHWATER, and second Benjamin WEEKS; Ebenezer married first Sarah FULLER, and second Clarissa FULFORD; James married Sarah TINKER; Mehipsabeth married Nathaniel YEOMANS; and Zachariah married Ruth CHADWICK.
5. Hepsibah - b. Jun. 27, 1691, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes Co., MA; d. Dec. 30, 1773. She was married on Nov. 24, 1711 in Nantucket, Nantucket Co., MA to Jonathan COFFIN (b. Aug. 28, 1692, Nantucket, Nantucket Co., MA; d. Feb. 5, 1773, Nantucket, Nantucket Co., MA), son of James COFFIN and Mary SEVERANCE. Children of Hepshiba and James COFFIN: Joshua married Beulah GARDNER; Susanna married Robert COFFIN; James; Henry; Daniel; Anna; Jonathan; and Mary.

GEDCOM Note

Biography ==Patience Folger, daughter of Peter and Mary Folger. was born <ref name="VFRust">Virginiarese Folger Rust. Folger Genealogy. Richmond, IN1959 Available at Famliy Search.orgFolger Genealogy</ref><ref name="HMGrover"> Harriet M. Grover. Highlights of the Floger Family with a Brief Genealogy Berkeley, CA 1939. Available at FamilySearch.org. Floger Family</ref>

She married Ebenezer Harker<ref name="VFRust"/>
She married james Gardner, son of Richard and Mary Gardner,<ref name="VFRust"/><ref name="HMGrover"/>

Birth

:About 1695 wild guess based on siblings dob and marriage date

Sources

• http://www.bakerancestry.org/public/pedigree/3694.htm* Vital records of Nantucket, Massachusetts to the year 1850, Vol 2 Page 120.* Vital records of Nantucket, Massachusetts to the year 1850, AppendixPage 126.
• Starbuck, Alexander (1924), Pg 756-757.
• Starbuck, Alexander (1924), Pg 758.

See Also ==This is a different version of her parents, it seems that it may be a misreading of an earlier doucument.Patience Harker Folger, The daughter of Ebenezer Harker and Patience Folger was born in Nantucket<ref>Vital records of Nantucket, Massachusetts to the year 1850 Volume 2,(NEHGS, Boston, Mass.,1925) pg. 120</ref> and died there in January 1717.<ref>Vital records of Nantucket, Massachusetts to the year 1850 Volume 5,(NEHGS, Boston, Mass.,1925) pg. 313</ref> She married James Gardner, in Boston, Massachusetts, on October 11, 1711.<ref>Massachusetts Vital Records Boston 1630-1849, (Holbrook Research Institute, Oxford, Mass. 1985) pg. 36</ref>"By his 3rd wife, Patience Folger Harker, d. of Eban and Patience. No chn." Nantucket Historical Association, Barney Genealogical Record, (http://www.nantuckethistoricalassociation.net/bgr/BGR-o/p263.htm#i7...

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