Born ‎1613 Hingham, Norfolk, England‎
From RIchard and Kathy Pratt wayman's genealogy: He was elected to office in 1645 in Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA.35 He was a selectman, one of those chosen to order the affairs of the town. ? He served in the military in 1645 in Hingham, , MA.38 He was a member of the Hingham militia. In the same year he was implicated in the Anthony Eames affair, Eames having been appointed Captain of the military company by the government, was rejected by the townspeople, who elected Bozoan Allen. This result caused John Folsom (Foulsham) with others to be fined twenty pounds, but his fine was later remitted. Anecdote: 1675, Exeter, Rockingham Co., NH.39 One of the many difficulties that faced the new immigrants were the presence of Indians. In 1675 three Indians by the names of John Sampson, Cromwell, and John Linde placed themselves in ambush in the woods near the road leading to Hampton. Soon afterward John Robinson, a blacksmith made his appearance with his son. The Indians shot the elder Robinson dead. The son, upon hearing the shots ran into a swamp and fled to Hampton where he reported the news. About the same time Robinson was shot, John Folsom was riding on horseback along the same road. He heard the shots and discovered the three Indians on their bellies creeping towards him. He sped up his horse and escaped. This was just one of many occurrences the towns people had with the Indians. The outbreak of these occurrences ended in 1676. Among those now emigrating were John Foulsham of Hingham then twenty-three or twenty-four years of 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 Gilman, of Hingham), three younger brothers (Edward, not quite twenty-one years old, John and Moses) two younger sisters (Sarah and Lydia who married Daniel Cushing, - 1645), and three servants of the family, were fellow-passengers. The rector of the parish, Rev. Robert peck, with his family, consisting of his wife, two children, and servants, also formed part of the company. The immediate occasion of their departure seems to have been trouble in ecclesiastical matters. Their rector, doubtless with the sympathy and aid of most of those constituting the emigrating party, had pulled down the rails of the chancel and alter, and leveled the latter a foot below the church, as it remains to this day. Being prosecuted by Bishop Wren, he left the kingdom, together with his friends, who sold their estates at half their real value, promising to remain with them always. The party having landed at Boston, Massachusetts, August 10, 1638, immediately proceeded to their place of destination, about fourteen miles south-east from Boston. An Adam Foulsham, probably a son of the Adam who died in 1627, and a cousin, if not brother of John Foulsham, came from Hingham, Eng. To Hingham, Mass., in about 1639, but returned and died - 1670. Their rector remained about three years, when, hearing that the bishops were deposed, he returned to England in 1641 (the date given by Daniel Cushing), resumed his rectory, and died in 1656. Edward Gilman had with others obtained a grant of land eight miles square in a place now called Rehoboth, near the Rhode Island line, in 1641. In 1647 his name is recorded in Ipswich. Soon afterward, he went to Exeter, N.H., where his sons were already established in business. John Folsom and wife, with their children, followed her father and mother to Exeter, probably no earlier than 1650, the first authentic record of their residence in that town being in the year 1655..." John and his family first settled in Hingham, Norfolk, Massachusetts. He was granted four acres of land which abutted upon the "playne" eastward, and upon the "common" westward. With Captain Joshua Hobart he had liberty from the inhabitants of thet own to utilize certain streams for the purpose of erecting a sawmill, or mills; he was a member of the Hingham militia, and in 1645 he was a selectman, one of those chosen to order the affairs of the town. He was representative from Hingham in 1654. They then moved to Exeter, NH, where they remained. He and Mary had ten children, and she died about 1692 in Exeter. John had died in 1681, also in Exeter. Their children were: John (2), Samuel, Peter, Nathaniel, Israel, Israel, Peter, Mary, Ephraim and Abigail. The drawing at right, above, is of the Exeter, NH, Congregational church as it used to be.. With a family of this size, the Folsom family had a good beginning toward being very large. I think it is amazing that only two of their children died young. In that time, children did not always survive under the best of conditions, and theirs was definitely not the best of conditions, at least at first. The Folsoms arrived here less than 20 years after the first voyage of the Mayflower, so they lived under pretty primitive conditions for some years, and worked hard for what they had. At a Folsom family reunion a memorial was dedicated to these pioneers, with the following words: "... the triangle at the juncture of Hampton and Kensington Roads was chosen as the place to erect the memorial, as it was a part of the land grant (1644) of Lieutenant Peter Folsom, fifth son of the pioneer John, and as John Folsom was one of three in the year 1668 to lay out the road between the two meeting houses of Exeter and Hampton." "The inscription is to be on a bronze tablet set in a large oblong slab of granite, (which was) once the door rock to the home of James Folsom of the fifth generation, a Minute Man in the Revolutionary War, who is buried in the Folsom burying around on the estate of Wendell B. Folsom." A Colony becomes a Nation The Folsom family who originated in the New England states has had many important men in business, in education, in politics, in religion, in war and in the formation of this great country. One man who was a colorful one was Nathaniel Folsom (b. 1726), the great-grandson of John and Mary Folsom. Only fourteen years old when his father died, Nathaniel began business life early, and succeeded well at it. He also took military training, as was the custom of the time. In 1755, on the Crown Point Expedition of the French and Indian Wars, he commanded one of ten companies which marched through the woods to Albany and on to Fort Edward. His troops, well versed in ranger tactics, surprised the French troops of Baron Dieskau and, with the loss of only six men, they dispersed the enemy and siezed their baggage and ammunition. Nathaniel went on to become a colonel in the New Hampshire militia under Royal Governor John Wentworth. His royal commission was revoked when, following the raids at Fort William and Mary in December of 1774, he gathered his troops and marched to Portsmouth to guard the captured cannon and small arms until they could be transported upriver to Durham. He was active in town affairs, serving as town meeting moderator and as a delegate to the first Provincial Congress, which met in Exeter on July 21, 1774. this group elected him as one of two delegates to represent New Hampshire at the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia. He was elected to this post two more times in subsequent years, and Exeter continued to send him to the Provincial Congresses. On May 29, 1775, following the alarm at Lexington and Concord, the New Hampshire Provincial Congress made Folsom commander of the re-organized New Hampshire forces. meanwhile, John Stark, who was at Cambridge with the New Hampshire men, had been named to the same post by the Massachusetts Provincial Congress! This conflict endured until the Continental Army was formed several months later, at which time a third man, John Sullivan of Durham, was appointed to command the New Hampshire forces. Folsom remained commander of troops within New Hampshire, tending to the recruitment of men and the gathering of supplies. In May, 1775, Folsom was appointed to the New Hampshire Committee of Safety. He became a close political associate of Weare, Peabody and Bartlett. The following January he was elected second justice of the Court of Common Pleas for Rockingham County. When the state constitution was adopted in 1783, he was promoted to chief justice, a post he held until his death on May 26, 1790. Folsom served in several constitutional conventions. Elected president pro tempore of the last Constitutional Convention, he had the honor of signing the announcement of the adoption of this Constitution in 1783. Nathaniel Folsom lived to see the country his grandparents had hewn from the wilderness become an independent nation, and died knowing he had an active part in shaping her future. This page just touches on the participation of Nathaniel in the rebellion, and to read more about that, you can go to here. According to the DAR (Daughters of the Revolution) Patriot Index, there were 36 Folsoms who served in the Revolutionary Army. They came from New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New York in the northern states, and they came from North Carolina and Georgia in the south. Folsoms fought in every major conflict before the revolutionary war, and helped tame the wilderness so their families would have a safe place in which to live. They were one of the important early families of this country, and have been recognized as such. In the third generation of Folsoms in America, Israel Folsom, the great-grandson of John Folsom, along with several other brothers, must have felt that the civilization of the New England area was closing in. These brothers, either singly, or together, all ended up in North Carolina, or other southern states. I don't find any records yet to show when this took place, but Israel's first son, Nathaniel, was born in Rowan County, NC in 1756. Israel would have been about 25 years old at that time. This portion of the family is about to embark on a great adventure, so "turn" to the next page, and we'll get started! <mailto:webmaster@@marciesalaskaweb.com> <mailto:webmaster@@marciesalaskaweb.com> <index.html> <index.html> On to the Choctaw Folsoms! Or, back to LIST <familyopening.htm> Copyright 2002, all rights reserved James and Marcia Foley Page design: <air.htm> <air.htm> Some graphics by: <http://www.rhio.gillis.net> <http://www.rhio.gillis.net> John Folsom is the first generation in the "Genealogy of the Folsom Family 1638 -1938 by Elizabeth Knowles Folsom (in two volumes). John's vital statistics and history and the record of his childrens' baptisms are found on pages 1 - 37 of this book.

Born ‎06 Aug 1615 Hingham, Norfolk, England, baptised ‎06 Aug 1615 Hingham,Norfolk,Eng, died ‎15 Jun 1681 Rockingham Co., NH‎, 65 years, ‎1st marriage to: John Beal (Beales), ‎2nd marriage to: John Foulsham (Folsom, ‎3rd marriage to: John Foulsham
Genealogy of the Folsom family : a revised and extended edition, including English records 1638-1938 History of Newfields, New Hampshire, 1638-1911 By James Hill Fitts, Nathan Franklin Carter Published 1912 The Rumford Press pp. 523-535 Maine: A History By Louis Clinton Hatch, Maine Historical Society, Maine Historical Society Published by The American historical society, 1919 pg. 62 This is a work in progress, there are mistakes. Please check other sources before accepting my information. I update the RootsWeb information often. I have tried to find the names of my female ancestors, some lost to history. It takes a HEAP of research into allied families to (sometimes) find their original birth name since many were married several times. Please let me know if you see any familiar There is usually a complete tree posted in a family, if you go back far enough. Sometimes it takes charting out an entire family just to figure out where my family fits in (or DOESN'T!). I start by getting clues on the web, then researching them further in books and other sources. Of course, I haven't gotten to everyone, this is an organic process, I am constantly adding names, correcting, deleting, and supplementing information. Check b I think Ancestry incorporates our trees into their "unknown" contributor trees, so outdated information may be all over the place. Please double-check all information before you use it. This tree is on the Internet to share, feel free to use it as you need for your research. The more information we get out there, the better for all of our research! Ancestral File Number: 3G45-Z5 Seal to Parents: 28 APR 1960 L