Col Jeremiah FOLSOM

1719 - 1802  (82 years)

• Name	Jeremiah FOLSOM  [1]
  Prefix	Col
  Birth	23 Jul 1719	Newmarket, Rockingham, New Hampshire
  Baptism	25 Jul 1719
  Gender	Male
  ARVT	Y
  DAR#	A040254
  DNA	Y
  HIST	Landmarks in Ancient Dover, New Hampshire by Mary P. Thompson, Durham, N.H. ©1892, Printed by the Republican Press Association, Concord, N.H. LANDMARKS: Hull’s Meadow NAMES: HULL, Benjamin; RAND, John; WADLEY, Robert; HILTON, Richard; DARLING, Thomas; FROST, John; FROST, Nathaniel; TUTTLE, Nicholas; FOLSOM, Jeremiah, Jr.; TASH, John; TASH, Thomas; DAVIS, David 3d; STEVENS, Jonathan; Hull’s Meadow. So named from Benjamin Hull, who had a grant adjoining the Pascassic mill in 1659. (See Indian Graves.) Benjamin Hull of Dover, Dec. 12, 1678, conveyed to John Rand 120 acres of land in Dover, bounded N.E. by Lamperel river, and S.W. by the Dover line. John Rand of ye township of Dover, in ye Co of Portsmouth, conveyed to Robert Wadley of Dover, Aug. 26, 1679, "120 acres of land and meadow ground, lying by Lamperell river, between ye Island Falls and ye second Falls of ye aforesd river, commonly called by ye name of Benjamin Hull’s meadow." The Hull land was acquired Jan. 12, 1695, by Richard Hilton, who, Dec. 5, 1735, conveyed to Thomas Darling of Portsmouth 120 acres of upland and Meadow in Durham, beginning at a pitch-pine tree on or near the line between Durham and Exeter, thence up said line W. and by N. 170 rods to a black oak on said line or town bounds then north 160 rods to a hemlock on the bank of Lamperel river, then down said river as far as it bears east nearest, then E. and by N. six score rods to a pine , thence to ye pitch pine first mentioned, standing on ye town bounds, near to ye Indian graves. Thomas Darling of Durham, Oct. 27, 1742, out of love, good-will and affection to his well-beloved son-in-law, John Frost of Portsmouth, conveyed to said Frost one half of his homestead estate-- that is, half the upland he bought of Richard Hilton, except 40 acres then owned by Nathaniel Frost, together with one half of ye meadow commonly called Hull’s meadow. That same day Thomas Darling conveyed to his beloved son-in-law Nicholas Tuttle the other half of his homestead estate, and half of ye meadow commonly called hull’s meadow on the north side. Nicholas Tuttle conveyed his part to Jeremiah Folsom, Jr., Feb. 10, 1752. John Frost, Sept. 20, 1752, conveyed to Thomas and John Tash, both of Durham, a tract of upland and meadow in Durham, part of the land formerly granted to Benjamin Hull, bounded N. by Nathaniel Frost’s land, and S. and W. by that of Jonathan Stevens and David Davis ye 3d. The Tash land, between the Pascassic river and Lee Hook, is still pointed out. PG 110
  MILF	Y
  MILX	American Revolution - NH: Lt Col  [2]
  NTWY	Minuteman
  _UID	C1A673AD80154C1D8F45E5C38063DC4C0C76
  Death	1802	Newmarket, Rockingham, New Hampshire
  Burial	unknown
  Person ID	I4123	main
  Last Modified	29 Nov 2023

  
  

  Father	Jeremiah FOLSOM,   b. Abt 1680, Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire d. 8 Oct 1757, Newmarket, Rockingham, New Hampshire (Age ~ 77 years)
  Mother	Mary BASFORD,   b. 28 Aug 1687, Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire d. 8 Oct 1744, Newfields, Rockingham, New Hampshire (Age 57 years)
  Marriage	26 Jan 1709	Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire
  Family ID	F2345	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary HERSEY,   b. 1720, Newfields, Rockingham, New Hampshire d. 1806, Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire (Age 86 years)
  Marriage	28 Mar 1742
  Notes	Husband and wife are 3rd cousins.
  Children	1. Peter FOLSOM,   b. 3 Dec 1747, Lee, Strafford, New Hampshire d. Aug 1801, Small Point, Phippsburg, Sagadahoc, Maine (Age 53 years)   2. Josiah FOLSOM,   b. 20 Jun 1751, Newmarket, Rockingham, New Hampshire d. 1836, Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire (Age 84 years)
  Family ID	F1460	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Mar 2025

  
  

• Notes

  The battle of Lexington, on the 19th of April, 1775, aroused our people to a more vivid sense of their danger. Couriers bringing the startling news reached Newmarket about daybreak, April 2Oth. At once the drum beat to arms. In less than three hours minute-men were on the march for Boston. Tradition includes among those first to enlist the names of Colcord, Folsom, Hilton, and Pike. At Exeter they joined other volunteers under Capt. John Taylor Gilman. That night they reached, by way of Haverhill, Bragg's tavern, in Andover. On the night of the 21st they reached Cambridge, and were assigned quarters in the college buildings. http://files.usgwarchives.net/nh/rockingham/history/rockinghamco/chapter40.txt —— JEREMIAH FOLSOM TO NEW-HAMPSHIRE ASSEMBLY. New-Market, March 19, 1776. MAY IT PLEASE YOUR HONOURS: I ask leave to inform you that it was just intimated to me by a member of the honourable Court, that it was expected I should attend on a Committee appointed to sit on Tuesday, 19th March, instant, at Exeter; but for what purposes, I have not been made acquainted. I therefore should not have been prepared to answer any matters, could I have given myself the pleasure of attending on the honourable Committee. But I have the misfortune, from receiving such violent colds in attending in the late storms, to be confined to my house and bed, which has put it out of my power to have obeyed your Honours' citation, if I had received one, which I shall always esteem it my duty and pleasure readily to obey, although the complaints and allegations were as false and maliciously fabricated against me, as those that have lately been by a small number of disappointed, and, therefore, disaffected persons belonging to the Fifth Company, in Colonel Gillman' s Regiment, who have retarded and hindered the settlement of the whole regiment, and who, without your Honours' interposition, will continue the same. Confiding, therefore, in the known knowledge and justice of your Honours, in justifying the innocent when falsely accused, think myself happy that I am at the tribunal, and in the protection of this honourable Court; to whose determination and order I shall render the steadiest and firmest obedience, when it is signified to me, if God in his Providence shall admit me health and opportunity to fulfil it. I am, may it please your Honours, your Honours' most humble servant, JEREMIAH FOLSOM. To the Honourable Council and House of Representatives for the Colony of New-Hampshire. http://amarch.lib.niu.edu/islandora/object/niu-amarch%3A98621 —— Jeremiah Folsom was a delegate to the Convention in 1775 and a member of commission on supplies 1782.

  
  

• Sources

  [S126] P. Jastremski, pamjay2 gedcom file. [S24] Daughters of the American Revolution, A040254.