Peter Folger and Mary Morrill

Peter Folger went early from Watertown to Martha’s Vineyard, probably with Thomas Mayhew. He worked very hard in teaching the Indians as a successor to Mayhew. He also was one of the few settlers who worked equally hard at learning the Wampanoag language. He moved about 1663 to Nantucket as interpreter for Tristram Coffin. Peter married Mary Morrill in 1644, having bought her of Hugh Peters, to whom she was an indentured servant, and paid the sum of f20. which he very gallantly declared was the best appropriation of money he had ever made. Mary may have emmigrated with Hugh Peters from England. ^[1]