About Peter Folger

Peter Folger or Foulger was a poet and an interpreter of the American Indian language for the first settlers of Nantucket. He was instrumental in the colonization of Nantucket Island in the Massachusetts colony. He was the maternal grandfather of Benjamin Franklin.

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Occupation: translator
Citizenship: United States
Born: 1617
Died: 1690

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