Mayhew Folger (March 9, 1774 – September 1, 1828) was an American whaler who captained the sealing ship Topaz that rediscovered the Pitcairn Islands in...

Walter Folger Jr. (1765–1849), American politician William M. Folger (1844–1928), United States Navy rear admiral and grandson of Mayhew Folger Folger Shakespeare...

Rear Admiral William Mayhew Folger (19 May 1844 – 22 July 1928) was an officer in the United States Navy. He served in the American Civil War without...

the name Alexander Smith until he was discovered in 1808 by Captain Mayhew Folger of the American whaling ship Topaz. His children used the surname "Adams"...

continued under the auspices of Ned Young and John Adams until contacted by Mayhew Folger in 1808, by which time Adams was the only surviving mutineer. The earliest...

content creator James A. Folger, founder of the coffee company bearing his name Mayhew Folger, whaling captain Peter Folger, missionary Anna Gardner,...

Vineyard, Folger supported himself by teaching school and surveying land. He was hired by Governor Thomas Mayhew and his son Thomas Mayhew Jr. to convert...

Scotia (in present-day Canada) Mayhew Folger (1774–1828), American whaler who rediscovered the Pitcairn Islands Mayhew Foster (1911–2011), American soldier...

radar imaging satellites Topaz (ship), the sailing ship captained by Mayhew Folger that rediscovered Pitcairn Island Topaz (yacht), luxury motor yacht...

recovered from Pitcairn Island until 1808, when it was given to Captain Mayhew Folger, and then passed through several hands before reaching the National...

On 6 February 1808 the American sealer Topaz, commanded by Captain Mayhew Folger, arrived at Pitcairn Island to take on fresh water. There he found thirty-five...

player with the Detroit Tigers. Caroline McCullough Everhard, suffragist Mayhew Folger, ship captain and uncle of Lucretia Mott Bob Fothergill, MLB player...

send a boat on shore. Finally, the American sealing ship Topaz, under Mayhew Folger, became the first to visit the island, when the crew spent ten hours...

Bounty's Azimuth compass and Marine chronometer to Topaz's captain, Mayhew Folger. News of the discovery did not reach Britain until 1810, when it was...

relics of an earlier age was always at a premium, but Admiral William Mayhew Folger, a descendant of early settler Peter Foulger, left a bequest to the...

Among Kendal's Quaker residents were a former ship captain Mayhew Folger and family. Folger's sister, Anna, and her husband Thomas Coffin also intended...

Boston sealer Topaz, commanded by Captain Mayhew Folger of Nantucket, Massachusetts. Adams gave to Folger the Bounty's azimuth compass and marine chronometer...

Peter Folger in 1644. They lived in Watertown, Massachusetts before moving in 1660 to Martha's Vineyard, where he was acquainted with the Mayhews. He was...

not discovered until 1808 when the New England sealer Topaz (Captain Mayhew Folger) happened on the tiny uncharted island. By then, all of the mutineers...

Peter Folger, a missionary on Nantucket in the mid-1600s. Her cousin was Benjamin Franklin, one of the Framers of the Constitution, while other Folger relatives...

crew of a sealing ship from New England named the Topaz captained by Mayhew Folger landed on Pitcairn to take on water and they found that the inhabitants...

England many years later after an odyssey. The American ship's captain Mayhew Folger rediscovered Pitcairn Island in 1808 and was given the chronometer by...

(1857−1911), astronomer William M. Folger (1844–1928), United States Navy rear admiral and grandson of Mayhew Folger George L. Fox (1825–1877), comedian: 4426 ...

March 7 – Daniel Arnoldi, German Canadian physician (d. 1849) March 9 Mayhew Folger, American whaler, captain of Topaz, rediscovered Pitcairn Islands in...

March 7 – Daniel Arnoldi, German Canadian physician (d. 1849) March 9 Mayhew Folger, American whaler, captain of Topaz, rediscovered Pitcairn Islands in...

Mutiny on the Bounty, John Adams, remained alive on Pitcairn. Although Mayhew Folger aboard the American trading ship Topaz had paid a brief visit to the...

Native American literacy in the schools founded by Thomas Mayhew Jr. and taught by Peter Folger (the grandfather of Benjamin Franklin) was such that the...

Boston, Massachusetts on Christmas Day 1806, the youngest child of Anna Folger and Thomas Coffin, a merchant and former Nantucket ship captain. Wright...

The island was then ceded to British settler Thomas Mayhew in 1641. Upon receiving this land, Mayhew kept 1/10th for himself, and sold the remaining land...

In 1659 he led a group of investors that bought Nantucket from Thomas Mayhew for thirty pounds and two beaver hats. He became a prominent citizen of...