Lineage: The Fourth Generation

Note: With this generation we will leave the format of the Folsom Family Association site (with many thanks to Harry Folsom for the work he has done in putting this all together), since our line is not mentioned in their further line of descent, as it would make it all too confusing. We will keep the generation numbers, so the generations from John¹ Folsom will remain intact. Our lines will now commence, beginning again with the individual number of each person beginning again at one.

1. Israel Folsom, b. September 11, 1724 in Ashford, CT; d. before 1785 in Cole's Creek, Mississippi. He married Mary Chambers, b. 1733 in New Jersey, the daughter of Edmund and Mary Chambers; d. abt. 1776 at Ft. St. Stephens, at about age 43

Israel had the following children:

i. Nathaniel⁵ Folsom b. in Rowan County, NC May 17, 1756. Nathaniel died October 9, 1833 at Mountain Fork, Indian Territory. Nathaniel married two Choctaw princesses,  I-Ah-Ne-Cha and Ai-Ne-Chi-Hoyo.  By his marriage to these two sisters, Nathaniel had 24 children, 14 of them living to adulthood.

ii. Israel Folsom, b. 1758; died in 1776.

iii. Rhoda Folsom, b. about 1761.  

iv. Ebenezer Folsom, b. 1764; d. 1814; he married twice. He m. Ni-Ti-Ka; he m. Edith Smith?
Ebenezer and Ni-Ti-Ka had the following child:
     1. Sophia Folsom, b. ? m. Col. John Pitchlynn, who was an interpreter for President Washington for twenty-four years. 
            a. Hon. Peter P. Pitchlynn, called the "The Calhoun of the Choctaws", and it was said by some contemporary writers that he was the most handsome man that ever walked down the aisles of the Senate Chamber at Washington. 

v. Edmund Folsom, b. 1767, m. Choctaw and had several children. Not much known about them. 
     1. Jeremiah Folsom, b. Mississippi, m. Mary Nail in 1821. After he came to Indian Territory his family consisted of 12 children.
           a. Joseph (6) Pitchlynn Folsom was the oldest. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1854, and served part of his life as teacher among his people. It is said he began to write a genealogical record of his branch of the family but he died before it was completed and it was lost. He m. Seneca Indian, no children.
     2. unknown female Folsom, m. James Robinson, brother of Rev. Calvin Robinson. 
     3. Rev. Peter(6) Folsom was a Baptist minister, often sent to Washington as a delegate. 
    4. Watt(6) Folsom, son of Edmund, married and had several children. 
          a. Edmund (7 Folsom was a merchant and stockman in San Bois, m. and had four children. 
         b. Ellis Folsom, another son of Watt, was a prominent lawyer in McAlester, OK, m. Salina Perry, had five children.   Edmond had two other sons, Nathaniel and George. He had three daughters; Rachel, who m. Solomon Folsom; Abigail, and Margaret, who m. a Garland.
        c. unknown daughter; Watt had one  daughter who m. Benjamin Wall;
        d. Jane Folsom m. man named Page.
   5.Nathaniel Folsom.
   6. George Folsom.
        

vi. Abigail Folsom, b. 1770.

vii. Sarah Folsom, b. 1775. Sarah died about 1893 at about age 118

2. Nathaniel⁴ Folsom (Israel³, Samuel², John¹) b. Ashford, CT June 29, 1718; d. before December 4, 1761, Edgecombe, NC.  

3. Ebenezer Folsom b. March 1728 in Ashford, CT; d. "late" 1788 in Cumberland County, NC. He married twice. He married Ni-Ti-Ka Tehani; he married Edith Smith. 

i. Sophia Folsom, who m. Major John Pitchlynn, and gave her son, Peter Pitchlynn.

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