In Memory of
M^rs Mary Folsom
Consort of
M^r. Nathaniel Folsom
Who Departed this Life
May 27, 1784
Aged 31 Years

Nathaniel Folsom
(picture is of heel stone, head stone is missing)

Proprietor of privateer ship General Sullivan.1

Also had a role in the raid on Fort William and Mary - Folsome, Nathaniel (Shopkeeper), Residence: Portsmouth, Role in Attack: Waits at gate as Langdon and White enter, Dec. 14, Deposition Reference: Cochran Dep. I

Nathaniel also came down with Yellow Fever during the 1798 epidemic but recovered. 6

Continuation of the story of the raid on Fort William and Mary: "On Friday morning, the 16th, Mr. Folsom (Nathaniel), the other delegate, came to town that morning, with a great number of armed men, who remained in Town as a guard till the flow of the tide in the evening when the cannon were sent in Gondolas up the River into the country, and they all dispersed without having done any personal injury to any body in the town." SOME PARTICIPANTS IN THE RAIDS ON FORT WILLIAM AND MARY by T.F. Kehr, Pres. NHSSAR (June 25, 2001 rev.)

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