Mary Folger (née Morrell (Morrel/Morrill/Morrills/Morill); c. 1620–1704) was the maternal grandmother of Benjamin Franklin, a Founding Father of the United States.
Folger immigrated to Massachusetts Bay Colony from Norwich, England in 1635[2] with Rev.
She was an indentured servant, working for the family as a maid[3][4] on the same ship as Peter Folger and his parents.
[3] Folger was referenced in defense of the whaling industry in Herman Melville's fictional Moby-Dick.
The grandmother of Benjamin Franklin was Mary Morrel; afterwards, by marriage, Mary Folger, one of the old settlers of Nantucket, and the ancestress to a long line of Folgers and harpooneers—all kith and kin to noble Benjamin—this day darting the barbed iron from one side of the world to the other.