Peter Folger or Foulger (died 1690) was a poet and an interpreter of the American Indian language for the first settlers of Nantucket.
[2] He left Norwich, Norfolk, England[2] for America in 1635, settling initially in Watertown, Massachusetts, and later moving to Martha's Vineyard,[2][3] where he worked as a teacher and surveyor.
In 1663 Folger moved to Nantucket full-time, having been granted a half a share of land by the proprietors, where he was a surveyor, an Indian interpreter, and clerk in the courts.
[6] Folger died at Nantucket, Massachusetts, in 1690 and is buried in the Founders Burial Ground.
[7] His wife Mary Morrill Folger lived until 1704 and is also buried in the Founders Burial Ground.