Citations:ancestress

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English citations of ancestress

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  • 1851 — Herman Melville. 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.
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