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FOLSOM, Nathaniel, a Delegate from New Hampshire; born in Exeter, Rockingham County, N.H.,
September 18, 1726; attended the public schools; served in the French and Indian Wars as a captain
in Colonel Blanchards regiment; successively major, lieutenant colonel, and colonel of the Fourth
Regiment of New Hampshire Militia, which he commanded at the beginning of the Revolutionary War;
brigadier general of the New Hampshire troops sent to Massachusetts and served during the siege of
Boston; appointed major general and planned the details of troops sent from New Hampshire to
Ticonderoga; Member of the Continental Congress in 1774 and 1777-1780; executive councilor in
1778; a delegate to the State constitutional convention of 1783, serving as its president; chief justice of
the court of common pleas; died in Exeter, N.H., on May 26, 1790; interment in Winter Street
Cemetery.
BibliographyBaker, Henry M[oore]. General Nathaniel
Folsom; An Address Delivered April 8, 1903 Before the New Hampshire Historical Society. [Concord? N.H.: N.p., 1904?].
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