Notable Cousin · via the maternal line
1765–1849 · Nantucket inventor, astronomer, and U.S. Congressman. Built the celebrated astronomical clock of 1790 — which tracks the sun, moon, and tides — and later served Massachusetts in the House of Representatives.
Relationship
Walter Folger Jr. is the 4th cousin, 7 times removed of John, Perry, and Patrick Long.
Through Tristram Coffin (1609–1681), founder of Nantucket. Both lines descend from Tristram; Walter Folger Jr. through the Nantucket Coffin–Folger families, the family through Tristram’s son John Coffin and the Gardner → Macy → Folger → Perry descent.
Tristram Coffin (1609–1681) — founder of Nantucket; the shared ancestor. This is the single shared ancestor that connects Walter Folger Jr. to John, Perry, and Patrick. FamilySearch PID: L8BH-G24.
Both lines descending from the most recent common ancestor, Tristram Coffin. The family’s line is the maternal Plantagenet descent documented in full on the Plantagenet Descent page; Research-in-Progress markers flag generations not yet enumerated. Click any PID to open the FamilySearch record.
VERIFIED on the shared ancestor Tristram Coffin (L8BH-G24) and the family’s own John-Coffin line to the Perrys. Walter Folger Jr.’s own record is LCX7-MZZ. His intermediate Coffin/Folger generations come from the Phase-6 FamilySearch walk, recomputed at 4th cousin 7× under the FS-verified 12-step depth; per-generation PIDs are not re-enumerated here and none are invented.