Citations:ancestress


 * 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.