Somewhere in the fourth decade of the eighteenth century, there landed on the shores of New England, a young Englishman named John Smith. He settled at Brentwood, N.H., and finding another man of the name of John Smith in the neighborhood he changed his name to John Folsham–Folsham being the name of his native place in the old country.
E.
W. Lang, “A Pioneer Preacher,” in Mary E. Neal Hanaford, ed., Meredith, N.H.: Annals and Genealogies (Concord:
The Rumford Press, 1932),
34-35.
I would like to extend my hearty thanks to Mr. John Smith of Foulsham, Norfolk for giving his descendants a far more traceable name.
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