Early Life
Mayhew was born on March 12, 1774, in Nantucket, Massachusetts to William Folger and Ruth Coffin. Mayhew was a member of the Folger whaling family of Nantucket, Massachusetts, prominent Quakers. He was a first cousin three times removed of Benjamin Franklin on his father's side. He married his second cousin, Mary Joy on March 7, 1798 on Nantucket. Mayhew was the uncle of Lucretia Coffin Mott, daughter of his sister Anna Folger and Thomas Coffin. he was born as the second child of his fsmily.
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