I have another line of descent from Reginald Foster (1595 –
before 1681), an early immigrant to Ipswich, Massachusetts. You can read all
about this lineage at this blog post here:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/07/surname-saturday-foster-of-ipswich.html
Today’s sketch is about Bartholemew Foster, (about 1646 – 1689),
my 8th great grandfather, an early settler at Gloucester,
Massachusetts – which is located very near Ipswich with my other line of
FOSTERs. He was the brother of Thomas
Foster who settled in New London, Connecticut.
In 1669 he married Hannah VERY and also bought a house lot on what is
now Front Street in Gloucester. He
owned a sloop (mentioned in his will) and was a mariner. Apparently it was rare for a mariner in Gloucester (at this time period) to own property, and this fact was mentioned both in the Foster compiled genealogy book and in the History of Gloucester by Babson.
The Foster family was blessed with sons. I found ten sons listed in the births for Gloucester, Massachusetts, and eight of those sons were mentioned in his will, along with his wife, Hannah. They had no daughters.
The Foster family was blessed with sons. I found ten sons listed in the births for Gloucester, Massachusetts, and eight of those sons were mentioned in his will, along with his wife, Hannah. They had no daughters.
I descend from Bartholemew’s youngest son, Benjamin (my 7th
great grandfather), who was born just a few months before his father Bartholemew’s
death in 1689. My 8th great
grandmother, Hannah (Very) Foster, remarried to Thomas Sawyer (b. 1674). He was the great grandson of John Sawyer
(1582 – 1660) and Agnes Sharpe of England, who was also my 9th great
grandfather. You can read all about my
Sawyer lineage at this blog post here: https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/03/surname-saturday-sawyer-of-lancaster.html
My FOSTER lineage daughters out early with Lucy (Foster)
Younger. Benjamin Foster’s daughter Lucy
(b. 1723) married William Younger of Gloucester. They had four children, and I descend from
their son Levi Younger (1756 – 1806), a mariner in Gloucester, my 6th
great grandparents.
Some FOSTER resources:
The Foster Genealogies, by Frederick C. Pierce, page 60 and
page 1015
Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700,
Volume 1
The History of the Town of Gloucester, Cape Ann, by John James
Babson, page 94
The Genealogist,
Volume 17: 96-108, 234 – 248.
The Foster family sketch, in Jacobus, Donald Lines.
Families of Ancient New Haven. 1974, 3:620.
My FOSTER genealogy:
Generation 1: Bartholemew
Foster, born about 1640, died on 5 December 1689 in Gloucester, Massachusetts;
married on 9 September 1668 in Gloucester to Hannah Very, the daughter of
Thomas Very and Hannah Gyles. Ten
children.
Generation 2:
Benjamin Foster, born 13 September 1689 in Gloucester; married on 23
August 1711 in Gloucester to Susanna Andrews, daughter of Ralph Andrews and
Abigail Very (sister to Hannah Very above). Eight children.
Generation 3: Lucy
Foster, born 15 June 1723 in Gloucester; married on 6 March 1750 in Gloucester
to William Younger. Four children.
Generation 4: Levi
Younger m. Mary Wotten
Generation 5: Levi
Younger, Jr. m. Catharine Plummer Jones
Generation 6: Mary
Esther Younger m. George Emerson
Generation 7: Mary Katharine Emerson m. George E.
Batchelder.
Generation 8: Carrie
Maude Batchelder m. Joseph Elmer Allen
Generation 9: Stanley
Elmer Allen m. Gertrude Matilda Hitchings (my grandparents)
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Surname Saturday ~ FOSTER of Gloucester, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 31, 2016, (http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/12/surname-saturday-foster-of-gloucester.html: accessed [access date]).
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