Foster, Hannah

Notes:

BIRTH: VITAL RECORDS OF DUDLEY (Worcester, MA, 1908), 58 (FHL #974.43/D2 V2s).
MAR: Ibid, 173.

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BEPS: IGI

Hannah married Hooker, Amos on 10 Mar 1768 in Dudley,Worcester,MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

BIRTH: VITAL RECORDS OF SALEM, 6 vols. (Salem, MA, 1916-25), 1:319 (FHL #974.45/S1 V2e).
CHR: Ibid.
MAR #1: Stoughton Vital Records, 1:68 (FHL #932776). Also see intentions of mar, 19 May 1739, VITAL RECORDS OF WALPOLE (Boston, 1902), 126 (FHL #599265 item 3). Timothy's given name is reportedly torn off on the mar intention.
MAR #2: VITAL RECORDS OF DUDLEY (Worcester, MA, 1908), 173 (FHL #974.43/D2 V2s).
MAR #3: Don Gleason Hill, ed, THE RECORDS OF BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS IN THE TOWN OF DEDHAM (Dedham, MA, 1886), 89 (FHL #974.47/d2 n2D). "Both of Dedham." Wife is called Mary "Fillebrown" on mar rec, but she is clearly the widow of Thomas Fillebrown, who died at Norton, 2 Oct 1751 (VITAL RECORDS OF NORTON [Boston, 1906], 370 [FHL #873833 item 2]).Thomas Fillebrown and Mary Payson of Stoughton were married at Norton on 14 Jul 1748 (Ibid, 291). The will of Ephraim Payson of Stoughton, 9 June 1761, proved 11 Sep 1761, mentions a dau Mary Foster (Suffolk Co. Probate Files, #12776, by corr, Massachusetts State Archives, Boston).
DEATH: No death rec found. See the will of Timothy Foster of Dudley, 2 Mar 1795, proved 2 Jun 1795, inv 18 May 1795, Worcester Co. Probate, 26:288-89,295 (FHL #856315), receipts of heirs Nov 1799 (Ibid, 29:164 [FHL #856316]).
OCC: Gentleman, Revolutionary War soldier.

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BEPS1,2,3: IGI

Timothy married May, Mary on 29 Aug 1739 in Stoughton,Norfolk,MA. Mary was born on 5 Nov 1719 in Dedham,Norfolk,MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

BIRTH: Robert Brand Hanson, ed, VITAL RECORDS OF DEDHAM, 3 vols. (Bowie, MD, 1989), 1:217 (FHL #974.47/D2 V2hr).
MAR: Stoughton Vital Records, 1:68 (FHL #932776). Also see intentions of mar, 19 May 1739, VITAL RECORDS OF WALPOLE (Boston, 1902), 126 (FHL #599265 item 3). Timothy's given name is reportedly torn off on the mar intention.

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BEPS: IGI

Notes:

BIRTH: VITAL RECORDS OF SALEM, 6 vols. (Salem, MA, 1916-25), 1:319 (FHL #974.45/S1 V2e).
MAR #1: Ibid, 3:379.
MAR #2: No mar rec found. On 30 Dec 1692 Samuel Foster was charged with fornication with widow Margery Pitts, whom he later married (Essex Co. Court of General Sessions of the Peace, vol. 1, unpaginated, [p. 17] [FHL #877466 item 2]). As this charge came shortly after the birth of their first child, it is almost certain that Samuel and Margery were married in 1692. The identity of Margery and her previous husband Pitts have not been determined.
DEATH: No death rec found. See the will of Samuel Foster of Walpole, 22 Jul 1728, proved 19 Aug 1728, Suffolk Co. Probate, #5650, (o.s.) 26:391-92 (FHL #584137).
OCC: Husbandman

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BEPS1: IGI
SEAL S2: FGRA

Samuel married Margery in 1692. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

MAR #1: No mar rec found. On 30 Dec 1692 Samuel Foster was charged with fornication with widow Margery Pitts, whom he later married (Essex Co. Court of General Sessions of the Peace, vol. 1, unpaginated, [p. 17] [FHL #877466 item 2]). As this charge came shortly after the birth of their first child, it is almost certain that Samuel and Margery were married in 1692. The identity of Margery and her previous husband Pitts have not been determined.
MAR #2: No mar rec found. See above discussion.

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BAPT/ENDW: IGI
SEAL S2: FGRA

Notes:

BIRTH: No birth rec found. John stated he was about 52 years old in deposition, 11 Nov 1670 (Essex Co. Deeds, 3:99 [FHL #866015]).
MAR #1: No mar rec found. However, it is clear from the estate records of Ralph Tomkins of Salem, 1666, that John Foster was married to one of Tomkins' daughters (THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY, 3 vols. [Salem, MA, 1916-20], 2:76-76 [FHL #974.45 P2p]). Ralph Tomkins emigrated to New England on the ship "Truelove" in 1635 with his wife Katherine and children Elizabeth, Marie, and Samuel (Peter Wilson Coldham, ed, THE COMPLETE BOOK OF EMIGRANTS, 1607-1660, [Baltimore, 1987], 166-67 [FHL #973 W2col]). Of these two daughters, it is suspected that Mary became the wife of John Foster, as he named his first daughter Mary. Mary was also closer in age to John Foster, Elizabeth being about five years older than John.
MAR #2: No mar rec found. Children were born to John Foster and wife Martha in Salem, 1658-77. Martha is clearly not the dau of Ralph Tomkins (see above), as she was too young to have been the mother of John Foster's older children. Martha deposed in 1670 that she was about 34 years old (Essex Co. Deeds, 3:100 [FHL #866015]). John Foster and Martha were apparently married during the six-year gap between the birth of Samuel in 1652 and Benjamin in 1658.
DEATH: No death rec found. See the will of John Foster of Salem, 16 Nov 1687, proved 14 Mar 1687/8, inv 19 Jan 1687/8, Suffolk Co. Probate, #1625, (o.s.) 10:266-68, 286-87 (FHL #584130).
OCC: Husbandman, yeoman

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BES1: IGI

John married Tomkins, Mary about 1647. Mary (daughter of Tomkins, Ralph and Foster, Katherine) was born about 1619 in of Wendover,Bucks,Eng; died before 1657 in Salem,Essex,MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

BIRTH: No birth rec found. Mary is listed with her family on the passenger list of the ship "Truelove" to New England in 1635, age 14 (Peter Wilson Coldham, THE COMPLETE BOOK OF EMIGRANTS, 1607-1660 [Baltimore, 1987], 167 [FHL #973 W2col]). Her age is probably a little understated, as no Mary Tomkins baptism is found at Wendover 1620-1622. Wendover BTs for 1619 are missing.
MAR: No mar rec found. However, it is clear from the estate records of Ralph Tomkins of Salem, 1666, that John Foster was married to one of Tomkins' daughters (THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY, 3 vols. [Salem, MA, 1916-20], 2:76-76 [FHL #974.45 P2p]). Of the 2 daughters of Ralph Tomkins who emigrated to New England on the ship "Truelove" in 1635, it is suspected that it was Mary who became the wife of John Foster, as he named his first daughter Mary, and Mary was closer in age to John Foster, Elizabeth being about five years older than John.
DEATH: No death rec found. Mary was dead by 1657 when her husband was married to his second wife. It is assumed that she died at Salem where the family resided.

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