Family:Hopestill Foster and Mary Bate (1)

Facts and Events
Marriage[1] Bef 1640 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States (probably)Estimate based on date of birth of eldest known child.
Hopestill Foster and Mary Bate were second cousins.
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Hopestill's will was dated 19 Jul 1676 (proved 2 November) named his wife Mary the sole executrix and granted her the entire estate. After her death, it was to go to his sons Hopestill, James, Elisha, Comfort, Standfast, and John and daughters Thankful Baker, Patience Brown, and Mary (unmarried). His grandson Hopestill also received a bequest.

Their son John, a Harvard-educated mathematician and printer, died unmarried in 1681 at the age of 33. His will names his sisters Mary Sale and Thankful Baker, and leaves his house to his mother and the portion of his father's bequest that he received to his mother and siblings Thankfull, Patience, James, Elisha, Mary, Comfort, and Standfast, and the children of his brother Hopestill.

On 23 Apr 1696, Hopestill's legatees sold land in Dorchester to Matthias Puffer. They were named as James Foster of Dorchester and his wife Anna; Standfast Foster of Dorchester and wife Abigail; Thankful Baker, widow; Patience wife of Thomas Brown of Sudbury, gent.; and Mary wife of Samuel Ward of Boston, cooper; all children of Capt. Hopestill Foster; and also Hopestill Foster of Boston, gunsmith, one of the the grandsons of Capt. Hopestill.[1]

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Hopestill Foster, in Alicia Crane Williams. Early New England Families, 1641-1700. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013)
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