Person:Frederick Foster (14)

1860 census-PA-Schuylkill-Pottsville-pg 21-10 Jul 1860-lines 19-25-dwelling 1780-family 1696-Frederick L Foster; 35; merchant; $200 personal estate; born NH; Catherine; 31; shoe dealer; $2,000 personal estate; born PA as are the children; Joseph; 12; Jessie; ;7; John; 5; Catherine; 2; Mariah Kendler; 22; servant; born Ireland

The 1870, 1880, 1900 and 1910 censuses are also available.

2008-e-mail from Deana Erickson: Thomas and Daniel Foster were instrumental in the Revolutionary war. Thomas was there at the very beginnings of the war and planning for the war in Boston and Concord. He was injured and his son Daniel took his place, after he lied about his age just so he could fight. He fought with Lafayette and was given Lafayette's sword near the end of the war.

The Fosters were boot and shoe makers from Ipswich, MA. When Jesse and his brother, Solomon, a judge, moved to PA they started in Scranton then settled in Pottsville around the 1830s, still owning a boot and shoe factory and store. I believe that it may have been that they made the move because the coal industry was just beginningand the need for good shoes and boots would have givin them good business there. Jesse had a son, Frederick, that moved to Philadelphia where he had a rather large boot and shoe factory.