Person:James Foster (106)
Lieutenant James Foster
b.13 Apr 1651 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
d.4 Oct 1732 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. Bef 1640
  1. Thankful Foster1640 - 1697/98
  2. Hopestill Foster1643/44 -
  3. Patience Foster1646 - 1703
  4. John Foster1648 - 1681
  5. Lieutenant James Foster1651 - 1732
  6. Elisha Foster1653 - 1682
  7. Mary Foster1655/56 - 1726
  8. Comfort Foster1658 - 1688/89
  9. Standfast Foster1660 - 1727
  10. Richard Foster1662/63 - 1663
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Lieutenant James Foster1651 - 1732
  • W.  Mary Capen1652 - 1678/79
m. 22 Sep 1674
  1. Silence Foster1677 - 1761
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Lieutenant James Foster1651 - 1732
  • W.  Anna LaneCal 1665 - 1732
m. 7 Oct 1680
  1. Thankful Foster1683 - 1700/01
  2. Anna Foster1684/85 - 1728
  3. Patience Foster1686/87 -
  4. John Foster1688/89 -
  5. Jemima Foster1690 -
  6. Mary Foster1692 -
  7. Elizabeth Foster1694/95 - 1753
  8. Capt. James Foster1698 -
  9. Rebecca Foster1700 - 1700
  10. Hopestill Foster1701/02 -
  11. Thankful Foster1704 -
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Facts and Events
Name[1][2] Lieutenant James Foster
Gender Male
Birth[3] 13 Apr 1651 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage 22 Sep 1674 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United Statesto Mary Capen
Other[2][4] 8 May 1678 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United StatesAdmitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay.
Marriage 7 Oct 1680 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United Statesto Anna Lane
Death[2][5] 4 Oct 1732 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Burial[6] Dorchester North Burying Ground, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. ↑ Whitmore, William Henry. Descendants of Hopestill Foster of Dorchester, Mass: Son of Richard Foster of Biddenden, Co., Kent, and his Wife, Patience Biggs (widow Foster), the Immigrant in 1635. (Boston, Mass.: David Clapp & Son, 198)
    9.

    James3 Foster of Dorchester (Sergt. 1668, Lieut. 1700), married 22 Sept. 1674, Mary, daughter of John Capen. … James Foster's first wife died 8 Feb. 1678-9. He married 2d, Anna, daughter of Capt. Job Lane of Bedford, 7 Oct. 1680.

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 James Foster, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    2:189.

    James (Foster), Dorchester, s. of sec. [son of the first Hopestill who came with his widowed mother and whose father was Richard Foster] Hopestill, m. 22 Sept. 1674, Mary, d. of John Capen, wh. d. young; freem. 1678, by sec. w. Ann, d. of Job Lane, wh. d. 29 Sept. 1732, in 68th yr. had Thankful, wh. d. 1 Mar. 1700 in 18th yr. and prob. other ch. and d. five days after his w.

  3. ↑ First Church (Dorchester, Massachusetts). Records of the First Church at Dorchester in New England, 1636-1734. (Boston, Massachusetts: G. H. Ellis, 1891)
    161.

    (James Foster ye Son of Captain Hopestill Foster, & of mrs mary Foster His wife, was born April 13. 1651. & Baptized [blank] following.)

  4. ↑ Paige, Lucius R. List of Freemen. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct 1849)
    3:245.
  5. ↑ Boston (Massachusetts). Record Commissioners. A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston: Containing Dorchester Births, Marriages, and Deaths to the End of 1825. (Boston, Massachusetts: Rockwell and Churchill, city printers, 1890)
    1:135.

    Mr. James Foster Died Octr. 4th. 1732, in the 82d. Year of his Age.

  6. ↑ James Foster, in Find A Grave.
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