|
|
Family tree▼ Facts and Events
Children
| | Birth | Death |
|---|
| 1. |
|
|
|
| 2. |
|
|
|
| 3. |
|
|
|
| 4. |
|
|
|
| 5. |
|
|
|
| 6. |
|
|
|
| 7. |
|
|
|
| 8. |
|
|
|
References
- ↑ Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Ipswich, Massachusetts to End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1910, 1919)
2:171.
Foster, Moses, jr., and Hannah Lee, Mar. 10, 1746-7. CR4
- Source:Pierce, Frederick Clifton. Foster Genealogy, p. 990, says Moses Foster, s/o Moses and grandson of Samuel, b. 1720, m. Hannah Lee, d. 1776. However, the birth of this Moses is found in Littleton records in 1731, not 1720. Then again, the death record in Beverly of the Moses that married Hannah Lee says age 56 suggesting 1720. The marriage of "Moses, jr." to Hannah Lee is found in Ipswich VRs in 1746. So the Moses of 1731 would be too young unless the Littleton records are wrong. Pierce says the Moses of Littleton lived in Beverly, and a son Moses is b. 1752 in Beverly VRs to "Moses and Hannah". "Moses, jr. and Hannah" also had a daughter Miriam in Ipswich VRs in 1749.
By the time of the marriage in 1746, it seems likely that Dea. Moses Foster would have been the Moses Foster Sr., but we don't know if Moses Jr. was his son since the colonial appellation of Jr. was based on relative age within the whole town, not on repeating the father's name. Pierce says Moses Sr.'s son was b. 1730 but there is no record, and as Moses Sr. m. 1721 there is room to have had a son Moses old enough to marry in 1746. However, Moses Sr.'s son Moses is said to have married Mary --- in Ashburnham after his father moved there, though it is apparently not recorded. There are children born to "Moses Jr. and Mary" in Ashburnham, suggesting this is the correct identification.
There is one Moses, s/o Jeremiah Foster and Dorothy Rust, and nephew of Dea. Moses Foster, about whom Pierce has no information, but as he probably was born before 1726, is also of an appropriate age to be the husband of Hannah Lee. This is attractive because Jeremiah was a mariner, and the Moses of Beverly died on board a ship, suggesting he was also a mariner.
- Source:Pierce, Frederick Clifton. Foster Genealogy, p. 991, adds a daughter Hannah to this family, with no birth date or any other details. While it makes sense that this couple would name a daughter Hannah, there is no record of her in Ipswich or Beverly. There is such a regular sequence of children without gaps, that it would be most likely that, if she wasn't born at the very beginning of 1748, she would have to be the youngest in the family, and hence born in late 1760's after Joshua?
|
|
