Person:Amos Foster (8)

Personal History

Amos Foster, sometimes Jr., (3rd,) first son of Amos Foster and Hannah (Merrill), was born 23 May 1753, in Tewksbury, Province of Massachusetts Bay.^[1][2] He died 4 October 1835, in the same place, in Massachusetts, and was buried in the South Tewksbury Cemetery.^[3]

Amos Foster Jr. and Beulah Horsley (or Hosley) were married 15 February 1776, in Tewksbury. The town records of Tewksbury list the birth of their only child, Beulah.

Amos Foster Jr. and Elisabeth Kittridge were married 23 October 1781, in Tewksbury. The town records of Tewksbury list the births of their children, Elisabeth, Amos, Hannah, Zepheniah, and Enoch.

Amos inherited his father's real estate in 1799, and he was ordered to pay out equal amounts to his siblings so that each person received one eleventh of their father's estate.

In his will dated 25 June 1822,^[4] Amos Foster, of Tewksbury, County of Middlesex, Massachusetts, yeoman, bequeathed $5 each to his daughters Elisabeth Blanchard and Hannah Griffin and his son Enoch Foster. He appointed his sons Amos Foster Jr. and Zephaniah K. Foster joint executors and bequeathed to them all lands and buildings to be divided equally. The will was read to the heirs 7 October 1835, and presented to the probate court of Middlesex Co. by the executors 10 November 1835. The executors Amos Foster and Zephaniah K. Foster, along with Samuel Thompson and Zephaniah Clark Jr., all of Tewksbury, yeomen, signed a bond in the amount of $20,000. On 6 February 1836, the executors and John Richardson of Billerica, yeoman, took an inventory of the estate. The real estate, including a homestead of about 80 acres and additional lots of about 10.5 acres, was valued at $2358, and the sum total of other items was $124.50.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 “Tewksbury births”, in Vital Records of Tewksbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1912)
   p. 29.

   “FOSTER, Amos, s. [Capt. P.R.3.] Amos [jr. C.R.1.] and Hannah, May 23, 1753.”
   (C.R.1. is “Congregational Church records.” P.R.3. is “framed record now in possession of Mrs. Zephaniah P. Foster.”)

2. ↑ Tewksbury (Massachusetts). Town Clerk. Vital records, 1738-1897. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1972)
   FHL 771075; Births, deaths 1738–1852, p. 34.

   Digital record with image viewed in “Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626–2001,” database, FamilySearch, DGS 7010701, image 33 (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4GG-T9B : accessed 20 Jan. 2017).
   
   “Amos, son of Amos & Hannah Foster, born May 23, 1753”

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 “Tewksbury deaths”, in Vital Records of Tewksbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1912)
   p. 205.

   “FOSTER, Amos [s. Capt. Amos. P.R.3.], Oct. 4, 1835, age 82 years. G.R.3. [age 75 years. P.R.3.]”
   (G.R.3. is “gravestone record, South Tewksbury Cemetery.” P.R.3. is “framed record now in possession of Mrs. Zephaniah P. Foster.”)

4. ↑ Massachusetts. Probate Court (Middlesex County). Probate records, 1648-1924. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1964-1967)
   first series 1648–1871, file no. 8151, Amos Foster, 1835; FHL 385981 (Probate papers 8119–8210), image nos. 360–370 (DGS 7553465, starting at image 362).

   (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9DP-5JZH : accessed 21 Jan. 2017)
   
   The will of Amos Foster, of Tewksbury, Co. of Middlesex, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, yeoman, dated 25 June 1822; joint exor. sons Amos Foster Jr., Zephaniah K. Foster; wit. Samuel Whiting, Jonathan Jaquith, James Cornell Jr. Bond $20,000, dated 10 Nov. 1835, for Amos Foster, Zephaniah K. Foster, with Samuel Thompson, Zephaniah Clark Jr.; wit. by Enoch Foster, Ambrose Clark. Affidavit of notice returned 26 April 1836. Inventory $2358 real and $124.50 personal, dated 6 Feb. 1836, returned 26 April 1836.