Person:Edward Foster (3)

Deacon Edward Foster
b.Abt 1610
d.Bet 24 Nov 1643 and 22 Feb 1643/44 Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
  1. Deacon Edward FosterAbt 1610 - Bet 1643 & 1643/44
  2. Lettice FosterAbt 1615 -
  • HDeacon Edward FosterAbt 1610 - Bet 1643 & 1643/44
  • WLettice Hanford1617 -
m. 8 Apr 1635
  1. Timothy Foster1635/36 - 1637
  2. Sergeant Timothy Foster1638 -
  3. Elizabeth Foster1644 - 1682/83
Facts and Events
Name[1] Deacon Edward Foster
Gender Male
Birth[1] Abt 1610
Emigration[1] 1632
Residence[1] 1632 Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage 8 Apr 1635 Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United Statesto Lettice Hanford
Other[1] 3 Jan 1636/37 Plymouth Colony, Kingdom of EnglandFreeman
Will[1] 24 Nov 1643
Death[1] Bet 24 Nov 1643 and 22 Feb 1643/44 Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United StatesBetween date of will and date of inventory.
Estate Inventory[1] 22 Feb 1643/44 £42-03; no real estate.
Probate[1] 20 Aug 1644
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Edward Foster, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
    I:690-692.

    ORIGIN: Unknown
    CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Joined Scituate church as member #10, 8 January 1634/5 [NEHGR 9:279]; invested as deacon of Scituate church, 22 February 1637/8 [NEHGR 10:37].
    FREEMAN: Admitted 3 January 1636/7 [PCR 1:48]. In list of 7 March 1636/7 [PCR 1:53]. In Scituate section of 1639 list of Plymouth Colony freemen [PCR 8:175].

    Savage states that the Timothy baptized in 1638 died soon after and another was born in 1640, but no evidence for this appears.

    in a book on the history of Scituate, MA it tells of Edward Foster, Lawyer who settled in Scituate, MA by 1633. He left only one son, Timothy b.1640. His will, dated 1644 gives to my wife Lettice all my cattle and movable goods(except my books which are to be my son Timothy's) and also the use of my house and 3 parcels of land, viz at the North River---at the 2d Cliff---and at Satuit brook, until Timothy come of age. To son Timothy one third of all my property at 21yrs of age. To an infant yet unborn another 3d part, wether male or female, at 21yrs. Timothy Hatherly, Father Richard Sealis, Edmund Edenden, & brother Isaac Robinson to hold same in trust.

  2.   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)
    2:186.

    FOSTER, EDWARD, Scituate, came (early eno. to be tax. 2 Jan. 1633 by the Col. Court) from Co. Kent, says Deane; but I feel doubt of this, for his mo. was sis. of Timothy Hatherly, wh. he thinks was of Devon. Yet it may be that the sis. of Hatherly was mo. of his w. not of hims. She afterwards, not, as Deane thinks, first, m. Hanford, and was mo. of Rev. Thomas, came with two ds. in 1635, and here, not, as D. supposes, in Eng. m. Richard Sealis. Her s. was a lawyer, says D. freem. 1636, certain. a young man of good repute, for he was one of the found. of the ch. at S. 8 Jan. 1635, rep. 1639 and 40, tho. not elevat. as the histor. made out to be an Assist. of the Col. 1637; m. 8 Apr. 1635, Lettice Hanford, had Timothy, bapt. 7 Mar. 1636, bur. 5 Dec. 1637; Timothy, again, 22 Apr. 1638; d. soon; Timothy, again, b. 1640, and Elizabeth posthum. 1644, not, as Deane gives, 1645. In his will of 24 Nov. 1643, he provides for the unb. one, w. and s.; and in Feb. foll. his uncle Hatherly and f.-in-law Sealis, took the inv. See Geneal. Reg. IV. 281.

    Used the De Zetter book to fill in these generations of Fosters.

  3.   Henry P.De Zetter. Genealogy of Talcot Foster (FHL number 476892 Item 3). (printed in 1918)
    p. 8.