Person:John Foster (161)

Abstracts of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Wills - 1786-1820, page 69.

His will lists his children: Philip, John, James, Joel, Elizabeth, Rachel and Margaret.

Executor Philip and James Foster. Strasburg Township

Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County Pennsylvania, V

Fayette County 
 Foster 

(II) John , son of David Foster , was a merchant tailor in Strasburg, Lancaster county . He married Elizabeth Ferree , born in 1762 , died in 1810, daughter of Philip Ferree, Jr., born 1730, died 1796, son of Philip Ferree, born 1687, died 1753, son of Daniel and Maria Ferree, Daniel Ferree, a silk weaver of Lindau, France, at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in the year 1685, fled to Germany, where he died near Strasburg. Owing to religious persecutions which still followed them into the Palatinate, his widow Maria (Warenbauer) Ferree, came to America in 1708 with her six children and a son-in-law, Isaac Le Fevre, who had married her daughter Catherine . They settled first in Ulster county, New York, later coming to Strasburg, Pennsylvania, where two thousand acres of land were laid out to the widow, November 7, 1712, and in which ground she was buried in 1716, said to have been the first person buried in the plot set aside for burial purposes. These two thousand acres were patented by the proprietors, William Penn and his brother, to Daniel Ferree (her son), and Isaac Le Fevre (her son-in-law), and they border on the borough of Strasburg. Several farms taken therefrom are yet held in the Le Fevre family, although Ferree as a surname has disappeared from that locality, but is frequently found used as a Christian name.

1. ↑ Jessie A. Landis nee Witmer. Ferree - du Bois Family Tree. (1913).
2. ↑ kamp3genealogy@@netscape.net. Heisterkamp, Charles, III, M.D..

   1949 Pine Drive, Lancaster, PA, 17601, ckamp3@@netscape,net, 717-392-0562

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5} Charles Heisterkamp, III, M.D. Annotated Landis Ferree Tree. (30 April 2004).

   Date of Import: Jul 14, 2004

4. ↑ Compiler - Robert Denlinger. Denlinger Ferree Ephemera
   Tabulation of Tombstones in the Ferree Cemetery in Strasbug, Pennsylvania.

   Compiler - Robert Denlinger, Denlinger Ferree Ephemera, Tabulation of Tombstones in the Ferree Cemetery in Strasbug, Pennsylvania. stated 1756.

5. ↑ John Wesley Ferree, Simpson Elliot Ferree, George Bennett Ferree. Ferree Family Tree (2). (1963)
   Chart 42.

   John Wesley Ferree, Simpson Elliot Ferree, George Bennett Ferree, Ferree Family Tree (2), (1963), Chart 42. states 1762.

6. ↑ Carl E. Wells - wellscarl@@sbcglobal.net. My Foster Ancestors. (2005)
   page 12.

   Carl E. Wells - wellscarl@@sbcglobal.net, "My Foster Ancestors," 2005, page 12. states 1762 and adds Place.

7. ↑ John Wesley Ferree, Simpson Elliot Ferree, George Bennett Ferree. Ferree Family Tree (2). (1963)
   Chart 42.
8. ↑ WorldConnect Project. (RootsWeb)
   The Cameron & Paige Report - (06-18-04).

   RootsWeb, WorldConnect Project, "Electronic," The Cameron & Paige Report - (06-18-04). adds Month and Day.

9. ↑ Carl E. Wells - wellscarl@@sbcglobal.net. My Foster Ancestors. (2005)
   page 12.

   Carl E. Wells - wellscarl@@sbcglobal.net, "My Foster Ancestors," 2005, page 12. adds Place.

10. ↑ WorldConnect Project. (RootsWeb)
    The Cameron & Paige Report - (06-18-04).
11. ↑ E-Mail Document
    Carl Wells - 24 March 2001.
12. ↑ Eleanor Jane Fulton and Barbara Kendig Mylin. An Index to the Will Books and Intestate Records of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania - 1729-1850. (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore 1994)
    page 14.
13. ↑ ^13.0 13.1 F. Edward Wright, Editor. Abstracts of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Wills - 1786-1820. (Willow Bend Books, Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland 2001)
    page 69.
14.   Charles Heisterkamp, III, M.D..

    1949 Pine Drive, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, 17601-5529, [email protected]