Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

FOSTER.
For many of the facts contained in this article, I am indebted
to Lucius E. Paige, Esq., of Cambridge. Foster is not a Barnstable
name, though there were a few here early.
1. Thomas Foster, of Weymouth, had three sons :
1. Thomas, born 18th Aug. 1640, whom I suppose to have been
the Dr. Thomas Foster who died in Cambridge 28th Oct.
1679, aged 89 years.
2. John, born 7th Oct. 1642, whom I suppose to have been the
Dea. John Foster named below ; but of this I have no
absolute proof.
3. Increase.
2. Dea. John Foster settled early inMarshfleld, and married
Mary, daughter of Thomas and Joanna Chillingsworth, by whom
he had ten children. His wife Mary died 25th Sept. 1702. He
then married Sarah Thomas, who died 26th May, 1731, aged 85.
Dea. Foster died 13th June 1732, aged 90, according to the record
make by his son Thomas, (who was Town Clerk,) or 91, according
to the inscription on his head stone, standing in the Winslow
burying-ground. But if he was son of Thomas of Weymouth, he
lacked a few months of 90 years.
The children of Dea. John and Mary Foster were :
1. Elizabeth, born 24th Sept. 1664, married William Carver
(the centenarian) 18th Jan. 1682-3, and died in June 1715.
2. John, born 12th Oct. 1666, married Hannah Stetson of
Scituate, resided in Plvmouth, was deacon, and died 24th
Dec. 1741.
3. Josiah, born 7th June 1669, resided in Pembroke.
4. Marv, born 13th Sept. 1671, married John Hatch, died in
Marshfield 3d April 1750.
5. Joseph, born about 1674, resided in Barnstable and Sandwich,
(see below.)
6. Sarah, born about 1677, died unmarried 7th April 1702.