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Anna Melvin (Foster)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Littleton, Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts
Death: December 14, 1818 (79)
Cambridge, Lamoile County, Vermont, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Moses Foster, of Chelmsford & Ashburnham and Mary Foster
Wife of Nathan Melvin
Mother of Anna Holt; Sarah Melvin; Phebe Melvin; Hepsibeth Whipple; Nathan Melvin and 5 others
Sister of Phoebe Foster; Samuel Foster; Esther Foster; Martha Bates; Moses Foster, Jr., of Ashburnham & Shelburne and 8 others

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About Anna Melvin

Anna Foster

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  • Birth: Dec 9 1739 - Littleton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
  • Death: Dec 14 1818 - Cambridge, Lamoille, Vermont, United States
  • Parents: Moses Foster, Mary Davis
  • Husband: Captain Nathan Melvin
  • Children: Ruth L. Laughton (born Melvin), Anna Holt (born Melven), Sarah Melven, Phebe Melven, Hepsebeth Whipple (born Melvin), Nathan Melven Jr, Theodore Melvin, and names of 2 more children
  • Siblings: Sarah Johnson (born Foster), Martha Bates (born Foster), Elizabeth Foster, Joseph Foster

Extracted Brown-Snel Family Roots. “Which Moses Foster?” (May 5, 2018) < link >

Moses Sr.’s daughter Anna married Nathan Melvin in Concord in March of 1759. The Melvins moved to Ashburnham and had six children there: Anna, (b. 1760), Sarah (b. 1762), Phebe (b. 1765), Hepzibah (Hephsibeth) (b. 1767), Nathan Jr. (b. 1769) and Theodore (b. 1771).[19] During the Revolution, Nathan was a Sergeant in Capt. Thurlow’s Company, Colonel Josiah Whitney’s Regiment. He served from July 30 to September 13, 1778 in Rhode Island.[20] Later the Melvins moved to Cambridge, Vermont.


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Anna Melvin's Timeline

1739
December 9, 1739
Littleton, Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts
1760
November 8, 1760
Ashburnham, Worcester County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
1762
September 15, 1762
Ashburnham, Worcester, MA
1765
March 27, 1765
Ashburnham, Worcester, MA
1767
March 24, 1767
Ashburnham, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States
1769
March 1, 1769
Ashburnham, Worester, Mass.
1771
May 1, 1771
Ashburnham, Worester, Mass.
1776
July 16, 1776
Cambridge, Lamoille, Vermont
1779
June 22, 1779
Ashburnham, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States