Frances Foster

Passenger on the "Abigail" of London, Richard Hackwell, Master. Sailed from Plymouth August 1635; arrived in Boston about October 1635. Listed as passengers are Christopher age 32, Mrs. Frances Foster, 25; Rebecca 5; Nathaniel 2; Joseph 1. Also with them were Alice Stevens 22 (may have been Mrs. Foster's sister) and Thomas Stevens 12. Christopher is listed as 'husbandman of Ewell, county Surrey.

From "Colonial Families, Volume V, Foster Family, Page 240"

CHRISTOPHER FOSTER, b 1603; d 1687; styled on the shipping list as a farmer, the founder of this branch of the American family with wife Frances and three children, came from Surrey, England, embarked in London 17th June 1635, in the ship "Abigail", Captain Robert Hackwell; was probably first in Boston, where he was made Freeman 17th April 1637. In the sam year we find him in Lynn, where in 1638 sixty acres of land were allotted him. In 1651 he removed to Southampton, Long Island; m. in England, Frances Stevens, dau. of Alice Stevens, of Ewell in Surry, England."

Christopher Foster was born in July 1603 [Ewell, Surrey, England]. He married there 24 Dec 1628 Frances Stevens, born 1 July 1610 daughter of Alice Stevens [will 1645] of Ewell in Surrey, England. "Frances Stevens was the daughter of Jerome (Church Warden) and Alice Stevens." The Southhampton Historical Society

Family

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The Southhampton Historical Society rep. said that Christopher was probably buried in the South Burying Ground on Little Plains Road. The oldest cemetery in Southhampton. The only record they have is of Daniel b. 1676 d. 1744 son of Jospeh Foster, son of Christoper is buried there and that his stone remains. It is overgrown apparently. e-mail from Anna Peters

Children of Christopher Foster and wife Frances:

• 1. Rebecca Foster bpt 5 Mar 1630/31 Ewell, Surrey, Eng. –
• 2. Nathaniel Foster bpt 4 May 1632 Ewell, Surrey, Eng. – 1713 LI removed to Huntington, LI married Suffolk NY ca 1655 Sarah Vail ca 1634 Suffolk NY –
• 3. John Foster bpt 8 May 1634 Ewell, Surrey, Eng. – 1687 Southampton LI [bef 1725] married Esther Shaw ca 1640 – aft 1725
• 4. Benjamin Foster ca 1636 Lynn Mass – 28 Jun 1704 Southampton LI married Lydia ? ca 1741 –
• 5. Hannah Foster 1638 Lynn Mass – bef 1707 married Daniel Sayre ca 1636 – 1708 left will son of Thomas Sayre who was from Bedfordshire, England was in Southampton LI 1657 Daniel Sayre married 2nd Sarah
• 6. Joseph Foster 1638 Lynn, Mass 1638 – 30 Jan 1708 Southampton, LI married 1664 Abigail Vail
• 7. Sarah Foster 1643 – Oct 1692 married Samuel Johnes

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