Abraham Foster, I

ABRAHAM FOSTER (Reginald) b. April 1622 Exeter , England married 1655 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Married: LYDIA BURBANK ( d/o Caleb of Rowley, Massachusetts)

Their children:

1. Ephraim Foster (1657),
2. Abraham Foster (1659, married Mary Robinson),
3. James Foster ( 1662),
4. Isaac Foster (1668),
5. a stillborn child (1668)
6. Benjamin Foster (1670 married Mary Barman),
7. Ebenezer Foster was born on 15 Jul 1672 in Rowley. He married Mary Boardman of Topsfield on 23 Jan 1705 in Topsfield.
8. Mehitable Foster (1675, married Ebenezer Averill),
9. Caleb Foster (1677, married Mary Sherwin),
10. Ruth Foster (1702. Jeremiah Perley).

In 1651 Abraham Foster testified in a case against John Bradstreet in Ipswich.

In 1672, Abraham Foster witnessed a land deed for Michael Dwinnell.

Abraham died in Ipswich on January 25, 1710-11.

Yeoman

See note in Lydia's profile... Abraham married her when she was only 11 years of age (!)

Genealogy of the Fo(r)ster family; descendants of Reginald Foster, who settled in Ipswich, Essex County, Mass. A.D. 1638. by Forster, Edward Jacob, 1846-1896 (Publication date 1876). Page 4.

References

• https://familypedia.fandom.com/wiki/Abraham_Foster_(1622-1711)
• Some Descendants of Abraham Foster (Renold) and Lydia Burbank < link >
• https://www.anamericanfamilyhistory.com/New%20England%20Families/Fo...
• http://www.treetreetree.org.uk/Foster.htm
  • Editors, "The Foster Family," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 1, 1847, 352 - 354.
  • Scott, Henry Edwards, "Fanny Foster," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 90, 1936, 307-311.
• Foster genealogy; by Pierce, Frederick Clifton, 1855-1904. cn (Publication date 1899) < Archive.Org >
• Genealogy of the Fo(r)ster family; descendants of Reginald Foster, who settled in Ipswich, Essex County, Mass. A.D. 1638. by Forster, Edward Jacob, 1846-1896 (Publication date 1876) < Archive.Org >