Benjamin Foster

Descendant of Mayflower passenger Richard Warren.

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Benjamin Foster (1655 - bef. 1690)

Born 1655 in Plymouth Colony

Son of Richard Foster and Mary (Bartlett) Morey

Brother of Mary Foster, Jonathan Morey Jr. [half], John Morey [half] and Hannah (Morey) Bumpas [half]

[spouse%28s%29 unknown]

Father of Mariah (Foster) Trowbridge

Died before 16 Oct 1690 in Barnstable, Plymouth Colony

14:38: Jill (Neibaur) Olson edited the Biography for Benjamin Foster (1655-bef.1690). [Thank Jill for this]

Benjamin Foster was related to a passenger on the Mayflower.

Biography

Benjamin Foster was born ca. 1655 to parents Richard and Mary Bartlett Foster.[1]

Benjamin did not marry but appears to have fathered a daughter with a woman named Mercy whose birth surname is unknown. Their daughter, Mariah, went on to marry John Trowbridge. Benjamin's step-brother Jonathan Morey's 1732 will left bequests to "the Two Children of Maria Trowbridge, Deceased viz. Mary & Maria... having hereto fore Paid to their father, John Trowbridge, Thirty Seven pounds in their mothers life Time." The same Jonathan Morey was responsible for Benjamin's estate inventory and probably executor of an undiscovered will that made provisions for Benjamin's daughter and her future children.[2]

Benjamin was apparently a soldier in the French and Indian wars and lived in the Maine frontier. An estate inventory for "Sarjant Benjamin Foster deceased" was taken on October 16, 1690. Listed were "his estate at Eastward," coopers tools, a horse, land, and "wages at ye Eastward," as well as "his share of plunder 00 06 08."[3] He must have died between September 2, 1690, the date he acknowledged deeds with "my Uncle Joseph Warren,"[4] and the inventory date of October 16.

Sources

↑ "Richard Warren and his Descendants." Mayflower Descendant: A Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy and History, Volume 3. Boston, MA: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. 1901. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010) By Subscription. Page 110. ↑ Prindle, Paul W. "A Bartlett-Foster-Morey Epilogue." The American Genealogist, Volume 53. Boston, MA: 1977. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009-) By Subscription. Page 154. ↑ "Abstracts of the Barnstable County, Mass., Probate Records." Mayflower Descendant: A Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy and History, Volume 11. Boston, MA: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. 1909. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010) By Subscription. Page 28. ↑ Mayflower Descendant Volume 44, 1994. Page 78. Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Family of Richard Warren, Volume 18, Part One, Third Edition, 2004, Published by General Society of Mayflower Descendants, page 62

Benjamin Foster was born abt 1655, Plymouth Colony [23, p. 48] and died 1690 [23, p. 48] Age: 35

Parents: Richard FOSTER (-~1657) and Mary BARTLETT (1634-1692)

Married:

1. ?

Notes

Biographical Sketch (1956):384 "Benjamin Foster, b. at Plymouth about 1654-5 (no record found). Approximate year of his birth is gleaned from the following Plymouth Colony Deed [II 2:28]: 27 June 1659 Robert Bartlett took a lease for ten years of the lands of his late son-in-law Richard Foster, agreeing to pay the latter's son Benjamin Foster, then aged 'foure yeares or thereabouts,' the sum of 8 pounds when he came of age [Mayflower Descendant 14:15]. On the same day, the widow Mary Foster and Jonathan Morey made an antenuptial agreement about bringing up the child Benjamin. One of the the conditions was that, if Mary died before Jonathan, Benjamin should be at the disposal of Robert Bartlett, Benjamin Bartlett or William Harlow (Plymouth Colony Deeds, II 2:28a; see Mayflower Descendant 14:16 for further details).

Bemjamin Foster died intestate in 1690, probably unmarried; no record of his death has been found. The inventory of the estate of Sergt. Benjamin Foster deceased, taken 16. Oct. 1690 [Barnstable Probate Records 1:36], shows an estate valued at £28.07.05; real estate noted was 25 acres upland at Monument and a whole share of land at Sippican. Inventory was sworn to by Jonathan Morey Jr. (his half-brother). No settlement of the estate was found."

Links

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