John Foster

Biography

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John Foster was a South Carolina colonist.
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John Foster was born on May 25, 1757, in South Carolina to William James and Mary (Hill) Foster.

John Foster (1757-1837) came to Texas in 1822 as a member of Stephen F. Austin's "Old Three Hundred"

Father: William James Foster b: ABT 1720 Mother: Mary Hill b: 11 JUL 1727

Marriage 1 Rachel Gibson b: 1768 in South Carolina USA•

Children

1. Gibeon Gibson Foster b: 1776
2. John Foster b: 1782 in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi USA
3. Sarah Foster b: 1786
4. Randolph Foster b: 12 MAR 1790 in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi
5. Isaac Guilford Foster b: 1792
6. Moses A Foster b: 1794
7. Ambrose Foster
8. Hester Nancy Foster

Marriage 2 Mary Elizabeth Smith b: 10 OCT 1772 in Anson County, North Carolina USA•Married: 26 OCT 1797

Children

1. Bathsheba Hettie Foster b: 1798 in Wilkinson County, Mississippi USA
2. Isaac Foster b: ABT 1798 in Mississippi USA
3. Nancy D Foster b: 19 DEC 1799
4. Mary E Foster b: ABT 1802
5. Claiborne Foster b: 6 OCT 1804 in Adams County, Mississippi USA
6. William Zachariah Foster b: ABT 1806
7. George Poindexter Foster b: 1808 in Wilkinson County, Mississippi USA
8. August Rodney Foster b: ABT 1810.[1]

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Notes

John Foster, one of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred colonists, moved to Texas from Mississippi in 1822. He was the father of two sons, John R. and Randolph Foster. On July 15, 1824, he received title to 2½ sitios and three labors in present Fort Bend County. In April 1826 John Foster or possibly John R. Foster, his son, carried a message from Stephen F. Austin to the Cherokee Indians. In November of that same year he was commissioned to buy a steel mill in New Orleans for William Cooper. William B. Travis had Foster's power of attorney in January 1834. Foster died in Woodville, Mississippi, in January 1837, and his property passed to his heirs. Randolph Foster was living on the original headright at the time of his father's death.

In February 1830 another John Foster moved to the Austin colony from Carolina.

John R. Foster, probably the son of the Old Three Hundred settler, fought with the Texas army during the siege of Bexar. He appears to have been part of Travis's cavalry detachment that captured a herd of Mexican horses outside of San Antonio. In mid-November 1835 Travis dispatched the captured herd to Gonzales under the charge of John R. Foster. In 1837 this Foster petitioned for the organization of Fort Bend County.

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Married first Rachel Gibson, then after she died, her sister, Sarah Gibson. MARRIAGES AND DEATHS FROM MISS. NEWSPAPERS, Vol.3, pg 234: Feb. 18, 1837: Died at the residence of Maj. S. F. Mayes, John Foster, on the 26th ult. in the 80th year of his age. He came to this state from South Carolina. In the year 1825 he moved to Texas and procured a large quanity ofland. At the commencement of the late war, the deceased being very old, came to Miss., leaving four sons in Texas."

NOTE: I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS THIS JOHN FOSTER, BUT WANTED TO NOTE ON ALL JOHN FOSTERS. 1850 WILL: MS, Adams Co., Book 2, pg 393: Sept. 7, 1850 probated July 1851. Levi, son of friend Isaac Lum, Elizabeth, daughter of friend Isaac Lum; Laura Elizabeth Gibson, daughter of Jordan Gibson, Mrs. Isaac Lum, Isaac Lum and Tennessee Gibson, wife of Jordan Gibson. EX: Isaac Lum Wit: J. W. M. Harris, W. H. Forbes

References

1. https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMPHD_John_Foster_Land_Grant
2. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Foster-430
3. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/sources/LZJK-6Q2
   1. 1807 - Record of John Foster receiving land from John Bullen, his brother-in-law
   2. "United States Census, 1820", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHG6-BWL : Wed Oct 04 12:25:49 UTC 2023), Entry for John Foster, 1820.
   3. "Mississippi, State Archives, Various Records, 1820-1951", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WDZ4-J32M : Fri Oct 06 13:36:51 UTC 2023), Entry for John Foster, 1820. Wilkinson, Mississippi
   4. "Mississippi, State Archives, Various Records, 1820-1951", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WDQN-CSZM : Tue Oct 03 09:09:56 UTC 2023), Entry for John Foster, 1825.
   5. "Mississippi Deaths and Burials, 1822-1921", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HH8S-KRN2 : Sat Nov 18 10:00:05 UTC 2023), Entry for Foster, 17 Jan 1835. Name Foster Race Event Type Death Event Date 17 Jan 1835 Event Place Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, United States Event Place (Original) Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi, United States Source Details P122
   6. Probate record support 26 Jan 1837 death record John Foster in the Mississippi, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1780-1982 < AncestrySharing > Administrators Bonds, 1833-1870 Name John Foster Probate Date 14 Feb 1837 Probate Place Wilkinson, Mississippi, USA Inferred Death Year 1837 Death Place Mississippi, USA