Martha Foster

Martha, parents unknown, was born say 1705 and died before 1755 at Spotsylvania County, Virginia. She was not Martha Taliaferro

Family

From http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~hutch/genealogy/DABBS/FosterHaney.htm

Anthony Foster (Brother of George Foster)

Anthony Foster (Robert1) was born circa 1693-1698 in Essex County, Virginia and died on February 4, 1763 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, at age 70. He was born ca 1698 or before, since he witnessed a deed on December 1, 1719 when his brother, John Foster, bought 100 acres of land in St. Anne’s Parish, Essex County from Wm. Stapp and Joshus Stapp for 20 pounds sterling (legal age was 21 years for witnessing). Anthony married Martha circa 1720 in Essex County. Martha is thought by many Foster researchers to be a Taliaferro. However, Taliaferro family researchers contacted failed to find a Martha Taliaferro who married an Anthony Foster.
Martha Foster died after 1740 and before 1761, as 1740 was the date of the birth of their last child and 1761 was the date of a deed transaction which lists a Sarah as Anthony’s wife. In the deed transactions in 1755 and 1759 there was no mention of a wife. It appears that Anthony remarried sometime between 1759 and 1761 and Martha died between 1740 and 1755. The Sarah was a Mrs. Sarah Sparks, widow of Zachary Sparks. However, Martha was the mother of all seven of Anthony’s children.

Anthony Foster then married Sarah Sparks, a widow, after 1750. Her daughter was Sarah Sparks.

The children of Anthony and Martha Foster were:

1. Edmund Foster was born circa 1721 in Essex County and died circa 1748 in Spotsylvania County. He married Tabitha Collins circa 1740 in Essex County. Tabitha was born circa 1720, the daughter of Joseph Collins and Susannah Lewis. She died in 1806 in Elbert County, Georgia.
2. Thomas Foster was born circa 1725 in Essex County and died circa 1764 in Spotsylvania County. He married Dorothy Gatewood circa 1746 in Spotsylvania County. Dorothy was born circa 1726, the daughter of Henry Gatewood and Dorothy Dudley, in Spotsylvania County. She died after 1784 in Spotsylvania County.
3. Elizabeth Foster was born circa 1729 Spotsylvania County and died in 1791 in Spotsylvania County. She married James Frazier circa 1752 in Spotsylvania County. He was born circa 1730, the son of William and Frances Frazier. He died circa 1775 in Spotsylvania County.
4. Mary Foster was born circa 1731 in Spotsylvania County and died in 1790 in Jefferson County, Kentucky. She married Thomas Bartlett circa 1755 in Spotsylvania County. He was born on March 31, 1733 in Spotsylvania County, the son of William Bartlett and Susannah Davis Bartlett. Thomas died about April 1817 in Henry County, Kentucky.
5. Martha Foster was born circa 1734 in Spotsylvania County. She married Thomas Crutcher III circa 1758 in Spotsylvania County. He was born circa 1736 in Caroline County, Virginia, son of Thomas Crutcher, Jr. and Sarah Foster. Thomas died in 1802 in Nelson County, Kentucky. Sarah Foster was Martha’s aunt.
6. John Foster was born circa 1739 in Spotsylvania County and died in 1776 in Spotsylvania County. He married Elizabeth Elley circa 1760 in Spotsylvania County. She was born circa 1746, the daughter of Henry and Ester Elley. She died after 1768.
7. Anthony Foster, Jr. was born on March 13, 1739 or 1740 Spotsylvania County and died on November 3, 1816 in Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky. He married Virginia Rose Coleman on January 29, 1760 in Fairfax, Culpeper County, Virginia. She was born on December 20, 1742 in Essex County, Virginia, a daughter of Robert Coleman III and Sarah Ann Saunders. She died on August 5, 1816 in Bardstown.

In records

1734-1742 Spotsylvania County, Virginia Deed Book C; [William Armstrong Crozier]; Augt. 7, 1739. John x Snall of Orange Co., and Philadelphia, his wife, and Anthony Foster of Spts. Co. and Martha, his wife, to John Taliaferro of Caroline Co., Gent. £100 curr. 200 a. in St. Geo. Par., Spts. Co., on River Po, part of a tract purchased by John Snall, the elder, father of above sd. John Snell, of Larkin Chew, Gent., Decd., and also one acre, granted John Snall, the father, etc. Witnesses: R. Curtis, Jr., Henry Rogers, Jno. Foster. Augt. 7, 1739.

Disputed Origins

https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I1248... Names Martha as Martha Corbin (unproven daughter of Gawin Corbin & Martha Bassett). However this Martha was “b Abt 1715 King & Queen County, Virginia” which is too young to be having children beginning 1721.

Robert Taliaferro did have a daughter Martha b c 1701, but research has failed to substantiate this Martha as the wife of Anthony Foster.

”Anthony Foster married Martha Taliaferro, daughter of Robert Taliaferro and Sarah Catlett, on 7 March 1717 at Spotsylvania, Virginia.” This is incorrect. Sarah Short did not have any Taliaferro daughters.

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