Thomas Foster, of Wendover

Thomas Foster, born in 1580 at Wendover, was the son of Peter Foster, a fuller, in Wendover Borough, where he died between 20 April and 13 July 1609. At the time of his death, Peter’s wife was Ellen.

Thomas Foster wrote his will on 23 Feb 1618 in Wendover, Buckinghamshire, England. His estate was probated 26 Mar 1618. He gave his occupation as fuller, and named his wife Elizabeth, his son Thomas, and daughters Christian, Elizabeth, and Susan Foster.

His wife, Elizabeth Seamer, remarried to Jonas Humphrey and emigrated to Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony

From The American Genealogist, Vol. 68, No 1, pp 14-22 of Jan 1993.

“Jonas remarried at Turville, Buckinghamshire, on 8 November 1619, Elizabeth (Seamer) Foster, the widow of Thomas Foster of Wendover, a fuller. The children by Elizabeth and her first husband, Thomas Foster, were Thomas Foster, Christian Foster, Elizabeth Foster, and Susanna Foster, baptized at Wendover, Buckinghamshire on 14 July 1616. Susanna married Nicholas White of Dorchester and Taunton, MA."

Sources

• "The American Genealogist," Vol. 68, No 1, pp 14-22 of Jan 1993.
• Ancestry of Abigail Doggett (See http://ralphinla.rootsweb.ancestry.com/doggetta.htm)
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Foster-14716