Pierce, Foster Genealogy (1899)

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Pierce, Foster Genealogy (1899)
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1899
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https://archive.org/details/fostergenealogy01pier
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Compiled genealogy, read in the archive.org full text. Draws on Whitmore (1898). The source of "JOHN, b. in 1722; m. Jane" (p. 539), the only support for John Foster as a son of Samuel and Rachel. Prints Rev. Thomas Forster's will of 1638 (p. 485), Ensign Hopestill Foster's administration (p. 505), the Billerica and Woburn Baptist presentments (p. 489) and Capt. Hopestill Foster's 1670 letter to King Philip and Philip's reply (pp. 494-495). Its "Early Foresters" chain (pp. 11-12) is legend.

For King Philip's War (research/king-philips-war/): the letters between Capt. Hopestill Foster of Dorchester and Philip, "copied from the originals now among the ancient documents of Dorchester," are on pp. 494-495. They are in both archive.org scans of the book, the one above and https://archive.org/details/fostergenealogy03pier (page images at /page/494). Three letters:

  • Squamaug of the Massachusett to Foster: "I know noe reason that the mount hope Sachem's pretended title to some of the lands mentioned in your deed should frustrate the agreement ... I am well assuered that plymoth men have deeds for it already; and you have enough of us for your mony whoe are the knowne proprietors," asking for "the five pounds that you engaged to my deceased brother"; signed "Daniell (alias) Squamuck, Sachem," "Mattakeeset, Mar 19, 1669-70" (p. 494).
  • Foster to "Philip, Sachem of Mount Hope," answering Philip's letter of 15 June 1670 asking "a meeting about land at pole plaine and within our township": "wee say tis ours already both by grant from our Court and also by agreement with Indians, who say that it is theirs," but agreeing to meet, with "some of the bay Indians," "at Captain Hudson's farme at Wading river upon the 12th of July next"; "Dor. this 22nd, June 1670" (p. 494).
  • Philip to Foster, "Mount hope the 15th of May 1672": "when I last saw you att Wading river you promised mee six pounds in goods," and asking for serge for a coat, a holland shirt and "a pair of good Indian breeches," signed "King Philip his Majesty P. P." (pp. 494-495).
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  2. title: "Pierce, Foster Genealogy (1899)"
  3. type: book
  4. date: 1899
  5. url: "https://archive.org/details/fostergenealogy01pier"
  6. seen: transcript
  7. access: public
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  10. Compiled genealogy, read in the archive.org full text. Draws on Whitmore (1898). The source of "JOHN, b. in 1722; m. Jane" (p. 539), the only support for John Foster as a son of Samuel and Rachel. Prints Rev. Thomas Forster's will of 1638 (p. 485), Ensign Hopestill Foster's administration (p. 505), the Billerica and Woburn Baptist presentments (p. 489) and Capt. Hopestill Foster's 1670 letter to King Philip and Philip's reply (pp. 494-495). Its "Early Foresters" chain (pp. 11-12) is legend.
  12. For King Philip's War (`research/king-philips-war/`): the letters between Capt. Hopestill Foster of
  13. Dorchester and Philip, "copied from the originals now among the ancient documents of Dorchester," are on
  14. pp. 494-495. They are in both archive.org scans of the book, the one above and
  15. https://archive.org/details/fostergenealogy03pier (page images at /page/494). Three letters:
  17. - Squamaug of the Massachusett to Foster: "I know noe reason that the mount hope Sachem's pretended title
  18. to some of the lands mentioned in your deed should frustrate the agreement ... I am well assuered that
  19. plymoth men have deeds for it already; and you have enough of us for your mony whoe are the knowne
  20. proprietors," asking for "the five pounds that you engaged to my deceased brother"; signed "Daniell
  21. (alias) Squamuck, Sachem," "Mattakeeset, Mar 19, 1669-70" (p. 494).
  22. - Foster to "Philip, Sachem of Mount Hope," answering Philip's letter of 15 June 1670 asking "a meeting about
  23. land at pole plaine and within our township": "wee say tis ours already both by grant from our Court and
  24. also by agreement with Indians, who say that it is theirs," but agreeing to meet, with "some of the bay
  25. Indians," "at Captain Hudson's farme at Wading river upon the 12th of July next"; "Dor. this 22nd, June
  26. 1670" (p. 494).
  27. - Philip to Foster, "Mount hope the 15th of May 1672": "when I last saw you att Wading river you promised mee
  28. six pounds in goods," and asking for serge for a coat, a holland shirt and "a pair of good Indian
  29. breeches," signed "King Philip his Majesty P. P." (pp. 494-495).
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