John Foster

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Life

  1. 1648
    Born
    1648
    compiledprobable
    Sources· 1 found
  2. 1681
    Died
    1681
    compiledprobable
    Sources· 1 found
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Family

Father
Hopestill Foster 1620–1676
documentedproven
Sources· 1 found
Mother
Mary Bate c. 1618–1702
inferredprobable
Sources· 1 found
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Pedigree

documentedcompiledinferred
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Notes

Named in his father’s will. “Made the Seals or Arms of the Colony, viz an Indian with a bow and arrow” (Blake’s Annals, quoted by Whitmore).

Mollie's typescript· 1 claim checked

What Mollie wrote about him in The Holbrook and Low Families, checked against the records.

  • Disproven
    Boston's coat of arms was adopted from the Foster arms

    Garbled. What is documented: John Foster (1648-1681), Capt. Hopestill's son and so a collateral, "made the Seals or Arms of the Colony, viz an Indian with a bow and arrow" (Blake's Annals). That was the colony seal, not Boston's arms.

    Read it in the book, p. 120 →
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Connections

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Every notable ancestor and famous relative that John's own ancestors lead to, with the lines drawn down to him.

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