Samuel Foster

A "goldsmith," born at Boston in 1676 to Hopestill Foster the soap boiler and Elizabeth Payson. He married Rebecca, daughter of Joseph Brisco, and in 1699/1700 made a trust deed for her and their "only child Rebecca"; he died in 1702, probably also the father of Samuel Foster, born in 1701.

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Life

  1. 1676
    Born
    27 Dec 1676, Boston, Massachusetts

    "Samuel of Hopestill & Elizabeth Foster born Dec. 27" (RC 9).

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  2. 1702
    Died
    10 Mar 1702, Boston, Massachusetts

    Aged 25. NEHGR 178:34 cites Dunkle and Lainhart, Deaths in Boston 1700-1799. Mollie has the same date.

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Family

Father
Hopestill Foster 1644–by 1677

The birth record, and his own deed, "son of Hopestill Foster the soap boiler."

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Spouse
Rebecca Briscoe b. 1679

"now wife Rebecca, daughter of my father-in-law Joseph Brisco." Marriage date not found.

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2 children

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Pedigree

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Notes

Goldsmith, of Boston. His trust deed of 9 Mar 1699/1700 (Suffolk Deeds 21:150-152) calls him “Samuel Foster, goldsmith, son of Hopestill Foster of Boston, soapboiler, deceased.” It was made “for love of now wife Rebecca, daughter of my father-in-law Joseph Brisco, and also love of only child Rebecca”; in NEHGR 178’s abstract, “for the love and affection for his wife Rebecca … and for his only child Rebecca,” he quitclaimed all his property to his father-in-law, Joseph Brisco of Boston, baker, “as feoffee in trust.” That daughter, Rebecca, was born 10 Apr 1699 (RC 9), and married John Best, tanner, on 15 Dec 1721, “by Dr. Cotton Mather” (NEHGR 178:35, citing the Boston marriages). His son Samuel was born after the deed, on 25 June 1701, and he died on 10 Mar 1702, aged 25 (NEHGR 178:34).

Mollie's typescript· 1 passage

What Mollie wrote about him in The Holbrook and Low Families.

  1. Mollie gives his marriage to Rebecca Briscoe, daughter of Joseph Briscoe.

    Samuel Foster (5) married Rebecca Brisco, daughter of Joseph Brisco (She was married three times).
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Connections

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

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