Deed of Samuel Foster, periwig-maker, and Rachel his wife

Abstract in Whitmore (1898). Names “Samuel Foster, periwig-maker, and Rachel, his wife” together with Rebecca Best and the widow Rebecca Scorch, the daughter and widow of Samuel Foster (b. 1676). Whitmore dates it 1724 in one place; the 1722 date is the research file’s correction.

NEHGR 178:34 abstracts it fully: “Samuel Foster, periwig-maker, and Rachel, his wife; John Best, tanner, and Rebecca, his wife; and Rebecca Scorch, wife and attorney to William Scorch, cooper; all of Boston, sold for £150 to Richard Butt of Squantum in the town of Dorchester, 9 or 10 acres of upland in Squantum which had been left to them by their father and husband, Samuel Foster, late of Boston, deceased” (dated 27 June 1722, recorded 28 June 1722).