Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 02-03-2022.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom may be downloaded here.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


Individual Page

    Person Info
  • Name: Abraham FOSTER
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 1622 in Exeter, Devonshire, England b
  • Death: 15 Jan 1710/1 in Ipswich, Massachusetts d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Renold FOSTER Birth: Exeter, Devonshire, England Death: 1681
    • Mother:
  • Judith WIGNOL Birth: England Death: Oct 1664 in Ipswich, Massachusetts

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Ephraim FOSTER Birth: 9 Oct 1657 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  2. Abraham FOSTER Birth: 14 Oct 1659 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  3. James FOSTER Birth: 12 Jun 1662 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Death: Before 1698
  4. Isaac FOSTER Birth: 1668 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Death: 13 Feb 1717
  5. (Child) FOSTER Birth: 27 Dec 1668 Death: 27 Dec 1668
  6. Benjamin FOSTER Birth: 1670 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  7. Ebenezer FOSTER Birth: 15 Jul 1672 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  8. Mehitable FOSTER Birth: 12 Oct 1675 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  9. Caleb FOSTER Birth: 9 Nov 1677 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  10. Ruth FOSTER Birth: After 1678 in Ipswich, Massachusetts

Bibliography
  1. Davis, Walter Goodwin, Ancestry of Dudley Wildes, 1759-1820, of Topsfield, Massachusetts, Portland, Maine: Anthoensen Press, 1959. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/33853 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Davis WILDES p[0-9]*].
  2. Forster, Edward Jacob, Genealogy of the Fo(r)ster Family Descendants of Reginald Fo(r)ster, of Ipswich, Mass. NEHGR v30 (Jan 1876) pp83-102. Available at http://americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-and-genealogical-register/image Information from this source tagged as [Ref: ForsterEJ FORSTER p[0-9]*].
  3. Hammatt, Abraham, The Hammatt Papers, Early Inhabitants of Ipswich, Massachusetts. Ipswich: Antiquarian Papers, 1880. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/253245. Also available at http://archive.org/details/earlyinhabitants13hamm. Reprinted Baltimore: Gen Pub Co, 1980. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Hammatt Ipswich p[0-9]*].
  4. Pierce, Frederick Clifton, Foster Genealogy being the record of the Posterity of Reginald Foster. Chicago: W. B. Conkey, 1899. UMI #G964. Available at http://books.google.com/?id=aohMAAAAMAAJ Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Pierce FOSTER p[0-9]*].
  5. Pope, Charles Henry, The Pioneers of Massachusetts, a Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns, and Churches, and other Contemporaneous Documents. Boston, MA: author, 1900. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/1400537. Reprinted Baltimore: Genealogical Pub Co, 1986. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Pope PioneersMA p[0-9][0-9a]*].
  6. Savage, James, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, showing three generations of those who came before May 1692, on the basis of Farmer's Register. Boston, MA: Little Brown & Co, 1860. Available at http://archive.org/details/genealogicaldic01savarich. Reprinted Baltimore, MD, Genealogical Published Co, 1965. Scanned and corrected by Robert Kraft, 1994, and available at http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Sav-age [A-Z][A-Z]* [A-Z][a-z]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: ForsterEJ FORSTER p84, Pierce FOSTER p122]
abt 1620 [Ref: Hammatt Ipswich p105]
abt 1622 [Ref: Davis WILDES p181]
d 1710 age abt 90 [Ref: Pope PioneersMA p173],
place:
[Ref: Hammatt Ipswich p105, Pierce FOSTER p122, Sav-age FOSTER Abraham]
before immigrating [Ref: ForsterEJ FORSTER p84],
parents:
[Ref: Davis WILDES p181, ForsterEJ FORSTER p84, Pierce FOSTER p122]
Reginald FOSTER & Judith ___ [Ref: Hammatt Ipswich p105],
father:
[Ref: Pope PioneersMA p173]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: ForsterEJ FORSTER p84, Pope PioneersMA p173]
15 Jan 1710 [Ref: Hammatt Ipswich p105]
15 Jan 1711 [Ref: Davis WILDES p181],
place:
[Ref: ForsterEJ FORSTER p84, Hammatt Ipswich p105]
Sources with Information about marriage to Lydia BURBANK
names:
[Ref: Davis WILDES p181, Pierce FOSTER p122],
child:
[Ref: ForsterEJ FORSTER p84]
Research Notes:
yoeman [Ref: ForsterEJ FORSTER p84]

Apr 12 1674: joined the church in full communion [Ref: Hammatt Ipswich p105]

no will or administration of his estate, as he distributed it among his family by deed, Dec 21 1698 [Ref: Davis WILDES p181, ForsterEJ FORSTER p84]



Pedigree of Abraham FOSTER
 /-----Renold FOSTER
Abraham FOSTER
 \-----Judith WIGNOL



Descendants of Abraham FOSTER
1. Abraham FOSTER m. Lydia BURBANK
m. Lydia BURBANK father: Caleb BURBANK mother: Martha (BURBANK)

2nd generation

2. Ephraim FOSTER m. Hannah EAMES
m. Hannah EAMES

3rd generation

12. John FOSTER m.

4th generation

13. Stephen FOSTER m. Abigail SMITH
m. Abigail SMITH

5th generation

14. David FOSTER m. Ruth PEABODY
m. Ruth PEABODY father: John PEABODY mother: Mary CHADWICK