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: Isaac FOSTER
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 1630 in England b
  • Death: 6 Feb 1691/2 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. Jonathan FOSTER Birth: 9 Jan 1658/9 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  2. Mehitable FOSTER Birth: 19 Sep 1660 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Death: Feb 1660/1
  3. Jacob FOSTER Birth: 9 Feb 1662/3 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  4. Benjamin FOSTER Birth: Jun 1665 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Death: 1700
  5. Elizabeth FOSTER Birth: 20 Apr 1667 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  6. Mary FOSTER Birth: 26 Jun 1669 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  7. Daniel FOSTER Birth: 14 Nov 1670 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  8. Martha FOSTER Birth: 1 Aug 1672 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  9. Ruth FOSTER Birth: 20 Feb 1673/4 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  10. Prudence FOSTER Birth: 23 May 1675 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  11. Hannah FOSTER Birth: 24 Oct 1676 in Ipswich, Massachusetts

Marriage:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Eleazer FOSTER Birth: Apr 1684 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  2. Sarah FOSTER Birth: 19 Mar 1687 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 1630 [Ref: Davis WILDES p182]
d 1692 aged 62 [Ref: Sav-age FOSTER Isaac],
place:
[Ref: Pierce FOSTER p122]
before immigrating [Ref: ForsterEJ FORSTER p84],
parents:
[Ref: Davis WILDES p182, ForsterEJ FORSTER p84, Pierce FOSTER p122],
father:
[Ref: Pope PioneersMA p173]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Davis WILDES p182]
8 Feb 1691 [Ref: Hammatt Ipswich p106]
8 Feb 1692 [Ref: Sav-age FOSTER Isaac],
place:
[Ref: Davis WILDES p182]
Sources with Information about marriage to Mary JACKSON
date:
[Ref: Davis WILDES p182, ForsterEJ FORSTER p84, Hammatt Ipswich p106, Sav-age FOSTER Isaac],
place:
[Ref: Hammatt Ipswich p106],
child:
[Ref: ForsterEJ FORSTER p84, Hammatt Ipswich p106]
Sources with Information about marriage to Hannah DOWNING
date:
[Ref: Davis WILDES p182, Hammatt Ipswich p106],
place:
[Ref: Hammatt Ipswich p106]
Sources with Information about marriage to Martha HALE
date:
[Ref: ForsterEJ FORSTER p84]
16 Mar 1679 [Ref: Davis WILDES p182, Hammatt Ipswich p106],
place:
[Ref: Hammatt Ipswich p106],
child:
[Ref: ForsterEJ FORSTER p84]
Research Notes:
May 31 1671: freeman of Ipswich [Ref: Hammatt Ipswich p106]

will undated, proved Mar 29 1692. To wife Martha the bedding and other things she brought with her and 12# in corn, one-half in English corn and one-half in Indian corn, to be paid when she leaves his house or within four years. If she dies before payment, his sons Jacob and Daniel are to make payment to her children. She was to have the use of the lower room at the east end of hishouse, a cow, firewood, and 5# a year. To his three sons Jacob, Daniel, and Eleazer (under age), all of his lands. To each of his seven daughters, 20# at the age of eighteen. His "three little children" were to be brought up by his executors, his sons Jacob and Daniel Foster. Witnesses: John Peabody, Sr, Thomas Dorman Sr. When he signed his will he stated that the house where Jacob lived was his own, but that the house where he [Isaac] lived was the one given to Daniel. [Ref: Davis WILDES p182]



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



Descendants of Isaac FOSTER
1. Isaac FOSTER m1. Mary JACKSON m2. Hannah DOWNING m3. Martha HALE
m. Mary JACKSON father: William JACKSON
m. Hannah DOWNING
m. Martha HALE

2nd generation

4. Jacob FOSTER m. Mary CALDWELL
m. Mary CALDWELL father: John CALDWELL mother: Sarah DILLINGHAM