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: Jacob FOSTER
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 1635 in England b
  • Death: 9 Jul 1710 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. Judith FOSTER Birth: 20 Oct 1659 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Death: 27 Jan 1659/60 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  2. John FOSTER Birth: 1660 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Death: 1660 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  3. Jacob FOSTER Birth: 15 May 1662 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Death: Jun 1662 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  4. Mary FOSTER Birth: Abt 1663 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Death: 11 Jan 1666/7 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  5. Sarah FOSTER Birth: 3 Aug 1665 in Ipswich, Massachusetts

Marriage: Children:
  1. Abraham FOSTER Birth: 4 Dec 1667 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  2. Jacob FOSTER Birth: 25 Mar 1670 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  3. Amos FOSTER Birth: 15 Aug 1672 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Death: 12 Oct 1672 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  4. Abigail FOSTER Birth: 3 Jul 1674 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  5. Nathaniel FOSTER Birth: 7 Oct 1676 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Death: Before 1710
  6. Samuel FOSTER Birth: 10 Sep 1678 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Death: Before 1710
  7. Joseph FOSTER Birth: 14 Sep 1680 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  8. James FOSTER Birth: 12 Nov 1682 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  9. Mary FOSTER Birth: 25 Dec 1684 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Death: Before 1710

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]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: ForsterEJ FORSTER p84, Pierce FOSTER p122]
abt 1635 [Ref: Davis WILDES p182, Hammatt Ipswich p107],
place:
[Ref: Pierce FOSTER p122]
before immigrating [Ref: ForsterEJ FORSTER p84],
parents:
[Ref: Davis WILDES p182, ForsterEJ FORSTER p84, Pierce FOSTER p122]
Reginald FOSTER & Judith ___ [Ref: Hammatt Ipswich p107],
father:
[Ref: Pope PioneersMA p173]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Davis WILDES p182, ForsterEJ FORSTER p86, Hammatt Ipswich p107],
place:
[Ref: Davis WILDES p182, ForsterEJ FORSTER p86, Hammatt Ipswich p107]
Sources with Information about marriage to Martha KINSMAN
date:
[Ref: ForsterEJ FORSTER p86]
12 Jan 1658 [Ref: Davis WILDES p182, Hammatt Ipswich p107],
place:
[Ref: ForsterEJ FORSTER p86, Hammatt Ipswich p107],
names:
[Ref: Pierce FOSTER p122],
child:
[Ref: ForsterEJ FORSTER p86, Hammatt Ipswich p107]
Sources with Information about marriage to Abigail LORD
date:
[Ref: Davis WILDES p182]
26 Feb 1666 [Ref: Hammatt Ipswich p107]
second marriage of Jacob [Ref: ForsterEJ FORSTER p86],
place:
[Ref: Hammatt Ipswich p107],
names:
[Ref: Pierce FOSTER p122],
child:
[Ref: ForsterEJ FORSTER p86, Hammatt Ipswich p107]
Research Notes:
deacon of the first church [Ref: ForsterEJ FORSTER p86]

lived in the first house build by father Reginald. it stood on the south side of the Ipswich river, near the stone bridge, and on a portion of what is now the Heard Estate. [Ref: ForsterEJ FORSTER p86]

also owned another house, which he sold to Abraham Perkins, son of John and grandson of Elder John Perkins [Ref: ForsterEJ FORSTER p86]

will made Jul 7 and proved Jul 24, 1710. To his wife Abigail "honorable and comfortable maintenance" during her natural life. To his daughter Sarah Caldwell, the four acres at Muddy River that his father bought from Ralph Dix, but she or her heirs were to pay his executors 10# in money. To his sons Abraham and Jacob, the marsh at Plum Island, 12 acres of land and all the land at Muddy River that was his father's. The residue, including his house, barn, land, and moveables, to his sons and executors Joseph and james Foster. Witnesses: J. Stainford, Nathaniel Knowlton, Elizabeth Gould. [Ref: Davis WILDES p182]



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



Descendants of Jacob FOSTER
1. Jacob FOSTER m1. Martha KINSMAN m2. Abigail LORD
m. Martha KINSMAN father: Robert KINSMAN
m. Abigail LORD father: Robert LORD mother: Mary WAIT