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• Name: Renold FOSTER
• Sex: M
• Birth: Exeter, Devonshire, England ^b
• Death: 1681 ^d


Parents:

Family:
Marriage:

• Judith WIGNOL on 1619 at Theydon Garnon, Co Essex, England .^m1
  
• Judith WIGNOL Birth: England Death: Oct 1664 in Ipswich, Massachusetts

Children:

1. Mary FOSTER Birth: Abt 1618 in England Death: 9 Apr 1705 in Topsfield, Massachusetts
2. Sarah FOSTER Birth: Abt 1620 in England
3. Abraham FOSTER Birth: 1622 in Exeter, Devonshire, England Death: 15 Jan 1710/1 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
4. Reginald FOSTER Birth: Abt 1628 in England Death: 28 Dec 1707 in Chebacco, Ipswich, Massachusetts
5. Isaac FOSTER Birth: 1630 in England Death: 6 Feb 1691/2 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
6. William FOSTER Birth: 1633 in England Death: 17 May 1713 in Boxford, Massachusetts
7. Jacob FOSTER Birth: 1635 in England Death: 9 Jul 1710 in Ipswich, Massachusetts

Marriage:

• Sarah LARRIFORD on Sep 1665 at Ipswich, Massachusetts .^m2
  
• Sarah LARRIFORD Death: 22 Feb 1682/3

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

place:

[Ref: ForsterEJ FORSTER p83]

Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information

place:

Brunton, England [Ref: Pierce FOSTER p110]

Sources for death Information

date:

[Ref: Davis WILDES p177, Torrey NE<1700 p278]

1680/1 [Ref: Roberts USPres FILLMORE]

dated 30 Apr 1680 inv taken 30 May 1681 [Ref: Pope PioneersMA p173]

will dated 30 Apr 1680 [Ref: PeabodySH PEABODY p9]

Sources with Information about marriage to Judith WIGNOL

date:

[Ref: Davis FOSTER p13, Davis WILDES p177, Roberts USPres FILLMORE],

place:

[Ref: Davis FOSTER p13, Davis WILDES p177]

England [Ref: Pierce FOSTER p115],

names:

Reginald FOSTER & Judith ___ [Ref: ForsterEJ FORSTER p83, Hammatt Ipswich p105, Hammatt Ipswich p107, Pierce FOSTER p115],

child:

[Ref: Davis WILDES p181, Davis WILDES p182, ForsterEJ FORSTER p84, Hammatt Ipswich p105, Hammatt Ipswich p107, Jacobus GRANBERRY p290, Pierce FOSTER p121, Pierce FOSTER p122, Pope PioneersMA p173, Roberts USPres FILLMORE]

Sources with Information about marriage to Sarah LARRIFORD

date:

[Ref: Davis WILDES p177, Torrey NE<1700 p278]

Sep 1665 as second marriage of both [Ref: ForsterEJ FORSTER p84, Pierce FOSTER p115],

place:

[Ref: Davis WILDES p177, Torrey NE<1700 p278],

names:

Reginald FOSTER & Sarah MARTIN [Ref: Davis WILDES p177]

Reginald FOSTER & Sarah ___ [Ref: ForsterEJ FORSTER p84, Pierce FOSTER p115, Pope PioneersMA p173]

Research Notes:
1635: emigrated to New England and settled in Ipswich [Ref: Davis WILDES p177]

immigrated from Exeter, Devonshire, to Ipswich, MA [Ref: Banks Topo p22]

royal descent given by Forster (NEHGR Jan 1876) is complete garbage [Ref: Neil Thompson SGM 7/26/2001-180336]

immigrated from the parish of Harlow, co Essex [Ref: Neil Thompson SGM 7/26/2001-180336]

reputed to have come to this country from Exeter, Devonshire, and to have crossed the water in one of the shps embargoed by King Charles I; but of this, nothing certain is as yet known [Ref: ForsterEJ FORSTER p83]

came from England in 1638, and with his family was on board a vessel embargoed by King Charles I [Ref: Hammatt Ipswich p105]

A proclamation was issued 30 Apr 1637 to prevent the emigration of Puritans from England: the King (Charles I) refused his dissenting subjects the security of the wilderness. The privy council intervened, and 1 May 1637 to stay a squadron of eight ships which were in the Thames preparing to embark. The fleet was delayed but a few days; on petition of the owners and passengers King Charles removed the restraint [Ref: Pierce FOSTER p110]

1635: first mentioned in records of Ipswich [Ref: Davis WILDES p179]

settled at Ipswich with five sons and two daughters - Abraham, Reginald, William, Isaac, Jacob, Mary, and Sarah [Ref: Hammatt Ipswich p105]

brought with him wife Judith, five sons and two daughters [Ref: ForsterEJ FORSTER p83]

Sep 26 1638: Ipswich. Bought of John Tuttell a house and land [Ref: Pope PioneersMA p173]

Sep 26 1638: bought a house and a large lot on the north side of Ipswich River, described as ";ying near the great Cove beneath the Falls of the Town River" [Ref: Davis WILDES p179]

1641: commoner of Ipswich [Ref: Hammatt Ipswich p105]

Apr 6 1641: granted Reginald Foster, eight acres of meadow in the west meadow, if any remains there ungranted, in consideration of a little hovel that stood at the new bridge, which was taken away for the accommodating of the passage there [Ref: ForsterEJ FORSTER p83]

1643: had charge of the town herd of cattle on South side of the river [Ref: Pope PioneersMA p173]

1646: one of 24 of the inhapibants who "promise carting voluntary toward the cart bridge, besides the rate, a day work a piece [Ref: Hammatt Ipswich p105]

1648: subscriber to an allowance for Major Denison [Ref: Hammatt Ipswich p105]

Mar 8 1647/8: bought of Ralph Dix, all his six acre lot he bought of Wm White [Ref: ForsterEJ FORSTER p83]

Town officer [Ref: Pope PioneersMA p173]

1651: member of trial jury [Ref: Davis WILDES p179]

Mar 11 1655: bought a house and lot on the north side of the river, from Roger Preston [Ref: Davis WILDES p179]

1659: member of grand jury [Ref: Davis WILDES p179]

1661: surveyor of highways [Ref: Hammatt Ipswich p105]

Feb 14 1664: his name, with the names of his sons Abraham, Reginald, Isaac, and Jacob, are in a list of the inhabitants that have shares in Plum Island [Ref: Hammatt Ipswich p105]

1665: member of grand jury [Ref: Davis WILDES p179]

1661: constable of Ipswich [Ref: Davis WILDES p179]

1667: released from military training, but was to pay a bushel of Indian corn annyally for the company's support [Ref: Davis WILDES p179]

Aug 2 1676: with wife Sarah, sold land [Ref: Pope PioneersMA p173]

Dec 2 1679: on a list of those that are allowed to have their votes in Town affairs [Ref: Hammatt Ipswich p105]

Will dated Apr 30 1680, prob. Jun 9 1681, inv taken May 30 1681. to wife Sarah what she brought at marriage, and other things; to sons Abraham, Renold, Isaac, William, and Jacob; to daus Sarah, wife of William Story, and Mary, wife of Francis Paybody; to gr. ch. Hannah Story. [Ref: Pope PioneersMA p173]

will dated Apr 30 1680, proved Jun 9 1681. to wife Sarah the use of the house he then dwelt in, the orchards and gardens, 5# yearly, two cows which she should choose out of his stock, and the keeping of them, the bedstead with bedding in the parlor, the rest of the linen and woolen yarn that she had "provided into the house," a brass pot, a cheese press, a kneading trough, the utensils in the lean-to, the great kettle and two skillets, for her natural life. Also three sheep to be kept winter and summer, two pigs, the provisions in the house at his death, and the table and form for life. The household stuff his wife brought into the house when he married her were to be at her disposal, in life and at death. To his son Abraham Foster, after his wife's decease, the dwelling house, orchard and ground about it, three acres more or less, half the barn and half of the land in the field lying between the land of John Denison and Philip Fowlers, ten acres "on this syde the River caled mudy River" by Major Denison's and John Edwards' land, and six acres of salt marsh. Also to son Abraham four acres of marsh at Plum Island and six acres at Hog Island. To his son Renold all the land "which he possesses of myne at the Falls that he hath built a house upon," be it fifty acres more or less, he to pay out of it "to Sarah my daughter Story" the sum that he gives her "except what the sheets and pillowbeers amounts to." To his son Isaac, eight acres of fresh meadow at the west meadows and four acres of salt marsh at Hog Island. "Jacob to have the use of the salt till the decease of my wife." To his son William, six acres of land he had of Thomas Smith and six acres of marsh at Hog Island, the use of the marsh to Jacob until his wife's decease. To his son Jacob, the house he [Jacob] lives in and the ground about it, two lots beyond Muddy River, ten acres more or less, and the remainder of salt marsh at Hog Island. Also to Jacob, "my land at home and barne dureing my wives naturall life," the pasture on the south side of the river by Simeon Thompson's, the pastrure by Caleb Kimball's, a feather-bed, he to pay what he [the testator] has given his wife and to keep in repair what he had given her in his will. To daughter Sarah, William Storye's wife, 10#, viz, a pair of sheets and a pair of pillowbeers and the rest in the hands of his son Renold "which I have willed him to pay, as appeares above." To daughter Mary, the wife of Francis Pabody, 10#, part to be paid in a pair of sheets, a pair of pillowbeers and a featherbed, the bed after his wife's decease. To grandchild Hannah Story, 6#, viz, a bed, bolster, pillow, and a pair of sheets and blankets "which are of my now wives making, the rest to be paid by my executors, if she carry it well to my wife while she lives with her as she hath done to use hitherto." To son Jacob, the instruments of husbandry. Executors: sons Abraham and Jacob Foster. Overseers: friends Simon Stace and Nehemiah Jewett, "and if any difference arise amongst my wife and children, or amongst them, about any perticuler in my will, my two overseers shall end it, and if they two differ, then as a third may, who they shall choose, joining with either of them." Witnesses: John Starkweather, Nehemiah Jewett. The testator and the same witnesses signed a "Memorandum," dated March 5 1680/1, by which his wife's life estate was "soe except she marry againe," what she earned by her labor should be for her sole benefit, the repairs to the house should be out of her own estate during her abode in it, and she should hae liberty to cut what wood she needed from the land at Mudy river. [Ref: Davis WILDES p179]



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