Hannah Grace (Blair) Foster (abt. 1745 - abt. 1810)

Born about 1745 in Faggs Manor, Chester, Colony of Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Descendants

Died about 1810 at about age 65 in Pennsylvania, United States

Biography

Hannah Blair was born about 1743. She was the daughter of Rev Samuel Blair of Londonderry Township, Chester Co, Pennsylvania, and his wife, Frances van Hook, the daughter of Lawrence van Hook of New Jersey.^[1]

Hannah was the sister of:

1. Joseph Francis Blair Sr . b.1735 Big Samson Swamp ,Wayne Co., PA
2. Rev Samuel Blair, DD, born 1741 at Chester County, Pennsylvania, died at Germantown on 23 September 1818, chaplain to the House of Representatives 1790-2, married at Abington, Connecticut, on 24 September 1769, Susanna Shippen, the daughter of William Shippen and his wife, Susannah Harrison;^{[2] [1]}
3. Frances Moore;^[1]
4. Martha Edmiston;^[1]
5. Susannah Sanderson;^[1]
6. William Lawrence Blair;^[1]

Hannah married William Foster and they had eight children which included:

1. Alexander William Foster, who married Jane Heron;^[3]
2. James Blair Foster who married Mary Grier of Meadville in February 1829;^[3]
3. Mary van Hook Foster;^[1] married William Dougherty;^[3]
4. Samuel Blair Foster married Miss Elizabeth Donnell;^[3]
5. Margaret Foster married James R Rodgers;^[3]
6. Martha Blair Foster;^[1]
7. Hannah Susannah Foster;^[1] Hannah Foster married Mr Stephenson;^[3]
8. Susan Foster married Mr Clark;^[3]
9. Elizabeth Foster;^[1]

Hannah husband William Foster died 30 September, 1780, aged 40, and is buried in the Octoraro Churchyard.^[3] Hannah then raised their 8 children alone. Two of the oldest boys became prominent Lawyers in west Pennsylvania and two daughters married prominent war veterans, the other two boys farmed and cared for their mother until her death.

Hannah Foster died at her daughter's home in Pennsylvania in 1810, aged 65, having survived her husband William by 30 years.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9} Berthold Fernow, ed., Calendar of wills on file and recorded in the offices of the Clerk of the Court of Appeals, of the County Clerk at Albany, and of the Secretary of State: 1626-1836, (New York: The Colonial Dames of the State of New York, 1896), accessed 17 September 2015, https://archive.org/stream/calendarofwillso02fern#page/48/mode/2up pp.48-9.
2. ↑ Charles Penrose Keith, The Provincial Councillors of Pennsylvania, who held office between 1733-1776, and those earlier Councillors who were some time Chief Magistrates of the Province, and their Descendants, (Philadelphia: W.S. Sharp Printing Co, 1883), accessed 17 September 2015, https://archive.org/stream/provincialcounci00keit#page/n159/mode/2up pp.139-40.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8} Keister, 1957, p. 71-2.

See also:

• PCA Church Archives, see history of Henry O'Donnald, family Bible Vanhook family.
• Presbyterian Genealogical Archives (PGA) Descendants of Henry Foster
• Keister, Bernice Hubbard. The Van Hook and Allied Families, The American Historical Company, Inc., New York 1957 On Hathitrust.Org
• http://www.wvgenweb.org/ohio/hcrosman.htm