Elizabeth (Harris) Foster (abt. 1649 - 1684)

Born about 1649 in Middletown, Hartford, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of Edward Foster — married 20 Jun 1670 in Middletown, Hartford, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 7 Oct 1684 at about age 35 in Middletown, Hartford, Connecticut

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Biography

Elizabeth Harris is the daughter of William Harris and Edith Bligh.

ELIZABETH HARRIS, b. say 1650; d. Middletown 7 Oct. 1684; m. there 20 June 1670 EDWARD1 FOSTER,[61] b. Kingsware, Devon, ca. 1644,[62] d. Guilford, Conn., 14 June 1712,[63] son of John Foster of Kingsware. Edward m. 15 Nov. 1710 Ann Hills,[64] but he apparently had an intermediate wife after Elizabeth, as he is recorded in Middletown as father of Tamsen and John Foster b. 26 Aug. 1688 and 10 Feb. 1691/2.[65] A mariner, Foster resided in Marblehead, Mass., in Middletown, and in Guilford. In April 1716, in response to a petition, the Middletown constable was ordered to “give notice unto Mary Gilbert, Hannah Whitmore, & Patience Marcum all of Middletown Widows; and Thomas Foster, Edward Foster, Joseph Rockwell and Elizabeth his wife, [and] Robert Collins and Mary his wife all of sd Middletown,” to appear at the next General Court at Hartford “to answer to the petition of John Coite and Solomon Coite of New London, and Joseph Coite of Plainfield.”[66] Children of Edward and Elizabeth3 (Harris) Foster, first five recorded in Middletown:[67]

1. Thomas Foster, b. 9 Feb. 1671[/2?]; d. Middletown 1 March 1671/2.
2. Elizabeth Foster, b. 7 May 1673.
3. Thomas Foster, b. June 1675.
4. Susanna Foster, b. 18 Sept. 1679; d. Middletown 14 Nov. 1713.
5. Edward Foster, b. 10 Jan. 1681[/2?].
6. Mary Foster, b. say 1684.[68]

Sources

• Harris, Gale Ion. The Brothers William² and Daniel² Harris of Middletown, Connecticut, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 2010) Vol. 164, WN 655, Page 172.
• http://www.americanancestors.org/uploadedFiles/American_Ancestors/Content/Publications/Journals/Register_PDFs/NEHGR_July_2010_Vol_164.pdf
• Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
• Connecticut Town Death Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
• Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934
• 61 “Middletown Vital Records” [note 18], The American Genealogist 13:41 (Elizabeth’s marriage and death).
• 62 Frederick Clifton Pierce, Foster Genealogy; Being the Record of the Posterity of Reginald Foster, an Early Inhabitant of Ipswich, in New England (Chicago: W. B. Conkey Co., 1899), 1015.
• 63 “Middletown Vital Records” [note 18], The American Genealogist 13:41.
• 64 Pierce, Foster Genealogy [note 62], 1015.
• 65 “Middletown Vital Records” [note 18], The American Genealogist 13:41 (both entries name only the father).
• 66 Connecticut Archives: Private Controversies, Series I, 6:453, at Connecticut State Library.
• 67 “Middletown Vital Records” [note 18], The American Genealogist 13:41–42; Pierce, Foster. Genealogy [note 62], 1015, supplemented by the 1716 summons.
• 68 Mary Foster married in Middletown 3 June 1707, as his second wife, Robert Collins

(Barbour Collection, citing Middletown Land Records, 2:12). Her name is given as Eunice in Ralph D. Smyth, “Edward and John Collins and their Descendants,” Register 61 (1907):281–88, at 284, but it appears as Mary in Connecticut Archives: Private Controversies, Series I, 6:453 (see note 66 and related text).

Acknowledgements

• Thank you to Nova Weller for creating WikiTree profile Harris-8095 through the import of smith_eugene.GED on Apr 15, 2013.