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The parents or Mark Foster (c 1700 Pennsylvania - 1777 Henry County, Virginia) were said to have been Anthony Samuel Foster, nickname or aka John Foster (4 Feb 1698 St Anns Parrish, Essex County, Virginia - 4 Feb 1763 St George Parish, Spotsylvania County, Virginia) and Sarah Martha Taliaferro, nickname or aka Martha Taliaferro (c 1700 St. Anne's Parish, Essex County, Virginia - Feb 1761 Spotsylvania, Spotsylvania County, Virginia).[1] This cannot be, since it would seem that a better (than the previous year of birth estimate of 1723) year of birth estimate could be c 1700. The Anthony Samuel Foster summary is being retained as a possible relative of Mark Foster,
On 13 May 1752 at the Christ Lutheran Church, (then) Yorktown, York County, Pennsylvania (in 1741, the land around the Cordorus Creek was surveyed and lots were laid out for what is became the town of York.) Mark Foster married a widow, Mary Hoff. Dating back to 1733, Christ Church is the oldest Lutheran congregation west of the Susquehanna River. Pastor Johan Casper Stoever (John Casper Stover) and 23 local families originally founded the church as "Der Evangelische Lutherische Germind on der Kathores," or "The Evangelical Lutheran Congregation on the Codorus."[2] The Charles Foster Family Tree, by fosterc, recorded the wife of Mark Foster as Mary Elizabeth (Stout) Huff (1725 Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, New Jersey - 1770 Pittsylvania County, Virginia). This would likely have been a different Mary Stout.[3]
In 1770, in Pittsylvania County, Virginia (later Patrick County) with his wife Maty (widow of ?Richard? Hoff), deeded to their son, Charles Foster, land in York County, Pennsylvania. The land was conveyed in consideration of Five Shillings in a warrant obtained by Mary Hoff, on 5 May 1770 for a track of land of 100 acres0 situated in Newberry Township, York County, Pennsylvania.
Mark Foster took the Oath of Allegiance in 1777 in what was then Henry County, Virginia.[4]
Mark and Mary Foster's children mentioned thus far, Charles Foster (1753-1838) and Elizabeth (Foster) Witt (bef 175 5- c 1783) were said to have been born in Patrick County, Virginia. However, at the time of their births, they may have been born in differently-named counties. Henry County was established in 1777, when it was carved from Pittsylvania County. The new county was initially named Patrick Henry County in honor of Patrick Henry. On November 26, 1790, Patrick County, Virginia was formed from Henry County, Virginia, when Henry County (or Patrick Henry County) was split into two separate counties, the western part becoming Patrick County and the rest becoming Henry County.
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