Elizabeth (Abbot) Foster (1712 - 1758)

Born 17 Sep 1712 in Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Asa Foster — married 26 Oct 1732 in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

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Biography

Elizabeth ^[1][2] was born in 1712^[3][4] in Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay, the fourth of six known children and the only known daughter of John (Jr.) and Elizabeth Harnden Abbott.

On 26 Oct 1732, when she was about twenty years old, she married Asa Foster^[5] at Andover.^[6] She bore him nine known children, seven sons and two daughters:

1. Asa Foster
2. Abiel Foster
3. Daniel Foster
4. David Foster
5. David Foster2
6. Elizabeth (Foster) Lovejoy
7. Benjamin Foster
8. Jonathan Foster
9. Sarah (Foster) Bradley

On 4 July 1758,^[7] when she was in her mid-forties, Elizabeth died of unknown causes at an unknown location.^[8][9]

Sources

1. ↑ Florance Claire Cooke Hendricks-Curd; Donaldine Vernance Cooke Davis, Abbot and Allen genealogy : descendants of George Abbot of Andover, MA (1643), James Allen of Medfield, MA (1639) and allied lines (N.p. Florance Claire Cooke Hendricks-Curd; Donaldine Vernance Cooke Davis: 1981), vol. 2. pp 3-4.
2. ↑ Abiel Abbott, A genealogical register of the descendants of George Abbot of Andover: George Abbot of Rowley, Thomas Abbot of Andover, Arthur Abbot of Ipswich, Robert Abbot of Branford, CT and George Abbot of Norwalk, Ct. (Boston, Massachusetts: James Munroe, 1847)
3. ↑ The Essex Antiquarian, Salem, Massashusetts, 1897, vol 1, #3 (Reprint by Higginson Book Company).
4. ↑ Abiel Abbott, A genealogical register of the descendants of George Abbot of Andover: George Abbot of Rowley, Thomas Abbot of Andover, Arthur Abbot of Ipswich, Robert Abbot of Branford, CT and George Abbot of Norwalk, Ct. (Boston, Massachusetts: James Munroe, 1847)
5. ↑ Florance Claire Cooke Hendricks-Curd; Donaldine Vernance Cooke Davis, Abbot and Allen genealogy : descendants of George Abbot of Andover, MA (1643), James Allen of Medfield, MA (1639) and allied lines (N.p. Florance Claire Cooke Hendricks-Curd; Donaldine Vernance Cooke Davis: 1981), vol. 2., pp 3-4
6. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPH4-YRLJ : Wed Oct 25 13:03:24 UTC 2023), Entry for Asa Foster and Elizabeth Abbott, 26 Oct 1732.
7. ↑ Florance Claire Cooke Hendricks-Curd; Donaldine Vernance Cooke Davis, Abbot and Allen genealogy : descendants of George Abbot of Andover, MA (1643), James Allen of Medfield, MA (1639) and allied lines (N.p. Florance Claire Cooke Hendricks-Curd; Donaldine Vernance Cooke Davis: 1981), vol. 2., pp 3-4
8. ↑ The Essex Antiquarian, Salem, Massashusetts, 1897, vol 1, #3 (Reprint by Higginson Book Company).
9. ↑ Abiel Abbott, A genealogical register of the descendants of George Abbot of Andover: George Abbot of Rowley, Thomas Abbot of Andover, Arthur Abbot of Ipswich, Robert Abbot of Branford, CT and George Abbot of Norwalk, Ct. (Boston, Massachusetts: James Munroe, 1847)

See Also:

• Abiel Abbott, A genealogical register of the descendants of George Abbot of Andover: George Abbot of Rowley, Thomas Abbot of Andover, Arthur Abbot of Ipswich, Robert Abbot of Branford, CT and George Abbot of Norwalk, Ct. (Boston, Massachusetts: James Munroe, 1847).

Description: Descendants of George Abbott, of Rowley, Mass. : of his joint descendants with George Abbott, sr., of Andover, Mass., of the descendants of Daniel Abbott, of Providence, R.I., of some of the descendants of Capt. Thomas Abbott, of Andover, Mass., of George Abbott, of Norwalk Ct., of Robert Abbott, of Branford Ct., with brief notes of many others of the name, original settlers in the United States.

• The Essex Antiquarian, Salem, Massashusetts, 1897, vol 1, #3 (Reprint by Higginson Book Company).

• Florance Claire Cooke Hendricks-Curd; Donaldine Vernance Cooke Davis, Abbot and Allen genealogy : descendants of George Abbot of Andover, MA (1643), James Allen of Medfield, MA (1639) and allied lines (N.p. Florance Claire Cooke Hendricks-Curd; Donaldine Vernance Cooke Davis: 1981), vol. 2.

• World Family Tree, Volume 1, pre-1600 to present.

Acknowledgments

• This person was created through the import of fitzmaster032511.ged on 27 March 2011.

• WikiTree profile Abbott-540 was created through the import of Towne-Weeden.ged on May 29, 2011 by J X.

• WikiTree profile Abbott-2504 was created through the import of Oct 14 2012.ged on Nov 10, 2012 by Pam Carter.