Joseph Foster (bef. 1730 - 1804)

Born before 19 Jul 1730 in Ipswich, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Lydia (Giddings) Foster — married 18 Oct 1756 in Ipswich, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 4 Dec 1804 after age 74 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

This profile is part of the Chebacco Parish, Massachusetts One Place Study.

Joseph Foster was baptized on 19 Jul 1730, at the Chebacco Parish Church in Ipswich, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. He was the son of Jeremiah Foster and Dorothy Rust.^[1] Since he was 74 when he died in December of 1804, he was probably also born in 1730.

Joseph married Lydia Giddings on 18 Oct 1756, in Ipswich.^[2] They lived in nearby Gloucester, where they had seven children:

• Mary Foster (b. ca.1757; bp. 1 Sep 1760, First Parish Church)^[3]
• Lydia Foster (bp. 7 Sep 1760, First Parish Church)^[4]
• Sarah Foster (bp. 22 Aug 1762, First Parish Church)^[5]
• Joseph Foster, Jr. (bp. 27 May 1764, First Parish Church)^[6]
• Elizabeth Foster (bp. 2 Feb 1766, First Parish Church)^[7]
• Judith Foster (bp. 27 Dec 1772, First Parish Church)^[8]
• William Foster (b. 1 Aug 1775; bp. 1 Oct 1775, First Parish Church)

Lydia Giddings Foster died at the age of 52, on 27 Jul 1784, in Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts.^[9]

Joseph's second wife was a widow: Hannah (Davis) Somes. They published their intention to marry in Gloucester on 30 Oct 1790 and probably married there before the end of the year.^[10] Joseph and Hannah had no known children.

Military Service

Colonel Joseph Foster served with Massachusetts Revolutionary Coast Guards during the American Revolution.

Joseph Foster is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A041723.

Joseph Foster is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: P-160869
Rank: Colonel / Patriotic Service

Death

Col. Joseph Foster, a resident of Gloucester, died "suddenly" at the age of 74, on 4 Dec 1804, apparently while in Ipswich, Massachusetts.^[12] He was buried in Gloucester, at the Bridge Street Cemetery,^[13] later renamed as the First Parish Burial Ground in Gloucester.^[14]

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Ipswich - Births, p. 146 (accessed 10 Jul 2017)
2. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Ipswich - Marriages, p. 167 (accessed 10 Jul 2017).
3. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Gloucester - Births, p. 262 (accessed 15 Jul 2017).
4. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Gloucester - Births, p. 262 (accessed 15 Jul 2017).
5. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Gloucester - Births, p. 263 (accessed 15 Jul 2017).
6. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Gloucester - Births, p. 262 (accessed 15 Jul 2017).
7. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Gloucester - Births, p. 261 (accessed 15 Jul 2017).
8. ↑ "d. Capt. Joseph:" Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Gloucester - Births, p. 262 (accessed 15 Jul 2017).
9. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Gloucester - Deaths, p. 134 (accessed 15 Jul 2017)
10. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Gloucester - Marriages, p. 214.
11. ↑ Massachusetts. 1896-1908. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War : A Compilation from the Archives. Boston: Wright and Potter Print. Co. State Printers Volume 5, Page 920.
12. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Ipswich - Deaths, p. 558 (accessed 10 Jul 2017).
13. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Gloucester - Deaths, p. 134 (accessed 10 Jul 2017).
14. ↑ Find A Grave Memorial# 61833360.

• Pierce, Frederick Clifton, Foster Genealogy, Being the Record of the Posterity of Reginald Foster, an Early Inhabitant of Ipswich in New England, Whose Genealogy Is Traced Back to Anacher, Great Forrester of Flanders, Who Died in 837 A.D., with Wills, Inventories, Biographical Sketches, Etc., also the Record of All Other American Fosters, self-publication, Chicago, IL: Press of W. B. Conkey Company, 1899.