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Capt. Hopestill Foster[1]

Male Abt 1620 - 1676  (~ 56 years)


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  • Name Hopestill Foster 
    Prefix Capt. 
    Born Abt 1620  Biddenden, Kent, England, UK Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Gender Male 
    Baptism 30 Jul 1620  Biddenden, Kent, England, UK Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Notable sailed to America on ship Elizabeth (1635), with his widowed Mother 
    _UID FA86FECF9408054BB64EF7C3FA15E2270F7B 
    Died 15 Oct 1676  Dorchester, Suffolk, MA, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Person ID I1141  Irving Genealogy
    Last Modified 15 Nov 2010 

    Father Richard Foster,   b. Abt 1595, Biddenden, Kent, England, UK Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1630, Biddenden, Kent, England, UK Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 35 years) 
    Mother Patience Bigge,   b. Bef 5 May 1588, Cranbrook, Kent, England, UK Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1637/1638, Dorchester, Suffolk, MA, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age > 51 years) 
    Married Abt 1618  Biddenden, Kent, England, UK Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6] 
    _STAT MARRIED 
    _UID EC2AADDA4D472D439486BD7A080ACE3F11B7 
    Family ID F529  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary Bate,   b. 21 Nov 1619, , Kent, England, UK Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Jan 1703, Dorchester, Suffolk, MA, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years)  [7, 8] 
    Married Bef 1640  Dorchester, Suffolk, MA, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    _STAT MARRIED 
    _UID D968ED29971E894E8DC35CEAFD7C28516BA9 
    Last Modified 27 Mar 2016 
    Family ID F542  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - Abt 1620 - Biddenden, Kent, England, UK Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBaptism - 30 Jul 1620 - Biddenden, Kent, England, UK Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - Bef 1640 - Dorchester, Suffolk, MA, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 15 Oct 1676 - Dorchester, Suffolk, MA, USA Link to Google Earth
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    Pin Legend  : Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  • Notes 
    • Sailed to America on ship Elizabeth (1635), with his Mother, Age 14 (age questionable)

      Refer to Peirce's Foster Genealogy page 492.

  • Sources 
    1. [S227] Topographical Dictionary of English Immigrants, Banks, (1937; ISBN: 0-8063-0019-1), Pg 76 (Reliability: 2).
      Foster, Hopestill of Biddenden, Kent county England immigrated on ship Elizabeth to Dorchester, MA

    2. [S169] Foster Genealogy, Frederick Clifton Pierce, (1899; Chicago W. B. Conkey Co.), Pg 492 (Reliability: 2).
      b. in England 1621

    3. [S405] Foster - Biddenden ENG 1601-1626, Elizabeth French, (NEHGS - R. Standon Avery Special Collections), 5-169.jpg., Year 1620 (Reliability: 2).
      The XXX-th daye [Julye] xpined Hopstill the sonne of Richard ffoster.
      "xpined" should be Xened meaning Christened an abbreviation (like Xmas for Christmas) where the X means Christ.

    4. [S169] Foster Genealogy, Frederick Clifton Pierce, (1899; Chicago W. B. Conkey Co.), Pg 495 (Reliability: 2).
      He died Oct. 15, 1676.

    5. [S288] New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Torrey, Clarence Almon, (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc.), 5-056.doc., Supplement #2 Pg 23 (Reliability: 2).
      FOSTER, Richard & Patience BIGGE (bp 5 May 1588- ); m bef 1630 Biddenden/Dorchcester [50 GMC] [50 GMC] refers to John Brooks Threlfall, Fifty Great Migration Colonist to New England and Their Origins (Madison, WI: The Author, 1990)

    6. [S289] Third Supplement To Torrey, Sanborn, Melinde Lutz, (Genelaogical Publishing Co. Inc. Baltimore Maryland. Copyright 2003, Second printing (2005)), Pg 101 (Reliability: 2).
      FOSTER, Richard & Patience BIGGE (bp 5 May 1588 - 1637/8+); m bet 1609-1630 Cranbrook, Kent/Biddenden, Kent/Dorchester [50 GMC; GM 1:286, 2:554]

    7. [S288] New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Torrey, Clarence Almon, (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc.), 5-056.doc., Pg 277 (Reliability: 2).
      FOSTER, (1620, 1617?-1676) & Mary [BATES] (- 1703, in 84th y, 1702/3); b 1640; Dorchester

    8. [S289] Third Supplement To Torrey, Sanborn, Melinde Lutz, (Genelaogical Publishing Co. Inc. Baltimore Maryland. Copyright 2003, Second printing (2005)), Pg 101 (Reliability: 2).
      FOSTER, Hopestill (c1621- ) & Mary BATE (bp 1619- ); dau of James; m by 1640 Dorshester [GM 1:199, 2:555]

    9. [S259] CD-New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Torrey, Clarence A., Record No. 12,162 (Reliability: 2).
      FOSTER, Hopestill (1620, 1617?-1676) & Mary [BATES] (-1703, in 84th y, 1702/3); by 1640; Dorchester {Reg. 4:166, 277, 5:297, 300, 399 29:254, 52:195, 65:63, 66; Sibley's Harv. Grad. 2:222; Dorchester 106, 118; Tingley-Meyers 47; Foster 492; Capen 18; Booth (1910) 6; Parker (#9) 269; Topliff (1906) 17; Sv. 1:138, 177; Bates Bulletin 1 ser. 64, 4 ser. 150; Bent Anc. 15, 16; Brown (1931) (ms) 10}
      Third supplement corrects surname to BATE


 

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