Individual Details

Hannah Foster

(Abt 1643 - 20 Apr 1689)

Hugh Stone and Hannah quarreled about selling a piece of land. They were walking together one evening having words when he cut her throat with a sharp knife. His neighbors surprised him before he could deny the fact so he pleaded guilty at his trial. Hannah had borne him several children and would have delivered another had she lived a few weeks longer.
A minister walked Hugh to the scaffold and inquired if he was prepared to be judged by God. Hugh answered that he had repented of his sin and hoped so. Asked why he committed murder Hugh answered "It was contention in my family." The prisoner addressed the company gathered for the execution admonishing young people to obey their parents and servants their masters according to the will of God. He tells them that marriage is an ordinance of God and husband and wife should not provoke one another. "Here is this murderer; look upon him, and see how many are come with eyes to behold this man that abhors himself before God." "I will tell you that I wish I never had had the opportunity to do such a murder. If you say when a person has provoked you 'I will kill him,' tis a thousand to one, but the next time you will do it." Hugh admits that he was full of drink when he killed his wife. "That I am guilty of it because I gave way to that sin more than any other, and then God did leave me to practice wickedness and to murder that dear woman whom I should have taken a great deal of contentment in, which if I had done, I should not have here to suffer this death." The minister prayed and recommended him unto the divine mercy before he was turned over into Eternity.

Events

BirthAbt 1643Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, British America
Marriage15 Oct 1667Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, British America - Hugh Stone
Death20 Apr 1689Andover, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America

Families

SpouseHugh Stone ( - 1689)
ChildJohn Stone (1668 - )
ChildSimon Stone (1671 - 1747)
ChildKatherine Stone (1674 - )
ChildDaniel Stone (1677 - )
ChildHannah Stone (1680 - )
ChildHugh Stone (1682 - )
ChildKezia Stone (1686 - )
FatherAndrew Foster (1579 - 1685)
MotherAnne Alcock (1617 - 1692)
SiblingAndrew Foster Jr. (1640 - 1697)
SiblingSarah Foster (1642 - 1697)
SiblingAbraham Foster (1648 - 1723)
SiblingMary Foster (1652 - 1702)

Notes

Death

Hannah's husband murdered her while in a drunken rage and was hanged.

Endnotes

1. 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. ... (Chicago: F.C. Pierce, 1899, 1085 pgs.), p 1035.

2. 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. ... (Chicago: F.C. Pierce, 1899, 1085 pgs.), p 1035.

3. 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. ... (Chicago: F.C. Pierce, 1899, 1085 pgs.), p 1035.