Individual Details
Deacon Samuel Foster
(1619 - 10 Jul 1702)
The Chelmsford area was free of trouble between the colonists and the Penacook Indians until 1675. Wonalancet had promised never to fight the English settlers and refused to participate in King Philip's War. He was invited to a meeting with the English settlers but was treacherously imprisoned after he arrived. While the Indians were away the Chelmsford settlers destroyed their village and killed their old men. Samuel Foster and a few others were opposed to this butchery but could find no jury that would bring those responsible to justice. When Wanalanett returned months later he found his lands taken by whites. The General
Court assigned him Tyng's Island where he lived for a few years but despairing of his relations with the European settlers he took his people to Canada (Pierce 981).
Events
Families
Spouse | Esther Kemp ( - ) |
Child | Hannah Foster (1649 - ) |
Child | Samuel Foster (1650 - 1730) |
Child | Eli Foster (1653 - 1717) |
Child | Edward Foster (1657 - 1715) |
Child | Esther Foster (1659 - 1733) |
Child | Andrew Foster (1662 - 1671) |
Child | Abraham Foster (1664 - 1671) |
Child | Nathaniel Foster (1667 - ) |
Child | John Foster (1671 - 1671) |
Endnotes
1. Frederick Clifton Pierce, Foster genealogy, Part 2: being the record of the posterity of Reginald Foster (Chicago: Press o W.B. Conkey Co., 1899), 981; digital images, Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 19 July 2010.
2. Frederick Clifton Pierce, Foster genealogy, Part 2: being the record of the posterity of Reginald Foster (Chicago: Press o W.B. Conkey Co., 1899), 981; digital images, Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 19 July 2010.
3. Frederick Clifton Pierce, Foster genealogy, Part 2: being the record of the posterity of Reginald Foster (Chicago: Press o W.B. Conkey Co., 1899), 981; digital images, Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 19 July 2010.
4. 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.