Notes for WILLIAM (nmn Known) FOSTER: 2005 HAS FOUND THE FAMILY LINE (PEDIGREE) FOR THIS FOSTER / FORSTER LINECLOSER TO PROVEN WITH WILLIAM'S DESCENDANT WILLIAM L FOSTER (this Writter) JOINING THE FOSTERDNA PROJECT AS PARTICIPANT #109 IN GROUP 7 . http://www.fosterdna.org/Participant.htm
TEST OF THE MALE Y CHROMOZONE WITH MATCHES TO OTHER PARTICIPANTS HAS NOW CONFIRMED A DESCENDANT LINE FROM THE 1660 GLOUCESTER COLONIAL FORSTER / FOSTER FAMILY OF JAMES RICHARD FORSTER / FOSTER WHO MARRIED SUSANNAH ANNE GARNETT AND LIVED IN ESSEX CO VA / GLOUCESTER CO VA. VIA THEIR SON JOHN FOSTER. REFER TO RESULTS TABLE
http://www.fosterdna.org/results_table.htm TEST RESULT CHARTS HAVE THIS FOSTER LINE CONNECT TO A "MOST RECENT COMMON ANCESTER LINE " OF GARY L FOSTER AND ATHOL FOSTER.
**STILL KNOWN AS WILLIAM FOSTER Sr (NO MIDDLE NAME IS KNOWN AT THIS TIME) HIS PARENTS AND PLACE OF BIRTH HAVE BEEN A SUBJECT OF MUCH DISCUSSION AND THEORY AMONG FOSTER FAMILY GENEALOGY RESEARCHERS. AFTER MUCH RESEARCH BY THIS WRITTER I HAVE DETERMINED WILLIAM'S PEDIGREE IS MOST LIKELY VIA JAMES FOSTER SON OF JOHN FOSTER OF ESSEX COUNTY COLONIAL VIRGINIA. WILLIAM WOULD HAVE BEEN A YOUNGER CHILD OF JAMES MENTIONED IN HIS WILL AND LISTED ON PAGE 197 OF DR BILLY G FOSTER'S VOL I CD SEC EDITION OF "THE FOSTER FAMILY OF FLANDERS , ENGLAND , AND AMERICAN". HE WAS NOT A SCOTCH- -IRISH IMMIGRANT BUT A 4 GENERATION AMERICAN FOSTER GRT X GRANDSON OF A FOSTER IN ENGLAND VIA THE IMMIGRANT RICHARD FOSTER.
RECENT FOSTER FAMILY RESEARCH BY GARY L FOSTER A DISTANT FOSTER CCOUSIN OF THIS AUTHOR HAS UNCCOVERED BIRTH DATE AND CHRISTING FOR WILLIAM IN VIRIGINIA. PLS REFER TO ( http://www.surnames.com/jamesriver/descendants/james_richard_foster/default.htm ) by GARY L FOSTER.
SEVERAL LINES OF FOSTERS / FORSTERS WHO MOVED TO OLD ROWAN CO (DAVIE COUNTY AREA) IN THE 1700S LIST A WILLIAM FOSTER ,BUT DO NOT GO INTO DETAIL ABOUT SPOUSE OR DESCENDANTS.**DURING THE TIME PERIOD OF 1700S FOR THE OLD ROWAN CO / DAVIE CO YADKIN RIVER AREA FOSTERS MOVED IN FROM COLONIAL PENNSYLVANIA, MARYLAND, AND VIRGINIA AFTER IMMIGRATING FROM ENGLAND. A JOHN AND JAMES FOSTER ARE REPORTED MOVING TO THE DUTCHMAN CREEK AREA OF NOW DAVIE COUNTY AT THE SAME TIME WILLIAM FOSTER IS FARMING THE AREA OF FORK CHURCH YADKIN RIVER AREA.
TO MAKE GENEALOGY RESEARCH HARDER ENGLISH SETTLER FAMILIES DURING WILLIAMS GENERATION ONLY REFERRED TO THEIR SONS WITHOUT MIDDLE NAMES AND INSTEAD LABELED THEM AS (SR; JR; I ; II; & THE ELDER)
A HEZEKIAH FOSTER FATHER OF JOHN GANON FOSTER IS IN DAVIE.(I 'M UNSURE OF HIS RELATIONSHIP TO THIS WILLIAM FOSTER)
THE ELLIS FAMILY OF LUCY ELLIS WAS FARMING THE FORKS OF THE YADKIN AND ENTERED INTO LAND SALES, TRUST, AND TRANSFER WITH THE TUCKER FAMILY. (SOURCE) ROWAN COUNTY LIBRARY MCCUBBIN FILE HISTORY / GENEALOGY SECTION.A LUCY ELLIS IS REPORTED AS THE WIFE OF THOMAS FOSTER AND RECENT DNA TEST OCT 2005 LINK THOMAS AS A RELATIVE OF THIS WILLIAM WHO IS THE FATHER OF TILMAN.
ANOTHER ENGLISH IMMIGRANT ALSO MOVING TO THIS AREA WITH HIS FAMILY WAS SQUIRE BOONE FATHER OF DANIEL BOONE WHO IS REPORTED TO HAVE MOVED AFTER DANIEL'S BIRTH IN PENNSYLVANIA TO OLD ROWAN --THE TRADE ROUTE NOW KNOWN AS HWY 64 BETWEEN THE YADKIN RIVER AND MOCKVILLE,NC.
OTHER FAMILIES ALSO MOVING TO THE AREA WERE THE BANKS ,TUCKERS , ELLIS,WOODS, MARKLANDS , ZIMMERMANS, PHELPS, ORRELLS,& GABARDS
TILMAN FOSTER & OTHER FOSTERS ARE MENTIONED IN THE RECORDS OF FORK BAPTIST CHURCH DAVIE CO NC HIGHWAY 64 EAST OF MOCKSVILLE NC / WEST OF THE YAKIN RIVER
WILLIAM'S & SARAH'S GRANDCHILDREN ARE LINKED BY MARRIAGE TO THE ORRELL AND MARKLAND FAMILIES IN ROWAN / DAVIE CO. THE ORRELL & MARKLAND FAMILIES IMMIGRATED TO MARYLAND PRIOR TO NORTH CAROLINA FROM ENGLAND TO SETTLE IN THE MARYLAND COLONY-WHERE THERE WERE MEMBERS OF THE FOSTER FAMILY WHO LATER MIGRATED TO ROWANAND GUILFORD CO NC
A JOSEPH FOSTER WITNESSED THE WILLS OF ORRELLS IN MARYLAND (REF ROBERT ORRELLS FAMILY SITE )
LOCATION OF WILLIAM AND SARAH FOSTERS GRAVES IS UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME BUT POSSIBLY ARE IN A FAMILY CEMETARY. THERE IS NO RECORD OF THEM BEING BURIED AT FORK CHURCH WHERE SOME OF THEIR CHILDREN AND GRANCHILDREN ARE BURIED. WILLIAM'S SONS TILMAN AND WILLIAM II ARE BURIED IN FORK BAPTIST CEMETARY HWY 64 DAVIE CO NC. AS AN EARLY SETTLER OF THEN ROWAN COUNTY HE IS REPORTED IN CENSUS LIST AND TAX LIST OF CAPT. SAMUEL FOSTER'S DISTRICT ALSO LIVING NEAR HIM WERE A ROBERT FOSTER, THOMAS FOSTER AND JAMES FOSTER(REFER TO ): A FAMILYTREEMAKER. GENEALOGY.COM REPORT BY DESCENDANT CHARLES C (CHUCK) FOSTER LIST WILLIAM'S SPOUSE AS SARAH LAY A MEMBER OF THE CASWELL CO NC FAMILY AND HEIR TO JOHN LAY. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Feb 2006 Les Foster shared the Genealogy Book "The Foster Family " with me. It was copyrighted 1973 and in the Library of Congress Card Cat as 72-93045. This 1 inch thick book was from The American Genealogy Research Institute Arlington,Va.
Page 35-39 list Immigrants to the Colonies. To Virginia the Following : 1635 (Armstrong Foster ); 1653 Docar Foster; 1648 Edward Foster ; 1635 Francis Foster on the " George" ; 1653 Francis Foster ; 1643 Giles Foster ; 1838 Henry Foster; 1646 Henry Foster ; 1652 Henry Foster ; 1635 James Foster on "The America"; 1643 James Foster ; 1642 James Foster ; 1646 James Foster ; 1650 James Foster ;1652 James Foster ; 1623 John Foster ;1623 John Foster ; 1641 John Foster ;1654 John Foster 1698 John Foster (indentured servant );1635 Mark Foster;1635 Nicholas Foster ;1645 Permett Foster ;1650 Phillip Foster; 1636 Phillip Foster : 1635 (Richard Foster age 16 on the Safety) ;1638 Richard Foster ; 1648 Richard Foster ; 1654 Robert Foster ; 1652 Thomas Foster ; 1654 Thomas Foster ; 1637 William Foster ; 1635 Zechariah Foster.
More About WILLIAM (nmn Known) FOSTER: Burial: 1848, UNKNOWN POSSIBLE A FAMILY CEMETARY NEAR FORK. Christening: 03 May 1752, Albemarle Parish, Surry, Virginia.
More About WILLIAM (nmn Known) FOSTER and SARAH LAY: Marriage: Bef. 1797, CASWELL CO NC.323, 324
Marriage Notes for WILLIAM (nmn Known) FOSTER and SARAH LAY: 2 DATA 3 DATE 31 JUL 2005
Children of WILLIAM (nmn Known) FOSTER and SARAH LAY are:
+TILMAN FOSTER, b. 18 May 1800, ROWAN CO NC, d. 19 Mar 1854, MOCKSVILLE DAVIE CO NC.
WILLIAM (nmn Known) FOSTER (b. 10 Mar 1752, d. Jun 1848)
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