Genealogy Report: Ancestors of Lille Foster
Ancestors of Lille Foster
256.Ephraim Foster, born 09 Oct 1657 in Ipswich, MA16; died 21 Sep 1746 in Andover, MA17.He was the son of 512. Abraham Foster and 513. Lydiah Burbank.He married 257. Hannah Eames.
257.Hannah Eames18, born 18 Dec 166119; died 08 Jul 173120.She was the daughter of 514. Robert Eames and 515. Rebecca Blake.
Notes for Ephraim Foster:
EPHRAIM FOSTER (Abraham, Reginald), b. Ipswich, Mass., October 9, 1657; m. _____, 1677, Hannah Eames, dau. of Robert, b. 1661, d. July 8, 1731 ; m. 2d, Jan. 8, 1732, Mary West, of Bradford, wid. of John West.He was a blacksmith.
"One of the prominent names in the early town history [of Andover, Mass.,] was Ephraim Foster.He was a grandson of Reginald Foster, a citizen of Ipswich of some consideration, and who is said by genealogists to have been descended from an ancient family of Forsters, mentioned by Walter Scott in his tales and ballads of Scottish border warfare.Ephraim Foster was a man conspicuous in the town matters of Andover, although not connected prominently with the military or the civil history.He seems, judging from the numerous documents in his handwriting, to have excelled as a scribe, and to have been versed in the art of punctuation, then little known to the majority of town officials.His favorite point was the colon, with which his papers are plentifully besprinkled, without regard to grammatical or rhetorical construction.This characteristic appears in the 'Proprietor's Records,' where his handwriting occurs.Some of the family estates were in the east part of North Andover, one of the ancient homesteads (that afterward occupied by J. M. Hubbard, Esq., and noted for the large and beautiful elm tree, still vigorous) was Ephraim's residence.He d. September 21, 1746.Res., Andover, Mass., in that part now North Andover."--Pierce, Foster Genealogy, p. 130.
Children of Ephraim Foster and Hannah Eames are:
i. | Hannah Foster, born 28 May 1681. | |||
ii. | Hannah Foster, born 15 May 1684. | |||
iii. | Jemima Foster, born 25 Feb 1685/86. | |||
128 | iv. | Ephraim Foster, born 12 Mar 1687/88 in Andover, Essex, MA; died 08 Apr 1738 in Andover, Essex, MA; married Abigail Poore 11 Jan 1715/16 in Newburyport, Essex, MA. | ||
v. | John Foster, born 26 Mar 1690. | |||
vi. | Gideon Foster, born 13 May 1692. | |||
vii. | David Foster, born 18 Apr 1694. | |||
viii. | Moses Foster, born 27 Sep 1696. | |||
ix. | Aaron Foster, born 21 Apr 1698. | |||
x. | Joshua Foster, born 13 Mar 1701/02. | |||
xi. | Ruth Foster, born 09 Mar 1703/04. |
258.Joseph Poore, born 04 Oct 1653 in Newbury, Essex Co., MA; died 1732 in Newbury, Essex Co., MA.He was the son of 516. John Poore, Sr. and 517. Sarah ?.He married 259. Mary Wallington 06 Aug 1680 in Newbury, Essex, MA.
259.Mary Wallington, born 22 Apr 1663 in Newbury, Essex, MA; died in Newbury, Essex, MA.She was the daughter of 518. Nicholas Wallington and 519. Sara Travers.
Notes for Joseph Poore:
Will probated 6/4/1735
Joseph, b. Oct. 4, 1653, who had ten children; but none of his sons, as we have discovered, had any children.He resided in Newbury, excepting a short time in Rowley, about 1700; was a weaver; also bought and sold lands, and owned lands in Newbury, Salisbury and Rowley at times.His son-in-law, Ephraim Foster, was appointed admr of his estate, Nov. 18, 1732, who rendered acct. June 4, 1735, and the estate was divided among his widow (Mary Poor) , and 5 children that survived, the husbands of whom were all living.He m. Aug. 6, 1680, Mary, dau. of Nicholas Wallingford, b. Aug. 29, 1663.Her father was a seaman, residing in Newbury, when taken captive at sea, and never returned.His wife's mother was Sarah, dau. of Henry and Bridget Travers, of Newbury.
On November 1709 Joseph was a signatory to a petition of the children of the late Nicholas Wallington to the Massachusetts governemnt.This petition is described in more detail under Nicholas' record.
Joseph was a weaver.They resided in Newbury, Mass. except for a short time in Rowley about 1700.Their first child was unnamed and was born and died in 1683.He was called Joseph Sr. in the Newbury town records to distinguish him from another Joseph who was having children around the same time.
Notes for Mary Wallington: Mary Wallington was born in either Newbury or Rowley, Mass. 15 or 22 August 1663.Newbury records give the 22nd, and Rowley records the 15th.Mary died after 18 November 1732, at approximately 69 years of age.(She was alive when her husband wrote his will on that date.) She married Joseph Poore, 6 August 1680, in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. When Mary was sixteen she appeared as a wtiness in a trial against William Fanning of Newbury.On 28 August 1679 Caleb Moody made a complaint against said Fanning and his wife of several misdemeanors.He clamed that Fanning was "overgone with excessive drinking" and was quarrelling with his wife and threatening her and calling her "whore, devill, etc."Sarah Moody and Mary Wallington gave statements that "as they were going by the house to fetch the Cowes, in the moring, Goodwife ffaning coming forth & beginning to complaine of he husband to them: he swore God damme my soule, if you speake a work I will knock out your braines." A Mary Poor married William Pisbury on 15 November 1737 in Newbury.This may be our Mary or it could be another Mary Poore entirely.It is only the fact that the marriage took place two years after her husband's death that makes it seem at all likely.More research is necessary into the local Pilsbury family. |
Children of Joseph Poore and Mary Wallington are:
i. | Unknown Child Poore, born 1683. | |||
ii. | Joseph Poore, born 25 Sep 1685. | |||
iii. | Benjamin Poore, born 07 Nov 1687. | |||
iv. | Sarah Poore, born 12 May 1690. | |||
v. | Mary Poore, born 12 Aug 1692. | |||
129 | vi. | Abigail Poore, born 01 Aug 1695 in Newbury, Essex, MA; died 28 Aug 1747 in Brookfield, Mass; married Ephraim Foster 11 Jan 1715/16 in Newburyport, Essex, MA. | ||
vii. | Hannah Poore, born 03 Apr 1698. | |||
viii. | John Poore, born 01 Aug 1701. | |||
ix. | Lydia Poore, born 14 Mar 1703/04. | |||
x. | Judith Poore, born 08 Jul 1708. |
260.Capt. Henry Dwight, born 19 Dec 1676; died 26 Mar 1732 in Hatfield, MA.He was the son of 520. Timothy Dwight and 521. Hannah Flynt.He married 261. Lydia Hawley 27 Aug 1702.
261.Lydia Hawley, born 07 Jul 1680; died 27 Apr 1748.She was the daughter of 522. Capt. Joseph Hawley and 523. Lydia Marhsall.
Notes for Capt. Henry Dwight:
Capt. Henry Dwight (son of Capt. Timothy Dwight of Dedham, Mass., and Anna Flint, dau. of Rev. Henry Flint of Braintree, Mass.), b. Dec. 19, 1676, was a farmer and trader at Hatfield, Mass., and a man of wealth and standing.He was also, for several years, a judge of the County Court.He m. Aug. 27, 1702, Lydia Hawley, b. July 7, 1680 (dau. of Capt. Joseph Hawley of Northampton, Mass., and Lydia Marshall).She d. April 27, 1748, aet. 68.He d. March 26, 1732, aet. 55.
In copies of wills and deeds found in "The Sutton Papers" he is at different times in the earlier part of his history designated as "a clothier" and "shopkeeper."He was always a farmer.At all times, even when honored as a judge, he was known best int he community by his military title.
The Dwights of that day figured largely in Western Massachusetts as jurists.Five of them, all closely related to each other, sat at different times as justices upon the bench of the same court, that of common pleas, of Hampshire Co., Mass.These were Capt. Henry Dwight of Hatfield, Col. Timothy Dwight of Northampton, his nephew, two sons of Capt. Henry Dwight, namely, Col. Josiah Dwight of Springfield and Genl. Joseph Dwight of Gr. Barrington and Major Timothy Dwight of Northampton, son of Col. Timothy Dwight and father of Prest. Dwight of Yale.They held the judicial office successively in the order in which they are here named.See "Washburn's Judicial History of Massachusetts."Washburn makes the mistake of supposing the 2d term (1748-57) of Col. Timothy Dwight to indicate still another Timothy (No. 3) in a grand succession, and enumerates, accordingly, six judges of the name instead of five, the true number.Capt. Henry Dwight was judge for five years (1727-31.Compare the date of his death).Col. Timothy Dwight held the office twice (1737-41 and 1748-57).Col. Josiah Dwight sat on the bench for 18 years (1750-68, the date of his death).Genl. Joseph Dwight was judge in Hampshire County from 1753 to 1761, when the county was divided, at which time he was made judge of the new county of Berkshire (Washburn wrongly calls it Worcester Co.), which office he held until his death in 1765.He was also judge of probate of Berkshire co. for 16 years (1758-74).In two different instances two Dwights sat as associate judges on the smae bench, as: first, from 1750 to 1757, Col. Timothy Dwight and Col. Josiah Dwight, his cousin; and secondly, from 1758 to 1761, Major Timothy Dwight and Genl. Joseph Dwight, second cousins to each other.In one instance a son, Major Timothy Dwight, immediately succeeded (1758) his father, Col. Timothy Dwight, in the judeship, whose second term of office expired by his resignation of it in 1757.In two other instances two sons of the same father succeeded him in the office, the younger one, Col. Josiah Dwight, following him first.But, strangest of all, three Dwights sat for four years together as judges upon the same bench (1753-7), as by comparing the agreement of their separate official terms will at once appear: Col. Timothy Dwight (1748-57); Col. Josiah Dwight (1750-68); and Brig. Genl. Joseph Dwight (1753-61).One of these judges, Genl. Joseph Dwight, was judge at different times in three different courts, those in the counties of Worcester, Hampshire, and Berkshire.Such a judicial history cannot, it is believed, be paralleled in any other family of the land.
It is a strong proof of the higher estimate in which military rank was held in the times preceeding the revolution, that each of these judges was commonly degisnated by his military instead of his judicial title, in which way, therefore, each of them is uniformly spoken of in this book.Two of this family of judges were Chief Justices: Col. Timothy Dwight and Brig. Genl. Joseph Dwight.
It was in the following way that Nathaniel Dwight of Northampton and Henry Dwight of Hatfield, brothers, were induced to remove from their paternal home at Dedham to Western Massachusetts: "The General Court had given to the town of Dedham eight thousand acres of land, to be located anywhere within the jurisdiction of the court, in exchange for 2,000 acres granted by that town to the Natick Indians, converted under John Eliot.Lieut. Fisher and John Fairbanks were appointed commissioners to examine the country and locate the claim.This they did, and selected Deerfield as the spot, and employed Major John Pynchon of Springield to purchase their lands of the Petumtuck tribe of Indians, taking him in, with some others also, as joint proprietors with them in the purchase.He paid the Indians some L94 and a half as purchase-money, which had been raised for the purpose by the people of Dedham."Thus was it that the lowlands of the Connecticut in Western Massachusetts became early known at Dedham, and thus that the course of the two chief progenitors of the Dwight Family in the third generation became determined thitherward.
Capt. Henry Dwight was active in the subsequent purchase of the territory, comprising now the towns of Gt. Barrington, Sheffield, Egremont, Aldord, etc., in what is now Berkshire Co., Mass.A copy of the original deed of purchase and sale may be found in vol. 8 N.E. Geneal. Register, p. 215, as given by Conkepot, Poneyote, Partarwake, Naurnanquin, and other Indians, "all of Ousatonack, for four hundred and sixty pounds, three barrels of cider and thirty quarts of rum," to Col. John Stoddard, Capt. Henry Dwight and Capt. Luke Hitchcock, "committee appointed by the General Court to purchase a certain tract of land lying upon Housatonack river."
That land was cheap at Hatfield at that time, and that he was disposed to purchase it largely, appears from the fact that in June 1722, he purchased 1,200 acres for L180 (or three English shillings per acre).
In 1726 he and Jamor John Pynchon of Springfield, and John Ashley of Westfield, Mass., were appointed, by the General Court, commissioners under "the Act prepared for issuing L100,000 in bills of credit" for government purposes.
From records at Northampton it appears that he had a negro slave, Humphrey, for whom he paid L60, and a slave woman, Rose, of like cost to him.
None but men of means and enterprise could be traders in those dyas; and none but the best men in the community, "gentlemen", in the technical sense that the word then had, and deacons, were icensed then "to be innholders, taverners and common victualler, and to retail strong krink."Capt Henry Dwight was thus licensed in 1728, as was Col. Samuel Partidge before him, who was one of the great men of Western Massachusetts and Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for Hampshire Co. for 30 years (1706-36).Dea. Aaron Lyman of Belchertown (who m. Eunice Dwight, dau. of Rev. Josiah Dwight of Woodstock, see page 541), was licensed likewise in 1728, as was also, in the same year, Genl. Joseph Dwight (son of Capt. Henry Dwight), then living in Springfield, Mass.How greatly has American society generally moved forward since that day to better things.Who would wish now to go back in any respect to the pioneer days of our still new but already great republic?
The communion-service now used by the Congregational Church at Hatfield is said to have been given to it by Capt. Henry Dwight 150 years ago, or more.
Notes for Lydia Hawley: It will interest the descendants of Capt. Henry Dwight to read an account of his wife's marriage-outfit, which the author found at Northampton. "An account of goods Lydia Hawley had at her marriage and since."They were had of David Wilton, and the account was made out after his decease by her father.The prices given are the cost prices of the articles to him.By adding 100% to them, the pay-price given by Mr. Hawley to Mr. Wilton will be made manifest.Behold then the account: Five suits of good aparel not valued. LsdLsd Bible.........................080Skillet..........................060 Kettle........................200Frying-pan.................050 do. ..........................0 15 0Iron Pot.......................060 Warming-pan...........0 13 07 pillow cases............0 16 0 6 plates.....................0803 bath-cloths...............080 Basin ........................04020 napkins..................1 13 4 6 platters ..................1802 chests...................... 248 6 porringers...............0802 wheels (spinning?)080 1do. ......................0106 chairs ...................... 0 10 8 6 spoons ...................030Trammel slice--tongs0 14 0 1 funnel ......................0102 heaters .................... 014 1 quart pot .................0401 pail ............................ 000 1 candlestick & earthWooden-ware..............028 enware......................030Bread tub ......................020 Sieve bottom..............010Brass skimmer and Pillion and cloth..........0 16 0trencher........................028 Bed, bolster & pillows 300A pair pot-hooks .........020 Coverlid & 2 blankets200Jackspit........................ 018 Curtains and valance.. 2002 cows (40s & 46s).... 460 6 pair sheets.................500 The whole amounting when doubled, as all but two or three articles were, to L48 12s., or $242.--The Hostory of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass. by Benjamin W. Dwight, Vol. II, 1874, pages 624-625. |
Children of Henry Dwight and Lydia Hawley are:
130 | i. | Brig. Gen Joseph Dwight, born 16 Oct 1703; died 19 Jun 1765; married Mary Pynchon. | ||
ii. | Seth Dwight, born 18 Aug 1707; died 09 Jun 1774. | |||
iii. | Dorothy Dwight, born 17 Sep 1709; died 12 Jan 1744/45. | |||
iv. | Lydia Dwight, born 25 Apr 1712; died 25 Jan 1748/49. |