Hopestill Foster

Bef 1620 - 1676  (> 56 years)

• Name	Hopestill Foster  [1]
  Birth	Bef 30 Jul 1620  [2, 3, 4, 5]
  Baptism	30 Jul 1620	Biddenden, Ashford, Kent, England   [2, 3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Death	14 Oct 1676	Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [3, 5]
  Alternate death	15 Oct 1676	Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [2, 3, 5]
  Burial	North Burial Ground, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [5]
  Person ID	I13785	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	17 Sep 2020

  
  

  Father	Richard Foster,   b. Bef 1 Jan 1582   d. Bef 6 May 1630 (Age < 48 years)
  Mother	Patience Bigge,   b. Bef 5 May 1588   d. Between 18 Mar 1638 and 17 Nov 1646, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age > 49 years)
  Marriage	26 Apr 1608	Loose, Kent, England   [3]
  Family ID	F8627	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Bate,   b. Bef 21 Nov 1619   d. 4 Jan 1703, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age > 83 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1640  [3, 4, 5, 6]
  Children	+ 1. Patience Foster,   b. Bef 16 Aug 1646   d. 15 Aug 1703 (Age > 57 years)
  Family ID	F8625	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Apr 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Arrived with his mother and his maternal grandmother on the Elizabeth in 1635.

  
  

• Sources

  [S933] Fifty Great Migration Colonists of New England and Their Origins by John Brooks Threlfall. Madison, Wisconsin, 1990. [S2002] Hal Bradley, "Gleanings: Addenda to the Origins of Several Colonial Families." The American Genealogist 89:303, October 2017. [S3220] Randy A. West, "New Information on Patience1 (Bigg) Foster of Dorchester, Massachusetts." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 170:160, Spring 2016. [S3221] Leslie Mahler, "New Information on Massachusetts Bay Colonists from Kent, England: William1 and Rachel (Bate) Bachelor of Charlestown, Isaac1 and Elizabeth (Winchester) Stedman of Scituate, Simon1 and Mary (Sharpe) Willard of Concord, and Patience1 (Bigg) Foster and Her Son, Hopestill Foster, of Dorchester." The American Genealogist 80:23, Jan 2005. [S756] Early New England Families Study Project: Accounts of New England Families from 1641 to 1700 by Alicia Crane Williams. Online database, New England Historic Genealogical Society. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.