Ancestry of
Bing Crosby

Singer and Movie Actor

Chillingsworth Foster

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Bing Crosby — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 136 
  • Father:
  • John Foster 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Chillingsworth   
  • Birth Date:
  • 11 Jul 1680 
  • Birth Location:
  • Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 22 Dec 1764 
  • Death Location:
  • Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Burying Ground, Brewster, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mercy Freeman
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  • Children:
  
  

  James Foster

  Chillingsworth Foster Jr. (Ahnentafel No:68 )

  Mary Foster

  Thomas Foster

  Nathan Foster

  Isaac Foster

  Marcy Foster

• Additional marriages for Chillingsworth Foster

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  • Spouse:
  • Susanna Gray
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 Aug 1721
  • Marriage Location:
  • Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts

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  • Spouse:
  • Ruth Merrick
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Dec 1731
  • Marriage Location:
  • Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts

• Sources for Chillingsworth Foster

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/24/2015).
  • ² Marshfield, MA: Vital Records to 1850, p. 11, Birth record for Chillingsworth Foster.
  • ³ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Birth record for daughter Mary Foster.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Harwich, Vol. 1, p. 40, Birth record for son Nathanaell Foster.
  • ⁵ Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2, p. 246.
  • ⁶ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1872, Vol. 26, pp. 396, 398.
  • ⁷ Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 94, 363, 396.
  • ⁸ Freeman, Frederick, Freeman Genealogy, in Three Parts, Boston: Franklin Press; Rand, Avery, and Company (1875), 35, 53.
  • ⁹ Merrick, Barbara Lambert and Scott Andrew Bartley, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 24, Part 1, William Brewster, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2014), 288.
  • ¹⁰ Reynolds, Cuyler, Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: A Record of the Achievements of the People of the . . ., Vol. 1, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1911), 474.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 117.
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 145, 280, 429.
  • ¹³ Thacher, Julia Edgar, Joshua Gray of Yarmouth, Massachusetts and His Descendants, Boston, Massachusetts: Press of Murray and Emery Company (1914), 111.