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Tennessee Williams

Author of A Streetcar Named Desire

Hopestill Foster

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Tennessee Williams — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 670 
  • Father:
  • Richard Foster 
  • Mother:
  • Patience Bigg   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Birth Location:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 30 Jul 1620 
  • Christening Location:
  • Biddenden, Kent, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 14 or 15 OCT 1676 
  • Death Location:
  • Dorchester (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • North Burying Ground, Dorchester (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Bates
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1640 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  James Foster

  Mary Foster (Ahnentafel No:335 )

• Sources for Hopestill Foster

  • ¹ Early New England Families, 1641-1700, Vol. Hopestill Foster (m. 1640), pp. 1-6.
  • ² Early New England Families, 1641-1700, Vol. John Capen (m.1637), p. 4.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1898, Vol. 52, pp. 195-196.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2016, Vol. 170, p. 162.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VI, R-S, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 143.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. I, A-B, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1999), 199.
  • ⁷ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. II, C-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2001), 555.
  • ⁸ Leach, Josiah Granville, Memoranda Relating to the Ancestry and Family of Hon. Levi Parsons Morton, Vice-President of the United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts: unknown (1894), 148-151.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 176.