Ancestry of
Levi Parsons Morton

22nd U.S. Vice-President

James Foster

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Levi Parsons Morton — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 62 
  • Father:
  • Hopestill Foster 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Bates   
  • Birth Date:
  • 13 Apr 1651 
  • Birth Location:
  • Dorchester (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 4 Oct 1732 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Dorchester North Burying Ground, Dorchester (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Anna Lane
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Oct 1680 
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  • Child:

  Elizabeth Foster (Ahnentafel No:31 )

• Additional marriages for James Foster

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Capen
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Sep 1674
  • Marriage Location:
  • Dorchester (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts

• Sources for James Foster

  • ¹ Early New England Families, 1641-1700, Vol. John Capen (m.1637), p. 4.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Dorchester, Vol. 1, p. 16, Birth record for daughter Silence Foster.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1898, Vol. 52, p. 198.
  • ⁴ Hayden, Rev. Charles Albert and Jessie Hale Tuttle, The Capen Family: Descendants of Bernard Capen of Dorchester, Mass., Minneapolis, Minnesota: Augsburg Publishing House (1929), 16.
  • ⁵ 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), 150-152.