Ancestry of
Merrill C. Meigs

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John Foster

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Merrill C. Meigs — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 500 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Foster 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 7 Oct 1642 
  • Birth Location:
  • Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 13 Jun 1732 
  • Death Location:
  • Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Winslow Burying Ground, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Chillingsworth
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1663 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  John Foster (Ahnentafel No:250 )

  Chillingsworth Foster

  Thomas Foster

• Additional marriages for John Foster

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  • Spouse:
  • Sarah Thomas
  • Marriage Date:
  • 30 Dec 1702

• Sources for John Foster

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/01/2015).
  • ² Marshfield, MA: Vital Records to 1850, p. 11, Birth record for son Chillingsworth Foster.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Marshfield, Vol. 1, p. 7, Birth record for son John Foster.
  • ⁴ Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2, p. 246.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1872, Vol. 26, pp. 395-396.
  • ⁶ Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 94.
  • ⁷ Hill, Peter B., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 11, Part 1, 2nd edition, Edward Doty, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2009), 44.
  • ⁸ Thacher, Julia Edgar, Joshua Gray of Yarmouth, Massachusetts and His Descendants, Boston, Massachusetts: Press of Murray and Emery Company (1914), 111.