606. ALLEN FOSTER (Thomas, Abraham, Abraham, Abraham, Reginald), b. Ipswich, Mass., April 24, 1751; m. there Lucy Potter. He d. 1835. Res., Ipswich, Mass. 1091-2. i. 1092.2. ii. 1093-2. iii. SIMON, b. March 15, 1793; m. Mary Perkins and Eunice Perkins. MEHITABEL, b. - m. Noyes. 610. DANIEL FOSTER (Thomas, Abraham, Abraham, Abraham, Reginald), b. March 12, 1762, Ipswich, Mass.; m., Dec. 18, 1783, Dorothy Pingree, b. June 4, 1762; d. May 15, 1834. in Newburyport, Mass. Daniel fought in the Revolution; was in Lafayette's select batallion, and was presented by Lafayette with a sword as a mark of esteem. He held many offices in Newburyport; naval offices, etc., and seems to have been a cultured and respected gentleman. He d. Aug. 29, 1833. Res., Rowley and Newburyport, Mass. NATHANIEL, b. Feb. 28, 1797; m. Fanny B. Brockway. DANIEL, b. ; m. Charry Fuller. SOLOMON, b. JESSE, b. i. 1091. 1092. ii. iii. 1093. 1094. iv. 1095. V. 1096. vi. 1097. vii. THOMAS, b. MELICENT, b. Res., Pottsville, Pa ; m. Ann E. Toppan. ; d. unm. d. unm. 611. ASA FOSTER (Nathan, Nathan, Abraham, Abraham, Reginald). b. Warren, Mass., May 17, 1764: m. March 12, 1787, Elizabeth Thomas, b. April 15, 1769; d. Jan. 28, 1803. This part of Mr. Asa Foster's second will may be of interest. After providing for his four children. "I also give and bequeath unto my friends and neighbors, the inhabitants of the town of Rowe, from whom I have received many civilities, the sum of two hundred dollars, to be under the care of the selectmen of said town and to be kept upon interest forever for the particular benefit of schooling in said town. Said sum of two hundred dollars to be paid out of my personal property on obligations by my executors within one year after my decease. This gratuity is not a sudden emotion but has for a long time been contemplated, and all the returns and respect I wish for is the good advice which many may find leisure to give to my orphan children with a particular regard for their interests and happiness in this and a future world." He d. Aug. 19, 1803. Res., Rowe, Mass. 1098. i. 1099. ii. I. ASA LANSFORD, b. Aug. 19, 1798; m,. Louisa T. Chapman. ELIZABETH, b. Feb. 8, 1796; m., Sept. 17, 1818. Major Samuel Horton Reed. She d. at R. Feb. 25. 1823. He was b. Petersham, Mass., Oct. 27 1794; d. Greenfield, Mass., July 14, 1874. Was High Sheriff of Franklin county for twenty years. William, b. June 20, 1819; d. Nov. 16, 1884. 2. Elizabeth Foster, b. Aug. 2. IS21; d. Aug. 13, 1839. She was m. to Dr. Edward Marshall Wheeler. (a) Edward Reed Wheeler, b. at Paxton, Mass., Aug. 1, 1839. Received the degree of M. D. from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1864; served three years as surgeon in the late Rebellion. Married, 1st, Anna E. M. Field (dau. of Walter and Mary Holton Field, June 24, 1865); she was born Aug. 2, 1838; d. Sept. 6. 1873. Île m., 2d, Amelia R. Roeder (dau. of John Roeder, Nov. 24. 1874); she was b. July 16, 1840. Ch. (b) Helen R., b. July 25, 1879; d. April 4, 1881. Children of Dr. Edward R. Wheeler and Anna Field Wheeler: (a) Walter Frisbie Wheeler, b. June 23. 1867; a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania; D. D. S. 1888. (b) Elizabeth Anna Wheeler, b. Jan. 20, 1873: m.. June 30, 1896. Dr. Frank A. Hubbard, of Taunton, Mass. Ch. : (c) Eloise Barrett Hubbard, b. Dec. 29. 1897. Children of Dr. E. R. Wheeler and Amelia Roeder Wheeler: (d) Henry Hamilton Wheeler. b. Jan. 6, 1881. (e) Foster Reed Wheeler, b. May 5, 1882. William Reed, m. Elizabeth Kent Sayre, of Mauch Chunk, Pa., Sept. 17. 1846. She was b. Sept. 17, 1826; d. Jan. 15, 1853. Ch.: (a) William Reed, b. July, 1847; d. 1848. (b) Elizabeth Kent Reed, b. Jan. 7, 1849; (c) Samuel A. Reed, b. Aug. 1, 1850, unm. (d) Henry Lyman Reed, b. Sept. 5, 1851. Elizabeth Kent Reed, m. at Bethlehem, Pa., Harvey Sheldon Kitchel, Nov. 17, 1870. He was b. at Thomaston, Conn., Aug. 12, 1839. Resides at South Bethlehem, Pa. Ch. : (a) Robert Reed Kitchel, b. Sept. 9, 1871. (b) Anna Sheldon Kitchel, b. Aug. 23, 1873. (c) Harvey Dennison Kitchel, b. Oct. 10, 1877; d. April 2, 1878. (d) William Sayre Kitchell, b. March 4, 1879; d. May 26, 1896. (e) Harriet Tyrrell Kitchel, b. April 16, 1883. (f) Margaret Sheaffe Kitchel, b. Oct. 28, 1885. (g) Gladys Kitchel, b. Nov. 9, 1888; d. Jan. 28, 1890; resides South Bethlehem, Pa. Henry Lyman Reed, m. Lizzie S. McLean, Oct. 14, 1875; resides Montclair, N. J. One daughter: (a) Jennie Reed, b. Sept. 5, 1876; m. Louis Claude Evans, Oct. 23. 1895. HANNAH, b. Jan. 15, 1801; m., May 3, 1825, Major Samuel Hor- THOMAS CONKEY, b. April 23, 1788; m., Nov., 1824, Charlotte 612. REV. JOEL FOSTER (Nathan, Nathan, Abraham, Abraham, Reginald), b. April 8, 1755, Warren, Mass.; m., July 1, 1779, Priscilla Foster, dau. of Rev. Isaac, and sister of Rev. Emerson Foster, of Greenport, L. I., b. Aug. 23, 1756; d. Feb. 5, 1803; m., 2d, Sept. 26, 1803, Mrs. Mary Winship. She d. Nov. 1, 1833. He was b. in Western, now Warren, Mass.; fitted for college; entered Dartmouth, and was graduated in 1777. He was settled at New Salem, Mass., in 1779, and remained until 1802, when he was dismissed on account of the charges against his orthodoxy. In 1803 he was settled in East Sudbury (Wayland), and d. there. I have the following from "History of Churches and Ministers of Franklin County, Mass.,' 1854 (at Antiquarian Library, Worcester, Mass.): "Rev. Joel Foster, second pastor of First Cong. Church, New Salem, Mass., settled June 9, 1779.' I find among the Greenfield, Mass., deeds a Joel Foster, of New Salem, a clergyman bought land there of Daniel Giles, Oct. 27, 1794. Joel, of East Sudbury, will, date Sept. 18, 1812. Prob. Dec. 8, 1812; wife, Mary; ch.; son-in-law, Rev. Ezekiel L. Bascom, Sophia Huntington, Joel, Nathan L. [brother, Rev. John Foster, of Brighton]. He d. Sept. 24, 1812. Res., New Salem and East Sudbury, Mass. 1104. i. NATHAN LANSFORD, b. Dec. 8, 1787; m. Azubah L. Cone. 1105. ii. JOEL THEODORE, b. Dec. 9, 1785; m. ——; d. Dec. 13, 1813, in Burlington, Vt., and buried with military honors in Presbyterian church-yard. 1106. iii. 1107. iv. SOPHIA AMANDA, b. Dec. 5, 1780; m., Oct. 21, 1798, John "For other nymphs let vernal' roses bloom, Priscilla Elvira Bascom, consort of Rev. Ezekiel L. Bascom, of Gerry, and daughter of Rev. Joel Foster, of New Salem, died at Northampton, April 6, 1801 (?), aet. 19. "Peace to thy dust, dear friend, farewell, Till sounds for me the village bell. FANNY ALMEDA, b. -; res., Dec. 2, 1783 m., 613. REV. JOHN FOSTER, D.D., (Nathan, Nathan, Abraham, Abraham, Reginald), b. Warren, Mass.. April 19, 1763 m. in Boston, April MRS. FANNY A. ELLIOTT. , 1759; d. June, 1785, Hannah Von Webster, b. 1840. She was aunt of Professor Webster. He d. Sept. 15, 1829. Res., Brighton, Mass. Rev. John Foster, of Brighton, delivered the Artillery election sermon of 1809. He was born in Western, now Warren, Mass., April 19, 1763, and graduated at Dartmouth college in 1783. He married in April, 1785. Hannah Webster, of Boston. Allibone, in his "Dictionary of Authors," mentions Mrs. Foster as having written "The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton," one of the earliest American novels. A church was organized Feb. 27, 1783, by the people living within the district now called Brighton. About thirty persons withdrew from the churches in Cambridge and Newton to form the First Church in Brighton. Rev. Mr. Foster was the first pastor of this newly-organized church, and was ordained to the christian ministry and installed as pastor November 1, 1784. He was one of the Board of Overseers of Harvard university; a member of various literary, benevolent and religious societies, and published between twenty and thirty of his sermons. Dr. Holmes, in the "Atlantic Monthly," when he portrays a few of the early ministers of the association with which his father was connected, and whom he met in his youth, says: "Following in the train, mild-eyed John Foster, D. D., of Brighton, with the lambent aurora of a smile about his pleasant mouth, which not even the Sabbath could subdue to the true Levitical aspect." Rev. Mr. Foster resigned Oct. 31, 1827, having completed the forty-third year of his ministry. He died at Brighton, Sept. 15, 1829, aged 66 years. Hannah Foster, author, d. in Montreal, Canada. She was a daughter of Grant Webster, of Boston, and married John Foster, a minister, in Brighton, Mass., from 1754 till 1827. Mrs. Foster published "The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton," founded on fact (new ed., with a preface by Mrs. Jane E. Locke, 1855); "The Boarding-school" (1796), and "Lessons of a Preceptress" (1798). *Now Phillipston, Mass. WAINWRIGHT, b. Feb. 4, 1786; d. JOHN, b. April 22. 1789. Res., Boston. treal, Canada. HENRY, b. May 31, 1793. Barrett; res., Mon ELIZABETH LANESFORD, b. Oct. 19, 1794; m. -; res., Montreal, Canada. HARRIET VAUGHN, b. Sept. 9, 1796; m. Cheney; res., 614. DEA. NATHAN FOSTER (Nathan, Nathan, Abraham, Abraham, Reginald), b. Stafford, Conn., July 5, 1753; m., Oct. 21, 1773, Abigail Seeley, b. Oct. 2, 1756. He d. Res., Preston and Warren, Mass.; moved to Rowe and to New York. ; m Abner Chapin; res., Norwich. REBECCA, b. Phebe had a daughter, Ophelia (wife of Colonel Andrews); New Salem. 5. SOPHIA b. -; m. Loveland Paddock; res.. Norwich N. Y. 1118. iv. 1119. V. II20. vi. ELIZA, b. CLARISSA, b. II22. 1123. viii. NATHAN, b. Res., Watertown, N. Y Res., Norwich. 615. CORP. JUDE FOSTER (Nathan, Nathan, Abraham, Abraham, Reginald), b. Warren, Mass., m. her death, Lydia M. Sarah Goodnough, of Princeton; and 2d after He served in the Revolutionary army; just when, the pension rolls don't say; was a corporal; granted a pension March 4, and died in 24 days. See Rev. Soldiers. The Worcester County Probate records have this: "Joel Foster, of New Salem, was appointed administrator of Jude Foster, late of Paxton, in 1789. The children were: Sally, Polly, Betsey, Lydia and Judith. The widow was Lydia M. Joseph Dow was Judge.' He d. March 28, 1789. Res., Rutland, Mass. 620. HON. LAFAYETTE SABINE FOSTER (Daniel, Nathan, Abraham, Abraham, Reginald), b. Franklin, Conn., Nov. 22, 1806; m., Oct. 2, 1837, Joanna Boylston Lanman, dau. of Hon. James L., b. March 29, 1808; d. April 11, 1859. M. 2d, Oct. 4, 1860, Martha Prince Lyman. Lafayette Sabine Foster, born in Franklin, New London county, Conn., Nov. 22, 1806; married, Oct. 2, 1837, to Joanna Boylston Lanman, daughter of Hon. James Lanman, of Norwich, a judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut and a senator of th United States; married October 4, 1860, for his second wife, Martha Prince Lyman, daughter of Hon. Jonathan Huntington Lyman, of Northampton, Mass. (see "Lvman Family," by Lyman Colman); died at Norwich, Conn., September 19, 1880. Children by first marriage, two daughters and a son, all of whom died in early childhood; by second marriage, no issue. In a sketch of the life of one who has worthily attained high public distinction, particularly where that distinction is due to an unusual development of the noblest moral and intellectual faculties, it is but fitting that a few words should be said about his parents. Capt. Daniel Foster, his father, was the son of Hannah Standish, a great-granddaughter of Capt. Myles Standish. He served under Gen. Gates in the War of the Revolution, and fought in the battles of White Plains, Saratoga and Stillwater. In |