Renald Foster

• General Notes
  • FURTHER ANCESTRY - Reginald Foster came to America in one of the vessels embargoed by King Charles I, accompanied by his wife, Judith, five sons and two daughters, and settled in Ipswich, Mass., about the year 1638, and was one of the earliest inhabitants of that town. His English ancestry, beginning with his father, was as follows: Thomas, Cuthbert, Sir Thomas, Sir Thomas, Sir Thomas, Sir Thomas, Sir Thomas, Sir William, Sir Richard, Sir Reginald, Sir Alfred, Sir Randolph, Sir John, Sir William, Sir Reginald, Sir Hugo, and Sir Richard. A sister of Sir Richard, named Matilda or Maude, was the wife of William I, the Conqueror, King of England. From Sir Richard Forester sprung the Blake Foresters of Ashfield and Knockmoy Abbey, County of Galway, and Inchorcy Castle, County of Clare; also the Foresters of Ether- ston and Bamborough Castle in Northumberland, who are so vividly described in the historical novel, " Dorothy Forster, " by Sir Walter Besant, the celebrated English novelist.*
    
    Reginald Foster d. in 1681, at over eighty years of age. His will was proved June 9, 1681. His children were: Mary, Sarah, Abraham, Isaac, William, Jacob and Reginald, all of whom were born in England between 1618 and 1636. Each of the children had families of from nine to fourteen children, many of whom settled in Ipswich, Boxford, Andover and vicinity towns of Mass. It is, therefore, evident that Reginald Foster has a numerous posterity widely scattered. Many have attained national distinction, among them having been U. S. Senator Lafayette Sabine Foster of Conn, and U. S. Senator Addi- uon G. Foster of Wash.