In reply to Larry Mabra's enquiry posted on the GARNETT-List@rootsweb on
Sunday, December 20th concerning the ancestors of Elizabeth GARNETT who
married Robert FOSTER [b. 1651, d. 1716], I do have a few additional details
on this particular Elizabeth GARNETT which may be of help to you.

The information that I have in my GARNETT family database shows that this
Elizabeth GARNETT was born in 1660 at Gloucester County, Virginia. Her
father's name was Thomas GARNETT, but I cannot say for certain which Thomas
GARNETT he might have been nor do I have the name of his wife [Elizabeth's
mother].

Elizabeth GARNETT married Robert FOSTER in 1682 at Gloucester County,
Virginia. After her first husband, Robert FOSTER, died in 1716, Elizabeth
later remarried [about 1718] and moved with her family to St. John Parish,
King William County, Virginia. She is believed to have died in about 1741 at
Amelia, Virginia.

The descendants of Robert FOSTER [1651-1716] and Elizabeth GARNETT [1660-abt
1741] were:

1. John FOSTER Sr.,[b: 1682, d: Abt. 1760] who married Isabella GOLDING [b:
1699,
d: June 4, 1747] in 1716.

2. Robert FOSTER Jr. [b: 1685 ,d: 1720] who married Ann LLOYD in 1719.

3. James FOSTER, [b: 1687, d: 1719] who married Martha [maiden name unknown].

4. Barbara FOSTER, [b: Abt. 1690, d: 1763] who married Richard LOVING in 1712.

5. Richard FOSTER, [b: Abt. 1691, d: 1716]

6. Thomas FOSTER, [b: Abt. 1693, d: 1769] who married Elizabeth MEADORS[b:
1696,d: Aft. 1754] in 1714.

I have attached below a brief biographical note on Elizabeth GARNETT. If
anyone else on the GARNETT-List has further details on this line of GARNETTs
and FOSTERs I would be most interested and grateful to receive it.

As you may already know, there were several other connections by marriage
between the GARNETT family of Essex and Gloucester Counties and various
neighbouring families named FOSTER. So far, I have found it to be a very
difficult task to sort out all the numerous links and relationships between
these different FOSTER lines. If anyone on the GARNETT-List has researched the
FOSTER tree, your help in filling in the gaps between these two families would
be most welcomed.

DOUG

========= BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON ELIZABETH GARNETT ===========

GARNETT, Elizabeth
[1660 to about 1741]

Born: 1660 at Gloucester County, Virginia, America
Died: After 1741 at Amelia, Virginia, America
Father: Thomas GARNETT
Mother: Unknown

Elizabeth lived many years after the 1716 will of her husband Robert Foster.
She remarried to Robert CHARLESWORTH by about 1718, and died after 1741.

On June 22, 1722, Elizabeth GARNETT's second husband, Robert CHARLESWORTH,
received two different land patents--one a Royal land patent for 425 acres in
St. John Parish, King William Co. VA and one a joint patent with Joseph
Fulcher for 400 acres in St. John Parish, King William Co.

Robert CHARLESWORTH and Elizabeth along with Elizabeth's daughter Barbara
Foster LOVING (& family) and Elizabeth's sons Thomas and William FOSTER, and
probably also her daughters Margaret and Elizabeth FOSTER moved to the above
mentioned land shortly after the grants were patented.

Elizabeth Garnett Foster CHARLESWORTH appeared in Essex Co. Va court on March
17, 1718/19 when her son James sold his land to William TAYLOR. Her
appearance in court was required to relinquished her right of dower to the 75
acres which had been bequeathed to James FOSTER in the will of his father
Robert FOSTER in 1716. The deed was dated December 12, 1718. Even though
Elizabeth Foster CHARLESWORTH had witnessed the original deed passing title to
the land from her son James FOSTER to William TAYLOR, she was still required
to acknowledge to the Essex Court three months later that she freely
relinquished her dower right to this land.

In 1739 Thomas FOSTER, son of Robert and Elizabeth FOSTER, sold to Richard and
Barbara LOVING (his sister) 150 acres of the 350 he patented in 1737.
Thomas's mother Elizabeth Garnett Foster CHARLESWORTH and her husband Robert
CHARLESWORTH also lived there and built there home adjacent to that of Thomas
FOSTER.

In 1741 "for reason of the dutiful regard he hath for his mother, the said
Elizabeth Charlesworth", Thomas FOSTER deeded "one part of land (50
acres)...it being the land on which the said Robert Charlesworth now liveth."
Dr. Foster goes on to say that Robert Charlesworth died in Amelia before June
22, 1745 when administration of his estate was awarded to Edward Booker.

Elizabeth Garnett Foster CHARLESWORTH probably predeceased her second husband
sometime between 1742 and 1745.

SOURCE: Information obtained from Marilyn Lewis on August 24, 1998.
Additional details provided in a history of the Foster family titled "The
Foster Family of Flanders, England and America" by Dr. Billy Glen Foster.