♂ Robert Foster

1655 - 1715

Robert Foster
Spouse
Elizabeth
Elizabeth
1660 - 1745
Children
John Foster
John Foster
1685 - 1760

The Garnetts and Fosters were close neighbors both living in Gloucester County.  In 1692 Robert Foster, his brother John, and Robert’s brother-in-law, John Garnett along with several other families purchased land in Essex County, Virginia near the Rappahannock River.  It was here in St. Ann’s Parish on Gilson’s Run (now called Mount Landing Creek) that Robert and Elizabeth lived and would raise a large family of eleven children.

 

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1685


Age: 30y
1685 • The Chinese army of the Qing Dynasty attacks a Russian post at Albazin, during the reigns of the Kangxi Emperor and the dual Russian rulers Ivan V of Russia and Peter I of Russia. The events lead to the Treaty of Nerchinsk.Roberts, J: History of the World, Penguin, 1994.

1692


Age: 37y
1692 • In Barbados, a slave revolt is crushed.

1692


Age: 37y
1692 Massacre of Glencoe: The forces of Robert Campbell slaughter 38 members of the Clan MacDonald of Glencoe for allegedly refusing to sign an oath of allegiance to King William III of England.

1715


Age: 60y

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