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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1655
| 1655 • Swedish King Karl X Gustav occupies Krakow (Poland). |
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Age: 25y
1680
Age: 25y
marriageElizabeth Gloucester, Virginia, USA ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1680 • The Riksdag of the Estates in Sweden enacts the Great Reduction, under which fiefs granted to the Swedish nobility are returned to the Crown, and the country becomes an absolute monarchy under King Charles XI. |
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Age: 30y
1685
Age: 30y
birth of childJohn Foster 2 Sources ⇓ |
| 1685 • René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, intending to establish a colony near the mouth of the Mississippi River, lands with 200 surviving colonists at Matagorda Bay on the Texas coast, believing the Mississippi near ([http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/LL/fla4.html Texas Handbook]). |
1692
Age: 37y
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movedEssex County, Virginia, USA ⇓ Near the Rappahannock River 1 Source ⇓ |
| 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. |
1692
Age: 37y
movedEssex County, Virginia, USA ⇓ Near the Rappahannock River 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1692 • The Salem witch trials begin in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony, with the charging of 3 women with witchcraft. |
1715
Age: 60y
| 1715 • Battle of Preston: Government forces defeat the Jacobite incursion at the conclusion of a five-day siege and action. |