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 • Emperor Go-Sai ascends the throne of Japan. |
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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 • October 19 – Louis XIV issues the Edict of Fontainebleau, which revokes the Edict of Nantes and declares Protestantism illegal, thereby depriving Huguenots of civil rights. |
1692
Age: 37y
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movedEssex County, Virginia, USA ⇓ Near the Rappahannock River 1 Source ⇓ |
| 1692 • June 3 – The Battle of La Hougue is the decisive naval battle in the Nine Years' War, ending in an Anglo-Dutch victory. |
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 • 1715 Treasure Fleet: A Spanish treasure fleet of 10 ships under General Don Juan Ubilla leaves Havana, Cuba for Spain. Seven days later, nine of them sink in a storm off the coast of Florida (some centuries later, treasure salvage is found from these wrecks). |