♂ 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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1680


Age: 25y
1680 Whigs organize processions to burn effigies of the pope in London.
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1685


Age: 30y
1685 • The Bloody Assizes begin in Winchester; over 1000 of Monmouth's rebels tried and condemned to death or transportation.

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.

1692


Age: 37y
1692 June 3 – The Battle of La Hougue is the decisive naval battle in the Nine Years' War, ending in an Anglo-Dutch victory.

1715


Age: 60y
1715 Ottoman–Venetian War (1714–18): The fall of Nauplion, the capital of the Venetian "Kingdom of the Morea", seals the fate of the Peloponnese peninsula, which is soon completely retaken by the Ottomans.

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