♂ 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 Bloody Assizes begin in Winchester; over 1000 of Monmouth's rebels tried and condemned to death or transportation.

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.

1692


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

1715


Age: 60y
1715 Battle of Preston: Government forces defeat the Jacobite incursion at the conclusion of a five-day siege and action.

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