There have been numerous reports as to the number and names of Richard and Sussan’s male children. They number range from two (Robert and John) to seven (Robert, John, Richard, James, George, Thomas, and William.) However, Robert and John are the only ones for which we have documentation. This does not mean that the others did not exist it only means that we have documentation for only two. Robert Foster the first ancestor for which we have documentation was born between 1651 and 1660 in Kingston Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia. We know little to nothing about his younger life. He married Elizabeth in the early 1680s in Gloucester County, Virginia. The preponderance of evidence is for Elizabeth being a Garnett whose father or brother was John Garnett. The Garnetts and Fosters were close neighbors both living in Gloucester County. In 1692 Robert Foster, his brother, John Foster, and Robert’s brother-in-law, John Garnett along with several other families bought adjacent land in Essex County, Virginia near the Rappahannock River. It was here in St. Ann’s Parish on Gilson’s Run (presently called Mount Landing Creek) that Robert and Elizabeth lived and would raise their large family of eleven children.

Robert Foster died testate in Essex County in 1715/16. His widow, Elizabeth married Robert Charlesworth before 1721. It was in that year that she and her underage children would move with her new husband to King William County, now Caroline County. By 1742 we find the family had moved to Amelia County to live beside some of Elizabeth’s grown children. It is in Amelia County along Stock Creek that Elizabeth died and is buried.