Brief Life History of Jedediah
When Jedediah Foster was born on 10 October 1726, in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Ephraim Foster, was 38 and his mother, Abigail Poore, was 31. He married Dorothy Dwight on 18 May 1749, in Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 17 October 1779, in Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Old Indian Cemetery, West Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Jedidiah Foster, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Brookfield marriages, Dorothy Dwight and Jedediah Foster, 18 May 1749
- Jedediah Foster, Samuel Hitchcock, page 590, Book: The Vermont historical gazetteer : a magazine embracing a history of each town, civil, ecclesiastical, biographical and military by Hemenway, Abby Maria, 1828-1890; Page, Carrie Elizabeth Publi
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776 · The Declaration to the King
"At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""
Name Meaning
English: variant of Forster ‘worker in a forest’.
English: perhaps a nickname from Middle English foster ‘foster parent’ (Old English fōstre, a derivative of fōstrian ‘to nourish or rear’). But other explanations are equally or more likely.
English: from Old French forcetier ‘maker of scissors’; see Forster 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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