Dorothy Foster

Brief Life History of Dorothy

When Dorothy Foster was born about 1757, in Spotsylvania, Virginia, United States, her father, Thomas Foster, was 33 and her mother, Dorothy Gatewood, was 44.

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Thomas Foster
1725–1763
Dorothy Gatewood
1715–1777
Dorothy Foster
1740–
Hannah Foster
1747–1829
Sarah Foster
1750–1827
Martha Foster
1754–
Dorothy Foster
1757–
Edmund Foster
1760–1817
Thomas Foster Jr
1763–1811

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    World Events (3)

    1758 · Mount Vernon

    Mount Vernon Plantation was the home of George Washington. It started off as 2,000 acres and was later expanded to 8,000 acres. The house itself started off as a six room building then got extended to twenty-one rooms.

    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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