When Abigail Foster was born on 29 July 1755, in Middletown, Mattabeset, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, John Foster, was 64 and her mother, Sarah Eggleston, was 45.
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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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