When Jonathan Foster was born on 30 November 1704, in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Caleb Foster, was 27 and his mother, Mary Sherwin, was 25. He married Jemima Cummings on 1 January 1733, in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 2 May 1779, in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 74, and was buried in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
"""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."""""""
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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