When James Foster was born about 1709, in Gloucester, Gloucester, Virginia, United States, his father, James Foster, was 23 and his mother, Elizabeth, was 33. He died about 1764, in Virginia, United States, at the age of 57.
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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.
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.
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