When Judah Foster was born on 13 November 1753, in Ashford, Windham, Connecticut, United States, her father, Samuell Foster IV, was 28 and her mother, Judath Knowlton, was 25.
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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