Sgt Thomas Foster

1600 - 1682  (82 years)

• Name	Sgt Thomas Foster
  Birth	1600	Ipswitch, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	20 Apr 1682	Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts
  Person ID	I1898	The Road to Here
  Last Modified	23 Dec 2021

  
  

  Father	Rev. Thomas Foster,   b. 1566, Ipswitch, England d. 24 Nov 1638, Ipswitch, England (Age 72 years)
  Mother	Abigail Wimes,   b. 1573, Ipswitch, England d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	8 Jan 1626	Ipswitch, England
  Family ID	F631	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Whitmore,   b. 1618, Weymouth, Massachusetts d. 29 Jan 1693, Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 75 years)
  Marriage	Apr 1638	Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts
  Children	1. John Foster,   b. 7 Oct 1642, Weymouth, Massachusetts d. 13 Jun 1732, Marshfield, MA (Age 89 years)
  Family ID	F630	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 May 2026

  
  

• Notes

  He came to America in the ship "Hercules", John Kiddey, master, which left London ENG Mar 24 and Southampton Apr 28, 1634, with 12 passengers: John Anthony, Nathaniel Davis, Robert Early, William Elliot, William Fifield, THOMAS FOSTER and his brother WILLIAM FOSTER, Mathew Hewlett, George King, William Latcome, Henry Phelps and Thomas Rider. They landed at Boston where, Thomas, for service as "a gunner on Castle Island", in 1639 was granted a great lot at Mt. Wollaston (Now Braintree MA). While in Boston in 1642 he was admitted as freeman. He moved to Weymouth, Billerica and Braintree MA. In 1659 he returned to Billerica where he was a selectman from1659 to 1669. In 1660 he was named the "eldest corporal in the Trayne Band". The inscription on his tomb reads: His bones are dust His good sword rust His soul is with the saints We trust. __ Foster Genealogy by F C Pierce, Chicago ILL 1899[rcu.ftw] He came to America in the ship "Hercules", John Kiddey, master, which left London ENG Mar 24 and Southampton Apr 28, 1634, with 12 passengers: John Anthony, Nathaniel Davis, Robert Early, William Elliot, William Fifield, THOMAS FOSTER and his brother WILLIAM FOSTER, Mathew Hewlett, George King, William Latcome, Henry Phelps and Thomas Rider. They landed at Boston where, Thomas, for service as "a gunner on Castle Island", in 1639 was granted a great lot at Mt. Wollaston (Now Braintree MA). While in Boston in 1642 he was admitted as freeman. He moved to Weymouth, Billerica and Braintree MA. In 1659 he returned to Billerica where he was a selectman from1659 to 1669. In 1660 he was named the "eldest corporal in the Trayne Band". The inscription on his tomb reads: His bones are dust His good sword rust His soul is with the saints We trust. __ Foster Genealogy by F C Pierce, Chicago ILL 1899 More About Sgt. Thomas Foster and Elizabeth Whitmore: Marriage: Apr 1638, Billerica MA.1742 Children of Sgt. Thomas Foster and Elizabeth Whitmore are: Thomas Foster, Jr, b. 18 Aug 1640, Weymouth MA1742, 1743, d. 28 Oct 16791744, 1745. +John Foster, b. 7 Oct 1642, Weymouth MA1746, 1747, d. 13 Jun 1732, Marshfield MA1748, 1749.