There were 478 Fosters in Washington's Army

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The Foster Family by W.T. Foster

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1. There were 478 Fosters in Washington's Army credited to Massachusetts. They were principally descendants of Reginald Foster who came from England about 1638, had five sons and two daughters and settled at Ipswich, Massachusetts. He was descended from Thomas Foster one of the Bamboro Fosters. Of those 478 revolutionary war soldiers, 42 were named John, 28 William, 21 Thomas and 18 Samuel. Fifty Fosters were in the revolutionary war credited to Connecticut. Fourteen Fosters served with the New York troops in 1760 against the Indians and nineteen wtih the Connecticut troops in the war of 1812.
2. A branch of the Bamboro Fosters, comparitively of close relationship to our branch of the family settled in Jamaica, were granted immense tracts of land by the English government and became very rich. some of their descendants now live in the United States. Their coats of arms may be found in Heraldry.
3. A noted trait of the Scotch-Irish was that they settled their personal difficulties with their first, never with deadly weapons. This has been so inbred in them that any dangerous weapon they may have about them when they enter into a personal difficulty, is laid aside.
4. Editor of Fairbank's crests says:-"Heraldry commerateds the triumphs over oppression and violence and the honors and rewards of genius, valor, patriotism and industry. We trace it thru early ancient Greece. At one glance it recalls the most important events in the lives of pesons, families, nations. Those badges of distinction could be and were secured by the humble and most obscure adn are to-day the testimonials and warrents of bravery, heroism and meritorious deeds of our ancestors. They appeal to the pride of the intelligent and enlightened descendants of those distinguished families."
5. "Eight thousand years B.C. -which is 9915 years ago-cities were already founded and the industries of civilized life carried on in Babylonia."-This is quoted from Webster's unabridged dictionary, page 2068. Persia was older than Babylonia and the Aryan agricultural Eden, east of the Caspian sea, immensly older than Persia. Four thousand years ago a tribe of Edenites conquered Egypt and are known in history as the Shepherd Kings.
6. Saint Aidens church, on the mainland, belongs with Bamboro castle on the island. When Mrs. Sophia Foster Symes visited Bamboro castle in 1896, H.F. Long, in charge of the church, said to her:-"Tell your friends that all the armour, belonging to the Bamborough Fosters, with the family pictures and other relics are in the hands of the five clergymen who constitute the Crewe trustees."
7. New England was not the birthplace of American liberty. It was born and reared and defended and carried into effect by the great men of the descendants of the Norman-French in America.
8. William Redding, author of "Our Near Future", says:-"Whoever has tried to give a new idea to the public knows that if one comes out alive with his skin left on him he is lucky. For the new idea man all teh shot-guns are brot out, cleaned up, loaded; the butcher knives are whetted, all ready to be used on the new idea man when he comes along. When they see him, they fly out like vicious dogs, cutting and slashing and barking till they are exhausted. While they rest, their bristles are up, in fitful dreams they growl till he comes along again and then they rush out after him with renewed vigor and if possible he is jailed or tortured or killed outright."
9. It is important to note the difference between the Norman-French and the Latin-French. The former where our ancestors and have always been allied with science, advancements, opposed to classes, advogatez (?deb) of the rights of the masses, liberal minded Protestants, demanding the right to worship in accord wtih the dictates of conscience, favoring limited monarchies or Republican Governments. To these Norman-French, their ancestors and descendants if due the abolition of the tyranny of Kings.
10. Grand-father Thomas Foster had a queer way of calling hogs. In the new frontier country the hogs were let to run on the mast till they were nearly ready for slaughter. The fattening was then finished by feeding corn. Mast consisted of acorns, hazel-nuts, hickory-nuts, hog potatoes, etc. The latter was a bulb something like an artichoke, but the potatoes grew on a vegetable string, each additional potato growing under the first, like a string of beads, sometimes continuing down for three feet. Hogs rooted holes in the ground to get them and I have seen hogs standing almost on their heads and nearly hidden in these holes. When corn feeding time came the neighbors hogs were often troublesome and my grand-father invented a call that would bring his hogs from a mile away and cause the neighbors hogs to run away, thinking he was getting the dogs after them. In a loud voice, grandfather would say:-"Sa! He. Sa! He! Sa! He!! Sac!!Sac!!Sac!!SAc!!Sac!!Sac!!" That loud shot would make the woods ring and he would repeat it over and over while his hogs would come squealing for corn and the neighbor's hogs, with heads and bristles up, would hooh!!hooh!! something like the grunt of an Indian, while they ran farther away.
11. The crossing over the Alleganis was a serious problem to our ancestors soon after the revolution. Only two places were practical. One near where the railroads now cross going from Washington to Pittsburg-the old Braddock road to defeat. The other was the Cumberland gap five hundred miles southwest of the Braddock defeat crossing. Even at those crossings, wagons were seldom used and transportation was usually by pack horses.