NameAlexander Foster1,2, M
Birth Date~1710
Birth PlaceLondonderry, Ireland
Death DateApr 1767 Age: 57
Death PlaceLittle Britain Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Burial PlaceLancaster County, Pennsylvania
Misc. Notes
1From Foster Family Record, 1st part, September, 1909:
(Note: This was taken verbatim from the manuscript. I’ve corrected typos and other errors for easier reading)
Alexander Foster, the first of our name who came to this country, was a member of a respectable ‘Presbyterian’ family, of Scotch descent, that settled in County Derry, Ireland, about the time of King James I.
In 1688, when the ‘Popish’ King James II, was driven from the throne, and William and Mary were proclaimed King and Queen of Great Britain, no part of the ‘Protestants’ was more earnest in furthering the glorious revolution than the ‘Presbyterians’, especially the Scotch-Irish. After the government was settled, all power was in the hands of the ‘Episcopalians’ and the very men who had so bravely whipped the ‘Papists’ at Derry in 1689, and had suffered so terribly in defense of the city, and thus prevented King James from passing into Scotland, found themselves taxed one tenth of their income to sustain the ‘Church of England’.
In the early part of the eighteenth century, about 1728 or 1730, a large body of these people came to Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Many of them passed up the Cumberland Valley, and the valley of the Shenandoah, in Virginia and North Carolina.
Alexander Foster, of Londonderry, Ireland, who came with these people, stopped in Pennsylvania and settled on a farm in Little Britain Township, in the south east corner of Lancaster County, where he spent the remainder of his life.
Spouses
Marr Date~1730
ChildrenJames , M (1738-1814)
 Willliam , M (1740-1780)
 John Alexander , M (1739-1832)
 Betsy , F
 Susan , F
 Mary , F
 Jenny , F
 Violette , F
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