Foster, Mary (1774-1869)

Name:: Foster, Mary (1774-1869)
Other Names:: Foster, Polly
Born:: 10/01/1774
Birthplace:: Canterbury, NH
Died:: 09/23/1869
Death Location:: Boscawen, NH
Residence:: Canterbury, NH 1774-1796
Boscawen, NH 1796-1869
Nationality:: American
Occupation:: Teacher, Town of Canterbury, 1790, 1795
Father:: Foster, Abiel (1735-1806)
Mother:: Rogers, Mary (1745-1813)
Relations:: Cousin of Hannah Foster (1784-1873) of Canterbury.
Spouse:: Married Henry Gerrish (1772-1862), June 6, 1796
Children:: Susanna, born June 15, 1797
Infant daughter, born December 21, 1799
Jacob, born December 29, 1801
Lucy, born September 30, 1803; married Ephraim Plumer
Abiel, born March 7, 1806
Mary, born February 9, 1808
Elizabeth, born July 24, 1813
Notes:: Charles C. Coffin, Compiler. The History of Boscawen and Webster, From 133 to 1878. (Concord, New Hampshire: The Republican Press Association, 1878), 539, 541-542, 602.

James O. Lyford, History of the Town of Canterbury, New Hampshire 1727-1912. Volume II. Genealogy and Appendix.
(Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press, 1912), 134-135.

Glee Krueger, New England Samplers to 1840. (Sturbridge, Massachusetts: Old Sturbridge Village, 1978), 30, Figure 59.

Lessons Stitched in Silk: Samplers from the Canterbury Region of New Hampshire. (Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 1990), 18. No. 4.

Maplewood Cemetery, Boscawen, New Hampshire.

Vital Records, New Hampshire State Archives.