Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register

Foorth, Roger, (in the margin written Foord), d. 24 Ap. 1644. No further record of this family, whose name was prob. Ford.

Foster, Thomas, styled a physician on the Court Files, was prob. s. of Thomas Foster of Weymouth. He was in Roxbury 15 Oct. 1662, when he m. Sarah Parker, dau. of Robert Parker of Camb., who bequeathed property in 1684 to his dau. Sarah Foster. His children, at Roxbury, were Thomas, b. 1 Aug. 1663; Sarah, b. 3 June 1667, prob. m. Thomas Williams of Stow; Hannah, b. 23 July 1669; Jonathan, b. 21 Sept. 1671; and in Camb. Elizabeth, b. 26 Sept. 1677. He d. here 16 Sept. 1679, or as inscribed on his gravestone 28 Oct. 1679, a. 39. His widow Sarah survived, and was empowered by the General Court, May 1680, to sell land in Roxbury. See Gen. Reg., XXVI. 394.

2. Thomas, s. of Thomas (1), m. Experience Parker 30 Nov. 1686. He removed to Stow, had son Thomas, b. 18 Sept. 1687, and was living in 1715.

3. Bossenger, s. of Thomas and grandson of Thomas who m. Ann Bossenger, in Boston, 1 June 1711, res. on the estate now owned by Samuel Batchelder, Esq., on the south side of Brattle Street, west of Ash Street. He was a gentleman of leisure. and d. of gout 23 Ap. 1805, a. 63. He m. Mary, sister to Andrew Craigie, and had (all prob. b. in Boston) Bossenger, grad. H. C. 1787, a lawyer, d. unm. of palsy 17 Jan. 1816, a. 48; Elizabeth, m. Hon. Samuel Haven of Dedham; Andrew, grad. H. C. 1800, a physician in Dedham, m. Mary Conant in Camb. 19 Nov. 1813, and d. 1831; John, b.—July 1782, grad. H. C. 1802, d. unm. 3 Nov. 1836; Thomas, grad. H. C. 1805, a physician, Town Clerk 1827, d. unm. Feb. 1831, a. 46; James, grad. H. C. 1806, a lawyer, Register of Probate for a short period, d. unm., of dysentery, 27 Aug. 1817; George, grad. B. U. 1811, a lawyer, d. unm., of dysentery, 4 Sept. 1817, a. 27. Mary Craigie, bap. in Camb. 7 Dec. 1794, d. 18 Feb. 1811, a. 16.

4. John, s. of Nathan, b. at Western (now Warren) 19 Ap. 1763, grad. D. C. 1783, D. D. at H. C. 1815, was ordained at Brighton 1 Nov. 1784, was dismissed by mutual agreement 31 Oct. 1827, and d. 15 Sept. 1829, a. 66. He m. Hannah Webster of Boston — Ap. 1785, and had Wainwright, b. 4 Feb. 1786; John, b. 22 Ap. 1789; Hannah White, b. 22 Dec. 1790; Henry, b. 31 May 1793; Elizabeth Lanesford, b. 19 Oct. 1794 ; Harriet Vaughn, b. 9 Sept. 1796.

Fownell, John, by w. Mary, had Sarah, b.—Aug. 1638. He was prob. the same who. according to Savage, was in Chs., freeman 1645, and d. 19 Mar. 1673, a. 65; his w. Mary d. 25 Jan. 1696, a. 84.

Fox, Thomas, was prob. the freeman named 1638, and may have been the same whose name is found in the Colony Records, 8 Mar. 1630-31; ‘Ordered, That Tho. Foxe, servant to Mr. Cradocke, shall be whipped for uttering malicious and scandalous speeches, whereby he sought to traduce the Court, as if they had taken some bribe in the business concerning Walter Palmer.’ He prob. resided a few years at Concord, for Mitchell says his son Jabez was baptized there, but was in his minority when his father joined this church. His w. Rebecca d. at Concord 11 May 1647. Before June 1649, he came to Camb. He m. Ellen, wid. of Percival Green, the marriage contract being dated 24 May 1650. She d. 27 May 1682, a. 82. ‘Her death was occasioned by a fall she got on the floor, whereby she broke her thigh.’ （N. Russell's Diary, N. E. Gen. Reg., VII. 54.) Mr. Fox m. (3d) Elizabeth, wid. of Charles Chadwick of Watertown, 24 Ap. 1683, who d. 22 Feb. 1684-5, and was buried in the old cemetery in Watertown, by the side of her former husband. Soon afterwards, 16 Dec. 1685, Mr. Fox m. Rebecca, wid. of Nicholas Wyeth. He had no children by his last three wives. He d. 25 Ap. 1693, aged 85; his w. Rebecca d. in 1698. After his marriage to Mrs. Green he resided in Holmes Place, about midway between its northeasterly angle and North Avenue, until the house was destroyed by fire about 1681 or 1682 after which, with the exception of a very short residence in Watertown, he probably occupied the estate on the east side of Holmes Place, afterwards owned by Steward Hastings and still later by the Rev. Dr. Holmes.