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Foster, Jedediah, 1726-1779. Writ, 1768 December 13.

Title: Writ, 1768 December 13.

Writ issued by Jedediah Foster, justice of the peace, to the sheriff of Worcester County, Mass., to attach goods of or arrest John Blair, of New Braintree, debtor to Edward Clifford; Blair to appear before Foster at his house in Brookfield, Mass., on 30 Dec. 1768. Dated 13 Dec. 1768, and signed: Jed:h Foster. Endorsements on verso.

ArchivalResource: 1 sheet ([2] p.) ; 19 x 20 cm.

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Foster, Jedediah, 1726-1779. Papers, 1759-1823; bulk: 1759-1773.

Title: Papers, 1759-1823; bulk: 1759-1773.

A small collection of manuscripts related to Judge Jedediah Foster of Brookfield, Mass., including a petition to him from David Smith, a prisoner accused of murder, requesting removal to Hartford for trial (1775); an undated list of men in Foster's regiment of Mass. Militia; and several receipts for pensions and other payments made by the provincial treasurer through Foster. Also, samples of cloth to be used for Col. Joseph Dwight, Foster's father-in-law's, clothing.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

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Foster, Jedediah; 1726-1779. Jedediah Foster Papers, n.d.

Title: Jedediah Foster Papers, n.d.

Andover and Brookfield, MA lawyer. Photostat copy of memorandum book of the Joshua Spooner trial, Worcester, MA, 1778. (From the original owned by Maxwell E. Foster, Ipswich, MA.) Spooner was murdered by his wife during 1778 in Brookfield, Mass.

ArchivalResource: 1 envelope.

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Foster family. Foster family autograph collection, 1621-1930.

Title: Foster family autograph collection, 1621-1930.

The autograph collection consists of letters, notes, diaries, printed documents, broadsides and other ephemera collected by the families of Joseph Dwight (1703 1765), Jedediah Foster (1726 1779), and his son Dwight Foster (1757 1823), with additions from several generations of descendants. The collection includes documents and letters of United States presidents and members of their cabinet from the administrations of George Washington through Ulysses S. Grant, including John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; autographs of the signers of the Declaration of Independence; autographs of members of the Continental Congress; material related to the French and Indian War, American Revolution, French Revolution and the Napoleonic era; and autographs of many notable political, military and literary figures. The collection also includes personal, legal and military papers kept by generations of the Foster and related Dwight families of Massachusetts including Joseph Dwight (1703 1765), Dwight Foster (1757-1823), Jedediah Foster (1726 1779), and Dwight Foster (1757 1823) among other family members, 1648-1930; legal correspondence kept by Dwight Foster (1828-1884) while serving as a lawyer with the firm Foster and Estabrook in Worcester, Mass., 1856-57; and legal documents related to family estates managed by Abbott Lawrence of Boston, Mass., 1836-91.

ArchivalResource: 30 boxes, 4 oversize boxes and 2 v.

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Foster, Sydney Hill. Application of Sydney Hill Foster for membership to the Society, Sons of the Revolution, in the state of California, July 4, 1945.

Title: Application of Sydney Hill Foster for membership to the Society, Sons of the Revolution, in the state of California, July 4, 1945. Jul. 4, 1915.

Traces ancestry to Theophilus (1754-1833) and Jedediah (1726-1779) Foster, both of whom served in the American Revolution.

ArchivalResource: 2 p., 2 leaves : geneal. tables ; 36 cm.

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Foster, Dwight, 1757-1823. Papers, 1757-1884, bulk: 1791-1810.

Title: Papers, 1757-1884, bulk: 1791-1810.

Papers of Dwight Foster, Massachusetts congressman, senator, and jurist, include family letters of his father Jedediah, chief justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, his brothers Theodore, senator from Rhode Island, and Peregrine, a stockholder in the Ohio Company and land speculator in Virginia and Ohio. Correspondence includes letters from Theodore and Dwight Foster describing their lives at Brown University, politics, and their allegiance to the Federal Party; and letters from Dwight Foster to his daughters Pamela and Sophia. Also, papers concerning the town of Brookfield, Mass., of which Dwight Foster was a selectman, and papers relating to cases that Jedediah and Dwight Foster adjudicated in the Massachusetts courts. Other correspondents include Joseph Allen, Moses Brown Jr., Theodore Dwight, Abigail Foster, and Foster's grand-nephew, Dwight Foster.

ArchivalResource: 8 v.

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