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"If Christopher Foster was born in the parish of Ewell, Surrey in 1603, I regret that there is no way of confirming this as the parish records (which we hold here), only start at 1604.
However, I have checked the transcripts to these records for the period immediately after 1604 and again from 1624 to 1635 and have found the following entries:
-1628 'Chrystopher ffoster and ffrancis Steven were maryed one the foure and twentye daye of December 1628.'
-1630 'Rebecka ffoster the daughter of Christopher ffoster was baptized the vth daye of Marche.'
-1632 'Nathaniel ffoster the sonne of Christopher ffoster was baptized the fourthe daye of Maye.'
-1634 'Johanes filius Christopherij ffoster Baptizatus erat Ocatauo die Maij.'
e-mail 30 Jan 2004 from Ruth Drysdale for County Archivist - Surrey History Centre

Christopher Foster styled himself a husbandman on his shipping, embarked in London, June 17, 1635 in the "Abigail."


"Abigail" 1635

"In the Abigail prd. P. Cert. from the minister of their conformitie and from the Justices, that they are no susidy men.
Christopher ffoster ae 32
Bxor ffrancis ffost
Rabecca ffoster ae 5
Nathaniel ffostr ae 2
Jo. Ffoster ae 1
Alice Steevens 22
Tho Steevens 12
C. E. Banks in the book
Planter of the Commonwealth," which traces 2,646 emigrants to America for whom there is a clear record says that Christopher Foster was a "husbandman [farmer] of Ewell, County Surrey," and that Alice Stevens was "probably sister of Mrs. Foster.". He adds the following about the "Abigail" on which others of the passengers were John Winthrop Jr. age 27 and his wife Elizabth and son Deane

"Abigail of London, Richard Hackwell, Master. She listed passengers for New England from Jun 4 until July 24, and sailed from Plymouth as her last port of departure, about Aug. 1, with two hundred and twenty persons aboard, and many cattle. She arrived at Boston about Oct. 8, 1635, infected with smallpox. Among those coming in this ship, but not listed, were Sir Henry Vane, son and heir to Sir Henry Vane, Comptroller of the King's Household, traveling incognite, the Reverend Hugh Peter, pastor of the English Church at Rotterdam, and the Reverend John Wilson, who was returning to Boston, with his wife, her first appearance in New England. http://www.immigrantships.net/v2/1600v2/abigail16351008.html

They were part of the Puritan migration and Hugh Peters, later Cromwell's chaplain, was on the same ship and helped form the church congregation to which Christopher belonged.

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