The history of the town of Dorchester, Massachusetts, By a committee of the Dorchester antiquarian and historical society ...

118 HISTORY OF DORCHESTER.
Hopestill Foster came from London in 1635, in
the ship Elizabeth, Capt. Stagg, he then being about
fourteen years of age, accompanied by his mother,
Patience Foster, then about forty years of age.[See Savage's Gleanings.] The son's name appears
in the Town Records in 1636. The mother had a
share in. the Neck Lands in 1637. The son signed
the covenant in 1638, joined the Artillery Company
in 1642, and was ensign in the Dorchester train band,
under Humphrey Atherton, 1644; was a Selectman
in 1646, and for thirty years after, with occasional
intervals; was a Deputy to the Court in 1652, and
afterwards a justice, or commissioner of trials. His
wife's name was Mary. By his will, July 19, 1676,
he gave ~5 towards the free schools, to be added to
" Brother Gibson's legacy." Mr. Foster lived near
what is now the south-west corner of Adams and
Centre streets, near where James Foster lives.His children were-Hopestill, who married Elizabeth Parsons, of Roxbury, and died in Dorchester
in 1717; John (the schoolmaster), who died Sept.
9, 1681, aged 33; James, born 1651, married Mary
Capen, Sept. 22, 1674, and died Oct. 4, 1732, aged
82 years; Elisha married Sarah Payson, April 10,
1678, and died Oct. 16, 1682, aged 29; Thankful
married John Baker, of Boston, and died Jan. 27,
1697-8, aged 58 years; Comfort, born 28 (7) 1658,
and "dyed in the King's sarvice," Jan. 5, 1688-9;
Standfast, born 13 (9) 1660, died Oct. 15, 1676;
had daughters Poline and Mary. He died Oct. 15,
1676; and his wife died Jan. 4, 1702-3, aged 84
years.
Patience Foster, mother of Hopestili, was proba