14 Henrietta Angelica Foster born (EFM 14) also Tom Hunter born at White Cottage, bound boy the son of a servant at the White Cottage and a soldier at Arsenal, lived with Fosters until 1834 (EFM 48)įeb. Foster ceases managing the turnpike transportation company (JTH 9-10) (see his letter, Dec. Nd Foster family has a piano by this time (EFM 40) William Evens opens music school in his plane-shop in Pittsburgh (EFM 29) Nd President Monroe inspects the Arsenal with W.B. He later recalls his boyhood there driving cows to pasture and minding the pigs (EFM 497) 23 Henry Baldwin Foster first of Foster children born at White Cottage (EFM 14). Nd This year or next Foster family moves into "White Cottage" (JTH 7) Foster becomes manager of a turnpike transportation company that operated stage-coaches and Conestoga wagons between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia (JTH 9-10) 18 War Department instructed Treasury Department to transmit W. Jan.8 Battle of New Orleans (Morrison Foster, "My Brother Stephen" 18)įeb.
Jan.5 "Enterprise" reaches New Orleans (Morrison Foster, "My Brother Stephen" 18) Shreve (Morrison Foster, "My Brother Stephen" 17f) (JTH 8) Foster dispatched steamboat "Enterprise" from Pittsburgh to New Orleans, commanded by Capt. government 30 acres for an arsenal, for $12,000 (EFM 20) (JTH 7 says April 9)ĭec.15 W.B. Army (Morrison Foster, "My Brother Stephen" 17)Īpr. Title was Quartermaster and Commissary of the U.S. Foster appointed Deputy Commissioner of Purchases (JTH 8). Foster's father, James, dies at daughter's home in Poland, Ohio (JTH 4)Īpr. Site is "two and one-half miles above Pittsburgh," the same site where George Washington nearly froze the night of Dec.28, 1753 (Morrison Foster, "My Brother Stephen" 19) (JTH 6)Īpr.7 W.B. Foster purchases 121-acre farm from Alexander Hill for $35,000, builds "white cottage" on Bullitt's Hill (EFM 10), on the Philadelphia-Greensburg Pike (later Penn Avenue) (EFM 630f). 14 Charlotte Susanna Foster born (EFM 14)Īpr. 28 William Barclay Foster and Eliza Clayland Tomlinson Foster arrive on horseback in Pittsburgh (EFM 6) (Morrison Foster, "My Brother Stephen" 15)ĭec. Eliza's family settled on Eastern shore of Maryland, and "The ladies were distinguished in Baltimore society for their musical and artistic ability." (Morrison Foster, "My Brother Stephen" 12) 14 William Barclay Foster and Eliza Clayland Tomlinson Foster married, Chambersburg, PA leave for Pittsburgh (EFM 6). 20 William Barclay Foster rides into Pittsburgh from Canonsburg, age 16 21 Eliza Clayland Tomlinson (Stephen's mother) born, Wilmington, Delaware (EFM 616)Īpr. Became an original trustee of Canonsburg Academy, 1791, later known as Jefferson College (Morrison Foster, "My Brother Stephen" 9)
Nd James Foster and family with other Scotch-Irish moved to near Canonsburg, Washington County, Pennsylvania. Son of James Foster, Revolutionary war soldier in Virginia, present at Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown (Morrison Foster, "My Brother Stephen" 9) (JTH 4) 7 William Barclay Foster (Stephen's father) born, Berkeley County, Virginia (EFM 616). 28 John Foster sold entire estate of his father to Hugh Barkley (EFM 607) 17 Alexander Foster took out warrant for 187 acres of land in northern part of Little Britain Township.Īpril Alexander Foster died, leaving half his estate to his son John (EFM 607)Īpr. Alexander Foster marries Polly Connor (EFM 607)Īpr. Alexander Foster moves to Little Britain Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania (later part of Lancaster County, May 10, 1729) (EFM 607) Settled in Freehold, Monmouth County, NJ (EFM 607) Alexander Foster emigrated from Londonderry, Ireland, to America, with his mother and other near relatives. Alexander Foster born in the north of Ireland, later emigrated to American from Londonderry (EFM 607) (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987) Austin, "Susanna," "Jeanie," and "The Old Folks at Home": The Songs of Stephen C.