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From: "Nancy Rivers" <>
Subject: Nathaniel Foster/Mary Moore NY>MI early 1800's
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 18:48:20 -0400


Most of the following information comes from Territorial Papers of
Michigan,
Federal Census for Michigan and Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society
Publication of remembrances.

Nathaniel FOSTER was born in 1795 in New York. He was a petitioner
for free
government in 1822 in Oakland County, Michigan. He was a voter in
Oakland
County on September 4, 1823 in Pontiac, Michigan. He signed a
petition
disputing election of delegate to congress on December 19, 1825 in
Oakland
County, Michigan. He appeared in the census in 1830 in Oakland
County,
Michigan. Nathaniel Foster is listed with 1 female age 0-5, 2
females age
5-10, 1 female age 10-15, 1 female age 30-40 and 1 male age 30-40.
He moved
to Saginaw County, Michigan with family in 1831/32. "Nathaniel
Foster and
family, Stephen Benson and Sylvester Vibber were residents of
Saginaw before
1833." - quotation from remembrance. He was a petitioner to erect
light
house at mouth of Saginaw River between October 1834 and January
1835 in
Oakland County, Michigan. He petitioner for public land office to be
located in Saginaw, MI on February 29, 1836 in Saginaw County,
Michigan.
He owned land in section 21 (T11N, R5E) on March 11, 1836 in
Bridgeport,
Saginaw County, Michigan. He purchased land in Saginaw County in
1837 in
Saginaw County, Michigan. Land purchased May 3, 1837: the south
part of the
northwest fractional quarter and the north east quarter of the
south west
quarter of section twenty-one in township eleven north of range
five east in
the district of lands subject to sale at Detroit, Michigan
containing One
hundred and twenty eight acres and ninety-hundredths of an
acre. He served
on first grand jury in Saginaw County on October 24, 1837 in
Saginaw County,
Michigan. He appeared in the census in 1840 in Saginaw Township,
Saginaw
County, Michigan. Nathaniel Foster is listed with the following
individuals: 1 male and 1 female under age 5, 1 male and 2 females ages
5-10, 1 female age 15-20, 1 female age 30-40 and 1 male age 40-50. He
appeared in the census in 1850 in Bridgeport, Saginaw County,
Michigan as
age 55, born New York.

Nathaniel FOSTER and Mary MOORE were married. Mary MOORE was born
in 1800
in New York. She appeared in the census in 1850 in Bridgeport, Saginaw
County, Michigan as age 50, birth New York.

Nathaniel and Mary had 9 girls and 3 boys that I know of.

I am looking for any information on Nathaniel and Mary's parents.

I have also found a reference to a Nathaniel Foster in Kalamazoo
Michigan -
although I am not 100% sure it is the same Nathaniel
Foster. Here's the
information: became settler of land within present year on December
25, 1830
in Kalamazoo County, Michigan (Source: Territorial Papers of
Michigan). He
carpenter of hotel built late 1831 to early 1832 in
Schoolcraft/Kalamazoo,
Michigan. "The day after my arrival, Sunday, Addison Smith and I
spent at
the house of Mr. Johnson Patrick, who was living in a partly finished,
framed, story-and-half house on the corner of section 20. On this
corner
now stands the brick house built by Mr. Jerome T. Cobb. There we
found Mr.
Patrick and wife, and a family of young girls, and Miss Betsey Foster,
sister of Mrs. Patrick, a young lady whom I came to know very
well. She
afterward married a Mr. Arnold of Hinesburgh, Vermont, who had
settled in
Allegan, and she became the mother of Judge Dan Arnold and of the
wife of
Senator Stockbridge of Kalamazoo. While I was at Ann Arbor, I was
inoculated
for the kine-pox and it was working finely that day, so that I was
in in
condition to converse or enjoy anything.
The company were about to build a hotel on the corner of Center and
Eliza
streets, and the timber was on the ground and being framed. The
carpenter
was Mr. Nathaniel Foster, brother of Mrs. Patrick, and his method
of framing
was by the old "scribe rule" which was used before the "square
rule" was
invented. The frame was completed and raised in March; and the
building
finished the next summer, and Mr. Johnson Patrick was installed as
landlord." Earlier in the remembrances he referenced it being
November of
1831. (Source: Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society Publication)

This last reference probably is the same man - I'm just not
entirely sure at
the moment. Anyone with information on this?

Thanks!
Nancy Rivers


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