0213 Foster TREFETHEN

Events:

Born in New Castle, New Hampshire
Married Margaret FROST by 1738. Wife: daughter of Samuel & Annie (CARTER)^{[Source 64 New Hampshire Deeds 110:64]}
20 February 1738 - borrowed 560 Lb. from John Frost, a Portsmouth Innkeeper (and paid him back in full)^{[Source 36]}
He used 450lb. to buy a house in Newcastle from Ann Frost (widow of Samuel Frost, daughter of Edward Cater [a Newcastle shipwright, innkeeper and constable (1687) who died before May 1691. His father drowned years earlier).^{[Source 36]}
05 May 1741 - Foster mortgages the house & land above to William Simpson of Portsmouth, a shopkeeper. The mortgage is discharged 20 June 1746.^{[Source 36]}
10 May 1753 - "Foster TREFETHEN of Portmouth" sells the land to John Crown.
Fosters wife also signed this document. Samuel Frost was a witness.
He continued buying & selling property into 1775. In ‘69 he sold therights to the original grants under the Protectworth Charter (received 11 days earlier); as well as land granted in Trecothick. In ‘71 he sold his share of land granted in ‘68 in Saville (now Sunapee, New Hampshire)^{[Source 36]}
Died 22 August 1775 in Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire of ‘P. Bleeding.’ (Source 36 suggests this is ‘Persistent Bleeding’). His children received 10 shillings (each?) in his father’s will.
In 1778 his widow Margaret Frost mentions her "late hond father", Samuel Frost, in RCD 110:164^{[Source 129 via 147]}
From Allen Humphries

SOURCES:

11. TREFETHEN, Jessie B.- Correspondence, Peaks Island, Portland, Maine. Author of “Trefethen: the family and the landing”

36. TREFREN, Leitha S.¹³²¹- Correspondence, 135 Clover Lane; Medford, Oregon 97501. Leitha passed away during February, 2001

39. Alice STINSON⁰⁶³⁸ (Mrs. Lyall)- Correspondence, 11530 La Maida St., North Hollywood, California 91601

41. KNOWLER, MRS. C.D.- Correspondence, Route 4; Culpeper, VA 22701

53. Portsmouth, New Hampshire Births & Deaths, ed. Charles H. Batchelder, 14 April 1939

64. TREFETHEN, Joanne E.⁰³³⁴ - Correspondence, Stockton Springs, Maine. Deceased 26 July 2004

100. Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Meteroralogical Record with Remarkable Occurances, Birth & Deaths at the Portsmouth Athenaeum; probably by Dr. Joshua Brackett (1733 - 1802)

129. BAILEY, Glenn R.- His references are marked as follows:

1. Rockingham County, New Hampshire Deeds 63:408, 64:237, 129:295, 130:97
2. Dover, New Hampshire Cemeterty Inscriptions
3. Dover Vital Records
4. York County, Maine Deeds 54:84, 95:17, 54:83, 59:45, 69:149, 128:127
5. Lincoln County Deeds 41:176 and/or Massachusetts Tax Valuation List of 1771, Betty H. Pruitt; Boston, Massachusetts 1978
6. Strafford County, New Hampshire. Deeds 26:61, 24:240, 29:173,30:32, 35:57,36:269
7. York County, Maine. Probate Docket #19153
8. Federal Census (assorted)
9. Strafford County Probate 5:121
10. New Castle Vital Records
11. Monhegan Island Cemetery Inscriptions
12. Bristol, Maine Vital Records
13. 1st Parish Church Records, Kittery, Maine
14. Petition to Selectman of Kittery, Maine; June 17, 1799
15. Strafford County, New Hampshire Probate Docket #5:121
16. Lincoln County Deeds 149:6, 41:177, 41:178,44:32, 64:25+, 148:332, 148:393, 109:220
17. Columbian Centinal, 'Deaths' - July 13, 1816, November 19, 1823
18. Windham, Maine Vital Records
19. Maine Monthly Magazine - July, 1836
20. Friendship, Maine. Cemetery Inscriptions
21. Friendship, Maine Vital Records
22. Lincoln County, Maine Probate 24:117
23. Pond Grove Cemetery, Portland, Maine Inscriptions
24. Portland, Maine Vital Records
25. Pourtsmouth, New Hampshire Vital Records
26. Maine, Genealogy & Family History Of the State of, George Thomas Little, A.M., Litt. D. Vol. IV; Lewis Historical Pub. Co., N.Y.- 1909 (same as Source 42)
27. Monhegan Island Plantation Records
28. Portland City Directory - 1894,1897 - 1927
29. Bremen Maine Vital Records
30. Maine Home Journal, ‘Cronicles of Cushing & Freindship’, Rockland, Maine 1892

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151.Allen E. Humphries

New Hampshire Deeds 110:64

Foster TREFETHEN0213 (very roughly around 1710 - 22 August 1775) Married to Margaret FROST

Foster TREFETHEN⁰²¹³
(very roughly around 1710 - 22 August 1775)
Married to Margaret FROST