Thomas Forster and Jane Young

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Husband Thomas Forster ¹

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           Died: Nov 1810 - Buffalo Valley, Union Co, PA 2
         Buried:  - Lewis Cemetery, near Mifflinburg, Union Co, PA

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         Father: John Forster (      -1783) 3
         Mother: Margaret [Unk] (      -1792) 1

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       Marriage: 4 Nov 1777 1 4

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Wife Jane Young ¹

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1 M John Forster ²

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2 M William Forster ³

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            AKA: William Forster 2
           Born: 1784 - Buffalo Valley, Union Co, PA 2
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           Died: 26 Mar 1853 - Hartley Twp, Union Co, PA 2
         Buried:  - Lewis Cemetery, near Mifflinburg, Union Co, PA

         Spouse: Esther Young (      -      ) 2

         Spouse: Rachel McCay (      -      ) 2

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3 M Thomas Forster ²

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4 F Margaret Forster ²

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5 F Elizabeth Forster ²

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6 F Jane Forster ²

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General Notes: Husband - Thomas Forster

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He was the Revolutionary soldier of the family-a sincere patriot and lover of liberty, he was early in the field for the independence of the American Colonies. In 1776 he is the first found in the record as Major of the Fourth Battalion of the Northumberland County Associators, of which Phillip Cole and Thomas Sutherland, another ancestor of some of the present Forster family, was the lieutenant-colonel. This battalion was sent to Reading, but anxious to be at the front. Major Forster became a lieutenant in Capt. John Clark's company of Col. Potter's regiment. This company was detained in Reading until it was too late to reach the scene of actual hostility in time to take part in the engagements at Trenton and Princeton, but participated actively in several subsequent skirmishes, in which a number of casualties occurred, and in which the members of the company won honorable distinction.
Returning to the quiet life of a farmer after his patriotic military service, Thomas Forster, on the death in 1783 of the oldest son, inherited, together with his third of the real estate, the homestead of the family, where he lived a prominent and highly respected citizen of the Valley until his death.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 154.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 155.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 153.

4 William Henry Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1894), Pg 163.