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Essex County Massachusetts Freedom Case Participants 1760 - 1783

John Foster (-)

Andover

Biography: Not clear which John Foster in Andover this is. Testimony is that owned a house but refused to sell to Casar and James Turner in 1768.

Comments: No summons or reimbursement on record.

Casar vs. Samuel Taylor (1772) Sworn signed testimony uncertain

Sources

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• Dated Nov. 12, 1771. Sworn, written testimony that Foster in June 1768 refused to sell old house in Andover to James Turner and Casar as Foster "would have nothing to do with Casar." Samuel Taylor approached him and Foster agreed to sell the house to Taylor.
  Citation: Samuel Taylor vs Casar, Superior Court of Judicature June 1772, 15. Suffolk # 132190.