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Show Ruth and Phoebe. S":;non t s fe.mi.ly felt htghly d;t..sgraced 141han he joined the i¥ormo-ns in 1833 1 and hts ·father d1s~nher1.ted him. Accordlng to- the tradition among th.e · t·am1ly 1n \~'a rsaw , Bolon left at ti1e ag~ of 1 ~ , in. 1830 , and j~tned ·the 'Mormons . '.Phi s would. be the year the church. wa.e founried irl Fayette, N. Y. Solon -Foster w~1s of' .a tr•.aight :g n ~: liah .t ' \J~ 1 tan de scent on Foster 1 rae one of the forty- one s~ttlers of the first English though th1,s was part of the !te.w ?r' np.·lsnd Puritan mte:rati1;;n being under the Connecticut colony until after the Dutch were driven lUt of New York . De had come f rom England on the 0 Abipa11" tn 1635 with his wife ~ Frances Stevens, and three people •ectded tb found a colony at Southampton . uo1on ' s Jood . His gr·arH:lfather was the son o C Van1.. ~1, Christopher Fo .ster~; and _his z;; rand:rnother , Phebe H1.ldreth, r)oth of Soutb,arnptvn . These were all of the ori~lnal _ a;-nilies o:r· ·Southampton.. So i on' a , mother was Huth Eedp:es, · d.augl .. ter of .Jos1.alt and T:tiary HedfeS of Eas thampton, I~ong Island, and _a d·escendant of Wi1l ... a.~ He dges , · one of the' found~re of ·': as .J~u~t npton . She "'.~s n~-;1med f or her about. 1 - ?0 1 and thls naii1e a.hs alway(· been carried dcrwn b:; l1er descendants for over two aqd ahha.lf centu:td.,~S . Her mother was - 4· |
