Colonel John Forster
1722 - 1783 (61 years)-
Name John Forster [1, 2, 3] Title Colonel Birth 1722 Paxtang, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA 
Gender Male Death 20 Sep 1783 Union City, Union, Pennsylvania, USA - Buffalo Valley
Will 24 Oct 1784 Union, Pennsylvania, USA [1] Buffalo; LW&T Person ID I259 MontyHistNotes_III Last Modified 4 Jul 2025
Family Margaret Bencent, b. 1730 d. 8 Jan 1792, Union, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 62 years) Marriage 17 Mar 1768 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA [2] Children > 1. Rebecca Forster [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 2. John Forster [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] > 3. Elizabeth Forster, b. 1734 d. 18 Apr 1816, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 82 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]> 4. Christiana Forster, b. 1741, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 2 Mar 1821, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 80 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]> 5. Lieutenant Thomas Forster, b. 1746 d. 1 Jun 1804, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 58 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]> 6. Jane Forster, b. 1749 d. 1824 (Age 75 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] > 7. Andrew Forster, b. 1751, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, USA d. 15 Nov 1817, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 66 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]> 8. Robert Forster, b. 1758 d. 30 Jan 1834 (Age 76 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] Family ID F53 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 4 Jul 2025
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Birth - 1722 - Paxtang, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA 
Marriage - 17 Mar 1768 - Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 
Death - 20 Sep 1783 - Union City, Union, Pennsylvania, USA 
Will - Buffalo; LW&T - 24 Oct 1784 - Union, Pennsylvania, USA = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Sources - [S56] Linn, John Blair, Annals of Buffalo Valley, Pennsylvania, 1755-1855, (Name: Name: Lane S Hart; Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Date: 1877;;), Annals_of_Buffalo_Valley_Pennsylvania_17.pdf Page 179.
- [S221] Ancestry.com, Pennsylvania, Compiled Marriage Records, 1700-1821, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;).
Record for Margaret Bencent
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=2383&h=159261&indiv=try - [S35] Lightfoot, Thomas Montgomery, The Montgomery Family of Paradise, (Name: Pennsylvania Historica Society; Location: Northumberland, Pennsylvania, USA; Date: 1934;), Montgomery Family of Paradise.
Book found at FamilySearch
https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/548850-the-montgomery-family-of-paradise?offset=
https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/548850-the-montgomery-family-of-paradise?offset=
- [S56] Linn, John Blair, Annals of Buffalo Valley, Pennsylvania, 1755-1855, (Name: Name: Lane S Hart; Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Date: 1877;;), Annals_of_Buffalo_Valley_Pennsylvania_17.pdf Page 179.