Foss Family And Connected Branches

Foss – Hooper – Carle – Hamilton – Tourtellot – Berry – Locke – Zellma – Phillips – Morrell – Babb – Barker – Barnard – Bartlett – Higgins

There are an estimated 10 million living Americans and as many as 35 million people worldwide descended from the Pilgrims, according to the General Society of Mayflower Descendants.

Mayflower Pilgrim Ancestors of Lena Edith Hooper Foss (b.1885 d.1970):

Ancestor	Relationship	Birth Death	Spouse	Notes
Joseph Rogers	7th G. Grandfather	b.1602 d.1678	Churchman, Hannah	Sailed on the Mayflower at the age of 17 with father Thomas Rogers.
Constance Hopkins	7th G. Grandmother	b.1606 d.1677	Snow, Nicholas	Daughter of Mayflower Pilgrim Stephen Hopkins.
Richard Warren	8th G. Grandfather	b.1578 d.1628	Walker, Elizabeth	His wife and children were left behind and came afterwards.
Stephen Hopkins	8th G. Grandfather	b.1581 d.1644	Kent, Mary	Indian expert and trouble maker.
Thomas Rogers	9th G. Grandfather	b.1571 d.1621	Cosford, Alice	Came on the Mayflower with eldest son Joseph, while leaving his other children and wife in England. Died first winter in Plymouth.
John Howland	9th G. Grandfather	abt.1598 d.1672	Tilley, Elizabeth	Manservant to Governor John Carver. During the voyage of the Mayflower fell overboard during a storm, and rescued. Married to Elizabeth Tilley.
John Tilley	10th G. Grandfather	b.1571 d.1621	Hurst, Joan	Died first winter at Plymouth. Husband of Joan Hurst.
Joan Hurst	10th G. Grandmother	b.1568 d.1621	Tilley, Joan	Died first winter at Plymouth. Wife of John Tilley.
Elizabeth Tilley	9th G. Grandfather	b.1607 d.1687	Howland, John	Voyaged on the Mayflower at the age of 13. Married to Josh Howland.
Mary Wentworth	9th G. Grandfather	b.1569 d.1627	Brewster, William	One of five adult women to survive the first winter at Plymouth, and one of four women to survive the first Thanksgiving.
William Brewster	9th G. Grandfather	abt.1566 d.1627	Wentworth, Mary	Pilgrim leader and spiritual leader of the Plymouth Colony.
Giles Hopkins	8th G. Uncle	b.1607 d.1690	Weldon, Catherine	Voyaged on the Mayflower at the age of 12.
Love Brewster	9th G. Uncle	b.1611 d.1650	Collier, Sarah	Voyaged on the Mayflower at the age of 9.

Connected Via Lena Edit Hooper (b.1885 d.1970)

Semual Bellamy

Samuel Bellamy “Black Sam/ Prince of Pirates”(b.1689 d.1717)

Bio
Captain Samuel Bellamy (c. February 23, 1689 – April 26, 1717), later known as “Black Sam” Bellamy. He was known as the most wealthiest(Equiv. US$139.6 million in 2018) pirate known in recorded history. He and his crew captured at least 53 ships.

Sam ran his pirate operation democratically. His men were slaves, Native Americans, and sailors pressed into service. Black Sam treated them equally and let them vote on important decisions.

He was known as “Black Sam”, because he ignored the fashion for powdered wigs and wore his black hair tied back with a black satin bow. Unlike the stereotype pirate character, Sam had good manners, dressed in fancy clothes, and he always wore four ornate dueling pistols in his sash.

Bellamy originally part of Benjamin Hornigold and Edward Teach’s (Blackbeard’s) crew aboard the Mary Anne, Bellamy rose to captain and soon gained fortune when he captured the ship Whydah Gally, a gigantic slave ship carrying riches on its second leg in the Atlantic. The Whydah was refitted as a flagship with 28 cannons, and was capable of attacking any man-of-war ship in the Americas, because of its advanced weapons system. Bellamy attempted to sail the ship back to his lover Maria Hallett that he left in New England but never made it, sinking off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts during a violent storm. Sam was only 28 years of age.

Ancestral Relationship
Sam and I are connected by a common ancestor Thomas Paine(b. 1626 d.1706) and Mary Snow(b. 1630 d. 1704) who are my 8th great parents, and Sam’s grand parents.

Flag of Black Sam

“…they spread a large black flag, with a Death’s Head and Bones across, and gave chase to Cap’t. Prince under the same colours.” – Thom. Baker (Bellamy’s crew)

	1st Cousin 8x removed
	Samuel Bellamy Relation Chart via Colin Foss

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Foss crest has a ‘passant’ red fox with a bottom Azure and top argent ‘chief’ ordinaries background.

♦ Silver / White – Argent: Signifies truth, sincerity, peace, innocence and purity.
♦ Blue – Azure: Signifies loyalty, chastity, truth, strength and faith.
♦ Red Fox – A symbol of one who will use all his shrewdness, sagacity, wit or wisdom for his own defence.

COLIN FOSS