George Foster was the first son of Robert and Charity Foster. His birth date is estimated to be around 1744. His birth place was Amelia County, Virginia. He moved with his family to Lunenburg County when he was only a small boy. It was there he grew to adulthood. He worked hard on his father’s plantation and went to schools when they were available. It was probably there that he met his future wife, Sarah Childress.
George and Sarah were married sometime around 1763. George was just a lad of about nineteen. Sarah’s age we do not know since her birth date has eluded us. We must assume that his parents gave or sold them a piece of their land to farm and build their home and care for their family. We know that they remained in Charlotte County until they sold out sometime in 1778. George Foster. Jr. has been reported to have been born in Wilkes County in 1779 so we know they must have moved and settled prior to this date. Estimation of their removal varies from 1775 to 1782. He was not listed on the 1775 tax list for Surry County, North Carolina, which then included the territory now incorporated in Wilkes County. However, George Foster was taxed in the 1782 Wilkes County, North Carolina tax lists on three Negro slaves, but no land, in Captain Kee’s District of Wilkes County which included the Upper Yadkin area of western Wilkes County. In the 1786 Wilkes tax lists, George Foster was taxed for slaves, but not land, in Captain Browns District which covered the Lewis Fork/Stony Fork area of western Wilkes County. He was also enumerated in the same area in the 1787 state census for Wilkes County, North Carolina with two males under age 21, four females, and 3 slaves in his household, in addition to himself. George Foster acquired at least 150 acres in the Stony Fork area. In the 1790 federal census for Wilkes County, North Carolina, George Foster however was enumerated in the Thirteenth Company (Warrior Creek/Moravian Creek/Cub Creek area) with himself, three males under age 16, four females, and two slaves.
George Foster continued to live in the Wilkes County through 1800. Sometime before 1810 he moved over the Brushy Mountains to likely live near his daughter Isabel Teague in the Little River area of Burke County, North Carolina. It was here in Burke County where he died in 1817, leaving a will in which he named his surviving wife Sarah and eight children: Sarah was still living in Burke Co NC at the 1820 federal census.
Per information published in The Wilkes County Heritage, 1990 by Edward R. Dittmer: The children of George and Sarah Foster were (1) Charity Foster who married Joseph Webb and lived in the Stony Fork/Lewis Fork area of Wilkes County, North Carolina; (2) Edith Foster who married Thomas Ferguson in 1785 in Wilkes County, North Carolina and also lived in the Elk Creek/Stony Fork area of Wilkes County; (3) Isabel Foster married a Teague, most likely Moses of Burke County; (4) Robert Mitchell Foster who married Mary Allison in 1799 in Wilkes County and lived there through at least 1840. (5) George Foster, Jr. who married Amy Gray, daughter of John and Ann Gray, in 1800 in Wilkes County and lived in the Lewis Fork/Stony Fork area; (6) Mary Foster who married Elijah Dyer and lived in Wilkes County; (7) Sarah Foster married an Allison and little further is known of her.