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Isaac Foster, Jr., was born at Billerica, Massachusetts, in 1745, a son of Isaac Foster and Sarah Brown. He married Lydia Bacon in 1747. They were the parents of at least eight children that survived to adulthood: Isaac, Lydia, Josiah, Daniel, Sarah, Ira, Samuel and Abigail. He lived in several towns and was a resident of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, at the outbreak of the Revolution.
Isaac Foster was with the Militia at Chelmsford. He served 16 days of duty as a private in Colonel Moses Parker's Regiment in 1775. He marched on the Alarm of 19 April 1775. He was also on the 1775 Chelmsford tax list. He was also a corporal in Captain John Minot's Company of Colonel Dike's Regiment from 13 December 1776 to 1 March 1777. He was a sergeant from 10 May 1777 to 9 July 1777, at Warwick Neck, Rhode Island, for which he received five pounds and ten shillings.
Foster moved to Acworth, New Hampshire, about 1780, where he was the Town Clerk from 1782-1785, and a Selectman four times between 1793 and 1800. He died in 1813, and was buried at Acworth, New Hampshire.
Military Service Sources:
Wilson’s History of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, Pg. 320, 354.
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, Vol. 5, Pg. 902.
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