| 词条 | Timothy Foster (settler) |
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| image = | caption = | name = Timothy Foster | birth_date = {{date|1720-05-14|MDY}} |birth_place=Attleborough, Massachusetts Bay | death_date = {{date|1785-04-03|MDY}} | death_place = Winthrop, District of Maine, Massachusetts | occupation = | known_for = First settler of Winthrop, Maine | spouse = Sibboleth Freeman | children = 11 | father = John Foster | mother = Margaret Ware | residence = | signature = Captain Timothy Foster signature 1776.png Timothy Foster ({{date|1720-05-14|MDY}} – {{date|1785-04-03|MDY}}) and his family were the first colonial settlers of Winthrop, Maine. He was a captain in the Massachusetts militia during the American Revolutionary War. Early lifeTimothy Foster was born on {{date|1720-05-14|MDY}}, at Attleborough in Massachusetts Bay Colony—the ninth of 13 children. His mother Margaret Ware (1685–1761) and his father John Foster (1680–1759) were born, respectively, in the Massachusetts Bay towns of Wrentham and Salem. John Foster was a blacksmith and an elected deputy to the Massachusetts General Court.{{sfn|Kingsbury|Deyo|1892|pp=627}}{{sfn|Stackpole|1925|p=371}}{{sfn|Cutter|1908|p=721}}{{sfn|Briggs|2015|pp=54,58}} First settler of Winthrop, MaineIn 1764, Timothy Foster bought 200 acres of forest and meadow in Pondtown Plantation, now Winthrop, Maine. The land, purchased for £26 from a roving land speculator, was situated along the western shore of Cobbosseecontee Lake. The next year Foster moved from Attleborough to Pondtown with his wife Sibboleth Freeman and their 10 children, becoming the first pioneers to settle there. In 1766, Foster's land—designated as lot eight—was recorded in a colonial deed that required him to build a house, clear and till at least five acres, and live on the premises. In 1769, the Fosters built the first frame house in Pondtown. In 1771, Pondtown was incorporated as the town of Winthrop and Foster was elected to its first board of selectmen.{{sfn|Thurston|1855|pp=2-16,44}}{{sfn|Cutter|1908|p=722}}{{sfn|Stackpole|1925|pp=20-28,36,59}} Military serviceIn January 1773, the town of Winthrop petitioned the Massachusetts General Court with grievances against the Parliament of the United Kingdom. In January 1775, Timothy Foster was commissioned an ensign in the local militia. In July 1776, Foster was made a captain of the 7th Company in Colonel Joseph North's 2nd Lincoln County Regiment of the Massachusetts Militia. In 1776, Foster's company was at Fort Ticonderoga in New York. In 1779, Foster served as captain in Major William Lithgow's detachment to defend Lincoln County from British attack after the defeat of American naval forces in the Penobscot Expedition at Penobscot Bay.{{sfn|Stackpole|1925|pp=117-138}}{{sfn|Massachusetts Office of the Secretary of State|1899|p=935}}{{sfn|Hall|1922| p=25}} FamilyTimothy Foster married Sibboleth{{efn|Her name was sometimes shortened to Sibler, Sybilla, Sebella, and Sibyl.}} Freeman (1723–1813) on {{date|1743-06-23|MDY}}, in Attleborough. Their children were Timothy Foster Jr., b. 1745; Billy Foster, b. 1747; Eliphalet Foster b. 1749; Susan Foster, b. 1751; David Foster, b. 1753; Thomas Foster, b. 1755; Stuart Foster, b. 1757; John Foster, b. 1759; Oliver Foster, b. 1761; Sibler Foster, b. 1763; and Stephen Foster, b. 1766. All of their children were born in Attleborough except their last child, Stephen, who was the first child born to settlers in Winthrop. Eight of their sons served in the American Revolutionary War.{{sfn|Stackpole|1925|pp=138-140,371-372}}{{sfn|Thurston|1855|pp=184-185}}{{sfn|Cutter|1908|p=721-722}} Death and legacyOn {{date|1785-04-01|MDY}}, Timothy Foster was struck by a tree limb which fractured his skull and rendered him unconscious. His son Stuart Foster and two neighbors walked to Falmouth, Maine, for a surgeon. The surgeon could not return with them, but he gave them a trephine—a saw to bore a hole in Foster's skull. The men did not return in time to save him{{efn|According to one account they were able to briefly revive Foster: "On the return of the son the indented part of the skull was raised, and Capt. Foster roused up and spoke rationally. But so long a time had elapsed, the inflammation had proceeded so far that he died. His remains were interred near where Dea. Metcalf lived."{{sfn|Thurston|1855|p=67}}}} and he died {{date|1785-04-03|MDY}}.{{sfn|Cutter|1908|p=722}}{{sfn|Thurston|1855|pp=66-67}} A new home was built for the widow Foster by her sons, which still stands. Outside her home the Daughters of the American Revolution placed a memorial plaque on a stone that honors Timothy Foster as a patriot and the first settler of Winthrop.{{sfn|Robertson|2011|}} Notes{{notelist}}ReferencesCitationsBibliography
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