As a cordwainer and militiaman, little is known about Samuel Foster’s life before serving in the American Revolutionary War outside of his participation in the Boston Tea Party.
During the Revolutionary War, Sergeant Samuel Foster marched with Captain Moses Whiting’s company of Minutemen under Colonel John Greaton at Lexington on April 19, 1775. He served other short enlistments.
During 1775, and was eventually promoted to Captain in Colonel Greaton’s regiment in the Continental Army. He fought at Ticonderoga and in other campaigns around Albany, New York, from January 1, 1777, through his unfortunate death on May 6, 1778. The existing records do not state how he perished. As Foster’s entry in Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors states, Foster was granted a six-month furlough beginning December 1, 1777. Thus, the location of his death is in question.
Samuel Foster died on May 6, 1778.
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