• Born: 10 Sep 1759, Boston MA
• Died: 16 May 1839, Boston MA

  General notes:

Silversmith

  Events in his life were:

• Alternate Mark

• Alternate Mark

• Apprenticed in 1774-1781 to Benjamin Burt in Boston MA ⁹
  Burt remained close to his former charge and in his will left ". . . to my trusty friend Joseph Foster of Boston, Goldsmith one hundred dollars." Foster was sole executor of Burt's estate.

• He worked circa 1781-1830 as a silversmith in Boston MA with a shop on Ann Street and later on Fish Street near his former master. ⁹

• Tankard, c 1787
  Yale University ¹³
  h: 8 3/4"
  d: 4 7/8" (of base)
  wt: 23 oz 18 dwt
  Engraved "The Gift of Brother / James Foster / who deceased Apl 30th 1751 / to the South Church in / Ipswich." In his will, Foster left "to the South Church in Ipswich the sum of ten pounds lawfull money to be paid out of my estate after my wife's decest."

• Porringer, c 1791
  Essex Institute ¹⁹
  l: 8 1/8"
  wt: 9 oz
  Engraved J * H / to / S * F. Given by the watchmaker Joseph Hiller to his neice, Sarah Foster

• Creamer, 1807
  Private Collection
  l: 5 3/8"
  h: 4 3/4"
  wt: 5.9 oz
  Engraved on base "Thomas W. & E. Sumner 1807"