The Official Story
Chapter 17

The Foster epilogue

Very little is known about the lives of Isaac and Rebecca Foster after they left Hallowell. But you can find several interesting clues in the archives. In this 1792 diary entry of the minister Ezra Stiles, written while traveling through Westchester County NY, he reported, "Isaac Foster still at Bedford in the Parsonage House, but don't preach --- drinks a Quart Rum a Day. Wife handsome but mentis inops. Poor. Works for Colonel Sacket. A Devil incarnate -- an abandoned Minister!"

A 19th century history of Westchester County NY reported that Isaac Foster preached for two years in Bedford, New York, before leaving,"as tradition reports, with his name and that of his wife in bad repute."

The next clue appears in "The Eastern Shore Churchman" from 1927. Isaac Foster shows up as the minister of an Episcopal church in Rehoboth, Maryland from 1795 until his death in 1800. And a newspaper abstract from Princess Anne, Maryland tells us that according to Foster family lore, after Isaac's death, Rebecca Foster left for Peru with her youngest son to search for gold.

What did Martha have to say about this?



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The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, from Its First Settlement to the Present Time
Bolton, Robert
1881
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THE

HISTORY

OF

THE SEVERAL TOWNS, MANORS, AND PATENTS

OF THE

COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER,

FROM

ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT

TO THE

PRESENT TIME.

Carefully Revised by its Author.

                 

BY THE LATE REV. ROBERT BOLTON,
AUTHOR OF THE "GUIDE TO NEW ROCHELLE," AND
A MEMBER OF N.Y. HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

EDITED BY THE REV. C. W. BOLTON, NEW ROCHELLE.
                 


VOLUME 1.

   "It is the privilege of History to impart the experience of age, without its infirmi-
ties; to bring back things long obscured by time, or sinking into oblivion; and enable
us to form some reasonable conjectures of what may happen to posterity"-
--POULSON'S
HIST. OF HOLDERNESS.                                         

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NEW YORK:
CHAS, F. ROPER, 27 ROSE STREET.
1881.