Foster, RI

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Foster, Rhode Island was originally settled by British colonists in the 1600s as a farming community.  In 1662, William Vaughan, Zachariah Rhodes, and Robert Wescott, purchased off of the Indians a large tract of land called West Quanaug, bordering on Providence. The ‘West Quanaug purchase’, consisted of nearly the whole southern half of the town of Foster. The first settler was allegedly Chris Shippee.  Many settlers from Newport were active in the town in the 1700s.  Around the time the town incorporated, Foster’s first church, a Calvinist Baptist congregation was founded.   Not too long thereafter, Six Principle Baptist and Free Will Baptist congregations were founded as well.

Foster was incorporated with Scituate, Rhode Island in 1730, forming the western section of that township, and remained part of Scituate until 1781, when Foster split off as a distinct and separate township.  The town of Foster is named after U.S. Senator Theodore Foster.  Mr. Foster presented the town with a library where some of the library’s original books and town records still remain.

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