{"id":2248,"date":"2010-12-08T04:19:58","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T04:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=2248"},"modified":"2020-01-17T11:44:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T16:44:13","slug":"the-general-gideon-foster-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=2248","title":{"rendered":"General Gideon Foster House (1810)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Foster-House.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Gideon Foster House\" width=\"500\" height=\"386\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Foster-House.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Foster-House-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>General <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peabodyhistorical.org\/peabody_history.asp#foster\">Gideon Foster<\/a> was <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=6fMOAAAAYAAJ&#038;pg=PA276#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">a leader during the Revolutionary War<\/a> from South Danvers, now <a href=\"http:\/\/freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com\/~sjensen\/jensen\/references\/ref95.htm\">Peabody<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=iyvSJ7dxqisC&#038;pg=PA222#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">Leading the militia<\/a> of South Danvers, he marched to the Battle of Lexington and Concord, fighting the British during their retreat to Boston at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historynet.com\/battle-of-menotomy-first-blood-1775.htm\/1\">Battle of Menotomy<\/a>.  He and his men also resupplied American forces at the Battle of Bunker Hill.  <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=aohMAAAAMAAJ&#038;pg=PA168#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">Foster<\/a> was made a General of Militia after the War.  In 1815, he purchased <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peabodyhistorical.org\/properties.asp\">a house<\/a>, built in 1810 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gen._Gideon_Foster_House\">on Washington Street<\/a> in South Danvers, and lived there from 1818 to 1831.  During this time, <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=0ItuaazRvacC&#038;pg=PA52#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">Foster<\/a> ran the grist, bark and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peabody.k12.ma.us\/higgins\/chocolatiers\/index.html\">chocolate<\/a> mills that he had inherited from his father.  After <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/cgi-bin\/fg.cgi?page=gr&#038;GRid=9689465\">his death<\/a>, others owned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapesnorth.com\/trail_arch\/trail.php?sec=arch&#038;trail=48\">the house<\/a>, which was acquired by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.essexheritage.org\/sites\/peabody_historical.shtml\">Peabody Historical Society<\/a> in 1916 and continues to serve as its headquarters and museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Gideon Foster was a leader during the Revolutionary War from South Danvers, now Peabody. Leading the militia of South Danvers, he marched to the Battle of Lexington and Concord, fighting the British during their retreat to Boston at the Battle of Menotomy. He and his men also resupplied American forces at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Foster was made a General of Militia after the War. In 1815, he purchased a house, built in 1810 on Washington Street in South Danvers, and lived there from 1818 to 1831. During this time, Foster ran the grist, bark and chocolate mills [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,8,150],"tags":[18,36],"class_list":["post-2248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal","category-houses","category-peabody","tag-museum","tag-revolutionary-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2248"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7800,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions\/7800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}