Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . ary Fostei,was the daughter of John Foster, who settledin East Machias as early as 1768, and a grand-daughter of Benjamin Foster, who was bornin Greenland, N. H., in 1726, and settled withhis family at Machias, Me., as early as 17l!-). Benjamin Foster .served at the taking of Louis-burg, and afterwaid in the struggle for Ameri-can independence. In June, 1775, the royalauthorities in Boston sent a vessel to Machiasfor lumber, l)ut the good people of that townre
Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . ary Fostei,was the daughter of John Foster, who settledin East Machias as early as 1768, and a grand-daughter of Benjamin Foster, who was bornin Greenland, N. H., in 1726, and settled withhis family at Machias, Me., as early as 17l!-). Benjamin Foster .served at the taking of Louis-burg, and afterwaid in the struggle for Ameri-can independence. In June, 1775, the royalauthorities in Boston sent a vessel to Machiasfor lumber, l)ut the good people of that townrefused to supply the article. An engagementfollowed, in which Benjamin Foster led theforces from East Machias and Jeremiah OBrienled those from Machias. This was the firstnaval engagement in the Revolutionary war,and occurred on the Sunday and Monday pre-ceding the battle of Bunker Hill. For thisspirited action Foster and OBrien received thethanks of the Provincial Congress then assem-bled at Watertown. Thomas H. Talbot, thus descended, attendedthe public schools and Washington Academyat ICast Machias, and was graduateil with hon-. TllOMAS II. ors from Bowdoin College in 1846, holdingmembership in the Phi Beta Kappa and AlphaDelta Phi frateinities. He began his legalstudies in the office of his brother, George , at East .Machias, and finished in theoffice of Phineas Barnes and James T. McCobbat Poitland, Me., where he was admitted tothe bar in ()rt<il)(T, is,)!). lie practiced hisprofessitm in Imlland until August, l(S(i2, BIOGRA PHICA L.~MA SSA CH USE TTS. 455 when lie acce[)teil a commission as lieutenant-colonel of the Me. \ols., wliicli sul)se-quently heeume tlie 1st Mq. Heavy rei;iment was loni; in service in the of Washin,<;ton, hut in May, 18(34, thesevere of the Arm\ of the Potomac inthe hloody |);e tln-oni;h the Wildernesscompelled the callinij; to the camjiaign innorthern \ir^iiiia of the troops tha
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