From loose pages of the Coon genealogy A little farther east from where the house of Mr. Solomon Howe now stands the residence of William Foster one of the earliest settlers of Boxford. he was the son of Reginald Foster of Ipswich an emigrant from England where William Foster was born in 1633. The house was built about 1660. In 1687 Mr Foster was licened to keep an ordinary and the town meetings were held here until the meeting house was built in 1702. Mr Foster was an important man in the town and doubtless there was much of interest that clung around this early settlement. Mr. Foster died in 1713 at the age of eighty, By his wife ,Mary, daughter of William Jancson of Rowley, he has nine children. Wis son, Samuel Foster who was born in this place in 1682 succeeded him on the homestead. He married Mary Macoon of Cambridge in 1703 and died in 1747. They had six children.