Joseph Foster (silversmith)

Joseph Foster (September 10, 1759 - December 27, 1839) was an American silversmith, active in Boston.

Foster was born in either Boston or Ware, Massachusetts.

to my trusty friend Joseph Foster of Boston, Goldsmith one hundred dollars."

Foster was recalled by Colonel Henry Lee in 1881 as follows: "An anxious visit of inquiry to 'honest Foster', the silversmith, who, in his long coat, knee-breeches and silver buckles, dwelt with his spinster sister in an impracticably low-jettied house, one step below the narrow sidewalk, and, as old-fashioned housekeepers believed, beat his silver to a superior whiteness".

Foster's mark appears on a considerable quantity of Boston-area church plate.