Nathan Lanesford Foster (1787-1860) was a poet and itinerant book agent. In 1805 he moved to Brattleboro, Vt., to read law with his brother-in- law, Samuel Elliot. Following the premature death of his sister, Fanny Foster Elliot, he continued his legal studies in Woodstock, Conn. After a brief period of teaching school in Wethersfield, Conn., he moved in 1809 to East Haddam, Conn., where he remained for the next thirty years. In East Haddam he practiced law, farmed, taught school, wrote poetry, was active in town government and in the Episcopal Church, and possibly for a time kept a tavern. His last move was to Philadelphia in 1840.
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