for New Hampshire to the Continental Congress. Between 1784 and 1788, he was a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Rockingham County N.H. On March 3, 1789, he became a member of the First United States Congress, under the first Constitution of the United States of America, as a Representative from New Hampshire until March 3, 1791. He returned to the New Hampshire Senate in 1791, serving there until 1794 when he was elected again to the U.S. House of Representatives. He served there from March 3, 1795, to March 3, 1803. On July 14, 1798, Foster voted in favor of the Alien and Sedition Acts. Death Foster died in Canterbury on February 6, 1806. He is interred at the Center Cemetery, Canterbury, New Hampshire. Memorial March 22, 1942, the California Shipbuilding Company launches its 16th Liberty type, 10,500-ton freighter, S.S. Abiel Foster. The day before, the S.S. Benjamin Franklin, launched November 16, 1941, completed its test run. The S.S. Abiel Foster took part as a troop supply ship during World War II and contributed to the Invasion of Normandy. References External links Journals of the Continental Congress 1784-1789 1735 births 1806 deaths People from Andover, Massachusetts American Congregationalist ministers Harvard College alumni Continental Congressmen from New Hampshire 18th-century American politicians New Hampshire state senators Federalist Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New Hampshire 19th-century American politicians 18th-century Congregationalist ministers People of colonial Massachusetts People from Canterbury, New Hampshire 18th-century American clergy