Richard Bolster is also found in The Town Clerk's Record's of Glocester, Rhode Island. He is reocorded as ths son of Richard Bolster and Anne Tucker being born in the town of Glocester on 28 September 1747. He is also found in a book entitled History of the Town of Douglas, Massachusettes. The book states " From the town records we learn that at a meeting held on the first Monday in April 1797, it was voted to accept of the report of a committee, as far as respects the school districting, which is as follows, viz. : that there be a distract on Wallum Pond Hill, including Aaron Jepherson, the widow Kelley, and all the inhabitants that live west of them, to be called Wallum Pond Hill District." " And that the friends' District shall be annihilated, and that they shal be included in the district where they live, and that Thaddeus Thayer District be annihilated, and that Thaddeus Thayer be anexed to Benjamin Walker's, and that there shall be a district to be called the South District, to include all the inhabitants that are in Douglas that are east of Wallum Pond Hill District, and that are south and west of the following persons and including them, that is, Simeon Harrendon, Daniel Aldrich, Noah Aldrich, Jun'r., Jacob Aldrich, Israel Thayer, and RICHARD BOLSTER."

We know nothing of Richard's wife, we know only that he had a son named David Bolster b. abt 1775. David is mentioned in The County Clerk's record's of Glocester as being the son of Richard Bolster Jr.

[SOURCES]- History of the Town of Douglas, Massachusettes. By WM. A. Emerson. Published in Boston by Frank W. Bird, Old Book Shop, 37 Cornhill, 32 Brattle Street, and Cornhill Steps, 1879.

[SOURCES]- Rhode Island Genealogy - Biography Vol. 2, Part. 2, pages 1621-2336, J.H. Beers & Co., Chicago 1908.

[SOURCES]- Town Clerk's records for the Town of Glocester, Rhode Island.