Foote family, comprising the genealogy and history of Nathaniel Foote, of Wethersfield, Conn., and his descendants; also a partial record of descendants of Pasco Foote of Salem, Mass., Richard Foote of Stafford County, Va., and John Foote of New York City

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by  Foote, Abram William, 1862-1941

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FOOTE
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COMPRISING THE
GENEALOGY HISTORY
and
OF
NATHANIEL FOOTE
OF WETHERSFIELD, CONN.
AND HIS DESCENDANTS
Also a partial record of Descendants of Pasco Foote of Salem, Mass.
Richard Foote of Stafford County, Va. and
,
John Foote of New York City
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By ABRAM W. FOOTE
Please send additional family records, and corrections if any,
also all correspondence regarding purchase or sale
of this book, to A. W. Foote Co.,
Middlebury, Vermont
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
INTEODUCTION by Judge Nathaniel Foote 4
FOOTE COAT OF ARMS
8
THE FOOTE FAMILY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA 11
Descendants of NATHANIEL FOOTE, the Settler, First Generation 17
Descendants of NATHANIEL FOOTE, the Settler, Second Generation 23
Descendants of NATHANIEL FOOTE, the Settler, Third Generation 27
Descendants of NATHANIEL FOOTE, the Settler, Fourth Generation 30
Descendants of NATHANIEL FOOTE, the Settler, Fifth Generation 33
Descendants of NATHANIEL FOOTE, the Settler, Sixth Generation 44
Descendants of NATHANIEL FOOTE, the Settler, Seventh Generation 78
Descendants of NATHANIEL FOOTE, the Settler, Eighth Generation 191
Descendants of NATHANIEL FOOTE, i.he Settler, Ninth Generation 325
Descendants of NATHANIEL FOOTE, the Settler, Tenth Generation 460
Descendants of NATHANIEL FOOTE, the Sertler, Eleventh Generation 525
Additions and Corrections 533
Descendants of PASCO FOOTE, of Sr.iftm, Mass :.•..' 536
Descendants of JOHN FOOTE, of New York City 548
Descendants of EICHAED FOOTE, of Virginia 552
INDEX
559
Copyright, 1907,
by ABEAM W. FOOTE.
All rights reserved.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Page Page
Abrani W. Foote Frontispiece Rev. Elias John Foote 333
Foote Coat of Arms 8 Orpha Foote Williams 338
100 Descendants of Nathaniel Foote Charles Foote 339
at Wethersfield, June 5, 1907.. 9 Rev. Charles C. Foote 339
House built in 1702 by Nathaniel Charles A. Foote 339
Foote( No. 25) at Colchester, Ct. 16 Mary Myrtle Foote 339
Barn at Colchester, Ct., formerly a Judge Elisha Foote 352
house, and the home of Nath- Augusta (Foote) Arnold 352
aniel Foote 16 Mary Newton (Foote) Henderson. .353
Congregational Church at Wethers- John B. Henderson 353
field, Ct 17 Dr. George Franklin Foote 370
Site of the Homestead of Nathaniel Julius Merrill Foote 371
Foote, the Settler, at Wethers- Wallace Turner Foote 378
field, Ct 17 David Thompson Foote 379
Tombstone of Nathaniel Foote.... 32 John Foote 379
Tombstone of Nathaniel Foote.... 33 Dr. Edward Bliss Foote 388
Tombstone of Mrs. Patience Foote, Dr. Edward Bond Foote 389
wife of Nathaniel 33 Dr. Hubert Townsend Foote 389
Patience (Foote) Brainerd 78 Truman Sherman Foote 392
Huldah (Foote) Brainard 79 Herrick Orvil^e Foote 393
Abigail (Foote) Loomis 80 Silas Buck Foote 416
Hon. Erastus Foote 90 Rev. John Bartlit Foote 417
Henrj' Ward Beecher 91 James Hall Foote 432
Harriet Beecher Stowe 91 Horace Allen Foote 433
Homer Nash Kimball 112 Col. Abram Foote 440
Hon. Solomon Foote 113 Emma Orpha (Foote) Bingham. .. .440
Dr. Winfield Scott Hall 160 Rollin Abram Foote 440
Frank Foote 160 Garrison William Foote 440
Maj. Frank M. Foote 160 House built by David Foote (No.
Matthew and Helen (McLean) 630) in Cornwall, Vt 441
Johnson 161 Historical Elm Tree, Wethersfield,
Eobert Foote Hall 161 Ct 441
Albert Elisha Hall and Wife 162 Edward Foote 458
Judge Rufus B. Cowing 163 May Dwight (Foote) Wendell and
Judge Samuel Alfred Foote 184 son, Ten Eyck Wendell, Jr 458
Governor Samuel Augustus Foote..185 Judge Nathaniel Foote 459
Judge Isaac Foote 198 John Crocker Foote 464
John Foote 198 John Galvin Foote 465
Margaret Parsons (Foote) Williams.198 Edward Ashbel Foote 490
Joel Foote 199 Truman Sherman Foote 491
Harvey Foote Eemmington 199 James Lenox Winfield Foote 492
Rev. Lewis Ray Foote 202 Alfred H. Foote 49.']
George Augustus Foote 203 James A. Foote 493
Truman Sherman Foote 226 Col. Morris J. Foote 530
Sarah Sophia (Foote) Beckwith 227 Family of Willis 0. Foote 530
Judge Elial Todd Foote 296 Family of Abram W. Foote 531
Erastus Foote 297 Hon. Caleb Foote 546
Rear-Admiral Andrew Hull Foote..322 Rev. Henry Wilder Foote 547
Hon. John Johnson Foote 332
INTRODUCTION
I have been asked by the author to prepare a short introduction to
the Foote Family History now in press.
I comply with this request with pleasure for the opportunity it gives
me to express my gratitude to the author for having undertaken this
work and carried it forward to completion.
We all know what such a work means to the author and compiler.
To some extent it may be a labor of love, but, in the main, it requires
infinite patience and long continued painstaking labor. Few, indeed,
have the courage to undertake such a work, even where there is hope of
some substantial financial reward. The sale of this book will be too limited
to justify anj^ such hope, and we must credit our author with other and
more disinterested motives.
The descendants of Nathaniel Foote, the settler, now living, appre-
ciate to the fullest extent the debt of gratitude which the family owes to
Nathaniel Goodwin, who in 1849 rescued from fast approaching oblivion
their pedigree and made possible the present work. Even so wall the
remote descendants of the members of the present generation hold in
highest esteem the memory of the author of this book for doing a similar
and equally important work for their benefit. And such must be his
chief reward.
Accuracy is no doubt the chief desideratum in a work of this kind,
but no amount of care and labor has been found sufficient in similar
Avorks to insure against all errors. Until the work appears, we cannot,
of course, know how far our author has been successful in this respect,
but no matter with what care and accuracy the author may have done his
part of the work, we may expect to find errors due to the carelessness or
mistakes of the hundreds of different individuals, of all the different
degrees of accuracy and carelessness, upon whom he has been compelled
to rely for much of his information.
Let us hope that on the whole this work will be found to compare
favorably in respect of accuracy with other genealogical books.
I venture to suggest to all who may discover errors that they send
a correction to the author promptly for use in the first new edition that
may be required.
NATHANIEL FOOTE.
Kochester, N. Y., September, 1907.
PREFACE
"With very few exceptions, the Footes in America all descended from
either Nathaniel Foote, of Colchester, England, who came to Watertown,
Mass., about 1630, orPasco Foote, who settled in Salem, Mass., soon after,
or from Richard Foote, of Cornwall, England, and later of Stafford Co.,
Va. That the first two were nearly related, if not brothers, there can be
very little doubt.
The following legend has been handed down by many different
sources: ''Three brothers came from England in the brig 'Ann,' landed
at Plymouth, Mass., Nathaniel, Pasco and John (or Caleb). Nathaniel
settled in Watertown, Mass. Pasco settled in Salem, Mass., and John (or
;
Caleb) died without issue."
Emigration to New England languished for ten years after the
arrival of the ' IMayflower,' and until the expedition by John Winthrop
' '
and Sir Richard Saltonstall, which numbered about 1,500, came over in
the summer of 1630, very few colonists came over.
It is very difficult to connect these emigrants with their ancestors in
the Mother Country.
In Burke's Commoners, Vol. L, page 372, is an account of the Foote
Family in Kent. It is stated that the family possessed large estates in
the county of Cornwall prior to 1420. Thomas Foote was Lord Mayor of
London in 1650. and there are many others of the family who have dis-
tinguished themselves in the Mother Country. There are ten different
armorial bearings, granted to as many different branches of the family
who distinguished themselves. While it is very probable that this is all
one family, yet we have not the positive proof at present.
There is a tradition that our ancestors in England lived at the foot
of a mountain at the time when surnames were adopted, and they called
them Foote. The name was sometimes spelled Fotte or Foot. The latter
is in use at the present time by a few members of the family.
We have been compelled by lack of space to leave out several parts
of the book that we had prepared for it, including lists of Revolutionary
soldiers from the various States by the name of Foote. Pensioners of
the Revolutionary War, College Graduates by the name of Foote, and
biographical sketches of prominent members of the English branch. This
material will be available for future use.
In addition to the several thousand Footes here recorded, we have
received a number of family records that we could not definitely connect
FOOTE HISTORY AND GENEALOGY
with any of the several branches of the family. These records are on file,
and if they can later (as I have no doubt many of them can) prove their
connections, we shall be glad to make the record.
In compiling this work, I have searched all of the Genealogies and
Historical Works that I could find, including those at the Wordsworth
Historical Library and State Library at Hartford, Ct., Vermont State
Library, the Billings and Carnegie Library at Burlington, Vt., and
jMiddlebury College Library, Middlebury, Vt.
The family data of Nathaniel Foote in Nathaniel Goodwin's Gene-
alogy of 1849 is herein included. Without this aid it would have been
impossible, at this date, to make a work as complete as this. We have
also included, by permission. Miss Brainard's pamphlet and that of Rev.
J. B. Foote's, on descendants of John Foote, and a large part of the data
has been received direct from the living members of the family, and yet
we realize that there are descendants who have not been reported. If
you, dear reader, are one, and can trace your descent from any of these
branches, do not fail to write at once, enclosing all the data and informa-
tion you have, to A. W. Foote, Middlebury, Vt., and it matters not how
many years have rolled away, someone will file the papers and it will be
printed in the future in the Second Volume of this work.
The numbers in parentheses following the name of a father are the
numbers of his Father, Grandfather, Great-grandfather, and so forth,
and number 1 is understood to be Nathaniel Foote, the Settler. By count-
ing the numbers you will ascertain the generation. The numbers follow-
ing the name of the wife of a son are the numbers of their children.
By this system the following generations can easily be recorded and
printed in the Second Volume. The children of a daughter are indicated
by figures (1), her grandchildren by letters (a), the great-grandchildren
by Roman numerals (i), the great-great-grandchildren by Roman
numerals and figures (il). A name in parentheses indicates the maiden
name of the mother. When the birth-place is not given it is understood
to be at the place given as the residence of the parents.
The following are explanations of the abbreviations used: Abt.,
about; ae., aged; b., born; bldg., building; ch., children; Ch., Church;
dau., daughter; d., died or dead; m., married; n. f. k., nothing further
known; p., page; res., residence, resided, or resides; unm., unmarried;
s. p., sine prole (without issue) ; wid., widow or widower; yr., year.
I take this opportunity to thank the many friends who have assisted
me in gathering this mass of family data. Miss Lucy A. Brainard, who,
since publishing a pamphlet in 1886 on her own branch, has added a
large amount of data in connection with her own great work, the
Brainard-Brainerd Genealogy James Hall Foote, N. Y. John Crocker
; ;
Foote, Belvidere, 111.; Harry Foote, Springville, N. Y. ; Dr. Winfield