Ubrary Bo«ton Publle MA 0211« Boston. ^ cM-CS 7 -7A.J^...kPf:.../f PURCHASED FROM THE INCOME OF THE JOSIAH H. BENTON FUND rN§IS: I0.2§,38:20M FOOTE FAMILY 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 -ToL.-T- 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 — Marble City Press The Tuttle Company Rutland, Vermont 1907 ^ rait, 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