Person:Sarah Foote (32)

Information on Sarah Foote

named in the 1699 deposition by Henry Conyers (see his entry) concerning her brother RICHARD FOOTE Jr. The deposition was filed later in Stafford Co VA. --"Whereas I am now going to Virginia and whereas MARTHA GAMBY, an Indian, is contented to go with me as an hired servant, I do hereby promise and agree that the said MARTHA GAMBY does at any time within four years next coming desire to returne to England , that I will not only permit her freely to return to England I will also be assisting in her return to my power and pay for her passage back to England whenever she shall desire the same. Witnessed: Nich. Nichols, SARAH BRADSHAW. from "Deeds & Abstracts of Stafford Co VA 1699-1709" by Sparacio (sounds as though this deed was written in England, but it was filed in Stafford Co VA --Apparently SARAH came to Virginia after 1703, as per court records for her father's estate in which her name appears. Mealy Whitecotton was her second husband --Estate of MEALEY WHITECOTTON 1733 Stafford Co VA: --After the payment and collection of debts, SARAH WHITECOTTON , his widow, then appeared in court to sign the final papers on June 15, 1737. The estate is valued at the time at 37.5.0. There also appear s to be mention of tobacco valued at 11 and 16 cents. [Source: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bruton2&id=I4506]