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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ 9. Nathaniel Foote, in Foote, Abram William. 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. (Rutland, Vermont: Marble City Press, 1907-1932)
27-30.
"9. Nathaniel Foote, … b. Jan. 10, 1647; … res., Hatfield, Springfield and d. at Wethersfield, Jan. 12, 1703. … Nathaniel Foote was born at Wethersfield, Jan. 14, 1648. He settled in Hatfield, Mass., … After residing in Hatfield two years, he removed to Springfield, like almost every householder, he was called into the service of his country against the Indians, and was actively engaged in the bloody and successful attack on their encampment at the falls in Connecticut River a few miles above Deerfield, since called Turner's Falls, in commemoration of the brave Capt. Turner who commanded the expedition. From Springfield Mr. Foote removed to Stratford where his house lot of one acre was on Main Street, directly east of the old burial ground, near the present Congregational Church. This lot he conveyed in March 1680 to Benjamin Lewis, having decided to move with his family to Branford, where in February 1679 he was admitted 'a planter' of the town and a 'home lot' was granted to him, 'on condition that it should have a tenantable house built upon it within two years, and that he come to settle amongst us or else the lot to return to the town again.' In pursuing his 'manifest destiny' to migrate, Mr. Foote conveyed this lot with sundry other lots of which he had become possessed, … and moved to Wethersfield, where he continued to reside till his death, although he had, previous to that event, planned another removal to a new settlement begun under his enterprise, at 'Jeremy's Farm,' since and now called Colchester, on the road from Hartford to New London. … The settlement was commenced in 1701, but on account of failing health, Mr. Foote did not remove. He died Jan. 12, 1703, leaving a widow and nine children, four sons and give daughters. His widow and four youngest children … subsequently removed to Colchester. The children all married, and settled in the neighborhood of each other in the new town."
- ↑ Fam. 3 Quarter-Master Nathaniel Foote, in Adams, Sherman W. (Sherman Wolcott), and Henry R. (Henry Reed) Stiles. The History of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut: Comprising the Present Towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington; and of Glastonbury Prior to its Incorporation in 1693, from Date of Earliest Settlement Until the Present Time with Extensive Genealogies and Genealogical Notes on Their Early Families. (New York: The Grafton Press, 1904)
2:328.
"Fam. 3. Quarter-Master Nathaniel (Foote),3 (Nath'l,2 Nath'l,1), b. 1647; m. Margaret (dau. Nath'l & Margaret) Bliss, of Springfield, Mass., 2 May, 1672; sett. Hatfield, Mass., where he res. two yrs.; then res. successively at Stratford, Bramford [Branford]and finally at Weth., … where he d. 12 Jan., 1703, ae. 55 yrs. 2 days; wid. d. Colchester, Ct., 3 Apl., 1745, ae. 95. His death prevented another removal which he had planned, to a new settlement prospected by him at 'Jeremy Farms' since called Colchester, Ct., which was on ld. gr. to Mr. F. by the Ind., 'as a consideration of love and affection' to be utilized as he saw fit, except 50 acres which they desired him to reserve for himself and heirs forever. The settlement was commenced in 1710—but failing health prevented his being one of the company, and his wife and ch. after his dth. became the first settlers of Colchester. Mr. Foote was a house-carpenter and also practiced as an attorney in the Colonial Courts."
- ↑ Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
2:180.
NATHANIEL, Hatfield, s. of the preced. m. 2 May 1672, Margaret, d. of Nathaniel Bliss of Springfield, had Sarah, b. 1673; rem. to Springfield, had Margaret, 1 Dec. 1674; Elizabeth 23 June 1677; rem. to Stratford; thence to Branford; and soon after to Wethersfield, where are rec. tho. not all b. there, Mary, 24 Nov. 1679; Nathaniel, 9 Sept. 1682; Ephraim, 13 Feb. 1685; Josiah, 27 Sept. 1688; Joseph, 28 Dec. 1690; and Eunice, 10 May 1694. He serv. in Philip's war, as quartermr. was in the Falls fight under Turner, had project. sett. at Colchester, whither the wid. and youngest four ch. rem. He d. at W. 12 Jan. 1703; and his wid. d. at C. 3 Apr. 1745, aged 95.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Wethersfield Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
107.
"Foot[e], … Nath[an], s. Nath[an] & Elizabeth, b Jan. 10, 1647 [LR1"12]"
"Foot[e], Nathaniell, Quarter Master, d. Jan. 12, 1702/3, Æ about 55 y. 2 d. [1:47]"
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