Foote Family


Generation 1

Nathaniel Foote, Sr. (Reference # 13,582) was born April 1593 at Shalforth, Essex, England and died 20 November 1644 at Wethersfield, (now in Hartford Co.), CT. He married Elizabeth Deming (Reference # 13,583) January 1615/6 in England. For information on their ancestry see the Everingham Database by Kimball G. Everingham and Freeman Family Lines by Stephen M. Lawson. She was born 1595 at Pitminster, Colchester, England and died 28 July 1683 at Wethersfield, Hartford Co., CT. Elizabeth Deming married second to Governor Thomas Welles. Thomas Welles was born 1590 at Stourton, Whichford, Warwickshire, England and died 14 January 1659/60 at Wethersfield, Hartford Co., CT. He had first married Alice Tomes c5 July 1615 in England.

Children of Elizabeth Deming and Nathaniel Foote, Sr.:

  1. Elizabeth Foote
  2. Robert Foote
  3. Nathaniel Foote, Jr.
  4. Mary Foote
  5. Lt. Robert Foote
  6. Frances Foote
  7. Sarah Foote
  8. Rebecca Foote
Child of Elizabeth Deming and Thomas Welles:
  1. Samuel Welles

Generation 2

Elizabeth Foote (Reference # 6791) was born 8 September 1616 at Shalford, Essex, England, christened 14 January 1618 at St. James, Shalford, Essex, England and died 8 September 1700 at Wethersfield, Hartford Co., CT. She married Josiah Churchill (Reference # 6790) 1638 at Wethersfield, (now in Hartford Co.), CT. He was born 1613 at Muston, Dorset, England and died 1 January 1686/7 at Wethersfield, Hartford Co., CT. They had the following children:
  1. Mary Churchill
  2. Elizabeth Churchill
  3. Hannah Churchill
  4. Ann Churchill
  5. Joseph Churchill
  6. Benjamin Churchill
  7. Unknown
  8. Sarah Churchill

Sources

Descendants of Nathaniel Dickinson by Elinor V. Smith, Dickinson Family Association, 1978

To the Descendants of Thomas Dickinson, son of Nathaniel and Anna Gull Dickinson of Wethersfield, Connecticut and Hadley, Massachusetts by Frederick Dickinson, 1897

History of Hadley, MA by Sylvester Judd, including Family Genealogies by Lucius M. Boltwood, Piction Press, Camden, ME, 1993 ed.

New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence Almon Torrey, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1994

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31 October 1997