Daniel Foote

Daniel Foote,5 (Nathaniel,4,3,2,1):

Daniel Foote was born at Colchester, New London County, Connecticut 6 February, 1716 to Nathaniel Foote and Anne Clark [ffpp, Foot Fam;1;48].

He died at Colchester, Connecticut, 27 December, 1801. Buried Linwood cemetery, Colchester [Colc;gs, findagrave;6917102]. Will in collection of Princeton University, special collections, Ebenezer Foote Papers, box 12, folder 9]

He married at 9 June, 1743 Margaret Parsons daughter of Ebenezer Parsons of Springfield, Mass. [Foot Fam;1;48]; she was born 23 August, 1720 [Linwood cemetery Colc;gs] and died at Colchester? 6 July, 1765; buried Linwood cemetery, Colchester [Colc;gs, Foot Fam;1;48, findagrave;6917104].

Children, born at Colchester, Connecticut [___, Foot Fam;1;48]:

1. Daniel Foote, b. 21 June, 1744; d. ___; m. Elizabeth Margaret Woodcock; she d. Feb., 1825. Children:
   1. Margaret Foote, b. abt. 1775; m. Joseph Talmadge, of Williamstown, Mass. They moved to Scipio and New York, N.Y.
   2. Daniel Foote, b. 1777; m. Mrs. Bradley, of Aurora, N.Y.; was a merchant. He d. 1804. Ch.: two, Daniel and a dau. He was a very intelligent and enterprising man and his business prospects of the first.
   3. Hannah Foote, b. 1779; m. Elijah Miller, Esq., of Auburn, N. Y. daughter She d. Mar., 1811, in Williamstown, Mass., at her father's home.
   4. Justin Foote, b. 1781; d. Oct., 1811, in Williamstown, Mass.
2. Isaac Foote, b. 4 Jan., 1746; d. at ___; m. Mary Kellogg [Foot Fam;1;88], daughter of ___; “Judge Foote only had the benefit of the common school education of those primitive times, but that he improved it well there is abundant evidence. He was not an orator, but on occasion he was called upon to make public address [Foot Fam;1;88]. Children [Foot Fam;1;88-89]:
   1. 1) Mary Foote, b. 27 Feb., 1769
3. Eli Foote, b. 30 Oct., 1747; d. at ; m. at Roxanna Ward, daughter of Andrew Ward and Dianna Hubbard [Foot Fam;1;48]. Their daughter Roxanna married Lyman Beecher; their son, Samuel Edmund Foote b. 1787 was in business with his uncle Ebenezer Foote.
4. Margaret Foote, b. 31 May, 1749; d. at ___ 14 Dec., 1752 [Foot Fam;1;48].
5. Martha Foote, born 27 Jan., 1751; she d. at ___ 30 June, 1797; m. 8 Dec., 1768 John Barney, son of ___; res. Colchester and Norwich, Conn. and Newburg, N.Y. [Foot Fam;1;48]. Children, b. ___ [Foot Fam;1;48]: 1) John Barney, b. ___; 2) Daniel Barney, b. ___; 3) Eli Barney, b. ___; 4) Harry Barney, b. ___.
6. Margaret Foote, b. 24 May, 1752; d. at Jan., 1807 [Foot Fam;1;48]; she m. at __ 11 Nov., 1778 Rev. Emmerson Foster of Killingly, Conn. [Foot Fam;1;48], son of ___ . Children, b. ___ [Foot Fam;1;48]:
   1. Nathaniel E. Foster, b. ___;
   2. Margaret Parsons Foster, b. ___;
   3. Isaac Foster b. ___;
   4. Hannah Foster, b. ___;
   5. Whitney Foster, b. ___;
   6. Harriet Foster, b. ___.
7. Ann Foote, born 11 April, 1754; she d. at ___ 15 Dec., 1808, æ. 54 [Foot Fam;1;48]; she m. Gen. Thompson Joseph Skinner, son of ___ []; he d. ___. Children, [Foot Fam;1;48]:
   1. Thompson Joseph Skinner, b. ___;
   2. Mary Skinner, b. ___;
   3. Thomas Skinner, b. ___;
   4. Ann Skinner, b. ___;
   5. Eliza Skinner, b. ___;
   6. George Dennison Skinner, b. ___.
8. Ebenezer Foote, born 12 April, 1756; d. at Arbor Hill, Delhi, New York, 28 Dec., 1829 [Foot Fam;1;93]; he married 10 Oct., 1779 Jerusha Purdy [Foot Fam;1;93], daughter of Abram Purdy and Phebe Strang, and, Second, Matilda Rosekranz, [Foot Fam;1;93].
   1. Frederick Parsons Foote
   2. Charles Augustus Foote
   3. Harriet Foote, b. 9 Nov., 1787 [Foote Fam. Rec;1, Foot Fam;1;94]; d. at ___; she m., 1st, Doct. Ambrose Bryan, Clerk of Delaware County, New York, who died, leaving no children. She then married John Foote, Esq., of Hamilton, Madison county, New York son of Hon. Isaac Foote and Mary Kellogg [Foot Fam;1;198], of Smyrna, Chenango county, New York.
   4. Margaret Parsons Foote, b. 9 March, 1790 [Foote Fam. Rec;1]; she died 1840 [Foot Fam;1;95]; she married Rev. Ebenezer Maxwell, son of ___ Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Delhi, N.Y.; he d. July, 1840 [Foot Fam;1;95]. Children, [Foot Fam;1;199]
9. Stephen Foote, b. 10 Jan., 1758; d. at ___; he m. at ___ Hannah Waterman [Foot Fam;1;48], daughter of ___
10. John Foote, b. 17 Feb. 1760, he d. at ___; he m. Hannah Johnson, [Foot Fam;1;48] John Foote was in the wholesale business with Ebenezer and Eli and after Eli's death, with his nephew John P.
11. Child, “name not given, d. in infancy.” [Foot Fam;1;48]
12. Justin Foote, (76, 25, 9, 3,) b. July 31, 1762; m. Maria Evertson. They resided some years in Brooklyn, New York. He d. in Saybrook or Guilford, Ct.
    He was a merchant, a man of business and of integrity, and highly respected. Died 1826,? Undated newspaper clipping, "At Guilford, Con. on Saturday the 8th inst. Mr. Justin Foote, Merchant, of this city."

Daniel Foote married, 2d, at 31 July, 1766 Mary Thompson, widow of Rev. Thomas Skinner of Colchester, Conn.; she d. 1814, æ. 96 [Foot Fam;1;48].

Abram Foote, Foote Fam;1;48:

Daniel Foote was a professor of religion,—a grave and venerable man of the highest respectability; resided Colchester, Conn. and Williamstown, Mass.

Harriet Foote, Family Register, "On our Father's side"

Daniel Foote, Esq. second son of Nathaniel, was also a Magistrate;—an office then considered of more importance than it is at the present day. He was born on the 6th of February, 1717. Margaret Parsons (his wife) was born 23d Aug., 1720, and was married to Daniel Foote, Esq. on the 9th of June, 1748 at Springfield, (Mass.) the place of her nativity—and had by him the following children:— ... The mother of the above children died on the 6th of July, 1765, after 11 hours illness. Daniel Foote, Esq. married Mary Skinner, widow of the Rev. Thomas Skinner, on the 9th of July, 1766,—had no children.

Katherine Adelia Foote

DANIEL FOOTE (From Goodwin's Genealogy.) Nathaniel, a grandson of the Settler, was born at Wethersfield in 1648. In 1701 he projected the new settlement of Jeremy's Farm, later called Colchester. It is on the road between Hartford and New London, Conn. He did not live to remove there, but his family of nine did after his death, and there my great-great-grandfather, Daniel, was born, a son of the 5th Nathaniel, He married Margaret Parsons. His obituary says: “He was a professor of religion, a grave and venerable man of the highest respectability, and a Magistrate for 60 years.”

With the exception of a few letters, occasional mention of him, and several notices of a long treatise or essay on the subject of “Original Sin,” I can find nothing additional about Daniel, and the mention in family letters are too personal to be included, but they carry out the idea conveyed in the obituary.

Through his children Daniel became the ancestor of Mrs. Seward, wife of Governor and Secretary Seward; Mrs. Williams, wife of Supreme Court Justice Nathan Williams of Utica, N.Y.; Roxana, wife of Dr. Lyman Beecher, both of whom were clever and became the parents of eight clever children, of whom Henry Ward Beecher and Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe are the best known. Daniel's tenth child, Ebenezer, was the man addressed in these letters, who was well known throughout the State during his life.