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The papers of Rennselaer William Foote include letters to and from Foote from his family, letters to Foote from associates, and his Journal, kept in Florida in 1840.

Letters

Family members

• Charles A. Foote, Brother. Did a retail and real estate business both in Delhi and California. Was a civic booster of sorts, lived a long life. His daughter Katherine was the family historian and saved family papers, Ebenezer's and then Rensselaer's, giving them to her cousin, Frances Maynard, and her son Maynard Ford, in the 1940s.
• Margaret
• Emily [Baldwin] Plummer, cousin. Died in 1852.
• Jesse Baldwin, cousin, merchant of New York City and Jersey City. Rensselaer lived at his house, as a teenager.
• Harriet Foote, aunt. Married a druggist Ambrose Bryan, and after his death, her cousin, John Foote, son of Isaac Foote, a judge in Symrna, New York.
• Harriet Foote, Sister. "Never married but spent her life in good works.
• James Foote, mentioned in letters. Brother.
• Kate Foote, Catherine Adelia Foote, Sister.
• Margaret Montieth, Aunt, on the Baldwin side, I think.
• Margaret Parsons Foote Williams, cousin. Daughter of ___.
• Ebe, Eben, Ebenezer Foote Maxwell. Cousin, grandson of Ebenezer Foote. Lived on the "old place" Arbor Hill.

Associates and Friends

• Lewis Addison Armistead
• Lewis Cass
• Charles S. Lovell, US 6th? Commander of Fort Humboldt, California
• Carter L. Stevenson
• J. L. Tidsall, U.S. 6th Infantry
• Winfield Scott Hancock, U.S. 6th Infantry

Journal

Newspaper Articles and Obituaries

Chronology of the Life of Rensselaer William Foote

Provenance

The provenance of these letters is from Rensselaer’s brother Charles Foote, thence to his daughter, Katherine Adelia Foote of Delhi, something of a family historian and genealogist. It is unknown if Rensselaer's sister Kate (Catherine Buren) Foote, or his sister Frances [Foote] Marvine, had any interest in the papers. Charles Marvine and Frances had a daughter, Margaret [Marvin] Maynard who married Isaac Horton Maynard and they in turn, had a daughter, Frances Maynard. Katherine Adelia later gave the papers, in several trunks, and a desk belonging to their ancestor Ebenezer Foote, to her cousin Frances Maynard, now Ford, of Portland Maine and San Fransisco, California, thence to Frances Maynard Ford's son, Maynard Ford, and his wife Jane, when they lived in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Frances Maynard Ford being the grand-niece of Rensselaer Foote, and Maynard Ford was the great-grand nephew. Letter ms collection The Main Street Museum.