Chronology of the Life of Rensselaer William Foote

Childhood and Family

1809

• Frances Foote, sister born.

1811

• Catherine, sister born.

1814

• Sister Harriet born and dies, age 9 months.

1815

• Rensselaer William Foote born, Delhi New York, 12 November, 1815, to Charles Augustus Foote and Maria (Margaret) (Baldwin) Foote.

1818

• Birth of brother, Charles A. Foote, jr.

1821

• Birth of youngest brother, James.

1824

• 29 August, 1824. Death of his mother, Maria Baldwin Foote.

1827

• Death of his uncle, Frederick Foote, in Livorno, Italy.

1828

• 1 August, 1828. Death of his father, Charles Augustus Foote.
• Apprenticed to a printer in Delhi, New York. (Uncertain year/s.)

1829

• 28 December, death of his grandfather, Ebenezer.

1830

• Guardianship filed for Catherine Foote for the "minor child" James, and the other children, over the age of 14, of the late Charles Foote, her brother.

West Point

1834

• Attends United States Military Academy, in the same class as Winfield Scott Hancock, Lewis Addison Armistead, John Blair Smith Todd, and Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard.

1835

• Discharged from West Point, July.
• December: Second Seminole begins.

1836

• [Or before] Travels to "West Indies".
• 31 May, 1836: New York City.

1838

• Appointed second lieutenant, U.S. 6th Infantry.

Florida and the Seminole Wars

1839

• "Clark's Place, St Andrew's Bay, West Florida" Assembles a hand-written, 48 page glossary entitled "Indian Words."

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1840

• Experiences ill health; living in, or visiting New York City.
• 25 December: Begins Journal in Pelatka Florida.
• 28 December: Arrives Fort Holmes, Florida.
• 30 December: Arrives Fort Russel.

1841

• January 2nd: Arrives Fort Clinch.
• 8th January: "Annatteclya", Annutteliga Hammock, Florida.
• 12–17 February: On horseback around Tampa, Florida.
• 13 February: Tampa.
• 25 February or before: At "annutteeliga", Annutteliga Hammock.
• June: Fort Harrison, letter sent to.
• 14 July: At Fort Harrison, Florida, Regimental Headquarters.
• 13 September: Tampa Bay, Florida.

1842

• 22 February: Fort Wekiva (on the Wekiva River?), Florida.
• 29 February: Cedar Keys, Florida.
• 4 March: Sea Horse Key, Florida.
• 8 March: La Balize, or Pilotown, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.
• 10 March: leave New Orleans.
• September: Jefferson Barracks, Missouri.
• 9 September: Fort Towson.
• 18 September: Fort Smith.

The Western Territories

1842

• 14 August: Second Seminole War ends.
• 22 September: Fort Gibson, Arkansas.

1843

• 21 April: Fort Smith, Arkansas.

1844

• 14 February: Invitation to dinner from Zachary Taylor, Fort Smith, Arkansas.

1845

• 27 September, birth of his niece, Katherine Adelia Foote, daughter of brother Charles and Adelia.
• December: Fort Smith, Arkansas.

1851

• 30 September: Delhi, New York.

1852

• 13 January: New York City.
• September: Cincinnati, Ohio.
• 23 September: Buffalo, New York: in the recruiting service, along with Gen. Carter L. Stevenson.
• 14 December: Boston, Massachusetts.

1853

• 13 February: Boston Massachusetts.
• 7 – 27 June: Boston.
• 12 December: Fort Ridgely, Minnesota

1854

• 19 August: The Grattan Massacre.

1855

• 13 September: Fort Laramie, "Nebraska Territory".

1856

• Fort Laramie.

1857

• 27 August: New York City.

1859

• Fall to December, Travels from St. Louis, Misouri to Los Angeles, to Fort Yuma, California by stage coach, and ship.

1860

• February, Fort Yuma,

1861

• Fort Yuma, spring and summer.
• August Fort Yuma to San Fransico to New York.
• 1 October, Union Place Hotel, New York.

The Civil War/War Between the States

1862

• 22 January: Barrytown, Dutchess county, New York.
• 2 March: New York City.
• 6 March: Washington, D.C.
• 2 June: Camp Lovell, "about 8 miles from Richmond, Va."
• Died, Battle of Gaines' Mills, Virginia. Buried in a mass grave on the battlefield. Memorial gravestone in place, Woodlawn cemetery, Delhi, New York.