Ephraim FOOTE, Sr.

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• Birth: 11 Feb 1685, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Ephraim married Sarah CHAMBERLAIN in Jun 1708. Sarah (daughter of Joseph CHAMBERLAIN and Mercy DICKINSON) was born on 10 Mar 1683 in Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: Abt 1674, Removed from Hatfield to Springfield, Massachusetts
• Residence: Abt 1681, Removed to Wethersfield, Connecticut

Notes:

Excerpt from "Descendants of Nathaniel Foote Sr. & Elizabeth Deming" by Ellwood Count Curtis:
Nathaniel Foote was born at Wethersfield on 14(sic) January 1648. He settled in Hatfield, Massachusetts, and married on 2 May 1672 Margaret Bliss, daughter of Nathaniel Bliss, of Springfield. After residing in Hatfield two years, he removed to Springfield, like 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 the Connecticut River a few miles above Deerfield, since called Turner's Falls, in commemoration of the brave Captain 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 as a planter of the town, and a home lot was granted to him "on the 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 his lot with sundry other lots to which he had become possessed, to Jonathan Pitman, of Stratford, 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, a Jeremy's Farm, since and now called Colchester, on the road from Hartford to New London. An order authorizing a settlement at this place was made by the General Court in October 1698, and the new settlement was made to embrace the territory bounded north by Twenty-mile River, south by Lyme, west by Haddam and Middletown, and east and northeast by Lebanon and Norwich. This land was conveyed by Owaneco, Sachem of Mohegan, for the consideration of love and affection by Nathaniel Foote, to be distributed by him according to his discretion, except for fifty acres to be selected by himself, which he had the privilege of reserving to himself and his heirs forever. The settlement was commenced in 1701, but on account of failing health, Mr. Foote did not remove. He died 12 January 1703, leaving a widow and nine children, four sons and five daughters. His widow and four youngest children, three sons and one daughter, subsequently moved to Colchester. Mrs. Foote died on 3 April 1745 at the age of 95. The children all married, and settled in the neighborhood of each other in the new town."
Nathaniel was mainly a house carpenter but also practiced as an attorney in the colonial courts.

Nathaniel married Margaret BLISS on 02 May 1672 in Springfield, Hampden Co., Massachusetts. Margaret was born about 1650; died on 03 Apr 1745 in Colchester, New London, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Nathaniel Bliss of Springfield, Connecticut