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Foote
Subject: Re: Foote
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 22:53:28 EDT
From: SamCasey <SamCasey@aol.com>
To: sarafina@phoenixat.com

In a message dated 4/5/98 6:25:10 PM, you wrote:

<<I got this from Heather: I checked your web site out.  I also noticed you had FOOTE, you might want to email my roommate Sam Behling, she can be reached at: Samcasey@aol.com she also descends from Nathaniel FOOTE and Elizabeth (Demming). Please let me know where you fit in and I'll send you what I have.>>

Melissa,

Actually, I can probably help YOU out.  : D  I looked at your web page and saw that you stop with Nathaniel FOOTE's father, Robert.  Robert m. Joan BROOKE 18 Jun 1576 at St.  Leonard's, Eastcheap, Middlesex, England.  Joan was the daughter of John BROOKE and Elizabeth WHATMAN.

Robert FOOTE was the son of John FOOTE and Helen WARREN/WARRYN, daughter of
Richard WARREN and Alice JENAWAYE.

All of the information about them can be found at my web site at
http://www.genweb.net/~samcasey/index.shtml

By the way, Elizabeth, wife of Nathaniel FOOTE may NOT be "Elizabeth Deming".
To quote from TAG (The Amercian Genealogist Vol. 55, January, 1979:  "For many years it has been known that in her will dated 28 Mar 1678, probated 1683, (Manwaring's Digest 1:379 f.) Elizabeth, successively wife and widow of Nathaniel Foote and of Gov. Thomas Welles, all of Wethersfield, CT, named as one of two overseers "my beloved brother Mr. John Deming sen.".  This fact has led many, including the late Donald Jacobus in a number of references, to state that the wife of Nathaniel Foote and the second wife of Gov. Thomas Welles was Elizabeth Deming.  The matter is, however, not quite that simple, and in my account of Nathaniel Foote's English Relatives I qualified the relationship (TAG 53:205) by inserting after the word "brother" the phrase
"(brother-in-law?)", thereby disturbing a number of readers and initiating a valued correspondence with Mr. Tommy Deming of Mobile, Arkansas, who has enlightened my ignorance on some points. The relationship of Elizabeth and John Deming can have been established in one of a number of ways, to wit, as follows:
(a) If Nathaniel Foote married Elizabeth Deming, sister of John, as most people have supposed;
(b) If Nathaniel Foote married Elizabeth, uterine sister of John Deming, a possibility never before, to my knowledge, suggested;
(c) If John Deming married a sister of Nathaniel Foote;
(d) If John Deming and Nathaniel Foote married sister;
(e) If Thomas Welles married a sister of John Deming for his first wife;
(f) If John Deming married a sister of Thomas Welles;
(g) If John Deming and Thomas Welles married sisters.
[Genealogist's note:  The author describes the possibilities at length.]  To recapitulate, there remains the possibility that the first wife of John Deming was one of the two sisters of Nathaniel Foote, as well as the possibility that John was only a uterine brother of Elizabeth, so that it is not quite safe to say that Nathaniel Foote married Elizabeth Deming.  Perhaps he did, but it is by no means certain. "

Let me know if I can give you anything further.  I descend from Nathaniel's daughter Elizabeth FOOTE who m. Josiah CHURCHILL.

Regards,
Sam
 

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