I' m sorry it took so long to answer your reply.I have been out of town and I am just getting to my e-mail. It was very informative. I seem to have the same information as you do, except you gave me some on extended family that I didn't have. Thank you. I seem to have one more generation back, but I need to check it out farther, there seems to me that there may be an error in the last one I have. I will let you know. As promised her is the short history I have on David Foote. Maybe you will be interested in it.
  David Foote,a veteran of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, (LDS), was born on August 7,1768, in Harwinton, Litchfield County, Conn.  He was the fourth son of Ebenezer Foote and Elizabeth Deming Foote, who came from England about the year 1663, and settled at
Westerfield, Conn. in 1635. David's father was a soldier in the army of the revolution. He died while in the army at  Mud Fort, Horseneck, Conn, in June 1778, when David was in his tenth year of age.  His Mother married Ezekiel Sanford, January l, 1781.  He was also a soldier in the revolution, and a widower.  Soon after peace was declared with Great Brittain, the family emigrated to Windsor, Broom County, N.Y. At this place, David married Miss Irene Lane, daughter of Nathan Lane (esq.), a pioneer settler of Windsor.  Mr. Lane was a soldier in the army of the revolution, and a descendant of William Lane, who came for Dorchester, England, in 1635, and settled in Dorchester, Mass. Nathan Lane's wife's maiden name was Dorcas Muscroft.  Much of David's time was occupied with others, in cutting logs and rafting down the Sesquehanna river, until 1778, when he in company with his stepfatherand brother-in-law, removed to Dryden, Cayuga, (now Tompkins County) N.Y.  The following is an extract from the centennial history of the town of Dryden, N.Y., published in 1897,: "In the fall of 1778, three families settled at Willow Glen, (Dryden).  They consisted of Ezekial Sanford, his wife and one son, David Foote, his wife three daughters, Ebenezer Clousen, his wife and one son and two daughters. Making in all a party  of thirteen persons.  They came from Windsor (60) miles distant with a team of oxen drawing a heavy sled of olden
times, which was made  with wooden shoes and a heavy split pole for tongue, this conveyance carried all the household furnishings of the three families, which from that fact alone could not have been very much in housekeeping materials.  They are said to have passed a very comfortable winter,subsisting largley upon the abundant game found in  the new country, the oxen being supplied with plenty of browse from the trees.  This country was a dense forest, and there were but two families in Dryden, when the families arrived there. After a sufficient number of families had arrived in the settlement, a Methodist religion class was organized, and David was made leader. Although his scholastic education was very limited, the Bible was his chief study. He became dissatisfied with the creeds of the various sects, and sought to find the true church of  Christ, as it existed in the
apostle's days.  While his mind was very much exercised with regards to religious matters, he had what he termed  a vision, in which it was told to him, among other things, that the true church of Christ would soon be established on earth as it was anciently.  A number of religious reformers came out from  the churches about this time claiming to be the true church.  David investigated their claims, but none of them satisfied him.  In the spring of 1830, he borrowed a Book of Mormon from a neighbor and read it carefullly and testified that is was a true record, but no Elders came to Dryden, and he knew nothing concerning the doctrine they preached.  In the spring of 1832 he removed to Greenwood, Steuben County N.Y.  In the fall of 1833, two men proposing to be Mormom Elders
came to Greenwood, from Geneseo, Livingston Co. N.Y.  They held one or two meetings and invited David and others to visit them at Geneseo, accordingly, David and his brother-in-law (Josiah Richardson) and his nephew (Moses Clouson) went to Geneseo in November, 1833,for the purpose of investigating the new religion. On arriving there, they found the large branch of saints somewhat divided, and some had been cut off from the Church. Among them the two elders who had come to Greenwood, and John Murdock was presiding over the branch. (John Murdock was and Elder). The trouble with the branch arose with regard to the vision of Josepn Smith and Sidney Rigdon of the three glories. Some could not receive it as from the Lord.  After Elder Murdock had expounded the Gospel to David to his satisfaction, he was baptized and returned home rejoicing that he had
found the true Church of Christ, as it was formed in his vision several years previously.  In the spring of 1834,  Elders Orson Pratt and John Murdock came to Greenwood and stayed with David two or three days and preached in the neighborhood, and explained the Gospel more fully to him.  In the following August he visited Geneseo again, and was ordained and Elder by Elder Joseph Young, On August 17, 1834.  He now began to preach the Gospel to his neighbors, some of whom began to investigate, and one was baptized by him.  In the latter part of the winter following, Elders John Gould and Amos Babcock came to Greenwood, and held several meetings, and baptized a few. In April 1835, David attended a conference of the Church at Freedom, Cattaraugus Co. N.Y. He
presented his certificate of  ordination, by Joseph Young, and received an Elders license, signed by Sidney Rigdon, moderator,  and Warren A. Cowdrey.  During the spring and summer, several Elders visited Greenwood, and a branch of about twenty members was organized, and David was appointed President.  In the fall he,in the company of his brother-in-law (Josiah Richardson) who had been ordained and elder, took a mission to Dryden and preached the Gospel to his old neighbors, and was successful in his daughter, Betsy and her husband Thomas Clement, into the Church by baptism.  In the spring of 1836, the most of the saints in Greenwood emigrated to Kirtland, and some to Missouri.  David went to Kirtland and became aquainted with the Prophet
Joseph Smith, and received a patriarchal blessing by patriarch Joseph Smith.  He returned to Greenwood in the fall ,and again in May 1836 he went to Kirtland, and returned the latter part of the summer, preaching by the way. In October following, he with his family (which consisted of his wife, one daughter, and one son only) removed to Kirtland, and obtained a house for the winter, of Stephen Markham in Chester Township, seven miles from Kirtland, May 26, 1838.  David and his family started for Missouri, in company with Stephen Markham and family, and some others.  David and family arrived at his brother-in-law's place, ten miles east of Far West, August 30, 1838.  He passed through the mobbings safely, and only sustained a loss of property, and on the first day of
April, in company with Stephen's family, and two others started for Quincy, Ill.  When they arrived on the 14th, he located at a point twelve miles east of Quincy. He was ordained a High Priest at a conference held in Nauvoo, April 6, 1844.  He was a member of the Freedom Branch of the Church, until the spring of 1845, when he removed to Hancock County in obedience to the proclamation of the twelve apostles. He locaated in a little branch of the church called Monticello twelve miles south of Nauvoo. In August he took chills and fever, and passed peacefully away in a profound sleep the night of August 22, 1845. His wife followed him to the spirit world on March 5th, 1846.  They were both buried in the Nauvoo cemetery.  David was 77 years and fifteen days old when  he died, and his wife was 71 years, four months and three days old at the time of  her demise. David was a stout , robust, man, about 5 feet 8 inches tall and very compactly built, and his average weight was about 175 pounds. He was very faithful in the Church, and in keeping the laws of the Gospel, the word of wisdom,etc. He enjoyed the gift of healing  in a remarkable degree, throught the anointing of oil and the laying on of hands.  He was honest and upright in all his deallings and would suffer wrong rather than do wrong, and always had the good will of his neighbors.
 
Taken from the LDS Biographical Encyclopedia
Volume one by Andrew Jensen
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Date:  Thu, 14 Jan 1999 13:58:53 -0700

I have a small history & some genealogy records. I know his wife Irene Lane was buried in Nauvoo, also. I am a decendent of his son, Warren Foote, who had two wives, (1) Artemissa Myers, and  (2) Eliza Maria Ivie. I am decended from the second wife. If you want any of this information let me know.
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From: Melissa (Bruno) Ward <sarafina@kua.net>
To: Dale Jewkes. <djewkes@gennext.net>
Date: Thursday, January 14, 1999 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: David Foote
 

>Any information would be greatly appreciated. Melissa
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>>  David Foote is my great great Grandfather. He is buried in Nauvoo, Illinois I may havea little more infomation on him, if you don't have  it.
Alice Foote Jewkes
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