Rebecca FOOTE

Rebecca married Lieut. Philip SMITH in 1657 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Philip (son of Lieut. Samuel SMITH and Elizabeth SMITH) was born in England; was christened on 25 Nov 1632 in Hadleigh, England; died on 10 Jan 1685 in Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Deacon Samuel SMITH, Sr. was born in Jan 1658; died on 28 Aug 1707 in East Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut.
2. Child SMITH was born about 1660 in Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; died on 22 Jan 1661.
3. Deacon John SMITH, Sr. was born on 18 Dec 1661 in Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; died on 16 Apr 1727 in Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
4. Jonathan SMITH, Sr. was born in 1663 in Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; died about 1737 in Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA.
5. Philip SMITH, Jr. was born in 1665 in Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; died on 25 Jan 1725 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
6. Rebecca SMITH was born in 1668 in Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; died on 07 Oct 1750 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
7. Nathaniel SMITH was born in 1671 in Hadley, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts; died in 1740 in Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA.
8. Joseph SMITH, Sr. was born in 1674 in Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; died on 08 Sep 1736 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA.
9. Ichabod SMITH was born on 11 Apr 1676 in Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; died on 06 Sep 1746.

Rebecca married Major Aaron COOK on 02 Oct 1688. Aaron was born in 1610; died on 05 Sep 1690. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: Abt 1593, England
• Emigration: 1633
• Death: 20 Nov 1644, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
• Fact: 20 Nov 1644, Inventory of estate taken.

Notes:

Excerpt from "The Descendants of Nathaniel Foote Sr. & Elizabeth Deming" by Ellwood Count Curtis:
From all that we an learn Mr. Foote came from Shalford, in Colchester, England, and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts. The first mention I find made of his name is in the Records of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, in 1633, when he took the oath of freeman.........
Mr. Foote married in England, about the year 1615, to Elizabeth Deming, sister of Mr. John Deming, who was one of the first settlers of Wethersfield, and for many years one of the magistrates of the Colony of Connecticut, and one of the patentees named in its charter. His children were all born in England, except perhaps the youngest. Mr. Foote died in 1644, aged about 51 years, and was buried in the ancient burying ground in the rear of the Meeting House, where are gathered together the ashes of nine generations. He left behind him, surviving, a widow, two sons and five daughters. He left no will. At a Particular Court held at Harford, 20 November 1644, the following inventory of his property and distribution of his real estate were exhibited, and an order of court granting distribution of his estate and directing a distribution to be made, was passed.
"An inventory of the good and lands of Nathaniel Foote, of Wethersfield, deceased, being truly taken and indifferently apprised by Richard Treat, Samuel Smith, and Nathaniel Dickinson. The estate was valued at over L380."

Excerpt from "Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines": Nathaniel, with his wife and probably six children, emigrated to New England where he became a freeman of Watertown, Massachusetts,on September 3, 1634, owned a homestead of sixteen acres and a two-acre marsh and was still a proprietor as late as 1642, but removed before that date to Wethersfield, Connecticut, probably with the first group of its settlers in 1634-6.
In this new home he was the wealthiest man and the largest holder of the so-called "Adventurers' lands." He held a ten-acre home lot and gradually added various other tracts including the southern part of "Pennywise Island." In 1639 he laid out a road two rods wide which ran east from the Connecticut River "to the Wilderness" through his "3 mile lot." Farming was his occupation and, apparently, he established a good reputation as a stock raiser, or else he had superior breed of swine, for in May 1637, when the time "army" of ninety men under Captain John Mason was being provisioned to go against the Pequots, the Colonial authorities specified that "there shalbe 1 hogg provided att Wythersfield for the designe in hande, wch is conceiued to be Nathanial Footes.........."
He acted as Representative to the General Court from 1641-4 and served the community in other useful capacities.
This family, as a whole, had a large share in the tragedies of that early day for Philip Smith, husband o Rebecca Foote, was announced to have been "murdered with an hideous witchcraft"; among the members of the early generations, Nathaniel Foote had, (a), a daughter-in-law and two of her children taken captive by the Indians and another child killed; (b), a daughter and three of her children killed, while (c), her husband and two other children were made captives; and (d), two more of her children wounded; and Frances Foote lost two husbands by the Indians as well as one son-in-law killed and another, with four of his children, taken into captivity.
Nathaniel, aged about fifty-one, died intestate before December 11, 1644.

Nathaniel married Elizabeth DEMING about 1615 in England. Elizabeth (daughter of John DEMING, Sr. and ? UNKNOWN) was born about 1595 in Colchester, England; died on 28 Jul 1683 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut; was buried in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will Proved: Between Aug and Sep 1683
• Will: 16 Aug 1682