When Nathaniel Foote was born in 1672, in Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Samuel Foote, was 23 and his mother, Mary Merrick, was 25. He married Mary Ward on 5 November 1707, in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter.
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English and Scottish: from Middle English fot ‘foot’ (Old English fōt), sometimes translated in medieval documents by Latin cum pede ‘with the foot’. Probably a nickname for someone with a deformity of the foot or with large feet.
English: occasionally perhaps from the rare Middle English personal name Fot, from Old Norse Fótr, originally a nickname with the same sense as 1 above.
English: topographic name for someone who lived at the foot of a hill.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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