When John Foote was born on 24 July 1670, in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Robert Foote, was 44 and his mother, Sarah Potter, was 30. He married Mary Abigail Palmer in 1693, in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He died in 1713, in his hometown, at the age of 43, and was buried in Branford Center Cemetery, Branford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
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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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