When Mary "Polly" Foote was born on 15 March 1786, in Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, her father, Simeon Foote Sr., was 21 and her mother, Lovisa Bacon, was 19. She married James E Greek about 1806, in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Newtown, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States for about 10 years. She died on 5 June 1855, in New York, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Stoddard Cemetery, Castle Creek, Broome, New York, United States.
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The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
Date of Statehood: February 6, 1788, the fifth State
Historical Boundaries 1806: Broome, New York, United States
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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