When Uzziel Foote was born in 1757, in Colchester, New London, Connecticut, United States, his father, Jeremiah Foote, was 32 and his mother, Ruhama Northam, was 30. He married Elisabeth Clark in 1793, in Colchester, New London, Connecticut, United States. He died on 1 March 1829, in Colchester, New London, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Colchester, New London, 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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