Foote Family Bibliography

The Foote family crest from the cover of the book, Ebenezer Foote, the Founder...

Published Sources on History, Culture and Politics pertaining to the Ebenezer Foote Family, Delhi, and Manhattan New York

• William Abbatt, The Crisis of the Revolution: Being the Story of Arnold and André, Now for the First Time Collected From All Sources; With Views of All Places Identified With It, New York. 1899.

• DeAlva Stanwood Alexander, A Political History of New York, New York, 1906. 3 vols.

• Walter Barrett (1864). The old merchants of New York City. p. 104. Retrieved 9 September 2013.

• Bielinski, Stefan, "Dirck Wesselse Ten Broeck". exhibitions.nysm.nysed.gov. New York State Museum. Retrieved 12 September 2017.

• Bielinski, Stefan, "Saratoga Patent". The People of Colonial Albany Live Here. New York State Museum. Retrieved May 11, 2014.

• Ira Berlin / Leslie M. Harris, Slavery in New York, New York, [New York Historical Society] 2005.

• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1744–1989, Bicentennial Edition, Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989 [alphabetical entries]

• Mary Louise Booth, (1831-1889) History of the City of New York, New York, W.R.C. Clark, 1867. [Three volumes with supplement?dff]

• Todd W. Braisted, Grand Forage 1778; the Battleground around New York City, Yardley, 2016.

• John L. Brooke, Columbia Rising; Civil Life on the Upper Hudson from the Revolution to the Age of Jackson, UNC Press, Chapel Hill.

• Gilbert Warren Chapin, The Chapin Book of Genealogical Data: With Brief Biographical Sketches, of the Descendants of Deacon Samuel Chapin, Volume 1, Chapin family association, 1924.

• Clay, Henry. The Papers of Henry Clay, 1797–1852. Edited by James Hopkins, Mary Hargreaves, Robert Seager II, Melba Porter Hay et al. 11 vols. University Press of Kentucky, 1959–1992.

• Eli Faber (1998). Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade: Setting the Record Straight. NYU Press. pp. 190–. ISBN 978-0-8147-2879-6. Retrieved 9 September 2013.

• Charles R. Foy (2008). Ports of Slavery, Ports of Freedom: How Slaves Used Northern Seaports' Maritime Industry to Escape and Create Trans-Atlantic Identities, 1713--1783. ProQuest. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-549-88961-8. Retrieved 10 September 2013.

• [https://archive.org/stream/earlysettlersofn46fole#page/345/mode/1up/search/foote Janet Wethy Foley, Early settlers of New York State : their ancestors and descendants, Allen County, 1934. (Generic Foote Ancestry, Nathaniel –dff)

• Abram William Foote. Foote Family comprising the genealogy and history of Nathaniel Foote, of Wethersfield, Conn., and his descendants; also a partial record of descendants of Pasco Foote of Salem, Mass., Richard Foote of Stafford County, Va., and John Foote of New York City, 2 vols. Marble City Press, The Tuttle Co., 1907.

• Foote, John P. (John Parsons), 1783-1865. Memoirs of the Life of Samuel E. Foote. Cincinnati: R. Clarke & co., 1860.

• Katerine Adelia Foote, Ebenezer Foote, the founder; being an epistolary light on his time as shed by letters from his files, selected by his great-granddaughter Katherine Adelia Foote. Delhi, N.Y., Delaware Express Co., 1927. Physical Description: 224 p. port. 24 cm.
  https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b61044;view=1up;seq=210
  This book was reviewed in "Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association, 1928, Vol.9
  We abbreviate her initials as KAF for these transcriptions.

• Joanne B. Freeman, ‘'Affairs of Honor, National Politics in the New Republic. Yale, 2001. Ebenezer, “a powerful Federalist,” mentioned p. 222.

• Charles R. Geisst, Wall Street; a History, Oxford, 1997

• "On the Waterfront: Maritime Workers in New York City in the Early Republic, 1800 – 1850," Paul A. Gilje, New York History, Vol. 77, No. 4 (OCTOBER 1996), pp. 395-426

• Jay Gould, History of Delaware County, and Border Wars of New York: Containing a Sketch of the early settlements in the county, and a history of the late anti-rent difficulties and other miscellaneous matter, Roxbury, 1856.

• Hammond, Jabez D. (Jabez Delano), 1778-1855; Root, Erastus, 1773-1846. The history of political parties in the state of New York, from the ratification of the federal constitution to December, 1840. Syracuse, 1852.

• Leslie M. Harris, In the Shadow of Slavery, African Americans in New York City, 1626–1863. Chicago, 2003.

• Hugh Hastings, State Historian, Henry Harmon Noble, Chief Clerk, Military Minutes of the Council of Appointment of the State of New York, 1783–1821. Albany 1901.

In 1810 Charles was first lieutenant in a new company of cavalry, Delaware county, Eighth regiment, first squadron. Asa White, major. Oran E. Baker, adjutant.

• Stephen C. Hutchins, Civil List and Constitutional History of the Colony and State of New York, Weed, Parsons & Company, 1883 - Administrative and political divisions

• Washington Irving, 1783-1859. A History of New York. Author's rev. ed. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & co., 1873.

• M.J. (Martha Joanna) Lamb, and Harrison, B., History of the City of New York: its Origin, Rise, and Progress. 4 vols. New York: A.S. Barnes Co..

• Jill Lepore, New York Burning; Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan, New York, 2005.

• Floyd H. Lincoln, Arbor Hill, Fraser, Delaware Co., N.Y., Residence of John D. Clarke, Congressman Thirty-Fourth District, 1921–1925, “reprinted from an article by Floyd H. Lincoln and published in The Walton Reporter, June 6, 1925.

• Strong, George C. (George Crockett), 1832-1863, and Benson John Lossing, Cadet Life At West Point. Boston, 1862.

• Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891. History of New York City: Embracing an Outline Sketch of Events From 1609 to 1830, And a Full Account of Its Development From 1830 to 1884. New York, 1884.

• Howard Lee McBain, De Witt Clinton and the Origin of the Spoils System in New York, Columbia university, 1907

• Edgar J. McManus, Black Bondage in the North, Syracuse 1973.

• Robert Morris, John Catanzariti, The Papers of Robert Morris, 1781-1784, University of Pittsburgh, 1984

• W. H. Munsell & Co. [publishers], History of Delaware County, N.Y., With Illustrations, Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Some Pioneers and Prominent Residents, N.Y.C., 1880.

• Thomas C. Parramore, "The Merchants Foote," ‘’The North Carolina Historical Review,’’ Vol. 46, No. 4 (October, 1969), pp. 365-376.

• Jason C. Rubinstein ed. Hon. Albert M. Rosenblatt, The Judges of the New York Court of Appeals: A Biographical History, New York: Fordham University Press, 2007.

• John A. Ruddiman, Becoming Men of Some Consequence: Youth and Military Service in the Revolutionary War, University of Virginia Press, 2014.

• E.M. Ruttenber, L.H. Clark... History of Orange County, New York: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men..., Philadelphia, 1881, Volume 1.

• William Edward Schenck, Biography of the Class of 1838 of the College of New Jersey at Princeton, New Jersey, Philadelphia, 1889, p. 171.

• Joseph Alfred Scoville, 1815-1864, [Walter Barrett, clerk pseud.] The Old Merchants of New York City, New York, 1870.

• Steven M. Silverman / Raphael Silver, The Catskills; its History and how it Changed America, New York, 2015.

• https://archive.org/stream/historyofkingsto02scho/historyofkingsto02scho_djvu.txt Marius Sohoonmaker, History of Kingston, New York, 1888]

• Henry R. Stiles, History of Ancient Wethersfield, New York, 1904.

• Benjamin Trumbull, A general history of the United States of America; New York, 1810.

• United States War Dept., John Sheldon Moody, Calvin Duvall Cowles, Frederick Caryton Ainsworth, Robert N. Scott, Henry Martyn Lazelle, George Breckenridge Davis, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph William Kirkley, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. The Peninsular Campaign, Va.; Series 1 - Volume 11 (Part II), p. 374
  http://dlxs2.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moawar;cc=moawar;q1=foote;rgn=full%20text;idno=waro0013;didno=waro0013;view=image;seq=0376
  Retrieved 10 March, 2010.

• Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Social Life in the Early Republic, Williamstown, 1970.

• Shane White, Somewhat more Independent; the End of Slavery in New York City, 1770–1810, Athens 1991.

• Laer, Arnold J. F. Van (2009). Early Records of the City and County of Albany and Colony of Rensselaerswyck: Volume 4 (Mortgages 1, 1658-1660, and Wills 1-2, 1681-1765). Genealogical Publishing Company.

• Runk, Emma Ten Broeck (1897). Ten Broeck Genealogy, Being The Records and Annals of Dirck Wesselse Ten Broeck of Albany and his Descendants. New York, De Vinne press. Retrieved 29 June 2017.

• Reynolds, Cuyler, Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: A Record of Achievements of the People of the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys in New York State, Included Within the Present Counties of Albany, Rensselaer, Washington, Saratoga, Montgomery, Fulton, Schenectady, Columbia and Greene. New York: 1911, Lewis Historical Publishing Company.

• John Austin Stevens Jr. (1867). Colonial Record of the New York Chamber of Commerce, 1768-1784 with Historical and Biographical Sketches. pp. 1–56. Retrieved 9 September 2013.

• Irvine Thelma Wills, Foote Associate Professor of History and African American Studies University of California (1 October 2004). Black and White Manhattan : The History of Racial Formation in Colonial New York City: The History of Racial Formation in Colonial New York City. Oxford University Press. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-19-803703-3. Retrieved 9 September 2013.

• Fanning Watson, John Fanning Watson (November 2009). Annals and Occurrences of New York City and State in the Olden Time. Applewood Books. pp. 350–. ISBN 978-1-4290-2229-3. Retrieved 9 September 2013.

• William Dunlap; Adriaen van der Donck (1840). History of the New Netherlands, Province of New York, and State of New York, to the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: By William Dunlap. author. p. 143. Retrieved 9 September 2013.

• Rufus Rockwell Wilson (1902). New York: old & new: its story, streets, and landmarks. J.B. Lippincott company. p. 43. Retrieved 9 September 2013.

• Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year ... Printed for the Society. 1907. pp. 33–34. Retrieved 10 September 2013. California 2004, p. 148

• Saul S. Friedman (January 1999). Jews and the American Slave Trade. Transaction Publishers. p. 109. ISBN 978-1-4128-2693-8. Retrieved 10 September 2013.

StevensJr. 1867, p. 64

Published Sources pertaining to the Seminole War, Rensselaer Foote, or Charles Augustus Foote

• Brief bio in the register
• Stephen Belko, America’s Hundred Years’ War: U.S. Expansion to the Gulf Coast and the Fate of the Seminole, 1763-1858. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2011.

• Celia Bland, Osceola: Seminole Rebel, New York, NY: Chelsea House, 1994.

• Cullum, George W. (George Washington), 1809-1892. Biographical Register of the Officers And Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy, At West Point, N.Y.: From Its Establishment, March 16, 1802, to the Army Re-organization of 1866-67. New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1868.

• Florida Division of Historical Resources. Florida Native American Heritage Trail. Tallahassee, FL: Florida Department of State, 2007.

• Graham Life of the Enlisted Soldier

• Florida Historical Quarterly, Tallahassee, FL: Florida Historical Society, 1928-present.

• Thomas Hatch, Osceola and the Great Seminole War: A Struggle for Justice and Freedom. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 2012.

• Kimball, Christopher Delano. Seminole & Creek War Chronology. Charleston, SC, 2013.

• Knetsch, Joe. Fear and Anxiety on the Florida Frontier: Articles on the Second Seminole War. Dade City, FL: Seminole Wars Foundation Press, 2008.

• Knetsch, Joe. Florida’s Seminole Wars, 1817-1858. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2003.

• Laumer, Frank. Dade’s Last Command. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1995.

• Laumer, Frank. Massacre. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1968.

• Linnard, T. B., Frank Laumer, and Joe Knetsch. Memoir to Accompany Map of Military Operations in Florida. Dade City, FL: Seminole Wars Historic Foundation, 2007.

• Mahon, John K. History of the Second Seminole War, 1835-1842. Rev. ed. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1967.

• Typescript by John Mahon: "The First Battle of the Second Seminole War, Black Point, 18 December 1835; University of Florida, Special and Area Studies Collections"

• Morris, Allen Covington & Joan Perry Morris. Florida Place Names: Alachua to Zolfo Springs, Pineapple Press Inc, 1995, pg. 190.

• Missall, John, and Mary Missall. The Seminole Wars: America’s Longest Indian Conflict. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2004.

• Missall, John, and Mary Lou Missall. Index of Seminole War Articles in the Florida Historical Quarterly, 1908-2008. Dade City, FL: Seminole Wars Historic Foundation, 2008.

• Missall, Mary Lou. A War of Wills: The Social, Political, and Economic Forces That Caused and Prolonged the Second Seminole War. Diss. California State University, Dominguez Hills, 1999.

• Van Blarcom, Ralph. Seminole War Artifacts and a History of the Forts of Florida. Bloomington, IN: Xlibris, 2011.

• Wickman, Patricia Riles Osceola’s Legacy, Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1991.

Online Sources:

• Bibliography of primary sources for the history of colonial Albany, New York. Assembled by the New York State Museum, History Department

• Delaware County Historical Society

• Appleton's Encyclopædia is digitalized, searchable text, here

• Florida GenWeb lists forts.

• The Foote Family Association rededicated the Foote Memorial in Weathersfield, Connecticut in 2009

• Fortwiki is an open-source encyclopædia for the history of United States and Canadian fortifications.

• http://www.historicfortsteilacoom.com/history.php

• https://historicalmarkerproject.com/

• https://nyslavery.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ A searchable database is being created of all enslaved African Americans in the state of New York. Ebenezer Foote's census record in included. I hope to add to this, when research is, at least partially, complete. —dff]

• Woodland Cemetery is indexed on the website of the Delaware County Historical Society

• pictures from the Florida Legislature Archives

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_governors_of_New_York

• Fort Ridgely in Minnesota.

• Biography from the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of New York, "Notable Lodge Members, Ebenezer Foote (April 12, 1756 – December 28, 1829)" from Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of New York

• http://schuylermansion.blogspot.com/search/label/slavery

• Schenetadyhistory.org

Andrew James Colvin married, at Newark, New Jersey, September 2, 1845, Margaret Crane Alling, daughter of Prudden Alling and Maria Halsey, of Newark, New Jersey. She was a niece of Colonel John Ford, and related to General Prudden of the revolutionary army, and by marriage of her aunt, Matilda (Rosekrans) Halsey, to General Ebenezer Foote of the Continental army, an old Delaware county family. She was a descendant of Roger Alling (1st) progenitor of the family in America, who came to this country in 1639, settling in New Haven, Connecticut.

• Foote Rosekrans Halsey family connection links here

Manuscripts, Archives and other Unpublished Sources

Delaware County Historical Association, Delhi, New York.

• Ebenezer Foote papers, 1785-1829

Local system #: (NIC)NYDE240-160-0039 Add Author: Ebenezer Foote. Title: Ebenezer Foote papers, 1785-1829. Quantity: 1000 items (ca.) Historical/biog note: Politician, lawyer, land agent. Abstract: Correspondence, tax papers, deeds, leases, account sheets with absentee landlords, 1785-1829. Also powers of attorney from absentee landlords to Foote, empowering him to act as agent in land sales, purchases and lease transactions, 1799-1826. Form/genre terms: Correspondence. Local subject: Land records, deeds and surveys. Local subject: Land speculation.

• LOCATION: Delaware County Historical Association, H. Fletcher Davidson Historical Library and Archives, R.D. 2, Delhi, New York 13753.
• https://www.dcnyhistory.org/index2.html

Detroit Public library

• Revolutionary reminiscences (autobiographical) of the life of Ebenezer Foote. Detroit Public library.
  Ebenezer Foote papers, 1756-1784 Foote, Ebenezer, 1756-1829. Pages: 8 [incomplete —dff]
1 copy available at Main Library, Archive/Manuscript Burton Historical Collection Manuscripts Collection Note: Level A, Stack 19N
  This appears to be a handwritten ms by Foote as part of his/ or his widows, application for pension.
• https://detroitpubliclibrary.org/

Genealogy of the Ford Family, Elbert and Floyd Counties

• Andrew L. Leath, Four Generations of the Family of Joseph and Sarah (Smith) Ford Ms., mailed to dff ca. 2004. P.O. Box 1166, Tyler, Texas, 75710. January 1993. (Revised November, 2000.)

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge:

• Letter from Colonel John Swartwout of New York, a political supporter of Aaron Burr, written to Ebenezer Foote referring to the business of his mercantile firm. The last line of the letter makes an oblique reference to the Burr Conspiracy. John Swartwout Letter, Mss. 1580, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections.
• LSU Libraries, (http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special) Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

National Archives, Washington, D.C., https://www.archives.gov/:

• Wolcott’s Regiment, Connecticut. Sargents: Abner Brenoughs, Nathan Abbott, John Wood. ["Record of service of Connecticut men in the I. War of the Revolution, II. War of 1812, III. Mexican War”]
• National Archives, History Office, 700 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20408

archives.historian@nara.gov

New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, New York City

• Dorman S. Purdy, “Descendants of Francis Purdy”, ms. typescript, date, 1920?

New York State Library. Manuscripts and Special Collections, New York New York State Historical Documents, Empire Plaza, Albany New York, 12230

• Letter to Charles Foote, New York State Library, ms. 11640, 1851. [retrieved ca. 1988. what is location, 2020?]

[Seen? dff-19]

• http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/
• Foote, Ebenezer, 1756-1829. Papers, 1779-1829 New York State Library Ms and Sp collections, Albany, NY. Local system #: (N)SC11365 Author: Foote, Ebenezer, 1756-1829. Title: Papers, 1779-1829.
• Quantity: 9 boxes. Quantity: 2 microfilm. Arrangement: Organized into five separate accessions. *Box 1, Folders 1-2, 4, 11, 16, 24-26, 30, 33, 40, 45;
• Box 2, Folders 52, 55, 60-63;
• Box 3, Folders 67, 76, 82, 92, 94; *Box 4, Folders 96-98, 100-101, 106-111, 114, 120-121, 123, 126-129, 139-140, 142-144,; *Box 5, Folders 148, 152-153, 156-157, 170-171, 175, 180; *Box 6, Folders 189-191.
• Historical/biog note: Soldier in the American Revolution, Ulster County, N.Y. politician and Delaware County, N.Y. official. Member of the N.Y. State legislature.
• Abstract: These papers consist mainly of correspondence between Foote and his associates. The letters discuss a variety of business matters and political issues as well as personal topics. The collection also includes items such as deeds and leases for lands in Delaware County, N.Y. and records from various Delaware County courts. Indexes: Index of correspondents available in repository. Finding aids: Unpublished guide available in repository.

• NYSL: Title: To the inhabitants of Ulster County. Imprint: Kingston, N.Y. : Power & Copp, [1793?] Physical description: 1 photostat ; 46 x 26 cm. Note: "The public prints in this and in a neighbouring county have of late been thronged with publications, bearing the signature of Ebenezer Foote, which were evidently intended to depreciate my reputation in the esteem of my fellow citizens ..." Note: The letter is signed Christopher Tappen and dated Kingston, April 16, 1793. Appended to it is a letter stating, "We do verify that Christopher Tappen, late treasurer of Ulster county ..." The appended item is signed by seven individuals. Note: Originally part of the 79-item "DeWitt Clinton Broadside Collection." Note: Original number: 1775-45. Local note: Broadside accession — August 22, 2003

New York Historical Society Library, Central Park West, New York City, New York, 10024:

• "No Footlicker. Odd! Odd! Odd!! : To the Republican electors of the county of Delaware." Delaware County, N.Y. : s.n., 1822 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 30 x 22 cm. Signed. Opposes the nomination of Charles A. Foote as Republican candidate for congress and endorses the candidacy of John T. More for the office.
• NYHS copy inscribed at foot in pencil: he was elected notwithstanding his aristocracy; inscribed on verso: no footlicker—an amazing effort of genius by Sherwood & Fitch. NHi
  Foote, Charles A. More, John T., United States. Congress — Elections. Republican Party (N.Y. : 1 792-1828) Library Holdings: New-York Historical Society / Broadsides SY1822 no.39 / Non-circulating
• “Republican meeting. : At a meeting of the following named Republicans, from different parts of the county oDelaware [sic], hastily convened at Edgerton Hotel, in Delhi, on the 30th day of Oct. 1822 … Delaware County, N.Y. : s.n., 1822, 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 30 x 23 cm. Endorses and confirms the nomination of Republican candidates Charles A. Foote, for congress, and Martin Keeler, for sheriff, and rejects the nomination of John T. More for congress made at a Republican meeting at Roxbury, New York.
• Foote, Charles A., Keeler, Martin., More, John T.
• Peter Livingston Manor to Walter Livingston, New York City, 1785, Charles A Foote Kinderhook to Ebenezer Foote, Delhi, 1805, box 2 folder 60 EFP
• New York, NY 10024 United States William Butler; Robert Leake; Helena Myers; Litchfield family.; Ross family.
  Document Type: All Authors / Contributors: Robert Ross; Ebenezer Foote; Frederick William Hecht; Edward Litchfield; John Morin Scott OCLC Number: 58779453
• Description: 1 box (ca. 190 items) Abstract: Correspondence, deeds, receipts, bonds, accounts, releases, articles of agreement, estates papers, leases, mortgages, land transfers, powers of attorney, land grants and petitions, and assorted land and legal papers, 1764-1830 (bulk 1770-1816) of Robert Ross, deputy commissary of New York, and his son, Robert Ross, Jr., of Eastchester, Westchester County, New York; as well as letters and papers of other members of the Ross and related Litchfield family.
• Papers and correspondence, 1764-1795, of Robert Ross, Sr., principally relate to lands in new York State, including land given as bounties to British soldier who fought in the French and Indian War. Additional materials relate to the settlement of Ross's estate and distribution of his property.
• Individual item include: Papers of Robert Ross, Jr., include correspondence, 1796-1815, related to the land titles, transfers, sales, and administration of family properties; along with ca. 110 receipts, bill, and accounts, 1814-1816, recording his payments for purchases of dry goods, paint, provisions, lumber, etc., for making and repairing shoes, tools, harness, clothing, utensils, etc., and for tuition, taxes, coach hire, lodging, stabling, blacksmithing, etc. Included are letters to Ross's wife, Ann S. Ross, and from Ebenezer Foote regarding management of Ross's business affairs.
• See also: Donald Clark collection, NYHSL. over 65 letters, some photocopies.

New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division, 42 St-Bryant Park Station Address: 476 5th Ave, New York, NY 10018 [1]:

• “Captain Foote” from: Beecher, James Chaplin, 1828-1886 Misc Names Collection. Stephen A. Schwarzman Building Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788 Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328 [not our Foote family —dff] Call number — MssCol 7162 0.1 linear feet (1 folder) Beecher, James Chaplin, 1828-1886, clergyman, abolitionist, son of Lyman Beecher, 1775-1863, brother of Catharine and Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe; resident of Elmira, N.Y.

Liebmann collection of American historical documents relating to spirituous liquors [bulk 1665-1865]

• Liebmann, Alfred J., 1885-1957, Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 1756 .68 linear feet (2 boxes, 1 volume, 1 oversized folder)
  Alfred J. Liebermann (b. 1885) was a research chemist. Born in Switzerland, he emigrated to the U.S. in 1910 and became technical director of Schenley Industries and president of the Schenley Research Institute.
• Justin Foote, at New York, to Ebenezer Foote, Official document containing lists of persons licensed as inn-holders and retailers of liquor in the town of Newburyport, Mass. dated September 1, 1813 at Salem and October 2, 1813 at Newburyport

• Van Gaasbeek, Peter, 1754-1797 Letters. Call number — MssCol 4658 .1 linear feet (1 folder)
  Preferred Citation: Letters to Peter Van Gaasbeek and Peter Marius Groen. Eight letters, 1775-1797, to merchant Peter Van Gaasbeek at Kingston, New York and New York City, from Jacob Marius Groen, Jr. at Kingston; Abraham G. Lansing at Albany; Ebenezer Foote and Solomon Sleight at Newburgh; Nicholas Low at New York; Noah Welles at East Windsor (Connecticut) ; and Edward Jones at Philadelphia. Letters concern personal and business affairs, Federal loan office certificates, and political matters. A letter dated December 15, 1800 from Samuel Sherwood at Delhi, to Peter Marius Groen in Kingston, pertains to legal expenses.
  Purchased from Stan. V. Henkels, 1923. Compiled by Susan P. Waide, 2014

Princeton University Library, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, Manuscript Division, Firestone Library, One Washington Road, Princeton, NJ 08540:

• Foote, Ebenezer (1756-1829) Papers, 1766-1925, bulk 1785-1829
• Ebenezer Foote (1756-1829) was a cattle agent for the Continental Army's Commissary Department during the American Revolutionary War, a merchant, a land agent, a politician, and a judge in New York State. Foote's papers date from 1766 to 1925, with the majority dating from 1785 to his death in 1829, and primarily document his land agency business in Delhi, Delaware County, New York. In addition to the land and financial records related to his business, the collection also contains some legal records, records documenting Foote's work as inspector of cattle for the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, and limited family records.
  5.1 linear feet. 12 archival boxes, 1 oversized box. Call number: C0430

Description:

The Ebenezer Foote Papers date from 1766 to 1925 and primarily document Foote's land agency business. The bulk of the records date from 1785 to Foote's death in 1829, and in addition to the land and financial records related to his business, the collection also contains some legal records, records documenting Foote's work as inspector of cattle for the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, and limited family records. The collection is arranged in four series: "Business Records, Largely Relating to Land, 1766-1829," "Legal Records, 1788-1829," "Revolutionary War Correspondence and Financial Records regarding Supplies of Cattle for the Continental Army, 1778-1782," and "Family Records, 1790-1925."
As a collection, this material provides an interesting glimpse into the formation of a new county, particularly in assessing its property, negotiating its land transactions, and governing/judging its community. The papers also provide a unique opportunity to see the American dream in action, from fighting for the nation's independence, building a business, earning success and respect, and participating in the governance of the county and state.

• Box 13 is oversized.
  • Series 1. Business Records, Largely Relating to Land, 1766-1829
    • Subseries a. Correspondence to Ebenezer Foote, 1785-1829
    • Subseries b. Financial and Land Records, 1766-1829
  • Series 2. Legal Records, 1788-1829
  • Series 3. Revolutionary War Correspondence and Financial Records regarding Supplies of Cattle for the Continental Army, 1778-1782
  • Series 4. Family Records, 1790-1925

Provenance and Acquisition

This collection was acquired in two parts. The bulk of the collection was donated by Stewart Robinson, March 18, 1964. The correspondence found in "Series III. Revolutionary War Correspondence and Financial Records Regarding Supplies of Cattle for the Continental Army, 1778-1782" was purchased at auction in 2012. [the finding aid can be seen on the Princeton online catalog. Note: Stewart “Stu” Robinson was ordained a Presbyterian Minister, see Princeton Alumni Weekly, vol. 18, 1917. —dff]

1 Feb, 2017; seen boxes: 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 12. (12 has family material) Box 12, folder 7: “The politician outwitted” old book.

• 23 April, 1830: County of Delaware, Surrogate Court “In the Matter of James B. Foote, a minor child under the age of 14.”
  She is also made guardian of Catherine B, under 14, Charles, under 14, Renseller W over 14, Frances over the age of 14, [one dup, Rensselaer. Robert North, Surrogate. duplicate copies.]

• Box 12 folder 1: William Frost. Writes from West Point thanking him for delivery of cattle. Box 12. folder 2. : West Point, 2d Dec 1780, Sir The Thirty Head of Cattle I las sent for were driven as far as Danforth’s the Night before last I tester morning obtained a party of men and now I under the … but now he cannot find them (the cattle)
  Box 12, folder 11: Will, inventory, and 7 May, 1830, To Matilda Foote, widow of Eben deceased, Harriet F. Bryan, Ebenezer K Maxwell, and Margaret P. Maxwell, Harriet F. Bryan Guardian of Frances Foote, Catherine B. Foote Rensselaer W. Foote, Charles Foote, and James B Foote, the minor children of Charles A Foote, and Ebenezer K Maxwell, guardian of Margaret B. Foote, the minor child of Frederick P. Foote. “we shall on Saturday, the twenty second day of May instant apply to the surrogate of the County of Delaware, wheresoever his Court shall then be held at 10 o’clock on the forenoon. to take the proof of and record he last will and testament of Ebenezer Foote.
  box 12 folder 16: Jesse Baldwin writes letter to Margaret P Foote long letter about the ministers in NYC and the Devil, Jesus and God in general.

Privately held Papers; Foote Family, Maynard and Ford family papers, now Main Street Museum, White River Jct., Vermont

Description of the Collection

This collection was a gift from Katherine Adelia Foote to her first cousin, Frances Maynard Ford, either before her death, or—most likely—through her executor during the settlement of her estate. The letters were stored in two trunks and the Ebenezer Foote Chippendale Desk. According to family narrative, an oval, Federal-style mirror was also included in the gift. Significant letters and autographs from this collection were sold at auction ____ 1941 by Frances Maynard. The bulk of these were acquired by the Library of congress. Others ended up at the Library of the University of Virginia, and Princeton University. The desk and mirror remains in the family, as do two trunks of papers and realia concerning Ebenezer, Charles Augustus, Catherine and Rensselaer Foote and other family members. Mementos including a Masonic apron, Civil War era sword and epaulets, are included with the papers, clippings and letters.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park, New York:

• Van Gaasbeek, Peter, 1754-1798. Correspondence, 1773-1802 LOCATION: Local system #: (NIC)NYDU427-240-0274
• Author: Van Gaasbeek, Peter, 1754-1798. Title: Correspondence, 1773-1802. Quantity: ca. .3 cubic ft. Abstract: Papers of Peter Van Gaasbeek include family correspondence, 1786-1794; political and business correspondence with John Addison, 1792-1796, Abraham B. Bancker, 1788-1789, Coenraedt E. Elmendorf, 1787-1797, Container 30 Ebenezer Foote, 1792-1797, Rufus King, 1794-1795, Johannes Miller, 1792-1795, Jacob Radclift, 1795-1796, James S. Roosevelt, 1793-1794, Cornelius C. Schoonmaker, 1783-1789, Cornelius Wynkoop, 1787-1788, and others, 1773-1802; and correspondence with Peter R. and John R. Livingston regarding military affairs, 1776-1778.

General note: Part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Hudson River Valley and Dutchess County Manuscripts. Addison, John. Personal subject: Bancker, Abraham B. Personal subject: Elmendorf, Coenraedt E. Personal subject: Foote, Ebenezer. Personal subject: King, Rufus, 1755-1827. Miller, Johannes. Radclift, Jacob. Roosevelt, James S. Personal subject: Schoonmaker, Cornelius C. Wynkoop, Cornelius. Livingston, Peter R. Personal subject: Livingston, John R., 1754-1851. Subject: Family—New York (State)—Dutchess County. Geographic terms: Dutchess County (N.Y.)—Commerce. Geographic terms: Dutchess County (N.Y.)—Politics and government. Geographic terms: United States—History—Revolution, 1775-1783.

Society of the Cincinnati:

Library, 2118 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 20008. https://www.societyofthecincinnati.org

State University of New York at Oneonta:

Special Collections has a 1823 letter to Ebenezer Foote, at one time included in "Daily Life in Antebellum Rural New York," website of State University of New York at Oneonta, as well as two letters from Charles Augustus Marvin.

Background: Ebenezer Foote served in the Revolutionary War and later made his home in Delhi, NY. May be hard to read, as is the original. The website for the Milne Library is here

Union College Alumni Files

• https://digitalworks.union.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=alumnifiles_1805

United States Military Academy Library (West Point)

Rensselaer Foote Papers.

U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center

(U.S. Army Military History Institute Library, Ridgeway Hall), 950 Soldiers Drive Carlisle, PA 17013-5021

The John W. Ames papers, 1860-1863.

Ames papers. Ames, John W. ((John Worthington)) Publication Year: 1860 Subject Terms: Seven Days' Battles, Va., 1862 — Personal narratives. Bull Run, 2nd Battle of, Va., 1862 — Personal narratives. Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862 — Personal narratives. Fredericksburg, Battle of, Fredericksburg, Va., 1862 — Personal narratives. Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va., 1863 — Personal narratives. Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 — Personal narratives. Draft Riot, New York, N.Y., 1863

Corespondents

• Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872, Sykes, George, 1822-1880. Hooker, Joseph, 1814-1879. Porter, Fitz-John, 1822-1901. Canby, Edward Richard Sprigg, 1817-1873. Lovell, Charles Swain, 1811-1871. Floyd-Jones, Delancey. Bates, Edward, 1793-1869.

Description: Personal letters pertaining to the following war: Civil War — Secession Crisis, 1 Box, Original material, Contains information pertaining to the following military units and organizations: 11th United States (U.S.) Infantry Regiment; 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, V (5th) Corps; 6th U.S. Colored Infantry Regiment; 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment.

General description of the collection:

The John W. Ames papers include officer's letters (400 typed pages): 3 as a civilian in Texas, November-December 1861; and the rest while serving in the Army, August 1861-September 1863: Yorktown, seven days, Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and draft riots in New York. George Meade, George Sykes, Joseph Hooker, Fitz-John Porter, Edward Canby, Charles Lovell, Charles Russell, Delancey Floyd-Jones, and Edward Bates are included.

• Notes:

Available on site only. Accession Number: edsagd. 49777131 - Ridgway Hall, Bay 4, Row 134, Face D, Shelf 5 box 1 Available Manuscript(s)

University of Alabama

Keyes family papers, St. Andrews, Florida, included

University of Florida, P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History, Gainesville, Florida:

“It is astonishing what a great variety of queer things there are in this Country,” Letter from Rensselaer Foote, Fort Simmons on Caloosahatchee River Florida, Nov. 25th 1841, to his sister Catherine B. Foote.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• The Rambler by Dr. Samuel Johnson. Published: Philadelphia : Printed by Robert Carr, for Samuel F. Bradford and John Conrad, and Co., 1803. 4 v. : ill. ; 17 cm. (12mo in 6’s) Journal or Magazine; Serial, Rare Book Collection

Call number: J.-B. 29 1803. Library has: v. 1-4, no. 1-208 (Mar. 20, 1750-Mar. 14, 1752) Note: Bookplates of Ebenezer Foote. Book label of John J. Foote. Wanting all plates.

• Edenton (N.C.) papers, 1717-1937 [manuscript]. About 300 items (0.5 linear ft.). Archival Materials
  Summary: Miscellaneous papers, chiefly bills, receipts, deeds, court proceedings, wills, estate settlements (including the division of slaves), and other legal and business papers of Edenton and Chowan County,...
• Summary: Miscellaneous papers, chiefly bills, receipts, deeds, court proceedings, wills, estate settlements (including the division of slaves), and other legal and business papers of Edenton and Chowan County, N.C., citizens, mainly before 1820. There are few letters. Several items concern the awarding of prizes by the Admiralty Court during the Revolution.
• Persons represented in the collection include: Nathaniel Allen, William Badham, John Barefield, Thomas Barker, Nehemiah Bateman, John Beasley, Thomas Benbury, William Blair, Charles Blount, Joseph Blount, William Branch, Stephen Cabarrus, William Cathcart, Josiah Collins, James Craven, Samuel Dickinson, Charles Eden, Henry Eelbeck, Montfort Eelbeck, William Eelbeck, William Hill, John Hodgson, Samuel Hodgson, Thomas Holland, Arthur Johnston, Samuel Johnston, Peter Malbone, Jeremiah Michener, Elisha Norfleet, Samuel Pagett, John Palin, Thomas Parris, and Thomas Pollock.

• Finding aid for the Hentz Family Papers, microfilm

University Virginia Library, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library:

Letters to Ebenezer Foote [manuscript] 1794-1820. Format: Mixed Materials; ArchiveDescription 29 items. Variant title: Federalist letters

• Summary: Letters concern national politics and the villainy of the Jeffersonians. Particularly topics include Elbridge Gerry and the XYZ affair; Jefferson and the election of 1800; bitterness between the "Clintonians" and the "Lewisites"; contemporary political factions; George Clinton, the Embargo and Thomas Jefferson; James Madison and the Embargo; John Adams suspect as a true Federalist; controversies surrounding the election of 1808; the character of Jefferson; Citizen Genet's opinions; Bonaparte; a the National Bank; and slavery and the Missouri Compromise.Correspondents include Loving Andrews, John Avery, Samuel A. Barker, A. deZeng, C. E. Edmunds, Charles A. Foote, John P. Foote, Justin Foote, Barent Gardenier, Daniel Hale, Jacob Morris, John Radcliff, Stephen van Rensselaer, William Root, Henry van Schaack, William Thompson, and Abraham van Vechten.

• Notes: Forms part of the Tracy W. McGregor Autograph Collection

Cite as Federalist Letters to Ebenezer Foote, 1794-1820, in the Tracy W. McGregor Library, Accession #4887, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.:

• Justin Foote, business letter, Vessel from Carolina Sunday and yesterday his Cargo was sold The Vessel arrived Safe and very good market with a few hold Tobacoe & About 600lbs Naval Stores the ^Tar/b^ sld a 21/ by the Cargo which is a grateful/gratitude?

…I advise you to Sell our Salt if You can without a loss. shall likely write by {yester] ___ Patr. writes me in better Spirits by [Saills?] Isaac left this yesterday. it is Said the Scpimdra;;s om Congress are bu tje Ears about the Jefferiated Societies in the presidents ___. shall we not Cut throats yet in this Country — the french have given the Austrians a Shaving [in Corsica?,] if it does not [prevent?] our Citizens to exceed all bounds of Moderation God preserve our happy Country from Anarchy & Confusion — is the prayer of your Justin Foote — Wednesday Morning NYorke

Yale University Library, Sterling Memorial Library

Burr Family Papers. Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library, Sterling Memorial Library Call Number: MS 303 Burr family papers Dates: 1750-1890 Physical Description: 1 linear foot (3 boxes, 1 folio) Summary: Correspondence and other papers relating to members of the Burr family of Fairfield, Conn. Principal figures represented in the papers include Aaron Burr (1756-1836), soldier, politician and third vice-president of the United States; and his father, the Reverend Aaron Burr (1716-1757), scholar, clergyman, and second president of the College of New Jersey (later Princeton)

• …There is also a small group of correspondence of others which refers to Burr, e.g., the letters received by Ebenezer Foote, which discuss New York state politics and suggests Burr as a candidate for governor in 1795. Other letters relate to the trial; Henry Dearborn to Edward Triffin reporting Burr's surrender; A letter from Alfred Edwards to Henry Waggaman Edwards mentions the duel with Hamilton.
• Correspondence of others re: Aaron Burr, Yale University Library:
• Edwards, Charles (1797-1868) from Henry Clay Cameron(1) 1866 1 25
• Edwards, Henry Waggaman from Alfred Edwards (1) 1804 1 25
• Foote, Ebenezer from: 1 25
• Samuel A. Barker (4) 1795 1 25
• William P. Beers (1) 1806 1 25
• Solomon Sleight (1) 1795
• Peter Van Gaasbeck (5) 1795
• Stephen Van Rensellaer (1) 1795
• Abraham Van Vechten (1762-1823) (1) 1800

Misc:

Christopher Tappan: To the inhabitants of Ulster County : the public prints in this and in a neighbouring county, have of late been thronged with publications, bearing the signature of Ebenezer Foote, which were evidently intended to depreciate my reputation...
 Ebenezer Foote: Fellow citizens of Ulster County. Once more I address you on the subject matter of dispute between Mr. Tappen and myself, and this once possibly may be the last. Published 1793 by Printed by Power & Copp. in Kingston [N.Y.] . 
Signed: Ebenezer Foote. Marlborough, March 26, 1793. Shipton & Mooney 46751. Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 46751) Series Early American imprints — no. 46751. [microform] : 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; ID Numbers Open Library OL14598732M catergory:History