Eli Foote

Eli Foote, was born 1747 at Guilford, New London county, Connecticut to Daniel Foote and Margaret Parsons. [Foote Family; Mem. Samuel E. Foote, John P. Foote]

"Mr. Eli Foote died in North Carolina, September 8, 1792, aged 44 years, 10 months, 9 days." Buried at the Foote-Ward Cemetery in Guildford, New Haven county, Connecticut. Graves of this family recoreded at findagrave

• [His mother, when she died, was 44 years, 10 months and 2 days of age.]

He married Roxana Ward, only daughter of Gen. Andrew Ward, of Guildford, New Haven county, Connecticut, October 11, 1772.

His widow, Mrs. Roxana Ward Foote, died at Guilford, Connecticut October 31, 1840, aged 90. [Foote Family; Foote-Ward Cem.]

Travels during wholesale shipping business

• Jamaica
• Mogadore

Children

1. Harriet Foote, born July 28, 1773. Died single, April 19, 1842.
2. Roxana Foote, born September 10, 1775. Died 1816. Married Lyman Beecher.
3. Andrew Ward Foote, born November 9, 1776. Died 1794.
4. Wiliam Henry Foote, born September 8, 1778. Died 1793.
5. Martha Foote, born September 23, 1781.
6. John Parsons Foote, born June 26, 1783. Died 1865. West into business with his uncle John. Settled and became a "booster" of Cincinnati, Ohio.
7. Mary Ward Foote, born August 7, 1785. Died in 1813. Married John James Hubbard, "a merchant of the Island of Jamaica," [.
8. Samuel Edmund Foote, born 1787. Died 1858. [Memoirs of the Life of Samuel E. Foote, written by his brother, John P.]
9. George Augustus Foote, born 1789. Died 1878
10. Catharine Foote, born 1792. Died 1811.