Hannah Foot ¹

  General Notes:

From Rosealee's Book:

Foote

With very few exceptions, the Footes in America all decended from either Nathaniel Foote, of Colchester, England who came to Watertown Mass, about 1630 or Pasco Foote, who settled in Salem Mass, soon after or from Richard Foote of Cornwall England and later of Stfford Co., VA. That the first two were nearly related if not brothers, there can be very little doubt.
The following legend has been handed down by many different souces, Three brothers came from England in the brig "Ann" landed at Plymouth Mass., Nathaniel, Pasco and John or Caleb. Nathaniel settled in Salem Mass., Pasco settled in Salem Mass, and Joh or Caleb died without issue.
Emigration to New England languished fro ten years after the arrival of the Mayflower and until the expedition by John Winthrop and Sir Richard Saltonstall, wich numbered about 1500 came over in the summer of 1630. It is very difficult to connect these emigrants with ancestors in the mother country.
In Burkes Commoners Vol. I page 372 is an account of the Foote Family in Kent. It is stated that the family possessed large estates in the couny of Cornwall prior to 1420. Thomas Foote was Lord Mayor of London in 1650 and there are many others of the family who have distinguished themselves in the Mother country.
There is a tradition that our ancestors in England lived at the foot of a mountain at the time surnames were adopted and they called them Toote. The name was sometimes spelled Totte or Foot.
A coat of arms was bestowed on the family of Footes for the following reasons. In a war between the English and the Scots, King James was in imminent danger of being killed or taken prisoner and James Foote a trusty officer escorted him to a certain woods where he concealed the King unknown to anyone untill he obtained a safer retreat. And for that act of fortitude and fidelity the King ordered the coat of arms to be struck and given to said James Foote. The chevron in the center of the card is an emblem of firmness and fidelity. We trace our ancestry from the said James Foote.
The story as it has been handed down by our ancestors, is that on James Foote father of Nahaniel, Pasco, and Joh, and officer of King Charles the second army concealed the King in his flight from Cromwill, after the battle of Worcester at a place called Boscobel, in an oak tree, which was located in a clover field for which act of chivalry Foote was knighted the distinct feature of the arms being an oak tree and a clover leaf. The motto of the Arms was "loyalty and truth".

Hannah married Charles Sargent, son of William Sargent and Mary Colby. (Charles Sargent was born on 31 Jan 1674.)