Jonathon married Abigail KELLOGG on 14 Nov 1688. Abigail (daughter of Lieutenant Lieutenant Joseph KELLOGG and Abigail TERRY) was born on 9 Oct 1671 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA; died after 1742. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Jonathon SMITH was born on 10 Aug 1689; died about 1778 in Orange, Franklin, MA.
2. Daniel SMITH was born on 3 Mar 1692; died on 16 Nov 1760 in Amherst, Hampshire, MA.
3. Abigail SMITH was born on 20 Apr 1695.
4. Stephen SMITH was born on 5 Dec 1697; died about 1760 in Sunderland, Franklin, MA.
5. Prudence SMITH was born on 16 May 1700.
6. Moses SMITH was born on 8 Sep 1702.
7. Elisha SMITH was born on 10 Jul 1705; died in 1784 in Whatley, Franklin, MA.
8. Elizabeth SMITH was born on 8 May 1708; died on 22 May 1790 in Whatley, Franklin, MA.
9. Ephraim SMITH was born on 24 May 1711.
10. Aaron SMITH was born on 7 Feb 1715; died on 9 Mar 1798 in Athol, Worcester, MA.

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• Note: 1702

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From The Magnalia Christi Americana, by Cotton Mather - 1702
Mr. Philip Smith, aged about 50 years, a son of eminently virtuous parents, a deacon of a church in Hadley, a member of the General Court, a justice in the County Court, a selectman for the affairs of the town, a Lieutenant of the troop, and which crowns all, a man for devotion, sanctity, gravity, and all that was honest,exceeding exemplary. Such a man was in the winter of the year 1684, murdered with an hideous witchcraft, that filled all those parts of New England, with atonishment. He was, by his office concerned about relieving the indigences of a wretched woman in the town; who being dissatisfied at some of his just cares about her, expressed herself unto him in such a manner, that he declared himself thenceforth apprehensive of receiving mischief at her hands. Early in January, he began to be very valetudinarious. He shewed such weanedness from the weariness of the world, etc.. While he remained yet of a sound mind, he solemnly charged his brother to look well after him. Be sure (said he) to have a care for me.... There shall be a wonder in Hadley.... In his distress he exclaimed much upon the young woman aforesaid, and others, as being seen by him in the room. Some of the young men in the town being out of their wits at the strange calamities thus upon one of their most beloved neighbors, went three or four times to give disturbance unto the woman thus complained of; and all the while they were disturbing her, he was at ease, and slept as a weary man; yea, these were the only times they perceived him to take any sleep in all his illness. Gally pots of medicine provided for the sick man were unaccountably emptied: audible scratchings were made about the bed, when his hands and feet lay wholly still, and were held by others. They beheld fire sometimes on the bed; and when the beholders began to discourse of it, it vanished away. Divers people actually felt something often stir in the bed, at a considerable distance from the man; it seemed as big as a cat, but they could never grasp it. Several trying to lean on the bed's head, tho' the sick man lay wholly still, the bed would shake so as to knock their heads uncomfortably. Mr. Smith dies; the jury that viewed his corpse found a swelling on one breast, his back full of bruises, and several holes that seemed made with awls. After the opinion of all had pronounced him dead, his countenance continued as lively as if he had been alive; his eyes closed as in a slumber, and his nether jaw not falling down. Thus he remained from Saturday morning about sunrise, till Sabbathday in the aftenoon. When those who took him out of the bed, found him still warm, tho' the known in any age; and a New England winter does not want for cold. But on Monday morning they found the face extremely tumified and discolored. It was black and blue, and fresh blood seemed running down his cheek upon the hairs. Divers noises were also heard in the room where the corpse lay; as the clattering of chairs and stools, whereof no account could be given. This was the end of so good a man.

Mary Webster, the woman who disturbed Philip Smith, was sent to Boston, tried for witchcraft, and acquitted. The young men of Hadley tried an experiment upon her. They dragged her out of the house, hung her up until she was near dead, let her down, rolled her some time in the snow, and at last buried her in it, and there left her. But she survived, and died in 1696. No inhabitant of Hampshire Co. was ever executed for witchcraft.

Lieut. married Rebecca FOOTE in 1657 in Wethersfield, Hartford, CT. Rebecca (daughter of Nathaniel FOOTE and Elizabeth DEMING) was born in 1634 in Watertown, Middlesex, MA; was christened on 3 Sep 1634 in Wethersfield, Hartford, CT; died on 6 Apr 1701 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Fellmongerer, A Dealer In Furs And Hides, A Tanner.

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April 3, 1634, sailed aboard ship 'Elizabeth.'He built and was part owner of the 'Tryal' the first ship builtin Connecticut.

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Article from The American Genealogist, Vol. 32, p. 195.
THE WIFE OF LT. SAMUEL SMITH OF WETHERSFIELD
By Paul W. Prindle, B.S., of New York, N.Y.
The wife of Lieutenant Samuel Smith of Wethersfield, Corin., has often been named erroneously as Elizabeth Chileab. The following article appeared in abbreviated form in "The Hartford Times, " 8 Jan 1956.
About one year after their arrival from England, Lt. Samuel Smith's wife gave birth to a son,1 to whom they gave the unusual name of Chileab. Someone, possibly Stiles (he must at least be charged with responsibility for passing on the fiction in his "History of Ancient Wethersfield 2:646), assumed that this unusual name must have been the surname of the mother. It is unfortunate that Stiles failed to consult his Bible concordance. Had he done so, he would have learned that Lt. Smith, a devout man who made a bequest of a Bible in his will to each of his grandchildren gave biblical names to each one of his other sons, - Samuel, Philip and John, - and Chileab was no exception; the original Chileab was the son of King David by Abigail (II Samuel, 111;3). According to Rev. William Jenks, "Comprehensive Commentary on the Holy Bible" (1836), Chiliab signifies "like his father, or the father's picture." Due to the unusual circumstances of Chileab's birth, Abigail being the lawful wife of Nabal the Carmelite, we may reasonable ascribe the touching choice of the babe's name to Abigail rather than to David. In any event in the 7 Oct. 1929 issue of "The Boston Evening Transcript," one C.D.A. wrote, in answer to query 8072-15. If Lieutenant Smith had named the child Chedorlaomer, Jaazaniah, Yephibosneth, or Maher-shalal-hash-baz ( all biblical masculine names), there would have been as much ground for assuming the selected name was.the family name of Elizabeth as there was that it was Chileab."
The identity of Elizabeth, wife of Lt. Samuel Smith, has been determined within the bounds of probability acceptable to careful genealogists. As long ago as 14Aug1943, the late Dr. Ray G. Hulbert, in his answer to query A-2442-(6) in "The Hartford Times," gave the facts, which have been repeated on a number of occasions, once at least by the present contributor. Nevertheless, to bring all the known facts together, perhaps for the first time the following account is presented to lay the ghost of Elizabeth Chileab.
The parish registers of St. Margarets's, Whatfield, Co.,Suffolk, England, show the Oct 6, 1624 marriage of Samuel Smyth to Elizabeth Smyth, and the baptism of their son Samuel on Feb 8, 1625 (1625/6?). The young couple next appear at Hadleigh, Co. Suffolk, three miles south of Whatfield where, at the church of St. Mary the Virgin, they baptized Elizabeth on Jan 28, 1627 (probably New Style); Mary, Oct. 9, 1628 and Philip, November1632.
The Smith, Smyth, Smithe (all interchangeable, of course) family embarked "the last of Aprill, 1634, for New England, in the "Elizabeth," from Ipswich, Mr. Wm. Andrews, "Master" (New England Hist. and Gen. Register, 14:329; Hotten' s "Original Lists," pp. 280, 282; Pope's "Pioneers of Massachusetts"; James William Hook , "Lieut. Samuel Smith (1953), p. 1. The ship's list shows the following ages for the members of the Smith family:"Samuell Smithe,"; 32; "Elizabeth his wife," 32; and children of "Sam. Smith:" Samuel, 9; Elizabeth, 7; Mary, 4; Philip, 1. The ages of the children Samuel, Elizabeth, and Philip exactly correspond with their respective dates of baptism. Mary, however, was 5, not 4. Actually, this record represents a high degree of accuracy. Most ages taken from ships' lists (and from gravestones and census records as well) are questionable unless confirmed by other contemporary records.
There remains little room for doubt that the baptismal records shown above taken from the parish registers in Whatfield and Hadleigh, are of the children who sailed on the "Elizabeth" from Ipswich only ten miles east of Hadleigh, Co. Suffolk and that Elizabeth, wife of Lt. Samuel Smith, was a Smith before her marriage.

Lieut. married Elizabeth SMITH on 6 Oct 1624 in Whatfield, Suffolk, ENGLAND. Elizabeth was born in 1602 in ENGLAND; died on 16 Mar 1686 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Article from The American Genealogist, Vol. 32, p. 195.
THE WIFE OF LT. SAMUEL SMITH OF WETHERSFIELD
By Paul W. Prindle, B.S., of New York, N.Y.
The wife of Lieutenant Samuel Smith of Wethersfield, Corin., has often been named erroneously as Elizabeth Chileab. The following article appeared in abbreviated form in "The Hartford Times, " 8 Jan 1956.
About one year after their arrival from England, Lt. Samuel Smith's wife gave birth to a son,1 to whom they gave the unusual name of Chileab. Someone, possibly Stiles (he must at least be charged with responsibility for passing on the fiction in his "History of Ancient Wethersfield 2:646), assumed that this unusual name must have been the surname of the mother. It is unfortunate that Stiles failed to consult his Bible concordance. Had he done so, he would have learned that Lt. Smith, a devout man who made a bequest of a Bible in his will to each of his grandchildren gave biblical names to each one of his other sons, - Samuel, Philip and John, - and Chileab was no exception; the original Chileab was the son of King David by Abigail (II Samuel, 111;3). According to Rev. William Jenks, "Comprehensive Commentary on the Holy Bible" (1836), Chiliab signifies "like his father, or the father's picture." Due to the unusual circumstances of Chileab's birth, Abigail being the lawful wife of Nabal the Carmelite, we may reasonable ascribe the touching choice of the babe's name to Abigail rather than to David. In any event in the 7 Oct. 1929 issue of "The Boston Evening Transcript," one C.D.A. wrote, in answer to query 8072-15. If Lieutenant Smith had named the child Chedorlaomer, Jaazaniah, Yephibosneth, or Maher-shalal-hash-baz ( all biblical masculine names), there would have been as much ground for assuming the selected name was.the family name of Elizabeth as there was that it was Chileab."
The identity of Elizabeth, wife of Lt. Samuel Smith, has been determined within the bounds of probability acceptable to careful genealogists. As long ago as 14Aug1943, the late Dr. Ray G. Hulbert, in his answer to query A-2442-(6) in "The Hartford Times," gave the facts, which have been repeated on a number of occasions, once at least by the present contributor. Nevertheless, to bring all the known facts together, perhaps for the first time the following account is presented to lay the ghost of Elizabeth Chileab.
The parish registers of St. Margarets's, Whatfield, Co.,Suffolk, England, show the Oct 6, 1624 marriage of Samuel Smyth to Elizabeth Smyth, and the baptism of their son Samuel on Feb 8, 1625 (1625/6?). The young couple next appear at Hadleigh, Co. Suffolk, three miles south of Whatfield where, at the church of St. Mary the Virgin, they baptized Elizabeth on Jan 28, 1627 (probably New Style); Mary, Oct. 9, 1628 and Philip, November1632.
The Smith, Smyth, Smithe (all interchangeable, of course) family embarked "the last of Aprill, 1634, for New England, in the "Elizabeth," from Ipswich, Mr. Wm. Andrews, "Master" (New England Hist. and Gen. Register, 14:329; Hotten' s "Original Lists," pp. 280, 282; Pope's "Pioneers of Massachusetts"; James William Hook , "Lieut. Samuel Smith (1953), p. 1. The ship's list shows the following ages for the members of the Smith family:"Samuell Smithe,"; 32; "Elizabeth his wife," 32; and children of "Sam. Smith:" Samuel, 9; Elizabeth, 7; Mary, 4; Philip, 1. The ages of the children Samuel, Elizabeth, and Philip exactly correspond with their respective dates of baptism. Mary, however, was 5, not 4. Actually, this record represents a high degree of accuracy. Most ages taken from ships' lists (and from gravestones and census records as well) are questionable unless confirmed by other contemporary records.
There remains little room for doubt that the baptismal records shown above taken from the parish registers in Whatfield and Hadleigh, are of the children who sailed on the "Elizabeth" from Ipswich only ten miles east of Hadleigh, Co. Suffolk and that Elizabeth, wife of Lt. Samuel Smith, was a Smith before her marriage.

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• Emigration: 1630, Watertown, Middlesex, MA
• Note: 1633, Watertown, Middlesex, MA
• Residence: 1634
• Probate: 20 Nov 1644, Hartford, Hartford, CT

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Nathaniel Foote's name is in the Records of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, when he took the oath of freeman in 1633.

Residence:
In 1634 the first white settlement in the Connecticut Valley was made in Wethersfield, called by the Indians, "Pyquag" which means "The Dancing Place" or "Place for Games." Nathaniel Foote was one of the first ten who came to Wethersfield in 1636. It was a terrible journey. There was no road, only a narrow Indian trail through the savage wilderness. They walked, driving their cattle before them and were fourteen days on the way. They were in constant danger from wild beasts and Indians and were obliged to wade through streams and swamps, but no hardships caused them to turn back.
Their reasons for going a hundred miles west of other settlements were, so they might "better maintain their minister, find larger accomodations for their cattle and welcome more of their friends from England."
When the land in the valley was distributed, Nathaniel Foote was assigned a house lot of 10 acres, on the east side of what is now Broad Street. He gradually bought more till he owned about 400 acres.

Probate:
Nathaniel Foote died without a will, at a Particular Court in Hartford an inventory of his property and distribution of his real estate were exhibited and an order of court granting administration on his estate and directing a distribution to be made was passed.

Buried:
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Nathaniel married Elizabeth DEMING in Jan 1615 in North Wheatley, Nottinghamshire, ENGLAND. Elizabeth (daughter of Jonathon DEMING and Elizabeth GILBERT) was born about 1596 in ENGLAND; died on 28 Jul 1683 in Wethersfield, Hartford, CT; was buried in Wethersfield Village Cemetery, Wethersfield, Hartford, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Probate: Aug 1683, Wethersfield, Hartford, CT

Notes:

Probate:
My fourteen acres of land in the great meadow, and thirty acres in the West field, I give unto my son Robert Foote...he paying for these lands 45 lbs. - to be payed to the children of my daughter Sarah Judson, deceased , and to my four daughters, my daughter Churchill, my daughter Goodrich, my daughter Barnard, and my daughter Smith. There were also sums left for the two sons and grandchildren of her deceased son Nathaniel.
In a codicil she takes back the money she willed to her son Nathaniel's two sons and divides it amongst her daughters, giving the two brothers instead the land she had formerly willed to her son Robert who had died.

Buried:
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• Will: 27 Jan 1608

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As is commonly known, a Yeoman in old England was a Freeholder, next under the rank of Gentleman, and in the early times a person who owned a small estate with attached lands. Robert of Shalford was such a man. He owned property in both towns of Shalford and Royston.

Will:
The probate record for Nathaniel includes a complete inventory; it is recreated here with the spelling as found in the original:
To The Children:
1. Nathaniel Foote, about 24 years, to have £148
2. Robert Foote, about 17 years, to have £74
3. Frances Foote, about 15 years, to have £74
4. Sarah Foote, about 12 years, to have £74
5. Rebecca Foote, about 10 years, to have £74
6. The Wyddow of sd. Nathaniel Foote Adms. her portion, £212
Other Possession s
· Imprs His purse and apparrell, £7-16-00 It.
· In neat Cattel and in Hay, £93-00-00 It.
· in horsse fleshe, £34-00-00 It.
· in hoggs, £66-60-00 lt.
· in debts, £29-03-04 It.
· In Englishe Corne, £70-00-00 It.
· in goats, £3-15-00 It. in Carts, ploughs, etc. £6-00-00 It.
· in nayles, £1-10-00 Ite.
· Indean Corne, £8-00-00 It.
· in old Wheat and pease, £6-06-00 It.
· for certain things in the chamber, £2-00-00 It.
· for ammunition, £5-00-00 Ite.
· for fouer beds with the furniture, £13-06-08 It.
· in fyne lynen, £5-10-00 Ite. 2 table boards, 2 chests, 1 TGrunke, with other Implts. £5-00-00 It. pewter & brasse and other vseful vessells, £12-00-00 It.
· in husbandry tooles, £3-00-00 It. in beife, butter, and cheese and other necessary provision for the howse, £8-10-00 It.
· in poultry, £1-00-00
somm: £380-17-00
The Land:
Ten acres of home lotts with one dwelling howse and 2 barnes with other buildings thereuppon
· 4 acres of home lotts
· 6 acres of meadow with an acre of swampe
· 20 acres of plaine fenced in being 14 ac. broke vp
· 7 acres of plaine meadow plowed vp
· 20 acres in the great meadow of hay ground
· 4 acres in bever meadow
· 27 acres of Swampe Ground
· 81 Acres of Vpland in the Weste field 32 Rod broad beyond the River, being 3 Miles in length

Land Devided to The Widow
· 4 a-c house lott wherr her house is
· The hoseing
· 2 ac Unsubdued
· 7 ac plaine brok
· 3-1/2 plaine med:
· 14 ac meadow
· 3 ac plaine not broaks up
· 30 ac upland in Westfield
Land Devided to The Eldest Sonne
· 3 ac home lot next her
· 2 ac unsubdued
· 7 ac plaine broke up
· 3-1/2 of meadow
· 3 ac in great med:
· 4 ac in beavermed:
· 27 ac swampe
· 3 ac not broke up
· 30 ac upland West Field
· Halfe the east side
Land Devided to The youngest Sonne
· 3 ac homelott
· 6 ac med: in the swamp
· 21 ac West Field
· halfe of the east sd.
The age of the 5 children Dewelling with their mother.
· Nathaniel Foote - 24 years
· Rob Foote - about 17 years
· Francis - about 15 years
· Sara - about 12 years
· rebecka - about 10 years.
The widdowe of the said Nath: ffote is admitted to administer the Estate, and the eldest sonne is to have the lands before mentioned as they are valued at 1261. 10s wch is to be made uppe 1481, and the youngest sonne the particular landes above mentioned for him at 651. wch is to be made uppe 741, and the daughters disposed in merrage are to have 301 .8 peece wch they have receevede made uppe 741. and the other children are to have 741. a peece provided it is left at the dispose of their mother to etacte from any of them if she sees just cause 51. of the portion here sett downe and to adde yt to such of the other as best desearve yt.
The Will was endorsed by the inventorers, Richard Trott, Samuel Smith, and Nathaniel Dickinson

Robert married Joan BROOKE on 18 Jun 1576 in St. Leonard Eastcheap, London, ENGLAND. Joan (daughter of John BROOKE and Elizabeth WHETMAN) was born on 18 Jun 1559 in London, ENGLAND; died on 10 Oct 1634 in St. Leonards Parish, London, ENGLAND. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jonathon married Elizabeth GILBERT. Elizabeth (daughter of Josiah GILBERT) was born about 1578 in Shalford, Essex, ENGLAND. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]