Nathaniel FOOTE  (21 September 1592 - 20 November 1644)

He resided in Shalford Parish, county Essex and St Mary Bothaw Parish, 
London. On 21 Sep 1608/9 he apprenticed himself for 8 years to Samuel 
Croyeye, a Colchester grocer. He was a grocer himself as of 18 Oct 1619, 
when he brought a message from Beatrice Barker, Esq., located on East 
Street, St James Parish, Colchester. In 1630, his family resided in London 
from whence they immigrated to the Massachusetts Colony in America aboard 
the ship, "Fortune".

He settled first, upon arrival in the New World, at Watertown, Mass.; 
where he took the freeman's oath 3 Sep 1633. He was a farmer there and 
received one of the first homelots in Wethersfield, Conn. in about 1635. 
He was assigned ten acres located on the east side of Broad Street, near 
the south end of the street. This land was purchased directly from the 
Wongunk Indians at a place located along the Connecticut River that was 
called Pyguaq, later renamed Wethersfield. He eventually became the owner 
of several more tracts totaling in all, about 100 acres. In 1641, he was 
appointed a delegate to the General Court. He was a juror in 1643 and 1644.

Sources:
"NEHGR", Vol. IX, 1855, p.272, "Pedigree of Foote", compiled from Goodwin's
Genealogy of the Foote Family.
"Foote Family, comprising the Genealogy and History of Nathaniel Foote of
Wethersfield, Conn.", Vol. I, Abram W. Foote, 1907.
"Footenotes", newsletter of The Foote Family Association of North America,
Vol. XI, p.9, October, 1992.
"New England Families", Vol. I, pp.279-281, William Richard Cutter, Woburn,
MA., 1913.
World Family Tree, Vol. 2, chart 861.