Nathaniel Foote

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut

Nathaniel married Elizabeth about 1616. Elizabeth died on 28 Jul 1683. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Frances married John Dickinson between 1647 and 1648. John (son of Nathaniel Dickinson and Ann) was born before 22 Aug 1624; was christened on 22 Aug 1624 in Billingborough, Lincolnshire, England; died on 19 May 1676 in Turner's Fall, Franklin, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rebecca married Philip Smith before 1659. Philip (son of Samuel Smith and Elizabeth Smith) was born before 25 Nov 1632; was christened on 25 Nov 1632 in St. Mary the Virgin, Hadleigh, Suffolk, England; died on 10 Jan 1685 in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rebecca married Aaron Cooke on 2 Oct 1688 in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts. Aaron (son of Aaron Cooke and Elizabeth Chard) was born before 20 Mar 1614; was christened on 20 Mar 1614 in Bridport, Dorset, England; died on 5 Sep 1690 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts; was buried in Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mehitable married John Ingram on 26 Jun 1689. John (son of John Ingram and Elizabeth Gardner) was born on 29 Jun 1661; died after Oct 1742 in Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 1741

Nathaniel married Mary Dickinson on 6 Feb 1696. Mary (daughter of Nathaniel Dickinson and Hannah Beardsley) was born on 2 Feb 1673. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ichabod married Elizabeth Cook on 19 Jul 1698. Elizabeth (daughter of Capt. Aaron Cook and Sarah Westwood) was born on 9 Jan 1677 in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts; died on 10 Oct 1751 in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts; was buried in Old Hadley Cemetery, Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The History of the Descendants of John Dwight (citation details below) mistakenly calls her Mehitable Ingram.

Rebecca married Dr. Nathaniel Smith on 11 Nov 1726. Nathaniel (son of Ichabod Smith and Elizabeth Cook) was born on 16 Feb 1702 in of Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts; died on 21 Jul 1789 in Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Jonathan Dickinson on 2 Apr 1724. Jonathan (son of Deacon Nathaniel Dickinson and Hannah White) was born on 7 Nov 1699; died on 31 Dec 1787 in Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

First physician at Amherst, which he moved to as early as 1731.

Nathaniel married Rebecca Ingram on 11 Nov 1726. Rebecca (daughter of John Ingram and Mehitable Dickinson) was born on 5 Nov 1704; died on 21 Jul 1789. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dorothy married Ebenezer Mattoon in 1747. Ebenezer (son of Deacon Eleazar Mattoon) was born on 21 Dec 1720 in Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 28 Mar 1815

Noah married Mary Dickinson on 28 Apr 1757. Mary (daughter of Deacon Ebenezer Dickinson and Sarah Kellogg) was born about 1737 in Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts; died on 1 Jun 1791. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts

Notes:

"MATTOON, Ebenezer, a Representative from Massachusetts; born in North Amherst, Hampshire County, Mass., on August 19, 1755; attended the common schools and received private instruction; was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1776; served in the Revolutionary Army and attained the rank of major; taught school and also engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the State house of representatives in 1781 and 1794; justice of the peace 1782-1796; served in the State senate in 1795 and 1796; served from the rank of captain to that of major general of the Fourth Division, State militia; appointed sheriff of Hampshire County in 1796 and served twenty years; elected as a Federalist to the Sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Samuel Lyman; reelected to the Seventh Congress and served from February 2, 1801, to March 3, 1803; again a member of the State house of representatives in 1812; major general of Massachusetts Militia 1799-1816; adjutant general of the State militia 1816-1818; became totally blind in 1818 and retired from active public life; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1820; died in Amherst, Mass., September 11, 1843; interment in West Cemetery." [Biographical Dictionary of the United States Congress]

Maj. Gen. Ebenezer Mattoon and his wife Mary Dickinson were cousins four different ways:

Third cousins through shared descent from Philip Smith (1632-1685) and Rebecca Foote (d. 1701);

Third cousins once removed through shared descent from Nathaniel Dickinson (1601-1676) and his wife Ann (d. 1671), via descent to Ebenezer through their son John (1624-1676) and descent to Mary through their son Nehemiah (1643-1723);

Fourth cousins through shared descent from Nathaniel and Ann Dickinson (see above), via descent to Ebenezer through their son John (see above) and descent to Mary via their son Joseph (1630-1675);

And fourth cousins through shared descent from Nathaniel and Ann Dickinson (see above), via descent to Ebenezer through their son John (see above) and descent to Mary through their son Nathaniel (1627-1710).

Put another way, Ebenezer and Mary's daughter Mary Dickinson Mattoon was a direct descendant of four of the sons of Nathaniel (1601-1676) and Ann (d. 1671) Dickinson:

John Dickinson (1624-1676)
great-great-great grandfather: father's mother's mother's mother's father

Joseph Dickinson (1630-1675)
great-great-great grandfather: mother's father's father's father's father

Nathaniel Dickinson (1627-1710)
great-great-great grandfather: mother's father's mother's mother's father

Nehemiah Dickinson (1643-1723)
great-great-grandfather: mother's mother's father's father

Ebenezer married Mary Dickinson on 7 Jul 1779. Mary (daughter of Lt. Noah Dickinson and Mary Dickinson) was born on 10 Mar 1758 in Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts; died on 30 Jul 1835 in Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Maj. Gen. Ebenezer Mattoon on 7 Jul 1779. Ebenezer (son of Ebenezer Mattoon and Dorothy Smith) was born on 19 Aug 1755 in North Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts; was christened on 24 Aug 1755; died on 11 Sep 1843 in Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts; was buried in West Cemetery, Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Daniel Dwight on 24 Dec 1809. Daniel (son of Capt. Justus Dwight and Sarah Lamb) was born on 7 Sep 1775; died on 5 Nov 1851 in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts

Martha married Elizur Wolcott on 15 Jul 1846. Elizur (son of Elihu Wolcott and Rachel McClintock McClure) was born on 7 Aug 1817; died in Mar 1901 in Berkeley, Alameda, California; was buried in Diamond Grove Cemetery, Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Called in many sources May Matoon Wolcott. According to a letter from John Dyer-Bennet to his sister Miriam, 3 Dec 1975, her given name was actually Mary. She attended Wellesley as a member of the class of 1885, but did not graduate.

Her ashes were interred with those of her father.

Mary married Edward Bull Clapp on 22 Dec 1886 in Morgan, Illinois. Edward (son of Rev. Charles Wells Clapp and Jane Pray Bassett) was born on 14 Apr 1856 in Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 6 Feb 1919 in Berkeley, Alameda, California; was buried in Godfrey Cemetery, Godfrey, Madison, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 10 Oct 1890, Illinois

Miriam married Maj. Richard Stewart Dyer-Bennet on 17 Feb 1912 in Christchurch, Hampshire, England, and was divorced in 1955. Richard (son of Frederick Stewart Hotham Dyer and Adelaide Annie Taylor) was born on 6 Oct 1886 in The Lyons, Enville, Staffordshire, England; was christened in Enville, Staffordshire, England; died in 1983. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Britannica.com (accessed 11 Sep 2020):

Richard Dyer-Bennet, (born October 6, 1913, Leicester, Leicestershire, England—died December 14, 1991, Monterey, Massachusetts, U.S.), British-born American tenor and guitarist who helped to revive the popularity of folk music through his concert performances, recordings, compositions, and teaching.

Though born in England, Dyer-Bennet grew up in Canada and California and attended the University of California at Berkeley (1932–35), where he studied English and music. (He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1935.) After visiting Swedish folklorist Sven Scholander in 1935, Dyer-Bennet adopted Scholander’s trinity of song interpretation—poetry, melody, and lute accompaniment. In 1944, though, he switched to the Spanish guitar and gave the first of what would become annual solo concerts at New York City’s Town Hall; the impresario Sol Hurok signed him for national and foreign tours for many years. He gained a cult following with his approximately 800 songs (including about 100 of his own composition) that ranged through British and French ballads, European medieval songs, Swedish shepherd tunes, and American cowboy songs. Curiously, though identified as a folk singer, he preferred the label minstrel or troubadour.

Dyer-Bennet stopped giving concerts after a stroke in 1972 limited use of his left hand. From 1970 to 1983 he taught at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Notes:

One of DDB's six proven "gateway ancestors." DDB is unique in this database in that one of his gateway ancestors is a parent.

John married Mary Abby Randall on 14 Jun 1951 in San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Mary (daughter of George Burdett Randall and Hester Worth) was born on 24 Nov 1923 in Los Angeles, California; died on 31 Aug 2012 in Northfield, Rice, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Heir apparent to the Swinnerton-Dyer baronetcy, most recently held by Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, who died 26 Dec 2018.

Family/Spouse: Lydia Drew Nickerson. Lydia (daughter of Ronald Whitman Nickerson and Lorna Mae Nickerson) was born on 24 May 1962 in New Castle, Lawrence, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

David married Pamela Collins Dean on 30 Dec 1982 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Pamela was born on 18 Jan 1953 in Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]