Epaphroditus Foot (1769 - 1845)

Born 14 Sep 1769 in Colchester, Hartford, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Anna (Ives) Goodwin — married before 1806 (to 1845) in Brookfield, Madison, New York, United States

Died 15 Jul 1845 at age 75 in Brookfield, Madison, New York, United States

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Biography

Epaphroditus Foot was born in Colchester, Hartford County, Connecticut on Sep 14, 1769. ^[1] He was the 7th of nine children born to Adonijah Foote and Grace Day in Colchester, Connecticut. ^[2]

After the Revolutionary war, Epaphroditus joined the wave of migration out of Connecticut in search of available fertile land in upstate New York State areas, heading first to Hamilton (260 miles from Colchester) and then settling in Brookfield 13 miles away.

Epaphroditus had 4 wives (one at a time): Anna Bixley, Sylvia Beebe, Mehitable Douglass and Anna Ives. He was the father of eleven children.

Interested Foote descendants are welcome to add marriage and death dates for his wives as well as names and birthdates of his children from the list on page 110 of Abram Foote's 1907 book cited below.

He died in 1845 and is buried in Bridgewater, New York at Universalist Church Cemetery. ^[3]

Find A Grave lists his four wives as: ^{[citation needed]}

• Anna Bixby (1770-1796) First wife
• Silvia Beebe (1774-1798) Second Wife
• Mahetable Douglass (1776-1804) Third Wife
• Ann Goodwin (1769-1849) Fourth wife

Research notes

A. Per Wikipedia, the Greek name Epaphroditus was a New Testament figure appearing as an envoy of the Philippian church to assist the Apostle Paul in prison in Rome (see Philippians 2:25-30).

B. Other New and Old Testament names among the siblings of Epaphroditus strongly suggest that the Colchester Congregational church experienced a revival during the decades preceding the Revolutionary War.

Sources

1. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:2:MGRZ-V1M : 7 January 2020), Entry for Epaphroditus Foot, 1769.
2. ↑ Foote, Abram. Nathaniel Foote of Wethersfield, Conn and his Descendants. Rutland, Vt: Marblehead Press,1907. Vol. 1, Pages 52, 110. Available on web via Google Books.
3. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12137794/epaphroditus-foot: accessed 30 July 2022), memorial page for Epaphroditus Foot (1768–1845), Find A Grave: Memorial #12137794, citing Universalist Church Cemetery, Bridgewater, Oneida County, New York, USA; Maintained by Frederick Porter (contributor 48254596).