Source: GC-Cattaraugus Co. NY Bios Forum URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/NY/CattaraugusBios?read=2 278 From: Laura Greene <[email protected]> Subject: FOOTE family of Cattaraugus & Erie Counties Surname: FOOTE, CALKINS, ATWOOD, STODDARD, BUTTERFIELD, PLUMB, ALLEN ------------------------- HISTORY of the ORIGINAL TOWN OF CONCORD, ERIE COUNTY, NY By Erasmus Briggs, pub 1883. The FOOTE Family "Ransford T. Foote was born In Litchfield County, Connecticut, Jan. 6, 1806. Susan Foote, his wife, was born in the same county, Dec. 2, 1805. They came to Otto, Cattaraugus County, in 1826, and to Concord in 1838. In his Younger days Mr. Foote worked at shoe making as well as farming. He now owns, occupies and conducts a large dairy-farm in the northeast part of Concord. They have one son, Harry Foote, who was born in Cattaraugus county, March 22, 1832. He was married Feb. 1 1, 1864, to Jane Rollo Calkins, who was born Aug. 23, 1838. They have no children. He resides near his father. They are industrious and prosperous farmers and are highly esteemed in the community. Mrs. R. T. Foote's father's name was Wheeler ATWOOD and her mother's maiden name was Susannah Stoddard. I learn from the history or her native town in Connecticut, that her ancestors on both sides, were among the earliest settlers in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Some of them coming over as early as 1639 ; and I also learn from the same book that they were among the first families in the communities in which they lived. Several of them were graduates of Harvard College and some of them were clergymen, and some were doctors."