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John Deming (c. 1615 –1705), a founder of Wethersfield and an original patentee of Connecticut Colony; Tony DiCicco (1948–2017), coach, United States women's national soccer team; Bruce Edwards (1954–2004), Tom Watson's caddy of almost 30 years; Nathaniel Foote [57] [58] (1592–1644), an original settler; Thomas Ian Griffith (born 1962 ...
Nathaniel Foote (21 September 1592 – 20 November 1644), was an early English immigrant and surveyor to Connecticut who was born in Colchester, England.He was part of the settlement party that founded Wethersfield, Connecticut, the oldest town in that state. [1]
Founder of Wethersfield, Connecticut: Spouse: Jane Bissell: Children: Richard, Mary, John Jr. John Oldham (July 1595 – July 20, 1636) was an early Puritan settler ...
Deming was born in Shalford, Essex, England.He arrived in New England during the Great Migration with his older sister Elizabeth and her husband Nathaniel Foote.Deming and the Footes first settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, but left for the Connecticut River Valley in 1636, where they helped found the town of Wethersfield.
Connecticut A Fully Illustrated History of the State from the Seventeenth Century to the Present (1961) 470pp the standard survey to 1960, by a leading scholar; Van Dusen, Albert E. Puritans against the wilderness: Connecticut history to 1763 (Series in Connecticut history) 150pp (1975) Williams, Peter W., ed. (1999).
Robert Coe (1596 – bef. 1690) was an early English settler, public official, and a founder of five towns in Connecticut and New York: Wethersfield, Stamford, Hempstead, Elmhurst, and Jamaica. Coe took passage from England to the Americas in 1634 during the Puritan migration to New England.
Wethersfield served as a transportation hub on the Connecticut River in the early years. The Old Wethersfield Historic District was established under town statutes in 1962, "to preserve and protect the many architectural phases of a Connecticut River Community in continual growth from 1634 to the present."
Robert Seeley's name is featured on three historic plaques listing town founders, in Watertown, Wethersfield, and New Haven. He is listed on a historic plaque at the base of a statue honoring John Mason as one who helped achieve victory for the colonists over the Pequot.