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He was the fifth child and fourth son of Stephen and Hannah (Waterman) Foote of Colchester.
In 1814 he enrolled in the junior class of Yale College, having been prevented by limited means from entering earlier. For a part of his senior year he served as a tutor, and from May 1816 until July 1818 he taught at Falmouth, Virginia, except for a visit to New Haven in September 1816 to receive the degree of A. B. (Diary, post).
He then entered Princeton Seminary but excessive study impaired his health, and, leaving the seminary, he was licensed to preach in October 1819.
During this period he held religious meetings in spiritually neglected communities, thus early developing the pioneer spirit and power of organization which were characteristic of his life. He then entered Princeton Seminary but excessive study impaired his health, and, leaving the seminary, he was licensed to preach in October 1819.
His first labors as a minister were west of the Blue Ridge; in the Northern Neck of Virginia; and in Tidewater Virginia, southeast of Richmond as far as Norfolk. From September 1820 to June 1822 he was a supply minister in several other fields.
In July 1822 he organized and became pastor of a church at Woodstock, Virginia, where he established and conducted an academy.
In September 1824 he assumed charge of churches at Romney, Moorefield, and Springfield, Virginia, all included in the Mount Bethel congregation.
In 1833 the name Mount Bethel was changed to Romney. Foote resided at Romney, where he established an academy for boys and girls.
His pastoral connection with the Romney church continued until 1838, when he became agent of the Central Board of Foreign Missions, and took up his residence at Petersburg, Virginia.
His field of labor included the synods of Virginia and North Carolina, and it was while he was engaged in this work, which took him into many counties in both states, that he began to gather materials for Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical (1846) and Sketches of Virginia, Historical and Biographical (1850, 1855), long standard works of reference.
In May 1845 he returned to Romney as pastor of the church and principal of the Romney Classical Institute and continued to live there until the beginning of the Civil War.
In 1849 he withdrew from the principalship because of friction with the governing board and in 1850 founded at Romney the Potomac Seminary for girls, under Presbyterian control, which continued until 1900.
With a large majority of Virginians he was opposed to secession and in favor of some practical plan for emancipating the slaves; but in 1861 he went with his adopted state.
In March 1862 he and his family were refugees in southern Virginia, where he supplied vacant churches until May 1863, after which he had no regular charge.
He served as hospital chaplain at Farmville and Petersburg for three months in 1864. In January 1865 he was agent to raise funds for Hampden-Sydney College.
In February 1865 he completed, with the exception of the index, The Huguenots, or Reformed French Church (1870), which he had begun in July 1862. He was for many years chairman of the home missions committee of Winchester Presbytery; its moderator in 1826; stated clerk, 1834-38; moderator of the Virginia Synod, 1839; commissioner to the Presbyterian General Assemblies of 1827, 1828, 1833, 1837, 1844, and in 1861, to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of the United States.
He died in Romney, West Virginia.
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In 1849 he withdrew from the principalship because of friction with the governing board and in 1850 founded at Romney the Potomac Seminary for girls, under Presbyterian control, which continued until 1900.
With a large majority of Virginians he was opposed to secession and in favor of some practical plan for emancipating the slaves; but in 1861 he went with his adopted state.
Foote married, on February 21, 1822, Eliza Wilson Glass, daughter of Joseph Glass of Winchester, Connecticut, by whom he had two children, Ann Waterman and Eliza Wilson.
His first wife died April 23, 1835, and on October 31, 1839, he married Arabella Gilliam, daughter of James Gilliam of Petersburg, Virginia, by whom he had one daughter, Mary Arabella.