Elizabeth Deming & Nathaniel Foote: Ancestors of Jesse Foote Turner

Elizabeth Deming (1595-1683) and Nathaniel Foote (1593-1644) were from Shalford, in the borough of Colchester, Essex Co., England.  They immigrated to Massachussetts along with Elizabeth's much younger brother John Deming (1615-1705).  Based on birth locations of their children gleaned from Ancestry.com trees (not always reliable), it looks like they came over around 1630 (perhaps as part of the Winthrop Fleet, a migration of 700 colonists to MA in 1630), when they were in their late 30's and John was ~15.  Their child Nathaniel Foote (1620-1655) who our line descends from would have been ~10.  According to Wikipedia they had 7 children.

They first settled in Watertown, MA (near Cambridge, and at the time almost as big as Boston), but in 1636 they moved with other colonists to Connecticut to found the town of Wethersfield (Wikipedia). After Nathaniel Sr.'s death, Elizabeth married a widower, Thomas Welles, about 1646.  Welles was a magistrate of Connecticut and also governor and deputy governor.  Her brother John married Honour Treat, daughter of another early Connecticut bigwig (Richard Treat).

Nathaniel Jr. married Elizabeth Smith (1627-1711), also born in England, daughter of a glover. He died when he was only 35, and she remarried and moved to Mass.  Their oldest son was also Nathaniel Foote (1647-1703), who lived and died in Wethersfield CT, and married a Margaret Bliss (1649-1745).  Their daughter, Elizabeth Foote, (g.g. daughter of Elizabeth Deming and Nathaniel Foote) married Robert Turner (grandson of Elizabeth Freestone and Robert Turner, who immigrated to Mass. in the 1630's).  This joined the Foote and Turner lines, after which Foote was passed down as a middle name. The third Nathaniel and Margaret Bliss also had a son who was also Nathaniel, and who was the ancestor of Mary Hallock Foote's husband.  Mary Hallock Foote's letters from the time of the California gold rush were used without permission in Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose.