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"Dividing the Estate" has brought family disunity more than once to the Foote/Foots in America. Writing from Jackson, Mississippi in 1846, Henry Stuart Foote, kinsman of Horton and Hallie, complained that estate lands in Windsor had been lost because of "gross negligence of counsel" in trying to reverse family fraud in land transfer. The only thing the relatives got out of the suit was "the titles". Later, Henry Foote's property at Nashville had to be sold in destitute years after the Civil War. Fortunately, the Foote/Foot home is preserved as "Old Central" on the Vanderbilt University campus in Nashville. When Henry first left Virginia for the deep South he sold Chotank property -- part of the Brenttown grant from James II. Before arriving in Tuscumbia, Alabama, after the sale, he found that his share was short, the family was missing over 1,000 acres of 1687 grant. Oh, by the way, the Crown now owns the former Foote/Foot land at Windsor, England. Clay Hall Farm and Tyle Place Farm, the Foote/Foot lands, are in the Windsor Castle Great Park. The full story is at http://chotank.com/homemap.html

Avon Edward Foote, family historian, Oct 2, 2008