Gen. Dict. of the 1st Settlers of New Eng: Potter
Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England
James Savage
1860-1862 reprint Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc 1994
Library of Congress Card Catalogue Number 65-18541
ISBN 0-8063-0962-8
Vol III pp 466-468
Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England
James Savage
1860-1862 reprint Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc 1994
Library of Congress Card Catalogue Number 65-18541
ISBN 0-8063-0962-8
Vol III pp 466-468
POTTER, ABEL, m. 16 Nov. 1699, Rachel, youngest d. of John Warner, rem. to to Warwick, in his will of 7692, names eldest s. George, youngest Stephen, and other ch. Abel, Benjamin, and Mary. ANOTHNY, Ipswich 1648, m. Eliz. prob. d. of deac. John WHipple of the same, had sev. ch. wh. with w. outlive. him, as John, Edmund, Eliz. Kimball, Lydia Putnam, prob. w. of Jonathan, beside Thomas abd Abthony. GEORGE, Newport 1638. HUMFREY, Salem, had only ch. Ann, who m. 10 Jan 1656, Anthony Needham. ICHABOD, Portsmouth, RI perhaps s. of Robert, the friend of Groton, m. Martha, d. of Thomas hazard. INDIGO, or perhaps INIGO, Charlestown, m. 25 Aug 1663, Mary Lawrence, d. of John of Groton, who may have liv. in some other town, for without find. adm. of hims. or w. to the ch. there, I see that his ch. by w. Mary, viz. Mary, John, Richard, Indigo, Margaret, were all bapt. at C. 24 Apr 1681, and Margaret, again, 9 July 1682. JOHN was a grantee of Sudbury in 1640, but I ask in vain, where he resid. or any thing else a. him. JOHN, New Haven, perhaps 1639, had Joh, and Samuel, bapt (not 7, as in Geneal. Reg. IX 362, but) prob. 17 Oct 1641; perhaps d. bef. 1643, as a wid. P. with fam. of two is that yr. ment. She may also have m. again, for Eliz Rose, in 1677, by her will ment. her s. John and Samuel P. beside sev. ds. Coffin made the surname Polter. JOHN, New Haven, s. of the preced. m. 1661, Hannah, d. of John Cooper, had Hannah, b. 1661, d. soon; John, June 1663, d. soon; Hannah, again, 26 June 1665; John, again, 4 Aug 1667; Samuel, July 1669, d. soon; one, without name, Feb 1671, d. soon; Mary, Mar 1673, d. soon; and Samuel, again, 2 Jan 1675; and by sec w. m. 29 Dec 1679, Mary, wid. of Ralph Russell, had Abigail, was serg. and propr. 1685, and d. Dec 1707, aged 70. JOHN, Waerwick, was s. of Robert, Freem. 1660; m. 2 June 1664, Ruth, d. of Edward Fisher of Portsmouth, RI had Robert, b. 5 Mar 1666; Fisher, 12 July 1667; John, 21 Nov 1668; William, 32 May 1671; Samuel, 10 Jan 1673; Isabel, 17 Oct 1674, wh. bec. sec. w. of William Burton, and had long surv. him; Ruth, 29 Nov 1676; and Content, 2 Oct 1680. JOSEPH, New Haven, prpb. s. of William, was recom. 1668 for freem. but d. 17 Aug next yr. JUDAH, Concord, s. prob. or Luke, freem. 1690. LUKE, Concord, freem. 13 Mar 1639, by w. Mary, wh. d. 8 Apr 1644, had Eunice, b. 2 Mar 1641; and Rebecca, 2 Aug 1643, d. at 2 mos. He m. 19 Oct 1644, Mary, d. of Walter Edmands, had Luke, 30 May 1646, d. at 15 yrs.; Samuel, 1 Apr 1648; Dorothy, 9 Apr 1650; Judah,; Frances, wh. d. 17 Nov 1661; and Bethia, 4 Nov 1659; was deac. and d. 13 Oct 1697. Eunice m. 4 Oct 1660, John Frye of Ando-
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ver. MATTHIAS, Braintree 1661. NATHANIEL, Portsmouth, s. of that wid. Dorothy wh. m. John Albro, d. 20 Oct 1704. NICHOLAS, Lynn, 1651, much engag. in the iron works, rem. to Salem, 1660, there call. a bricklayer, had Hannah, bapt. 25 Mar 1661; and Mary, 15 Nov 1663; Samuel, b. 9 Jan 1665; d. at one yr.; Bethia, 23 May 1668; Samuel, 22 Apr. 1669; Lydia, again, 16 July 1670, d. in Apr foll.; Benjamin, 6 Nov 1671; and Joseph, 9 June 1673. His w. Mary d. soon aft. and he d. 18 Oct 1677. His inv. was tak. 25, and his 2ill made 10 of that mo. That he had ch. by two ws. is infer. and that sec. w. Mary was d. of Joh Gedny appears in Essex Inst. II 275; but for the bapt. name of the mo. of the ch. Robert, Eliz. Sarah, wh. were prob. b. at Lynn by first w. certainty is unattain. tho. from the transcr. opf the will it may seem, that ea. w. brot. both Samuel and Benjamin. A flickering of light comes from p. 301, indicat. that the first w. was Alice, wh. d. 26 Jan 1659. ROBERT, Lynn 1630, freem. 3 Sept 1634, rem. to Newport, where in July 1638, he was adm. an inhab. and in 1641 unit. with Gorton in settlem. of Shaomet, wh. they call. Warwick, and two yrs. later was seized with the whole comp. and brot. prisoner to Boston, where the governm. setenc. them to be conf. in various places, enjoin. them not to preach theit monstr. absurd doctr. on pain of death. Soon, however, as sympathy for such suffer. was unavoidab. excit. they all were banish. and he went to Eng. and obt. justice by restorat. to their est. He kept an inn at W. in 1649, and d. in the autumn of 1655, or betw. that and the spring foll. leav. s. John, b. a. 1639, and ds. Deliverance, w. of James Greene; Eliz. wh. m. Richard Harcutt of the same; beside wid. Sarah, not. mo. of either if the ch. wh. bec. w. 19 Feb 1657 of John Sanford, the sch.-master of Boston. Of his first w. the name is not kn. but Gorton in his narrat. of the invasion and assault by the Mass. forces upon the new settlem. of W. tells that she d. at that time, perhaps of treptidat. ROBERT, Roxbury 1634, on join. the ch. had w. Isabel, of neither of wh. do I find any other ment. in rec. of town orch. but that she was bur. 17Jan 1654; yet in Boston ch. he had his d. Deliverance bapt. 5 Mar 1637, and in that rec. of d. is error, no doubt, of Robert for William. Prob. he rem. ROBERT, Lynn, perhaps s. of the first Robert, b. in Eng. had Samuel, b. 28 May 1657; and his w. whose name is not giv. must have d. soon afrter; for he m. 25 Jan 1660, Ruth Driver, perhaps d. of Robert the first, had Robert, b. 18 Mar 1661; Nathaniel, 14 Apr 1663; John, 13 Sept 1665; Eliz 9 Feb 1668, d. soon; Eliz. again, 15 Aug 1670; Ruth, 27 Feb 1674; Joseph, 25 Dec 1676; Benjamin, 11 Apr 1680; and Samuel, 8 May 1682.
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ROBERT, Lynn, s. of the preced. m. 9 Jan 1682, Martha Hall, had Martha, b. 21 June 1685, was freem. 1691. THOMAS, Portsmouth, RI br. perhaps of the preced. m. 20 Jan 1687, Susanna, d. of John Tripp, had Susannah, b. 28 June 1688; Sarah, 25 July 1690; and Ichabod, 23 Sept 1692. VINCENT, Boston, came in the Elizabeth and Ann from London, 1635, aged 21, was next yr. a soldier at the castle [Winth. II 346]; wenty home in 1639, in the same sh. with John Josselyn, wh. ment. p. 30, that he was afterwards question. for a Regicide. He was prob. one of the madcap millerians with Venner of Salem, but not of sufficient importance to be put to death. WILLIAM, Watertown, came prob. in the Abigail form London, 1635, aged 27, with w. France, 26, and ch. Joseph, 20 wks. His mo. Hannah had m. bef. they came over, a Beecher, and had Isaac. He a. 1643 rem. prob. to Now Haven, there had other childr. and in his will, 1662, names Nathaniel, Joseph, Hope, and Rebecca. Possib., but not prob. this is is the man wh. was execut. Friday, 6 June of that yr. in the story of whose offence, being art. 3 of Appx. of Thaumaturgus, magnalia VI 38, Mather had gr. satisfact. and that he might defy human credulity makes the wonder, that tho. twenty yrs. of mem. of that ch. he had liv. in most infamous crimes no less than fifty yrs. together. The wretched man was perhaps s. of a wid. P. liv. at New Haven 1646. See Rec. I 247. WILLIAM, Braintree, came perhaps in the Increase form London, 1635, aged 25, one of the early mem. of that ch. 17 Sept 1639, freem. 13 May 1640, rem. to Roxbury, m. 2 June 1646, Judith Graves, wid. of John. He made his will 14 Jan 1654, of wh. Geneal. Reg. V 301, has abstr. in wh. he names no ch. but Hannah Graves, d. of his w. gives to the Rev. elders of Braintree, Thompson and Flint, £10 ea. br.'s John's and George's childr. sis. Jane's and Ann's, but all apparently in Eng. also to the sch. in R. and the coll. in Cambridge; and three days aft. was bur. tho. the town rec. calls him Robert. His wid. Judith m. 13 Dec foll. Samuel Finch. WILLIAM, New Haven, had Mary, and Sarah, prob. not tw. bapt. 22 Aug 1641; Hope 3 Oct 1647; Rebecca, 1643; and Nathaniel, 22 Dec 1644. Eight of this name, had, in 1834, been gr. at Yale, three at Harv. and nine at other NE coll.
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