Re: Bathsheba Potter
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In reply to:
Bathsheba Potter
Georgie McDougle 4/10/13
According to the Austin genealogy this Bathsheba Potter married Jonathan Austin. The genealogy does not list a marriage date but says that one son was "over 21" in 1800. That was their son Ezra. The next son listed was Jonathan born 30 Jul 1777. If she married Francis Codding it was a brief marriage. I tried finding the name in the 1774 census of RI but came up empty.
The other possibility is that the Austin genealogy is incorrect but at least circumstantially it appears that Jonathan married the Bathsheba of Ezra and Zerviah (Chapman) Potter because they had a son Ezra, daughter Zerviah and daughter Bathsheba.
I am not descended from this Potter line which comes from Robert although I have a tenuous connection if you could call it that. Gideon Casey, my 5th great grandfather, married as his "other" spouse a Mehitable Baker who was supposedly married to Jonathan Austin, son of the same Jonathan Austin that married Bathsheba Potter.
Since I have no Austin connections I have not done a lot with that part of the Casey lineage but I do know that the Early Family of Casey in RI by General Thomas Lincoln Casey has the same info. I did look to see if there are any records in Arnold's VR of RI (I have them for Washington County, not for the entire state)for the children of Jonathan and Bathsheba since they are commonly said to have been born in Exeter but I came up empty. If someone can do a look-up from Arnold's for Providence County you might find Ezra and clan in there because Ezra and Zerviah are said to have been from Scituate. This particular Potter line has gaps, with at least two Potter wives missing between Robert and Ezra.