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    Person Info
  • Name: Robert POTTER
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: Coventry, England b
  • Death: Abt 1656 d


  • Parents:

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Deliverance POTTER
  2. Elizabeth POTTER
  3. Anthony POTTER Birth: 1628 in England Death: Abt 1689 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
  4. John POTTER Birth: Abt 1639 in Newport, Massachusetts

Marriage:
Bibliography
  1. Bouton, N., Hemoir of the Hon. Chandler Eastman Potter, NEHGR v23 (Jan 1869) p61. Available at http://americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-and-genealogical-register/image Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Bouton Potter v23p61].
  2. Savage, James, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, showing three generations of those who came before May 1692, on the basis of Farmer's Register. Boston, MA: Little Brown & Co, 1860. Available at http://archive.org/details/genealogicaldic01savarich. Reprinted Baltimore, MD, Genealogical Published Co, 1965. Scanned and corrected by Robert Kraft, 1994, and available at http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Sav-age [A-Z][A-Z]* [A-Z][a-z]*].
  3. Torrey, Clarence Almon, New England Marriages prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1987. M-LH 974Tor Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Torrey NE<1700 p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
place:
[Ref: Bouton Potter v23p61]
Sources for death Information
date:
autumn 1655 or between then and spring following [Ref: Sav-age POTTER Robert]
Sources with Information about marriage to (Unk) (POTTER)
date:
first marriage of Robert [Ref: Sav-age POTTER Robert],
names:
Robert POTTER & unk first wife [Ref: Bouton Potter v23p61, Sav-age POTTER Robert],
child:
[Ref: Sav-age POTTER Robert]
Sources with Information about marriage to Sarah (POTTER)
date:
after 1643 [Ref: Torrey NE<1700 p597]
second or later marriage of Robert [Ref: Sav-age POTTER Robert],
names:
Robert POTTER & Sarah ___ [Ref: Sav-age POTTER Robert, Torrey NE<1700 p597]
Research Notes:
immigrated from city of Coventry, England [Ref: Bouton Potter v23p61]

1630: of Lynn [Ref: Bouton Potter v23p61]

Sep 3 1634: freeman of Lynn [Ref: Sav-age POTTER Robert]

moved to Newport, where in Jul 1638 he was adm. an inhabitant, and in 1641 united with Gorton in settlement of Shaomet, which they called Warwick, and two years later was seized with the whole company and brought prisoner to Boston, where the government sentenced them to be confined in various places, enjoining them not to preach their monstrus absurd doctrine on pain of death. Soon, however, as sympathy for such sufferng was unavoidable excit. they all were banished and he went to England and obtained justice by restoration to their estates. [Ref: Sav-age POTTER Robert]

1649: kept an inn at Warwick [Ref: Sav-age POTTER Robert]



Pedigree of Robert POTTER
Robert POTTER



Descendants of Robert POTTER
1. Robert POTTER m1. (Unk) (POTTER) m2. Sarah (POTTER)
m. (Unk) (POTTER)
m. Sarah (POTTER)

2nd generation

4. Anthony POTTER m1. Elizabeth WHIPPLE m2. Elizabeth STONE
m. Elizabeth WHIPPLE father: John Elder WHIPPLE mother: Susanna CLARKE
m. Elizabeth STONE father: Gregory Deacon STONE mother: Lydia (COOPER)

3rd generation

6. John POTTER m. Sarah KIMBALL
m. Sarah KIMBALL father: John KIMBALL mother: Mary BRADSTREET
8. Samuel POTTER m1. Joanna WOOD m2. Ruth DUNTON m3. Sarah CHILSON
m. Joanna WOOD father: Isaiah WOOD mother: Mercy THOMPSON
m. Ruth DUNTON
m. Sarah CHILSON father: John CHILSON mother: Sarah JENKS
11. Thomas POTTER m. Mary KIMBALL
m. Mary KIMBALL father: Caleb KIMBALL mother: Anne HAZELTINE

4th generation

27. Lydia POTTER m1. Thomas HOWLETT m2. Arthur BROWN
m. Thomas HOWLETT father: John HOWLETT mother: Bershabah HOYTE
m. Arthur BROWN
29. Mary POTTER m. Nathaniel FULLER
m. Nathaniel FULLER father: James FULLER mother: Mary RINDGE

5th generation

35. Alice HOWLET m. Jedediah PEABODY
m. Jedediah PEABODY father: John PEABODY mother: Mary CHADWICK
39. Daniel FULLER m. Katherine PINDAR
m. Katherine PINDAR
40. Nathaniel FULLER m1. Sarah LEATHERLAND m2. Mary HOLLAND
m. Sarah LEATHERLAND
m. Mary HOLLAND