Person Info
- Name: Robert POTTER
- Sex: M
- Birth: Coventry, England b
- Death: Abt 1656 d
Parents:
Family:
Marriage:
Children:
- Deliverance POTTER
- Elizabeth POTTER
- Anthony POTTER Birth: 1628 in England
Death: Abt 1689 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
- John POTTER Birth: Abt 1639 in Newport, Massachusetts
Marriage:
Bibliography
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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].
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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]*].
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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]
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