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8192. Nathaniel Potter
(117) was born on Oct 7 1622 in England. He immigrated in 1638 to
Portsmouth, RI.(17)
According to town records, on April 30 1639 he and 28 others signed the following compact:
'We whose names are underwritten do acknowledge ourselves the
legal subjects of His Majesty King Charles, and in his name do hereby bind
ourselves into a civil body politic, unto his laws according to matters of justice'
He died before 1644.(118)
From Representative Men and Old Families:
"The Potter's of Rhode Island, as a family, are as old the Colonies
out of which came the commenwealth, while the origen of the family is lost in
the twilight of mediaeval England. Its common descent is traced with the Earls
of Leicester. Here in this country the family history covers a period of 2 and
one-half centuries and more, and since the sailing from the mother country of
the forerunner of the family in 1634, who with his associates gave to the settlement
of Warwick Rhode Island its name men of its successive generations have been
conspicuous in commercial, legilative, and professional life."
...
"Nathaniel Potter of Portsmouth, R.I., was admitted an inhabitant of the
island of Aquidneck in 1638, and was on of the 29 signers of the compact for
government in 1639. His wife's name was Dorothy. He died in 1644 and she in
1696. Their children were: Nathaniel born in 1637; and Ichabod."
There is a Potter family rumor about an ancester
having been a regicide.
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8193. Dorothy Wilbore (Wilbur?)
(57)(17)
(94) was born in 1616 or 1617 in Portsmouth, RI.
(57)(17) Potter Family gives
date of birth as 1617 and no location of birth.
Ellibee gives date of birth as 1616 or 1617 and location as Portsmouth. She
died on Feb 19 1696 in Portsmouth, RI.(57)
(17)(119)
Ellibee gives month and day. |
4096 i.
Ichabod Potter.
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