Frances Potter

Frances Potter (Child) (1610 - 1661) MP

Nicknames:	"Frances Childe", "Frances Childes"
Birthdate:	February 16, 1610
Birthplace:	Lydd, Kent, England, United Kingdom
Death:	Died March 19, 1661 in New Haven, New Haven Colony, (Present Connecticut)

Managed by:	Jose Vicente Alberdi
Last Updated:	December 18, 2012

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Families of Ancient New Haven by Donald Lines Jacobus, pg. 1137, 1459

Arrived in America in 1635 on "Abigail" with her husband and 4 month old son.

Married

The Children of William POTTER and Frances CHILDS? were.

1. JOSEPH, b. Nov. 1635, m. Phebe IVES
2. THOMAS, b. ca. 1637
3. HANNAH,?
4. MARY, bap. Aug. 22, 1641, m. about 1657, Joseph MANSFIELD
5. SARAH, bap. Aug. 22, 1641,but not the twin of Mary, m. 1659, Robert FOOTE; m. 2nd, 1686, Aaron BLAKESLEY/BLACHLEY and removed to Guilford.
6. HOPE, bap. Oct. 3, 1641, m. Feb. 3, 1663, Daniel ROBINSON.
7. REBECKAH, bap Jan 1643, m. Nov. 27, 1667, Thomas ADAMS
8. NATHANIEL bap. Dec. 22, 1644, m. April, 1675, Elizabeth HAWES

Submitted by Joyce Lee Wiggins Kaufman of Dallas, Texas

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1 Shepard, James, The New Haven (Conn.) Potters, 1639 (New England Historic Genealogy Register, (Boston, 1900)).
2 Ancestral File.
3 Shepard, James, The New Haven (Conn.) Potters, 1639 (New England Historic Genealogy Register, (Boston, 1900)), From Savage.
4 Jacobus,, Donald Lines, Families of Ancient New Haven (Genealogical Pub. Co., Baltimore, 1974), Vol. VI, p1459.

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1610	February 16, 1610	Birth of Frances Lydd, Kent, England, United Kingdom
1635	March, 1635 Age 25	Birth of Joseph Potter Sussex, England
	July, 1635 Age 25	immigrated on July 1635 Ship: Abigail
1636	August 10, 1636 Age 26	Marriage of New Haven , New Haven, CT
	August 10, 1636 Age 26	Marriage of Frances to William Potter Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States William married Frances about 1634 in England. (1) Conflict with the LDS date of marriage (Aug. 1636) (5) and birth of first child, Joseph (Nov. 1636). Both are no doubt wrong. Jacobus has no date for marriage, but c1635 for birth of Joseph. Citations 1 Shepard, James, The New Haven (Conn.) Potters, 1639 (New England Historic Genealogy Register, (Boston, 1900)). 5 Ancestral File.
	September 8, 1636 Age 26	Birth of Hannah Meade Probably England
1637	1637 Age 26	Birth of Thomas Potter Rhode Island
1641	August 22, 1641 Age 31	Birth of Sarah Blatchley Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut
	August 22, 1641 Age 31	Birth of Mary Mansfield Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
	October 31, 1641 Age 31	Birth of Hope Robbins New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA