Not a known child of Robert Potter of Portsmouth

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• Anthony Potter
• Birth: 1627 Warwickshire, England
• Death: Mar. 26, 1690 Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
• Anthony Potter and Elizabeth Whipple were married about 1647 in Ipswich, Mass.
• Anthony Potter and Elizabeth Stone were married about 1652 in Massachusetts.
• Their children born in Ipswich:
  • Edmund Potter born about 1654.
  • Samuel Potter born May 28, 1657.
  • John Potter born December 11, 1658.
  • Elizabeth Potter born about 1661.
  • Lydia Potter born about 1661.
  • Thomas Potter born about 1664.
  • Anthony Potter born about 1667.
• Family links:
• Parents:
• Robert Potter (1606 - 1655)
• Isabella Potter (1607 - 1643)
• Spouses:
• Elizabeth Stone Potter (1629 - 1712)
• Elizabeth Whipple Potter (1627 - 1648)*
• Children:
  • Samuel Potter (1657 - 1714)*
• Note: Presumed burial place Unmarked Grave
• Burial: Old Burying Ground, Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
• Find A Grave Memorial# 124226787
• From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=124226787 _________________
• POTTER, Anthony
• b. 1627
• d. 26 MAR 1690 Ipswich, Essex, Mass.
• Family:
• Marriage: 1651
• Spouse: STONE, Elizabeth
• b. 6 MAR 1627/8 Nayland, Suffolk, England
• d. 10 MAR 1711/2 Ipswich, Essex, Mass.
• Parents:
• Father: STONE, Gregory
• Mother: COOPER, Lydia
• Children:
  • POTTER, Edmond
  • POTTER, Samuel
  • POTTER, Elizabeth
  • POTTER, Anthony
• From: http://www.genealogyofnewengland.com/f_286.htm#30

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Anthony Potter

• Born: 1628 Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA [ according to other references he was born UK and came to Ipswich in 1648
• Died: 26 Mar 1690 Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
• Spouse 2: Elizabeth Stone Marriage: 1652 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA

Children Sex Birth

Kimball Potter M

John Potter M 1652 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA

Edmund Potter M 1654 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA

Samuel Potter M 1657 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA

Lydia Potter F 1661 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA

Elizabeth Potter F 1661 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA

Thomas Potter M 1664 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA

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• Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs ..., Volume 4 edited by William Richard Cutter
• http://books.google.com/books?id=nn1yyHiYJFYC&pg=PA1545&lpg=PA1545&...
• Pg.1816
• Anthony Potter, the immigrant ancestor, was born in England in 1828. ....
• Pg. 1817
• .... He married Elizabeth Whipple, born 1629, died 1712, daughter of Deacon John and Sarah Whipple. the gravestone of his widow in inscribed: "Here lys burried Mrs. Elizabeth Potter, who died March ye 10, 1712, aged 83 years.
  • "A tender Mother,
  • A prudent wife
  • At God's command
  • Resigned her life."
• Children: 1. John, born at Ipswich, 1652; died September 9, 1718; married Sarah Kimball. 2. Edmund, mentioned below. 3. Samuel .... etc.
• (II) Edmund Potter, son of Anthony Potter (1), was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1654. He was a soldier in King Philip's war at Narragansett. He was a commoner of Ipswich in 1707. He married first, Abigail Wells, born 1662, daughter of Nathaniel and Lydia Wells. He married second, 1701, Joanna (Tuttle) Pickard, daughter of Simeon and Sarah Tuttle. .... Children of Edmund and Abigail Potter: 1. Elizabeth, born at Ipswich, April 14, 1681; died young. 2. Edmund, born June 14, 1683; died March 29, 1735; married January 14, 1703. Mercy Quarles and second Elizabeth Walker, widow of Richard. 3. Nathaniel, born about 1686; mentioned below. 4. Elizabeth, born November 17, 1694; died 1716; married, Nathaniel Dane.
• (III) Nathaniel Potter, .... etc. ____________
• New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the ..., Volume 1 edited by William Richard Cutter
• https://books.google.com/books?id=1tAUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA209&lpg=PA209&d...
• Pg.209
• Anthony Potter, the immigrant ancestor, was born in England in 1628, died in 1690. He settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts, .... Anthony Potter married Elizabeth Whipple, born 1629, died 1712, daughter of Deacon John and Sarah Whipple. Children: John, born at Ipswich in 1652; Edmund, born at ipswich in 1654; Samuel, mentioned below; Thomas, died 1745; Anthony, died 1756; Elizabeth, born about 1661, died before 1730; Lydia.
• (II) Samuel Potter, son of Anthony Potter, was born at Ipswich, Massachusets, died in 1714. He married (first) Joanna Wood, born in 1661, daughter of isaiah and Mercy (Thompson) Wood. He married (second) April 18, 1692, Ruth Dunton. He married (third) December 4, 1705, Sarah Burnett, widow of Robert Burnett. Children by first wife, .... etc. ________________________
• History and genealogy of "Elder" John Whipple of Ipswich, Massachusetts : his English ancestors and American descendants by Whipple, Blaine
• https://archive.org/details/historygenealogyo00whip
• https://archive.org/stream/historygenealogyo00whip#page/n64/mode/1up
• Pg.53
• .... etc.
• John1 Whipple (MatthewA) baptized 29 August 1596 in Bocking, Essex County, England; died 30 June 1669 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts. He married (1) Susanna (probably Stacey) abt 1620 at Bocking; died after 13 July 1661 in Ipswich, Massachusetts (2) the widow Janet (Jennet) Dickinson after 1662 at Ipswich. A clothier, John appears to have emmigrated in 1638. He farmed and engaged in several business ventures, was an eight term delegate to the general court, Ipswich clerk of writs for several terms, deacon and ruling elder of the Ipswich church.
• Children of John and Susannah Whipple, all but Sarah born in Bocking:
  • i. .... etc.
  • iv. Elizabeth, born 1 November 1627; died 15 December 1648 without issue; married Anthony Potter in Ipswich.
  • v. .... etc. _____________
• A partial list of the descendents of Matthew Whipple, the elder, of Bocking, Essex County, England Vol.II by Whipple, Henry Burdette
• https://archive.org/details/partiallistofdes00whip
• https://archive.org/stream/partiallistofdes00whip#page/1/mode/1up
• 2. JOHN WHIPPLE (Matthew-1), known as "Elder John Whipple," baptized August 29, 1596, in Bocking, England; died June 30, 1669, in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
• Married first, 1620 SUSANNA (STACY or CLARK) who was living July 13, 1661. Married second, after 1662, JANET ( ___ ) DICKINSON, who died in Ipswich January 30, 1686/87, widow of Thomas Dickinson of Rowley. See Volume I for a full account of Elder John and his brother, Deacon Matthew.
• Children born in Bocking, England, and Ipswich, Mass.:
  • 3. .... etc.
  • Elizabeth, born November 1, 1627; married Anthony Potter about 1647; died December 15, 1648, without issue. Potter married in 1652, Elizabeth Stone, daughter of Deacon Gregory Stone, by whom he had seven children.
  • .... etc. _______________
• The Presentation of the Portraits of General Whipple, Signer of the ... By Grand Army of the Republic. Storer Post (Portsmouth, N.H.), Joseph Foster
• https://books.google.com/books?id=yWkihZgpoU0C&pg=PA30&lpg=PA30&dq=...
• https://archive.org/details/presentationofpo00gran
• https://archive.org/stream/presentationofpo00gran#page/29/mode/1up
• .... etc.
• Elder John Whipple, great great grand-father of General William Whipple, "resided at the Hamlet [part of Ipswich, now Hamilton, Mass.], and was Deacon and Ruling Eider of the First Church. [Edward Johnson (in his" Wonder-Working Providence", London, 1654, reprinted in 'Massachusetts Historical Collections", 2d series) "mentions Mr. Whipple" (Vol. IV. , page 25), "as 'one, whose godly sincerity is much approved.' " — "Felt's Ipswich," page 159.] He and his brotber Matthew sustained various offices of trust. He was born about 1605 [or earlier — see above] "
• .... etc.
• "He had two wives, [Sarah (wife of John Whipple) who died June 14, 1658, stated in "Felts Ipswich" page 159, to have been the wife of Elder John Whipple, was probably the wife of his nephew John, — "Whipple Genealogy", pp. 4, 13] his children were by his first wife. His will is dated May 10, 1669 ; his son Cornet John, Executor."
• "He left a widow Jennett (first husband Thomas Dickinson) whose will is on record at the Probate Office, Suffolk, Vol. 11, page 85, and children John, Susannah, relict of Lionel Worth, Mary Stone, Sarah Goodhue, and Anthony Potter, son-in-law." ["Savage" adds a daughter "Elizabeth", who, he says "married perhaps Anthony Potter."]
• .... etc. _______________________
• THEY HAVE GOTTEN THE SON'S JOHN OF BROTHER'S MATHEW & JOHN WHIPPLE CONFUSED
• Memoranda relating to the Lane, Reyner and Whipple families, Yorkshire and Massachusetts by Whitmore, W. H. (William Henry),
• https://archive.org/details/memorandarelati00whitgoog
• https://archive.org/stream/memorandarelati00whitgoog#page/n45/mode/1up
• Pg.21
• Mathew Whipple d. Sept. 28, 1647. = Rose. ch: John (m. Mary Reyner) Whipple
  • John, d. Nov. 22, 1695. = Mary (dau. of Mary & Humphrey Reyner) Whipple, had issue
• John, d. June 30, 1669. = Sarah, d. June 14, 1658. ; ch: Capt. John (m. Elizabeth Woodman), Susanna (m. Lionel Worth), Mary (m. __ Stone), Sarah (m. Joseph Goodhue), dau. (m. Anthony Potter) Whipple
  • Capt. John d. Aug. 10, 1683. = Elizabeth Woodman; m. May 5, 1659. ; ch: Susanna (m. John Lane), Mathew, John, Joseph Whipple
    • Susanna; m. March 20, 1680. = John (son of Anna Reyner & Job Lane) _______________

Wives of Anthony Potter (1627-1689) Anthony Potter, born about 1627 in England, possible son of Robert, came to the Massachusetts Colony as one of the first settlers. I trace my line back to Anthony (as dubbed Branch 1 in Potter Profiles). Anthony married twice, both times to an Elizabeth, and these two women have been scrambled more than once.

Anthony did marry first to Elizabeth Whipple, daughter of John and Sarah Whipple. She died young (perhaps in childbirth??) and Anthony married second to Elizabeth Stone, daughter of Gregory and Lydia (Cooper) Stone of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Quoting from a letter to me from Barbee Hodgkins, 1986, as published in Vol. 7 of Potter Profiles, Barbee wrote: "About the wives of Anthony Potter. I fell into the same trap others have not been able to avoid in thinking that the mother of Anthony's children was Elizabeth Whipple. She died without producing any children. In re-reading the will of John Whipple carefully, that document offers the clue in one word. John Whipple describes Anthony Potter as "my sometime son-in-law." In the Deacon Stone Genealogy, both wives are mentioned, clearly stating that Elizabeth Whipple died in 1648 but left no children and that the mother of all Anthony's children was Elizabeth Stone."

I'm positive that a careful combing through the pages of Potter Profiles would find many submissions giving this same documenting information. Let's not any of us perpetuate this error!

http://potterprofiles.blogspot.com/2013/06/wives-of-anthony-potter-...

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• Reference: FamilySearch Family Tree - SmartCopy: Feb 27 2016, 16:04:10 UTC

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Jeremiah Potter's book from 1881 references Anthony Potter as his first child on Page 6 with no other reference in the book.

In the introduction to the Potter Genealogies, the author states that,

"It has also been stated by some historians that Anthony Potter, of Ipswich, was a son of the Robert Potter, of Lynn, who subsequently settled in Portsmouth, RI. There does not seem to be any records to make this certain. The name Anthony was a family name, and suggests that his mother may have been an Anthony, as the families of Anthony and Potter were connected."

Source:

• Genealogies of the Potter families and their descendents in America to the present generation with historical and biographical sketches. POTTER, Charles Edward (ed) Published by Privately published, Boston, 1888

Links:

• Robert Potter Find A Grave Memorial# 124227492
• Robert Potter Geni.com
• Isabella Potter Find A Grave Memorial# 124227582
• Isabel Potter (Anthony) Geni.com
• Anthony Potter Find A Grave Memorial# 124226787
• Anthony Potter Geni.com

Suggested by William Irwin (#48154225) Thank you Erica Howton for your research

GEDCOM Note

Ancestral File Number:<AFN> 8QHW-PN

Order of Founders and Patriots of America (OFPA), Description for Anthony Potter: Born ca 1627 Ipswich (MA) 1648. D Ipswich by 26 Mar 1690. Descendants of Gregory Stone 1918; Matthew Whipple 2:1 n 1969. Register 109:307 (line); Rev C.N. Sinnett, "Alexander Potter & descendants" typescript in WRHS. Strangely calls Anthony, Alexander. Via "Founders of Early American Families: Emigrants from Europe, 1607-1657," Meredith Bright Colket, 1975; revision 1985, OFPA was publisher.

No proof of his father. Robert Potter of RI is unlikely because of time lines (and no docs, too bad as there is a royalty connection here). One doc states "Humphrey" Potter of Coventry as a possibility, but that too is unproven. Best to keep the persona empty for now.

First wife Elizabeth Whipple died without children, or so it appears. Although Anthony Potter remained in contact with his father-in-law Deacon John Whipple after Elizabeth Whipple's death, it is doubtful that any of Anthony's children are with Elizabeth Whipple based on marriage records.