Joseph Potter

Joseph Potter

• BIRTH: 1701 - Union, Union County, New Jersey, USA
• DEATH: 4 Jun 1774 (aged 72–73) - Union, Union County, New Jersey, USA
• BURIAL: Connecticut Farms Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Union, Union County, New Jersey, USA
• Parents: Deacon Samuel Potter (1671-1756) and Mary
• Wife: 1) Elizabeth Woodruff 2) Sarah

Family

From Descendants of Deacon Samuel Potter (1671-1756), Connecticut Farms (now Union), NJ. By Helen Potter Alleman (1975) < GoogleBooks >

From Family records, or, Genealogies of the first settlers of Passaic Valley and vicinity above Chatham, with their ancestors and descendants as far as can now be ascertained, by Littell, John (Publication date 1851) page 333 < Archive.Org >

Note: the daughter Hannah seems to be same as Sarah Wade, wife of John Wade as also named in North American Family Histories - the Wade Family. John Wade and Sarah had five children: Eli Wade 1754 -1802, Rachel Wade, Jane Wade, Lois Wade who m. a Mr Bockhorn, Lois d 1836 in Springfield and Mathias Wade.

Will

Will Abstract of: 1773, July 14. Potter, Joseph, of Borough of Elizabeth, Essex Co. New Jersey:

• Sons, John and Matthias, plantation where I live; also my land at Green River.
• Son, Mathias, my part of the old Bound Creek lot, and the - 1/2 of the three corner lot; also a meadow by the Little Creek.
• Son, John, the rest of my meadow.
• Sons, John and Matthias, rest of my lands in East and West Jersey.
• Daughter, Hannah Wade, £21.
• Daughter, Elizabeth Woodruff, £30.
• Granddaughter, Mary Hallack, £15.
• To Eli Wade, £5.
• Executors—sons, John and Matthias.
• Witnesses—Aaron Wade, Jotham Wade, John Ogden.
• Proved June 10, 1774. 1774, June 14. Inventory, made by John Lum and James Carpenter. Lib. L, p. 195. [1]

References

1. Family records, or, Genealogies of the first settlers of Passaic Valley and vicinity above Chatham, with their ancestors and descendants as far as can now be ascertained, by Littell, John (Publication date 1851) page 333< Archive.Org >
2. Joseph Potter in the New Jersey, U.S., Abstract of Wills, 1670-1817 Calendar of Wills - 1771-1780, page 401. < AncestrySharing > Name Joseph Potter Residence Date 1773 Residence Place New Jersey, USA Death Place Elizabeth, Essex Will Date 14 Jul 1773 Probate Date 10 Jun 1774. sons, John, Matthias; daughters Hannah Wade, Elizabeth Woodruff. Granddaughter Mary Hallack. Also available as Page 401 NJ Will abstracts https://ia802205.us.archive.org/15/items/calendarofnewjer06newj/cal...
3. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8865291/joseph-potter: accessed 18 April 2023), memorial page for Joseph Potter (1701–4 Jun 1774), Find a Grave Memorial ID 8865291, citing Connecticut Farms Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Union, Union County, New Jersey, USA; Maintained by R Schuerer (contributor 46794628).
4. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8865411/sarah-potter: accessed 18 April 2023), memorial page for Sarah Woodruff Potter (1699–5 Dec 1774), Find a Grave Memorial ID 8865411, citing Connecticut Farms Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Union, Union County, New Jersey, USA; Maintained by R Schuerer (contributor 46794628). shows his widow as Sarah.
5. The Wade genealogy : being some account of the origin of the name, and of the lost folkstory of the … Source Information … Ancestry.com. North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. < AncestrySharing > 1012. John Wade, Jr. (son of John), born about 1720; died 1767-1773. Married Sarah (daughter of Jos. and Elizabeth [Woodruff] Potter) about 1750.
6. https://gw.geneanet.org/sunnemjohnson?lang=en&n=potter&oc=1&p=joseph shows parents as Samuel “Deacon” Potter & Mary Langstaff (1678-1708)
7. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Potter-4718 Shows parents as Ephraim Potter and Sarah Brown of Shrewsbury. He was not their son Joseph.
8. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LJT9-Z44
9. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Potter-1113 notes
   1. Note: A Profile was created 21 July 2021 for Samuel's son, Samuel "Deacon" Potter [POTTER-12413]. His son, Joseph, is extensively documented in: Alleman, Hellen Potter, Descendants of Deacon Samuel Potter (1671-1756), Connecticut Farms (now Union) NJ, Harmony NJ, Harmony Press, 1975. Joseph was an executor of his father's will. (in copyright - search at < GoogleBooks > and at Hathitrust.