Robert Potter, Sr.

https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Robert_Potter_%285%29
Robert Potter
b.5 Mar 1665/66 Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, United States
d.4 Apr 1758
Family tree▼

Parents and Siblings
(edit)
F. John Potter
1639 - 1694
M. Ruth Fisher
m. 2 Jun 1664
Robert Potter
1665/66 - 1758
Fisher Potter
1667 -
John Potter
1669 - 1710/11
William Potter
1671 -
Samuel Potter
1672 -
Isabel Potter
1674 -
Ruth Potter
1676 -
Edward Potter
1678 -
Content Potter
1680 - Bef 1703
Spouse and Children
(edit)
H. Robert Potter
1665/66 - 1758
Robert Potter
- 1758
Sarah Potter
Spouse and Children
(edit)
H. Robert Potter
1665/66 - 1758
W. Catherine Johnson
- 1748
m. 3 Apr 1729
Robert Potter
1730 - Bef 1785
William Potter
1732 -
Capt. John Potter
1734 - 1811
Add another spouse & children
▼Facts and Events
Name Robert Potter
Gender Male
Birth[1] 5 Mar 1665/66 Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, United States
Marriage
to Unknown
Marriage 3 Apr 1729 Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
to Catherine Johnson
Death? 4 Apr 1758

BIOGRAPHY: A Genealogy of the Potter Family originating in Rhode Island By Rev. Jeremiah Potter Phenix, R. I.: John H. Campbell, Book and Job Printer 1881 - Page 11 We now commence with Robert Potter, son of John Potter, and his wife Ruth (Fisher) Potter, and grand-son of the first Robert Potter mentioned in this work. It appears that he moved to Providence, now Scituate, and there lived the rest of his days. As we find a deed in the Providence records, book 4, page 102, of ____ acres of land in the Westcanaug purchase, for which he paid $?, deed from Daniel Abbot, 1719. This Robert Potter was born March 5th, 1665 or '66. We do not know when he died, but it appears that he was living in 1730, as we find a deed then given to his daughter, Sarah Bennett, wife of Benjamin Bennett, dated October 7th, 1730, giving them thirty acres during their natural lives, then to go to their son, Jonathan Bennett (the copy of said deed the writer now has in his possession). It would appear that his wife was not living, as only his name was attached to the deed. This is all the information we have on him, except that he had a son Robert, who settled in Scituate, and died there in 1758. He probably came there from Warwick with his father. This Robert Potter was great-grand-father to the writer. The writer found in a record book in the hands of Dr. E. M. Snow, superintendent of the board of health of Providence, where Robert Potter of Providence, was married to Catherine Johnson, of Warwick, April 3d, 1729. It would seem that he became acquainted with her before he left Warwick and went back and took her for his wife and lived in Scituate, as I find a deed (to him) from Daniel Abbot to Robert Potter, Jr., dated 1729, of ___ acres of the Wescanaug land for which he paid L30.-Providence Record book, No. 8, page 243. This Robert Potter died April 4th, 1758. His birth and the death of his wife are not know to the writer.

▼References
↑ Warwick Births and Deaths, in Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636–1850: First series, births, marriages and deaths. A family register for the people. (Narragansett Hist. Publ. Co., 1891)
192.
POTTER, Robert, of John and Ruth, [born] Mar. 5, 1666.

Category: Potter in Rhode Island