Sarah Potter (Fellows)

Source .from TORREY:

POTTER, John (1652-1718) & Sarah [KIMBALL?/?FELLOWS] (1661-1724); by 1680; Ipswich/N. Brookfield {N. Brookfield Hist. 765; Driver 382; Kimball 41; Fellows 22; Potter (10 pts) 1:1}

Other sources have believed that John Potter actually married Sarah Kimball, daughter of John Kimball and Mary Bradstreet. Thomas Waters, in his Candlewood, An Ancient Neighborhood in Ipswich, claims that Sarah Fellows, daughter of Williams Fellows and Mary Ayres, married a John Rust and was a widow by 1722.

15. SARAH5 FELLOWS (WILLIAM 4, WILLYAM 3, WILLIAM 2 FELLOWE, WILLIAM 1 FELLOWES) was born July 26, 1657 in Ipswich , Mass. She married JOHN POTTER 1677, son of Anthony Potter and Elizabeth Whipple.

      Children of Sarah Fellows and John Potter are:

i. MARY6 POTTER. ii. ELIZABETH POTTER. iii. AARON POTTER.29.iv. SARAH POTTER, b. 1685; d. May 30, 1725, Ipswich , Mass.
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FELLOWS Genealogy prepared by Audrey Vrooman (1972), in the Onondaga Historical Society.

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Knowlton Genealogy NEHGR 86:140-41 seems pretty clear and confirms your ideas about Sarah Fellows. So does the bio of George Marshall Fellows, NEHGR 84:96. "Jean Copple" <lencop@netzone.com>

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Title: New England Marriages Prior to 1700

Author: Clarence Almon Torrey

Publication: Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1997

Torrey calls the marriage to John Potter "possible/probable."

Title: Candlewood, An Ancient Neighborhood in Ipswich

Author: Thomas Franklin Waters

Publication: The Salem Press Co., Salem, MA 1909

According to "Candlewood," pg. 71, she married John Rust and was a widow in 1722.

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Sarah3 Fellows (William2, Willyam1 Fellow) (Source: (1) Hammatt, Abraham, The Hammatt Papers; Early Inhabitants of Ipswich, Massachusetts, 1633-1700, (Originally published in Seven parts, Ipswich, MA, 1880-1899. reprinted Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, Maryland, 1980, 1991.), Page 100.., (2) Waters, T. Frank, Candlewood and Ancient Neighborhoods in Ipswich, (Salem Press, 1909.), Page 71.., (3) "American Genealogist," Genealogical periodical magazine.: Number 67, Vol XVII, No 3, Jan 1941.) was born Jul 26, 1657 in Ipswich, Essex Co., MA (Source: (1) Waters, T. Frank, Candlewood and Ancient Neighborhoods in Ipswich, (Salem Press, 1909.)., (2) Morris, Myrtle M., Joseph and Philena (Elton) Fellows, Their Ancestry and Descendants, (1940), Page 29..). She married John Potter (Source: Sisco, Louis Dow, Fellows, Fallowes, Fellow and Like Names, Fellows Ancestry in New England and Old England, (Tobias A. Wright, Printer and Publisher, New York 1926), Page 22.) Abt. 1677 in Ipswich, Essex Co., MA (Source: Sisco, Louis Dow, Fellows, Fallowes, Fellow and Like Names, Fellows Ancestry in New England and Old England, (Tobias A. Wright, Printer and Publisher, New York 1926), Page 22.), son of Anthony Potter and Elizabeth Whipple. He was born in Ipswich, Essex Co., MA.

Sarah born in Jul 26, 1657, the youngest daughter of William and the only one of his children whose birth has been found in town records. She was a legatee in 1676. She married John Potter in 1677 and was still living in Ipswich in 1723. She had many descendants.

• **Note; George Marshall Fellows lists marriage date as 1686. Frank T Waters has marriage to John Rust, a widow in 1722.***

John Potter subscribed six shillings towards the bigger bell in 1700. His mother, Elizabeth subscribed 3 shillings.

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