Person:George Potter (6)

There were numerous immigrants to colonial Rhode Island named Potter and there may (or may not) have been ties of kinship between some of them. Once upon a time, several Potter immigrants were erroneously identified as children of George and Martha ([-?-]) Potter of London in the research of Vernon and Nola (Steed) Valantine of La Crescenta, California, as submitted to the Ancestral File of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. In 1999, another researcher, Paul Gifford, reviewed the relevant parish registers and discovered that most of the birth records thought to pertain to the immigrant Potter siblings actually had corresponding death records! The origins of the Potter immigrants and their kinship, if any, remain unknown.

In 1638 George Potter was admitted an inhabitant of island of Aquidneck. On 30 April, 1639, three brothers named Potter were admitted as inhabitants & legal subjects of His Majesty, King Charles. George was one of these brothers. George was a signer of the government compact in 1639. Compact read "We whose names are underwritten do acknowledge ourselves the legal subjects of his Majesty King Charles, and in his name do hereby bind ourselves into a civil body politicke, unto his laws according to matters of Justice."

1.   Potter, Charles Edward. Potter Genealogies.
2.   Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island
   155.
3. ↑ England. Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. (FamilySearch, Ancestry.com, Findmypast)
   9 Dec 1618.

   https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JWQB-92X , George Potter; citing ST BRIDE FLEET ST ,LONDON,LONDON,ENGLAND, reference ; FHL microfilm 380,154.