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Facts and Events
| Name[1][2][3] |
William Potter |
| Gender |
Male |
| Christening[1][3] |
28 Aug 1608 |
Lewes, Sussex, EnglandSt. Thomas in the Cliffe |
| Marriage |
Bef 1635 |
to Frances Unknown |
| Emigration[1] |
1635 |
On the Abigail. |
| Residence[5] |
1639 |
New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States |
| Other[5] |
4 Jun 1639 |
New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United StatesSigned Fundamental Agreement. |
| Will[1] |
19 May 1662 |
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| Occupation[1] |
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Husbandman. |
| Death[1][4] |
6 Jun 1662 |
New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United StatesExecuted for bestiality. |
| Estate Inventory[1] |
1 Aug 1662 |
£190 4s. (against which were debts of £29 1s. 5d.), of which £70 was real estate. |
| The Abigail (1635)
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| The Abigail sailed in the summer of 1635.
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| Sailed: | summer 1635 from England under Master H. Hackwell
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| Arrived: | late summer? 1635 at New England
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 William Potter, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
V:507-513.
ORIGIN: Lewes, Sussex.
MIGRATION: 1635 on the Abigail (on 1 July 1635, "husbandman William Potter," aged 27, "uxor Frances Potter," aged 26, and "Joseph Potter," aged 20 weeks, were enrolled at London as passengers for New England on the Abigail [Hotten 97-98]).
FIRST RESIDENCE: Unknown.
REMOVES: New Haven.
OCCUPATION: Husbandman [Hotten 97].
DEATH: Executed at New Haven on 6 June 1662 for bestiality [NHCR 2:440-43; NHTR 1:527-28, 2:1-2; Magnalia 2:405-7; Legal Executions NE 32-33; Godbeer 114-15].
- ↑ Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
3:468.
WILLIAM, Watertown, came prob. in the Abigail from London, 1635, aged 27, with w. Frances, 26, and ch. Joseph, 20 wks. His mo. Hannah had m. bef. they came over, a Beecher, and had Isaac. He a. 1643 rem. prob. to New Haven, there had other childr. and in his will, 1662, names Nathaniel, 22 Dec. 1644; Joseph; Hope, b. 3 Oct. 1641; and Rebecca, bapt. Jan. 1643. Possib. this is the man wh. was execut. Friday, 6 June of that yr. in the story of whose once being art. 3 of Appx. of Thaumaturgus, Magnalia VI. 38, Mather had gr. satisfact. and that he might defy human credulity makes the wonder, that tho. twenty yrs. a mem. of that ch. he had liv. in most infamous crimes no less than fifty yrs. together. The wretched man was perhaps s. of a wid. P. liv. at New Haven 1646. See Rec. I. 247. Hope m. 3 Feb. 1664 Daniel Robinson; and Rebecca m. 27 Nov. 1667, Thomas Adams.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Hatcher, Patricia Law. English Origin of the Potter and Beecher Families of New Haven, Connecticut. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Jan-Apr 2004)
(at 79:32).
William2 Potter, bp 28 Aug. 1608 [St. Thomas in the Cliffe, Lewes, Sussex]; m. say 1633, in England, Frances -----; emigrated to New England.
- ↑ John William Taylor Jr, Richard Robins - Loyalist (:, 1995)
p.3.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Hoadly, Charles J. (Charles Jeremy). Records of the Colony and Plantation of New Haven, from 1638 to 1649: Transcribed and Edited in Accordance with a Resolution of the General Assembly of Connecticut ; with Occasional Notes and an Appendix. (Hartford, Conn.: Case, Tiffany and Company, 1857)
17.
Whereas there was a foundamentall agreemt made in a generall meeting of all the free planters of this towne, on the 4th of the fowerth moneth called June, namely that church members onely shall be free burgesses, and they onely shal chuse among them selues magistrates and officers to ha[ve] the power of transacting all publique ciuill affayers of this plantatiō, of making and repeali[ng] lawes, devideing inheritances, decideing of differences that may arise, and doeing all things and businesses of like nature. Itt was therefore ordered by all the said free planters that all those that hereafter should be receiued as planters into this plantatiō should also submit the the said foundamentall agreemt, and testifie the same byu subscribeing their names vnder the nameds of the aforesaid planters as followeth. … John Potter … Will Potter.
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