Bacheler Family Tree » Robert Potter of Roxbury (1608-1653)

Persönliche Daten Robert Potter of Roxbury 

• Er wurde geboren am 17. Januar 1608Coventry
  England.
• Er wurde getauft am 17. Januar 1608 in Clerkenwell, St. James, Middlesex, England.
• Fetauft (im Alter von 8 Jahren oder später) von der Priestertumsvollmacht der HLT-Kirche am 25. Juni 1963.
• Alternative: Fetauft (im Alter von 8 Jahren oder später) von der Priestertumsvollmacht der HLT-Kirche am 25. Juni 1963.
• Alternative: Fetauft (im Alter von 8 Jahren oder später) von der Priestertumsvollmacht der HLT-Kirche am 25. Juni 1963.
• Alternative: Fetauft (im Alter von 8 Jahren oder später) von der Priestertumsvollmacht der HLT-Kirche am 25. Juni 1963.
• Alternative: Fetauft (im Alter von 8 Jahren oder später) von der Priestertumsvollmacht der HLT-Kirche am 16. August 1997.
• Beruf: Came to Lynn, MA in 1634 as an indentured servant.
• Wohnhaft im Jahr 1642: Warwick.
• Er ist verstorben am 17. Juni 1653, er war 45 Jahre altRoxbury
  Massachusetts Bay Colony.
• Ein Kind von George Potter und Martha Unknown
• Diese Information wurde zuletzt aktualisiert am 21. November 2017.

Familie von Robert Potter of Roxbury

Er ist verheiratet mit Isabel Anthony.

Sie haben geheiratet im Jahr 1630, er war 21 Jahre altPlymouth Colony (Present Massachusetts) (Present USA).

Kind(er):

1. Thomas Potter  1637-1703 

Notizen bei Robert Potter of Roxbury

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According to Ancestral File, he was born in 1610, but was christened 15 September 1606. Birthplace for the 1610 date is Coventry, England. Place for the Baptismal date is Newport-Pagnell, Bucks County, England. He has a second marriage date of 'after 1643', but no wife's name is mentioned.
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Information from: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbfriedlander/hawxhurst.html

Potter Family

1. ROBERT1 POTTER came to America in 1634, on the same ship as the Reverend Nathaniel Ward, afterwards minister of Ipswich, who said that during the voyage he acted with " so much honesty and godliness as gained my good opinion and affection towards him." (Trask) He married in England or very soon after arrival, ISABELL ANTHONY, thought by some to have been the daughter of John and Susanna Anthony. They settled in Roxbury, where he and his wife are noted in the church records. Because he espoused the views of Anne Hutchinson, that men and women can seek their salvation without the need of ministers, he was banished from Massachusetts and took refuge in Rhode Island in 1638. He became friends with Samuel Gorton, and with him and ten others purchased the land that was called Shawomett and later would be called Warwick. A book by Charles Potter Genealogies of Potter Families says "Gorton, Potter and their associates seem to have been religious agitators," and that Gorton was " the great religious disturber." This is an understatement.

NOTE: The following brief history of SAMUEL GORTON is included because he had such a great influence on several of our ancestors, and he is not generally known.

Gorton was difficult; he did not even get along with the patient Roger Williams. Winthrop says in his Journal "those of Providence, being all anabaptists were divided in judgement; some were only against baptizing infants; others denied all magistracy and churches, of which Gorton, who had lately been whipped at Aquiday, was their instructor and captain.." Winthrop goes on to describe what happened to him (Winthrop, 2:137)

September 1643. Upon the complaint of the English at Patuxet near Providence, who had submitted to our jurisdiction, and the two Indian sachems there, of the continual injuries offered them by Gorton and his company, the general court sent for them , by letter only, not in way of command, to come answer the complaints, and sent them, letters of safe conduct. But they answered our messengers disdainfully, refused ro come, but sent two letters full of blasphemy against the churches and magistracy...so having sent three times we determined to proceed with them by force (They sent Commissioners with a sufficient armed guard) They had put themselves all into one house which they had made musketproof. (Cites 5 reasons for not accepting arbitration). 1) that they would never offer us any terms of peace before we had sent our soldiers..., 3) they were no state but a few fugitives living without law or government...5)their blasphemies and reviling writings etc., were not matters fit to be compounded by arbitrament, but to be purged away only by repentance and public satisfaction, or else by public punishment.
(So they stormed the house and tried to burn it and at last they surrendered....3 escaped and ran away the rest were brought to Boston and imprisoned.) (Gorton was allowed to speak after the sermon, and far from being intimidated among other things "reviled magistracy, calling it an idol, alleging that a man might as well be a slave to his belly as to his own species.") They excel the Jesuits in the art of equivocation, and regard not how false they speak to all other men's apprehensions, so they keep to the rules of their own meaning...the were all illiterate men, the ablest of them could not write true English, no not common words, yet they would take upon them the interpretation of the most difficult places of scripture and wrest them any way to serve their own terms....The court began to consult about their sentence,,,,the judgement of the elders also had been demanded...their answer was that if they should maintain...their offense deserved death...all the magistrates but three were of the opinion that Gorton ought to die, but the greatest numers of the deputies dissenting, that vote did not pass...in the end, the sentence for 7 of them (including Potter) to be dispursed into 7 different towns, kept to work for their living, wear irons on one leg, not depart town, refrain from blasphemous writing or speech......About a week after, we sent men to fetch so many of their cattle as might defray our charges, both the soldiers and the court, which spend many days about them, and for their expenses in prison....in all about 160 pounds.
March 1644. The court, finding that Gorton and his company did harm in the towns where they were confined. and not knowing what to do with them, at length agree to set them at liberty and gave them 15 days to depart out of our juriadiction in all parts and no more might come into it on pain of death."
Then Gorton and two others made their way to England, pled their cause and got their lands reinstated.

A more favorable account of Gorton was given by one of his disciples:

"The Friends had come out of the world in some ways, but were still in darkness or twilight, but that Gorton was far beyond them, high..way up to the dispensation of light. The Quakers were in no way to be compared with him...he said Gorton was a holy man; wept day and night for the sins and blindness of the world; his eyes were a fountain of tears and always full of tears...a man full of thought and study....had a long walk out through the trees or woods by his house, where he constantly walked morning and evening, and even in the depth of night, alone by himself, for contemplation and enjoyment of the dispensation of light. He was universally beloved by all his neighbors and the Indians, who esteemed him not only as a friend, but one high in communion with God, and indeed he lived in Heaven."
What about the families meanwhile, while the men were in prison? The History of Warwick by Fuller says, "When the Massachusetts soldiers came to arrest the settlers soon after their occupancy of the land, Mrs. Potter, with some of the other women sought refuge in the woods and soon afterwards died from exposure and fright." In all, three of the women died, but none of the children. One account said the women would not eat, so that the children could have enough.

Potter remarried, probably to get someone to take care of the four little children. He opened a Tavern in Warwick in 1645 and ran it till his death in 1655. He died heavily in debt His children all married people from his colony.

Children of Robert and Isabel, from Potter:
2 .i. Elizabeth2 Potter, b.ca 1635; m. Richard Harcutt.

ii. DELIVERANCE POTTER, b. ca. 1637. ; m. JAMES GREENE, children: James, Mary, Rlisha, and Sarah.
iii. ISABEL POTTER, b. ca. 1638; m. (1) ( ----) MOSS; m. (2) WILLIAM BURTON.

iv. JOHN POTTER, b. ca. 1639 ; m. (1) RUTH FISHER, children: Robert, Fisher, John, William, Samuel, Isabella, Ruth, Edward, and Content; m. (2) SARAH COLLINS.

2. ELIZABETH2 ( Robert1 ) POTTER, b. ca. 1635, m. in Warwick, Richard Harcutt.

{geni:about_me} An antinomian - a follower of Anne Hutchinson. He was tried along with
her and her followers and they went to Portsmouth, RI where they founded
that colony in 1638.

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/POTTER/2000-01/0947776731

Robert Potter born circa 17 Jan, 1608 is the troublesome one in the Potter line. He is often given as having come from Coventry, yet his family seems to have been from London. He shows up in Lynn and Salem in the records.

He was an antinomian - a follower of Anne Hutchinson. He was tried along with her and her followers and they went to Portsmouth, RI where they founded that colony in 1638. Anne and some others then went on to near Pelham, NY where they were killed in an Indian raid.

A number of Robert's brothers and sisters came to Portsmouth from London to settle. George and Nathaniel had land adjoining Robert's property. Elizabeth married an innkeeper named William Baulston.

Elizabeth the William raised George's son Abel after George's untimely and still unsolved death in 1640 (before his son's birth).

Robert and others went on to found Warwick, RI. Massachusetts folks arrested the men of the town (including Robert) and took them back to Massachusetts and tried them on heresy charges. They were imprisoned for two years, and when Robert returned his wife Isabel Tripp Potter had been killed in an Indian raid (in Sept 1643).

Robert and Isabel had six children, the last of whom was John. Around 1644 John is supposed to have remarried a Sarah....... (No information about her)

I personally have come to believe that there was only one Robert Potter and that he was the oldest son of George and Martha.
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Born: 17 Jan 1608 - Coventry, Warwickshire, England
Died: 1655 - Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA
Spouse: Isabel Tripp
*Born: 1612 in Clerkenwell, St James London, Middlesex, England
*Died: Sep 1644 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA
*Marriage: abt 1630 in Roxbury, Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA View Info
*Children:
**1. Anthony Potter M 1628 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
**2. Elizabeth Potter F abt 1631 in Roxbury, [county], Massachusetts, USA
**3. Deliverance Potter F 1637 in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, USA
**4. John Potter M 1639 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA
**5. Isabel Potter F abt 1639 in Portsmouth, [county], Rhode Island, USA
**6. Robert Potter M 28 May 1639 in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, USA
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http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/POTTER/2000-01/0947776731
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Died in 1643 - Invasion of Mass. Bay Colony

Puritans at Shawomet (Warwick RI)
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http://connecticut-genealogy.blogspot.com/2010/07/robert-potter-and-gortonites.html

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Birth: Jun. 15, 1606
Newport Pagnell
Buckinghamshire, England
Death: 1655
Lynn
Essex County
Massachusetts, USA

Family links:
Parents:
Robert Potter (1577 - 1627)
Elizabeth Marshall Potter (1572 - 1628)

Spouse:
Isabella Potter (1607 - 1643)*

Children:
Anthony Potter (1627 - 1690)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial:
Unknown

Created by: Robert DeVowe
Record added: Jan 27, 2014
Find A Grave Memorial# 124227492

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Jeremiah Potter's book from 1881 references [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=124226787 Anthony Potter] as his first child on Page 6 with no other reference in the book.

In the introduction to the Potter Genealogies, the author states that,

"It has also been stated by some historians that [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=124226787 Anthony Potter], of Ipswich, was a son of the [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=124227492 Robert Potter], of Lynn, who subsequently settled in Portsmouth, RI. There does not seem to be any records to make this certain. The name Anthony was a family name, and suggests that his mother may have been an Anthony, as the families of Anthony and Potter were connected."

Source:
* [http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=2549196429 Genealogies of the Potter families] and their descendents in America to the present generation with historical and biographical sketches. POTTER, Charles Edward (ed) Published by Privately published, Boston, 1888

Links:
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=124227492 Robert Potter] Find A Grave Memorial# 124227492
* [http://www.geni.com/people/Robert-Potter/6000000005925884273 Robert Potter] Geni.com
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=124227582 Isabella Potter] Find A Grave Memorial# 124227582
* [http://www.geni.com/people/Isabel-Potter-Anthony/6000000002665568966 Isabel Potter (Anthony)] Geni.com
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=124226787 Anthony Potter] Find A Grave Memorial# 124226787
* [http://www.geni.com/people/Anthony-Potter/6000000004661612282 Anthony Potter] Geni.com

Suggested by [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=mr&MRid=48154225& William Irwin (#48154225)]
Thank you http://www.geni.com/people/Erica-Howton/363677820350011581 for your research

From Coventry, England
1634 - Farmer at Lynn, Massachusetts
3 Sep 1634 - Freeman, Massachusetts Plantation
Removed, probably to Roxbury
Trouble with church at Roxbury

From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.

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