Elizabeth (Whipple) Potter (1627 - 1648)

Born 1 Nov 1627 in Bocking, Essex, England

Ancestors

Wife of Anthony Potter — married 1641 (to 15 Dec 1648) in Ipswich, Massachusetts

Died 15 Dec 1648 at age 21 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts

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Biography

A 1938 publication claims she died childless in 14 Dec 1648, but no record of this death has yet been found.^[1] (Can you help us find it?)

She was not mentioned in her father's 1669 will, but Anthony Potter received a bequest from her father, who named him "my sometimes son-in-law" implying that he had been at some time son-in-law of John Whipple.^[2]

Birth

1 NOV 1627

Essex, England

{geni:place_name} Essex, England

Death

14 DEC 1648

Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA

Sources

1. ↑ Mary Lovering Holman, Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury, unknown: unknown, 1938; pp 47-48. See also Carol Clark Johnson, A genealogical history of the Clark and Worth families : and other Puritan settlers in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Cygnet, Ohio: Priv. print., 1970, p 229-230; accessed 28 July 2012 via Ancestry.com. Unfortunately, neither publication cites its sources, so we have no idea if the information is accurate.
2. ↑ op cit, p. 47

1. William Richard Cutter, “New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial”, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York, 1915, Volume 1, page 209 says Elizabeth Whipple, the wife of Anthony Potter, was born 1629 and died in 1712. [Incorrect; Elizabeth Whipple Potter died shortly after they married; the Elizabeth Potter who died in 1712 was Anthony's second wife, Elizabeth Stone.]
2. William Richard Cutter, “Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts”, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York, 1908, Volume IV, pages 1816-1818. [Same incorrect information
3. “History of Litchfield, and an Account of Its Centennial Celebration, 1895,” Augusta, Kennebec Journal Print, 1897, pages 262 & 263.

• Find a Grave: Memorial #124247732.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Barbara Corley for creating WikiTree profile Whipple-958 through the import of export-BloodTree.ged on May 12, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Barbara and others.