Born in Warwick, Providence, Rhode Island
Ancestors 
Daughter of Edward Casey
and Hannah (Bowen) Casey
Wife of
Nehemiah Potter
— married
1763 in Rhode Island
Descendants 
Died before
before age 46
in Scituate, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 12 Jan 2022
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Biography
Eunice Casey was born July 7, 1745, in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, a daughter of Edward Casey and Hannah Bowen. [1] In 1763, Eunice married Nehemiah Potter, [2]
At the onset of the American Revolutionary War, Nehemiah enlisted as a Private in Captain Samuel Wall's company of the Rhode Island Militia. He advanced to Sergeant, under the command of Colonel Archibald Kasson and Colonel Waterman. Nehemiah is honored by the Daughters of the American Revolution as DAR Ancestor #A091736. Descendants of this family are eligible to join the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution. [3]
Eunice (Casey) Potter died in 1791 and is buried in the Nehemiah Potter Lot, in Scituate, Rhode Island, After her death, her husband married, secondly, Rhoda Castel. [4]
Sources
- ↑ "Rhode Island Births and Christenings, 1600-1914", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F873-V3J : 17 December 2019), Eunice Casey, 1745
- ↑ "U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900", Source number: 320.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: BFO
- ↑ https://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A091736
- ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63900902/eunice-potter
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Eunice by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Eunice:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Eunice by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Eunice:
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~0.78%
~3.12%
N. Allen 
:
23andMe
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Lucia Allen :
23andMe
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~0.78%
Debra (Wright) Pauley :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member debrawright4432
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~0.39%
Jen Tierney :
23andMe, GEDmatch A096860 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A096860 [compare], Ancestry member Tierney_Ancestry
+
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #B31416
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~0.39%
Keith McGinley :
23andMe
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