Family Group Sheet for WILLIAM POTTER and FRANCES CHILD

William POTTER1-2
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Birth:
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Immigration:
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Death:
Bef. 28 Aug 1608 in ENGLAND1-2
28 Aug 1608 in Lewes, Sussex, ENGLAND; at St. Thomas2
1633 in ENGLAND3
1635 ; aboard ship, the "Abigail"2, 4-5
1662 in New Haven, New Haven Co., CT; of "bestiality";
sentenced to death6
06 Jun 1662 in New Haven, New Haven Co., CT; executed
for bestiality2
Father:
Mother:
Frances CHILD4
Wife:
Birth:
Immigration:
Death:
Father:
Mother:
1609 in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, ENGLAND3
1635 ; aboard ship, the "Abigail"5
1680 in New Haven, New Haven Co., CT4
Children:
1
M
2
F
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Other Spouses:
3
F
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Joseph POTTER2
Abt. Feb 1634/352
Abt. 1661
Unknown
Phebe IVES2
Hannah POTTER4
08 Sep 1636 in Stamford, Fairfield Co., CT4
Aft. 13 Nov 17004
(unknown) MEAD (Unknown)
Mary POTTER2
Abt. 16372
22 Aug 1641 in New Haven, New Haven Co., CT2
Abt. 16582
Unknown
Joseph MANSFIELD2
4
F
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Other Spouses:
5
F
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6
F
Name:
Birth:
Marriage:
Death:
Spouse:
Other Spouses:
7
M
Name:
Birth:
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Death:
Spouse:
Sarah POTTER2
Abt. 16392
22 Aug 1641 in New Haven, New Haven Co., CT2
Abt. 16602
Unknown
Robert FOOTE2
Aaron BLACHLEY (Unknown)[2]
Hope POTTER4
Bef. 03 Oct 1641 in New Haven, New Haven Co., CT2
03 Feb 1663 in New Haven, New Haven Co., CT2, 4
1687 in Crosswicks, Burlington Co., NJ4
Daniel ROBINSON2
Rebecca POTTER1
Jan 1643 in New Haven, New Haven Co., CT1
1663 in New Haven, New Haven Co., CT1
1680 in Crosswicks, Burlington Co., NJ
Thomas CAWOOD1
Thomas ADAMS (27 Nov 1667 in New Haven, New Haven Co.,
CT)[2, 7]
Nathaniel POTTER2
Bef. 22 Dec 16442
22 Dec 1644 in New Haven, New Haven Co., CT2
01 Apr 1675 in New Haven, New Haven Co., CT2
Unknown
Elizabeth HOWES2
Notes:
William POTTER
Re Trial and Conviction of William Potter for "bestiality" [spelling in quotation is from published
document, reflecting spelling of era]:
"... and now he [Potter] confessed more pticularly, the first time he sd was in old England, at
prentise, wn he was about eleuen yeare old, & after when he came to New England these
temptations followed him, though sometimes they left him some yeares together, & then he
thought God did worke vpon his soule, & ye temptation left him a great while, but after he
coming to liue to Mr. Gilberts farme it returned againe, & he acted with a cow which is now
gone, & after coming to his owne farme his lust followed him, though he thought he should
haue got powers against it, & when ye man was hanged for ye same act he was much startled,
but after still ye temptation went on, & it strooke a dampe upon his spirit yt it was not right
with him, & there he acted first with a bitch, which he hanged thinking he should be free from
ye temptation, when she was gone, but it still pursued him, & he acted this wickedness wth two
sowes, one of which was yt of which his son testifies, there is alsoe a yeareling heifer, a two
years old, and a cow yt he had beene vilely naught withall this spring, also three sheepe, of
which he sd he told his wife which they were; these was all he sd, only his attempting with his
Notes: (con't)
old mare which is now dead ...."
(From Hoadly, Charles J., Records of the Colony or Jurisdictoin of New Haven, from May 1653,
to the Union, Hartford, CT, 1858)
Sources:
1 West, Edmund, comp., "Family Data Collection - Individual Records." Database
(Provo, UT, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2000).
2 Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England,
1634-1635, Volume V, M-P (Boston, New England Historic Genealogical Society,
2007).
3 "U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700." Database. Ancestry.com (Provo, UT,
Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012). Original data: Torry, Clarence A. New England
Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.
4 findagrave.com, http://www.findagrave.com.
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Ancestry.com (Provo, UT, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010). Original data: Filby,
P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington
Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2012.)
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1653, to the Union (Hartford, CT, , 1858).
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Ancestry.con Operations, Inc., 1997). Original data: Clemens, William Montgomery.
American Marriage Records Before 1699. Pompton Lakes, NJ, USA: Biblio Co., 1926.