Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Thomas Potter




Husband Thomas Potter 1 2 3

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           Died: Apr 1758 - Adams Co, PA 1
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         Father: Capt. John Potter (Abt 1705-1757) 1 2 4 5 6 7
         Mother: Martha [Unk] (      -1780) 3





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General Notes: Husband - Thomas Potter


He was killed by the Indians after the capture of the Bard family, April 13, 1758. The place of his murder was still pointed out one hundred and fifty years later, a short distance north of Virginia Mills, in Adams County, Pennsylvania. Judge Bard, in his "Narrative," calls him Lieutenant Potter. He probably served in that capacity in his father's company, on the Conococheague, 1756-57.

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Sources


1 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 402.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 109.

3 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 309.

4 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 6.

5 —, Book of Biographies of Leading Citizens of Berks County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1898), Pg 12.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 856.

7 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 303.


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