Husband Capt. John Potter 1 2 3 4 5 6
Born: Abt 1705 - Tyrone, County Down, Ireland
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Died: 1757 - Antrim Twp, Cumberland (later Franklin) Co, PA 6
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Father: [Father] Potter ( - ) 7
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Marriage: 1727 8
Other Spouse: Martha [Unk] ( -1780) 8
• Residence: : Antrim Twp, Cumberland (later Franklin) Co, PA.
Wife Catharine Crozier 8
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Father: John Crozier ( - ) 8
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Children
General Notes: Husband - Capt. John Potter
. . . presumed to be a son of Thomas Potter, of Ballynant, County Fermanagh, Ireland.
The American ancestor of the Potter family, he was a native of Tyrone, Ireland, of Scotch parentage. He immigrated with his family to America in 1741, aboard the ship 'Dunnegal', landing at New Castle, Delaware, in September of that year. He removed west of the [Delaware?] river as early as 1746, and settled in Antrim township (now Franklin County, Pennsylvania), near Greencastle. In the early French war of 1747-48, he was in the service as a first lieutenant, and took an active part in the Indian war following Braddock's defeat. On the erection of Cumberland County, in 1750, he, on October 6th of that year, was commissioned its first sheriff, and again commissioned sheriff in 1753. On February 17, 1756, he was commissioned a captain in the Second Pennsylvania Battalion, and accompanied Col. Armstrong's expedition against Kittanning September 7, 1756.
He emigrated from County Tyrone, Ireland, landing at New Castle on the Delaware, September, 1741, accompanied by his wife and his sister Isabella and her husband John Hamilton. About 1746 he located near the present site of Greencastle, in Antrim township, Franklin County (then Lancaster County), and in 1750 included in the county of Cumberland, from which Franklin County was organized in 1784), Pennsylvania. He was the first sheriff of Cumberland County in 1750, and in September, 1756, was commissioned captain of a company in Lieutenant Colonel Armstrong's Battalion, which he accompanied in the expedition against the Indian town of Kittanning, when that town was destroyed and many white captives rescued from the natives. [CRFP, 857]
The home of the Potters had been on the banks of the river Foyle,
County Tyrone, Ireland. He and his wife came from North Ireland with John and Isabella Potter Hamilton (his sister and brother-in-law) in 1741 "aboard the good ship 'Donegal'" landing at New Castle, Delaware, on September 25, 1741. On the same day Mrs. Hamilton died, leaving a daughter, Catherine, and an infant son, John, who died a few weeks later. The Potters and Hamiltons are said to have gone to the home of Archibald Bard (Beard) in Mill Creek Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, upon arrival, from which Mrs. Isabella Hamilton and her infant son were buried.
Archibald Bard and John Potter were brothers-in-law.
It is not certain that he was married twice; if he was, it is not clear which children were the offspring of which wife.