Hannah Potter

1634 - Aft 1700  (> 66 years)

• Name	Hannah Potter  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Birth	9 Sep 1634	Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [5, 6]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Aft 13 Nov 1700	Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut   [7]
  Person ID	I9489	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	12 Sep 2021

  
  

  Father	John Browne,   b. Bef 23 Apr 1598   d. Bef 20 Jun 1636, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age < 38 years)
  Mother	Dorothy   d. Aft 20 Jun 1636
  Marriage	Bef 1634  [6]
  Family ID	F1563	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	John Mead,   b. Abt 1628, England d. 5 Feb 1699, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut (Age ~ 71 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1656  [3, 4]
  Children	+ 1. John Mead,   b. Abt 1658, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut d. 12 May 1693, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut (Age ~ 35 years) + 2. Ebenezer Mead,   b. 1663, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut d. 1728, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut (Age 65 years) + 3. David Mead,   b. Abt 1665, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut d. Feb 1727, Bedford, Westchester, New York (Age ~ 62 years)
  Family ID	F757	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Sep 2021

  
  

• Notes

  The model of Hannah Potter's origins shown here rests on some assumptions. John Brown of Watertown "is identified as the passenger on the Lyon because he was the only John Brown in Massachusetts Bay at this time, and because some other passengers on that ship also settled at Watertown." [The Great Migration] The ancestors shown for John Brown are those given by Mead Family Genealogy. It is not certain that the Hannah Potter who was in fact born to a John Brown (who may have been the 1632 immigrant) and his wife Dorothy was the Hannah Potter who later married John Mead. And while (as The Great Migration puts it) it's probable that William Potter of Watertown did in fact marry this same Dorothy after the death of John Brown, adopting her children and giving them his surname, much about this sequence of events is suppositional. William Potter did in fact sell his Watertown land in 1645 and move to Stamford. Concludes The Great Migration: "When [William Potter] wrote his will in 1685 the only relatives named were son-in-law John Mead (and his eleven children); there is no record for the marriage of this John Mead, but he and wife Hannah started having children about 1656, in which year Hannah [dau. of John Brown] would have been twenty-two." Even if these assumptions turn out to false, TNH is also descended on a different line from Edmund Browne and Mary Cramphorne, given here as Hannah Potter's paternal grandparents. Reassuringly, it's clear from The Great Migration that this William Potter is entirely unrelated to, and separate from, the William Potter who arrived in 1635 on the Abigail, was admitted to the New Haven church in 1641, and who, on 6 Jun 1662 at New Haven, was executed for bestiality.

  
  

• Sources

  [S664] Nicholas Knapp Genealogy by Alfred Averill Knapp. Winter Park, Florida: 1953. [S402] Genealogy of a Branch of the Mead Family, With a History of the Family in England and in America and Appendixes of Rogers and Denton families, by Lucius E. Weaver. Rochester, New York, 1911. [S399] The Settlers of the Beekman Patent by Frank J. Doherty. Ongoing multivolume series begun in 1990. [S5951] Mead-Clark Genealogy by Eva Mead Firestone. Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1946. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011., date only. [S595] The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908, Part I: The Ancestry of Warren Frances Kempton 1817-1879 by Dean Crawford Smith; edited by Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996. [S396] Belnap Family Organization.