Ancestry of
Seth MacFarlane

Actor, Animator, Writer and Producer

Robert Potter Jr.

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Seth MacFarlane — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1832 
  • Father:
  • Robert Potter 
  • Mother:
  • Ruth Driver   
  • Birth Date:
  • 18 Mar 1660/1661 
  • Birth Location:
  • Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 1702 
  • Death Location:
  • Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Western Burial Ground, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Martha Hall
  • Marriage Date:
  • 9 Jan 1681/1682 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Ephraim Potter (Ahnentafel No:916 )

  • Notes: 

  • The bottom half of Robert Potter tombstone is missing. His year of death in the Lynn vital records appears to be estimated from his age at death that appears on the remaining portion of his tombstone.

• Sources for Robert Potter Jr.

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/20/2019).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Lynn, Vol. 2, p. 569, Death record for Robert Potter.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Lynn, Vol. 1, p. 330, Birth record for Robert Potter.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Lynn, Vol. 1, p. 330, Birth record for son Ephram Potter.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Lynn, Vol. 2, p. 307, Marriage record for Roberd Potter Jr and Martha Halle.
  • ⁶ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1932, Vol. 86, p. 450.
  • ⁷ The Essex Genealogist, 1999, Vol. 19, pp. 147-148.
  • ⁸ Chute, William Edward, A Genealogy and History of the Chute Family in America with Some Account of the Family in Great Britain and Ireland, Salem, Massachusetts: (1894), cxlviii-cxlix.

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