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    Humphrey Potter

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    • 10th Great-grandfather of Halle Berry — 13th Generation
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    • Dec 1641 
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    • Dublin, Ireland 
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    • Humphrey Potter, of Coventry, England, and his wife were killed in the Irish Massacre in Dublin, Ireland, in 1641. He and his wife were among a group of English Protestant families that were living near Kinard in Ireland when Sir Felim O'Neill of Kinard, an Irish nobleman, began the Irish Rebellion of 1641. About two weeks after the start of the rebellion, the Catholic rebels pillaged and murdered the English settlers including Humphrey Potter and his wife. A witness to the murders of one of the English families described the scene as follows:

      “Edward Boswell, who was come over but a year before from England, upon the invitation of the said Sir Phelim, his (Boswell's) wife having nursed a child of the said Sir Phelim's in London, was killed together with his wife and child at their own house, at Kinard, about Christmas time, after the rebellion; Boswell being stabbed in divers [sic] places in his body, with skeans, and thrown into a well at the back of his house, his wife had fourteen wounds with skeans in her body, and was left dead on the threshold of her door, their child being about a quarter year old, had a skean stuck through its body and heart, and was thrown and hid in a turf stack, with the skean sticking from its body. The same night Humphrey Potter and his wife were murdered in the said town of Kinard.”

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    • 2 Hickson, Mary, Ireland in the Seventeenth Century: or The Irish Massacres of 1641-2, London: Longmans, Green, and Co. (1884), 203-205.