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John Wayne

Movie Actor

William Potter

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• • 9th Great-grandfather of John Wayne — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2894 
  • Father:
  • William Potter 
  • Mother:
  • Ann Langford   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 28 Aug 1608 
  • Christening Location:
  • St. Thomas, Lewes, Sussex, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 6 Jun 1662 
  • Death Location:
  • New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Frances -----
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1633 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Potter (Ahnentafel No:1447 )

  Sarah Potter

  • Notes: 

  • William Potter was executed for bestiality.

• Sources for William Potter

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1912, Vol. 66, p. 308.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 2004, Vol. 79, p. 32.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. V, M-P, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2007), 507-513.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. II, C-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2001), 542.
  • ⁵ Homer, Rodney Prestage, The Sperry Family Line of Jeremiah Sperry of Minnesota, 1802-1870, Porterville, California: Unknown (1969), 22-23.
  • ⁶ Jacobus, Donald Lines, ed., The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and his Wife Emma Arabella Bosworth, Woodstock, Vermont: N. Grier Parke, II (1960), 169.