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Seth MacFarlane

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Nicholas Potter

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• • 10th Great-grandfather of Seth MacFarlane — 13th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 7328 
  • Father:
  • Robert Potter 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Marshall   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 1 Apr 1604 
  • Christening Location:
  • Newport-Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 18 Oct 1677 
  • Death Location:
  • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Emma -----
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Apr 1628 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Newport-Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, England 
  • Children:
  
  

  Robert Potter (Ahnentafel No:3664 )

  Elizabeth Potter

  • Notes: 

  • Some published sources give Nicholas Potter's death date as 18 AUG 1677, however, his death in the Salem vital records gives it as 18: 8 m: 1677 indicating the date was actually 18 OCT 1677 according to the Julian calendar in use at the time.

• Additional marriages for Nicholas Potter

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  • Spouse:
  • Alice Plasse

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Gedney
  • Marriage Date:
  • from 1 Jan 1658 to 30 Nov 1659

• Sources for Nicholas Potter

  • ¹ Essex Antiquarian, 1904, Vol. 8, p. 24.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Salem, Vol. 6, p. 156, Death record for Nicholas Potter.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1932, Vol. 86, p. 450.
  • ⁴ The Essex Genealogist, 1995, Vol. 15, p. 41.
  • ⁵ The Essex Genealogist, 1999, Vol. 19, pp. 142-145, give Nicholas's death month as AUG.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 270.
  • ⁷ 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), cxlvii-cxlviii.
  • ⁸ Waters, Henry Fitzgilbert, The Gedney and Clarke Families of Salem, Mass., Salem: The Salem Press (1880), 8, 10-11.

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