“The American History of a POTTER Family” Volume II Chapter 2: *SAMUEL POTTER2 (ca. 1657 – 1714) Chapter 3: *THOMAS POTTER3 (1691 – 1753) Chapter 4: *ANTHONY POTTER4 (1724 – 1791) by *Wilburn Metcalf Potter10 (1946 - ? ) This book is dedicated to our 7X Great Grandmother *SUSANNAH NORTH MARTIN1 (1621 – 1692) who was tragically and wrongfully hanged as an accused witch on Gallows Hill in Salem on July 19, 1692 during the “Salem Witchcraft Hysteria of 1692” when twenty innocents sadly lost their lives. “The American History of a POTTER Family” VOLUME II Chapter 2: *SAMUEL POTTER2 (ca. 1657 - 1714) Chapter 3: *THOMAS POTTER (1691 – 1753) 3 Chapter 4: *ANTHONY POTTER4 (1724 – 1791) by *Wilburn Metcalf Potter10 (1946 - ? ) Volume II: *SAMUEL.CH2, *THOMAS.CH3, *ANTHONY.CH4 - POTTER Page 1 Copyright Wilburn Metcalf Potter, 2018 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission. First Edition: April, 2018 Printed in the United States of America ISBN-10: 1642549053 ISBN-13: 9781642549058 Additional copies of this book can be purchased from: TheBookPatch.com 7048 E. Main Street Scottsdale, AZ 85251 (480) 941-8355 or (480) 773-4447 www.thebookpatch.com [email protected] Legend (1) Names preceded by an asterisk (*) are direct bloodline ancestors of the Author, *WILBURN METCALF POTTER10 (1946 - ? ). (2) Subscripts after a name indicate the American generation of the st individual. For example, the first (1 ) generation American is *ANTHONY POTTER1 (ca. 1628 – 1690). The Author, *WILBURN METCALF POTTER10 (1946 - ? ), is a tenth (10th) generation American. (3) Superscripts at the end of a sentence or paragraph designate sequential “End Notes” at the end of each chapter. (4) “G.S.” are the initials for Gravestone. Volume II: *SAMUEL.CH2, *THOMAS.CH3, *ANTHONY.CH4 - POTTER Page 2 Other books by *WILBURN METCALF POTTER10 (1946 - ? ): (1) “The Seaman’s Journals of Captain LEONARD SAMUEL GRANT (1812 – 1880)” ---- Pilot – U.S. Coast Survey and Pilot – U.S. Revenue Cutter Service; compiled by *WILBURN METCALF POTTER10 (1946 - ? ) – Great Great Grandson; Copyright Wilburn Metcalf Potter, 2014; First Edition: January, 2014; ISBN # 978-1-620-30899-8. [Available from: The Book Patch.com 7048 E. Main Street, Scottsdale, Arizona 85251; (480) 941-8355 or (480) 773-4447; www.thebookpatch.com; [email protected]] (2) “An Anthology of the Music of BERT POTTER Published from 1904 to 1917” – *ALBERT LINCOLN (BERT) POTTER8 (1874 – 1930), ragtime music composer and publisher; compiled by *WILBURN METCALF POTTER10 (1946 - ? ), Grandson; Copyright Wilburn Metcalf Potter, 2015; First Edition: July, 2015; ISBN # 978-0-578-16615-5. [Available from: 48 Hr Books th 2249 14 Street, S.W., Akron, Ohio 44314, (800) 231-0521; www.48HrBooks.com; [email protected]; minimum order quantity: 10 books.] (3) “The American History of a POTTER Family, Volume I: *ANTHONY POTTER1 (ca. 1628 – 1690), Puritan, the First American, and Ipswich Cultivator of Fruit for the years ca. 1285 – 1690” Genealogy by *WILBURN METCALF POTTER10 (1946 - ? ); Copyright Wilburn Metcalf Potter, 2017; First Edition: April, 2017; Printed in the United States of America; 360 pages; ISBN-10: 1946982229; ISBN-13: 9781946982223. [Available from: The Book Patch.com 7048 E. Main Street, Scottsdale, Arizona 85251; (480) 941-8355 or (480) 773-4447; www.thebookpatch.com; [email protected].] Volume II: *SAMUEL.CH2, *THOMAS.CH3, *ANTHONY.CH4 - POTTER Page 3 (4) “The American History of a POTTER Family, Volume VIII: Appendix “A”: *HANCOCK Pedigree, Appendix “B”: *HORE -*HOARE – *HORR Pedigree, Appendix “C”: *WIGHT Pedigree” Genealogy by *WILBURN METCALF POTTER10 (1946 - ? ); Copyright Wilburn Metcalf Potter, 2017; First Edition: August, 2017; Printed in the United States of America; 237 pages; ISBN-10: 194751993X; ISBN-13: 9781947519930. [Available from: The Book Patch.com 7048 E. Main Street, Scottsdale, Arizona 85251; (480) 941-8355 or (480) 773-4447; www.thebookpatch.com; [email protected].] (5) “The American History of a POTTER Family”, Volume IX: *CHILDS – *METCALF - *POTTER Genealogy by *WILBURN METCALF POTTER10 (1946 - ? ); Copyright Wilburn Metcalf Potter, 2016; First Edition: October, 2016; Printed in the United States of America; 308 pages; ISBN: 978-0-578-18538-5. [Available from: 48 Hr Books 2249 14th Street, S.W., Akron, Ohio 44314, (800) 231-0521; www.48HrBooks.com; [email protected]; minimum order quantity: 10 books.] Wilburn Metcalf (Bill) Potter (1946 - ? ) (October, 2017 photograph) Volume II: *SAMUEL.CH2, *THOMAS.CH3, *ANTHONY.CH4 - POTTER Page 4 “The American History of a POTTER Family” Volume II: *SAMUEL.CH2, *THOMAS.CH3, *ANTHONY.CH4 - *POTTER Genealogy Table of Contents Dedication: Pages: 6 – 13 Pedigree of *WILBURN METCALF POTTER10 (1946 - ? ) Pages: 14 – 17 Chapter 2: *SAMUEL POTTER2 (ca. 1657 – 1714) Genealogy Pages: 18 – 113 Chapter 3: *THOMAS POTTER3 (1691 – 1753) Genealogy Pages: 114 – 168 Chapter 4: *ANTHONY POTTER4 (1724 – 1791) Genealogy Pages: 169 – 269 POTTER Family History Series of Books: Pages: 270 - 271 Volume II: *SAMUEL.CH2, *THOMAS.CH3, *ANTHONY.CH4 - POTTER Page 5 Dedication This book is dedicated to the memory of our 7X Great Grandmother *SUSANNAH NORTH MARTIN1 (1621 - 1692) who was accused, tried, convicted, and sadly hanged for witchcraft during the infamous “Salem Witchcraft Hysteria of 1692.” 7X Great Grandmother *SUSANNAH NORTH MARTIN1 (1621 - 1692) was actually a very pious woman who was wrongfully executed for witchcraft during the infamous Salem witch trials of 1692. 7X Great Grandmother *SUSANNAH NORTH MARTIN1 (1621 - 1692) was the fourth daughter and youngest child of *RICHARD NORTH0 (ca. 1590 – 1667) and *JOAN BARTRAM NORTH0 (ca. 1590 – before 1630) of Olney, Buckinghamshire County, England. She was baptized on September 30, 1621 in Olney, Buckinghamshire County, England. Her birth mother died when she was a child. Her stepmother was named URSULA (?) NORTH0. About 1639, *RICHARD NORTH0 (ca. 1590 – 1667) immigrated with his family and settled first in Salisbury, Massachusetts. On August 11, 1646 at Salisbury, Massachusetts, *SUSANNAH NORTH (MARTIN)1 (1621 - 1692) married the widower, *GEORGE MARTIN1 (ca. 1618 – 1686), a blacksmith with whom she had eight (8) children including our 6X Great Grandmother *JANE MARTIN HADLEY2 (1656 - after 1704) who was also the 4X Great Grandfather of President CHESTER A. ARTHUR6 (1829 – 1886). In 1669, *SUSANNAH NORTH MARTIN1 (1621 - 1692) was, for the first time, formally accused of witchcraft in Amesbury, Massachusetts by adversarial neighbors named WILLIAM SARGENT JR1 and THOMAS SARGENT1. In response, 7X Great Grandfather *GEORGE MARTIN1 (ca. 1618 – 1686) sued the SARGENTs1 for two counts of slander against his wife, WILLIAM SARGENT JR1 for accusing her of being a witch, and THOMAS SARGENT1 for claiming one of her sons to be a bastard and another an “imp” (a witch’s familiar). *GEORGE MARTIN1 (ca. 1618 – 1686) eventually withdrew the second count. Unfortunately, however, the Court upheld the accusation of witchcraft but upon appeal, a higher Court later dismissed the witchcraft charge. By 1671, the MARTIN family was again in court dealing with the matter of URSULA (?) NORTH1’s estate, most of which she had left to her granddaughter, MARY JONES WINSLEY3. This time the Court sided against *GEORGE MARTIN1 and *SUSANNAH NORTH MARTIN1. 7X Great Grandfather *GEORGE MARTIN1 (ca. 1618 – 1686) died in 1686 leaving *SUSANNAH NORTH MARTIN1 (1621 - 1692) an impoverished widow. On Saturday, April 30, 1692, JONATHAN WALCOTT2 and Sergeant THOMAS PUTNAM JR2 (1653 - 1699) swore a complaint against our 7X Great Grandmother *SUSANNAH NORTH MARTIN1 (1621 - 1692) of Amesbury, Massachusetts for witchcraft. The complaint said: “Relating to high suspicion of sundry Volume II: *SAMUEL.CH2, *THOMAS.CH3, *ANTHONY.CH4 - POTTER Page 6 acts of Witchcraft donne or committed by her upon ye bodies of MARY WALCOT3, ABIGAIL WILLIAMS3, ANN PUTNAM (JR)3, and MERCY LEWIS3 of Salem Village or Farms whereby great hurt and damage hath been donne to ye bodies of said persons…etc.” The sixty-seven year old salty-tongued widow had been suspected of witchcraft by her neighbors in Amesbury and Salisbury for more than three decades, as far back as 1669. She had been called a witch for so long that she had come to relish the distinction. Long a legend in her home town of Amesbury, as a lightning rod attracts lightning, she was arrested on May 2nd, 1692 and brought to “Ingersoll’s Ordinary” (Inn and Tavern) in Salem Village (Danvers) for pre-trial examination. “Ingersoll’s Ordinary” was the Salem Village inn and tavern where accusations, hearings, examinations, judicial conferences, spectral stabbings, “circle girl” fits, and sentencing occurred during the tragic “Salem Witchcraft Hysteria 1692.” [Pre-Trial Examination of 7X Great Grandmother *SUSANNAH NORTH MARTIN1 (1621 – 1692) – May 2, 1692] At the preliminary trial for the crime of “Witchcraft and Sorcery” *SUSANNAH NORTH MARTIN1 (1621 - 1692) pled “not guilty.” The original court record has been lost, but her testimony was recorded by the witch-hunting Reverend COTTON MATHER2 (1663 – 1728). None of the accused witches was allowed to have legal counsel. Figure 1: Left: “The Ingersoll Ordinary (Inn & Tavern)” and right: “The Salem Village Meeting House” as they may have looked in 1692 during the “Salem Witchcraft Hysteria of 1692.” (Courtesy: Danvers Archival Center) *SUSANNAH NORTH MARTIN1’s (1621 - 1692) reputation