1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1636
2 PLAC (1635/36)
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1650
2 PLAC Rhode Island
MY NOTES: Some people have Elizabeth Potter born in 1650 in Rhode Island and then getting married to Richard Harcourt in 1651 - AT ONE YEAR OF AGE ??????????? I think not! Her oldest child (Susannah) was born Abt. 1652 so I will subtract 20 years and 16 years = circa 1631 to 1635 or thereabouts. They also have her listed as the daughter of Robert Potter b: 1639 in England & Isabel Anthony - he might be a brother but he couldn't possibly be her father. If Robert Potter is her father there has been a grave mistake with her age & or his. vlwwSOURCE: Owen & Related Families by Calvin Owen (CalOwen@attbi.com); Ancestry World Tree Project; 29 Jan 2003 - vlww.
"Robert Potter emigrated from England to Portsmouth, Rhode Island."
Birth: 1639 England
Death: 1655
Marriage: Isabel Anthony
Children:
John Potter
Elizabeth Potter
[Compiler: Diane Cukro]
1. According to Austin's General Dictionary of Rhode Island, p. 156, Richard Harcurt m. 1st, Elizabeth Potter, daughter of Robert Potter and Isabel Anthony (as shown by induction) dau. of John and Susannah Anthony of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, Inn Keeper, etc.
2. Robert Potter in 1638, being under criticism in the Church moved to Portsmouth & Warwick, Rhode Island;
3. where in 1643 he with sundry others including Samuel Gorton were notified to appear before the General court at Boston, as "they held blasphemous errors, which they must repent of" or go to Boston for Trial; and they were soon carried thither. At the time of the capture of the Warwick men, their wives and children were forced to betake themselves to the woods and suffered hardships that resulted in the death of three women at least, one of these being the wife of Robert Potter.
4. 25 May 1655 he was appointed by the Court of Commissioners to keep a house of entertainment, but died before expiration of the year."
MY NOTES: References I need to check on:
POTTER, Elizabeth
Birth Date: 1629 Birth Place:
Volume: 139 Page Number: 162
Reference: Gen. Column of the " Boston Transcript". 1906-1941.( The greatest single source of material for gen. Data for the N.E. area and for the period 1600-1800. Completely indexed in the Index.): 2 Oct 1916, 5764POTTER, Elizabeth (-)
Birth Date: 1629 Birth Place:
Volume: 139 Page Number: 164
Reference: Gen. Column of the " Boston Transcript". 1906-1941.( The greatest single source of material for gen. Data for the N.E. area and for the period 1600-1800. Completely indexed in the Index.): 23 Oct 1916, 5764
1 NAME Richard /Harcurt/
Surname Spellings: Harcutt, Harcarte, Harcurt & Harcourt. vlww
Richard's mother might have been a Weston.1] SOURCE: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, vols. 1-3. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.
"The Great Migration Begins
Sketches
PRESERVED PURITAN
FRANCIS WESTON
"............. On 4 November 1646 "Richard Harcourt sells Thomas Angel his house lot or home share & housing, which formerly belonged unto his uncle Francis Weston and lately he bought the rest of it of his aunt Margaret Weston which she had her life in" [Chapin 1:242]. On 24 June 1652 Ralph Earle of Portsmouth sold to William Arnold land which he had bought of Nathaniel Dickens, "which premises the said Dickens formerly bought of one Richard Harcutt the heir or assign of Fraunces Weston and Margarett his wife" [PrTR 1:106]. On 5 May 1656 "Richard Harcarte of Warwick" confirmed that he had five or six years earlier sold to Nicholas Power of Providence "commonage [which] was once my uncle Francis Weston's" [PrTR 4:231]. .................. Richard Harcourt, who later held some of the land of Francis Weston, noted that Margaret had held a life interest in these lands, so there should not have been a competing claim from her Pease heirs."
INTERNAL SOURCE:
1. [Chapin] Howard M. Chapin, Documentary History of Rhode Island, 2 vols. (Providence 1916, 1919)
2. [PrTR] The Early Records of the Town of Providence, 21 volumes (Providence 1892-1915)
2] SOURCE: Owen & Related Families by Calvin Owen (CalOwen@attbi.com); Ancestry World Tree Project; 29 Jan 2003.
"Birth: Abt. 1623 England
Death: 2 Aug 1696 Oyster Bay, suffolk Co., New York
Marriage 1st: Elizabeth Potter
Marriage Date: Abt. 1651
Children:
Daughters: (8) Susannah, Elizabeth. Mercy, Isabella, Sarah, Meribah, Dorothy & Mary
Sons: (2) Daniel & Benjamin
Marriage 2nd: Mirium Haight
Marriage Date: Abt. 1683
[Harcourt.FTW]
Nephew: Maternal Uncle Francis Weston & wife Margaret West
Immigration: Salem, Ma circa 12 June 1630 (part of Winthrop Fleet)
23 Jan 1648/49 - Signer of Fundamental Agreement of the Inhabitants of the Colony of Warwick (RI)
1655 - Freeman, Warwick, Rhode Island
1660 - Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York
Twice Court of Commissions - Warwick
Constable, Justice of the Peace, Surveyor & appointed to confer with Govenor at Oyster Bay
[email to Calvin Owen]
26 Feb 1648/49 appears with Henry Townsend, Mr. (Robert) Potter & Mr. (Ezekiel) Holliman - appointed to lay out the meadow and upland in "ye neck."
1648 - chosen as Constable (highest office in the town government)
1652 - mentioned as heir or assignee of Frances Weston & Margaret his wife - suggesting that Richard's mother might have been the sister of Frances Weston
1652 - Licensed to keep a Victualing House & to sell spirituous liquors
1655 - Appointed as an Ordinary Keeper (i.e. tavern keeper) with Stukely Westcott
1657 - Jamaica, Long Island - listed as citizen along with three Townsends
16 Feb 1661 - Jamaica - on list of those proscribed for sympathy with Quakers
Sept 1661 - Grantee of the Mill Right to Henry Townsend at Oyster Bay
Property -
1st - Oyster Bay records show first residence was lot bought from Mark Meggs (situated on the South side of the main street & just East of the Mill Dam
2nd - South side of the road to the Cove (including property of the late Edward M. Townsend)
Held offices of Overseer, Constable & Surveyor & was on sundry commissions for laying out lands in the Town.
[Compiler: Diane Cukro]
1. Believes him (Richard Harcourt] to be a cadet of the Harcourt Family.
2. Following extracts beginning for future research:
a. 1652 Richard Harcurt mentioned as heir or assignee of Frances Weston & Margaret his wife
b. Another deed calls Richard cousin (nephew) of Francis Weston from whom he had inherited land.
c. Suggestion that Richard's mother was a sister of Francis Weston.
Francis Weston was of Salem, Mass., Providence and Warwick, Rhode Island
Recalcitrant Puritan
One of twelve original members of the Baptist Church at Providence
According to Austin's General Dictionary of Rhode Island, p. 156, Richard Harcurt m. 1st, Elizabeth Potter, daughter of Robert Potter and Isabel Anthony (as shown by induction) dau. of John and Susannah Anthony of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, Inn Keeper, etc.
Robert Potter in 1638, being under criticism in the Church moved to Portsmouth & Warwick, Rhode Island; where in 1643 he with sundry others including Samuel Gorton were notified to appear before the General court at Boston, as "they held blasphemous errors, which they must repent of" or go to Boston for Trial; and they were soon carried thither. At the time of the capture of the Warwick men, their wives and children were forced to betake themselves to the woods and suffered hardships that resulted in the death of three women at least, one of these being the wife of Robert Potter. 25 May 1655 he was appointed by the Court of Commissioners to keep a house of entertainment, but died before expiration of the year.
Richard Harcurt, married 2nd, Mariam Hoyt, daughter of Simon Hoyt of Stamford, Connecticut, and widow of Samuel Forman, son of Robert of Oyster Bay.
Richard died at Oyster Bay after 2 May 1696 - that being the date of the Codicil to his last will."
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1654
2 PLAC Hempstead, New York
Daughter of Elizabeth Howland [daughter of John of the Mayflower] and Daniel Dickinson.
Brother to the John who married a Susanna Harcourt (not sure if this is the sister of Meribah). vlww
