Pawlet (VT) One Hundred Years
Hiel Hollister
1867
J. Munsell, Albany
POTTER, Capt. WILLIAM, from New London, Ct., settled on the late homestead of his son Joshua Potter at a very early day.
He raised a large family of children. Two of his sons Samuel and Joshua, settled in this town, the others mostly in Wells.
He had been a captain of a vessel trading to the West Indies. His mother’s house in New London, Conn., was burnt by the infamous Arnold during his raid on that city.
POTTER, Dr. SAMUEL, practiced medicine in this town and Wells several years.
His intuitive perception, judgment and skill were remarkable. He died in 18__.
He raised a family of eight children, Samuel, Fayette, Collins, Charles W., George, Edwin, Phebe and Helen L.
Samuel is a physician at Buffalo; Fayette, an attorney; Collins, a noted millwright; Charles W. has been a druggist and postmaster at the village, and is now about to take charge of the Lake House in Wells.
George is a physician near Buffalo; Edwin an attorney in Michigan. Phebe married Rev. Mr. Sprague and is dead.
Helen L. married Abbot Robinson.
POTTER, JOSHUA, succeeded the homestead of his father, and raised six children: George, James, Joshua, Jane, Amanda and Betsey.
George m. Sylvia Oatman and lives in Wells. Joshua occupies the homestead.
Mr. Potter was a man of uncommon shrewdness and intelligence and retained his faculties remarkably to the time of his death in 1863, aged 81.
His widow died the same year. He was in the legislature in 1837 and held many responsible town offices.
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