When Ruth Potter was born on 10 October 1791, in Dutchess, New York, United States, her father, Nathaniel Potter, was 30 and her mother, Ruth Palmer, was 29. She married John Coltrin on 10 March 1817. They were the parents of at least 12 sons. She died on 24 January 1858, in Hamburg, Hamburg, Erie, New York, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Coltrin Cemetery, Terre Haute, Knox, Indiana, United States.
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English and Dutch; North German (Pötter): occupational name for a maker of drinking and storage vessels, from an agent derivative of Middle English, Middle Low German pot. In the Middle Ages the term covered workers in metal as well as earthenware and clay.
In some cases also an Americanized form (translation into English) of Croatian, Serbian, and Slovenian Lončar ‘potter’ (see Loncar ), and probably also of cognates from some other languages, e.g. Czech Hrnčíř (see Hrncir ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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