Brief Life History of Gideon
When Gideon Potter was born in 1763, in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Joseph Potter, was 28 and his mother, Dinah Gifford, was 30.
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Name Meaning
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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