When Christopher Potter was born about 1776, in Granville, Granville, Washington, New York, United States, his father, Joseph Potter, was 42 and his mother, Dinah Gifford, was 44. He married Phoebe Elmore about 1794. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Ashtabula, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States in 1830. He died before 1843, in Jefferson, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States, and was buried in Oakdale Cemetery, Jefferson Township, Ashtabula, Ohio, 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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