When Amariah Phebe Potter was born on 18 November 1772, in Pittsylvania, Virginia, British Colonial America, her father, Benjamin Potter, was 39 and her mother, Mary Ramey, was 34. She married William Attlerich Rigney on 19 September 1791, in Franklin, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 8 daughters. She died on 7 January 1844, in Paoli Township, Orange, Indiana, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Rigney-McIntosh Cemetery, Paoli, Paoli Township, Orange, 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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