When Catherine Potter was born about 1761, in Scituate, Providence, Rhode Island, British Colonial America, her father, Captain John Potter, was 28 and her mother, Elcy 'Alice' Ralph, was 22. She married Aaron Colvin in 1779, in Scituate, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. She died in 1824, in Scituate, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 64.
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The first Jewish Synagogue in America was built in Newport, Rhode Island in 1763. It still stands today, making it the oldest synagogue in the 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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