When Rhoda Potter was born on 16 July 1764, in Scituate, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, her father, Captain John Potter, was 29 and her mother, Elcy 'Alice' Ralph, was 23. She married Ezra Knight about 1784. She died on 2 February 1831, in her hometown, at the age of 66, and was buried in Coventry, Kent, Rhode Island, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
Rhode Island declares independence from Great Britain on May 4, 1776, making it the first colony to do so officially.
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
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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