Brief Life History of Mary Storer
When Mary Storer Potter was born on 12 May 1812, in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Barrett Potter, was 36 and her mother, Anne Storer, was 30. She married Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on 14 September 1831, in Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died on 29 November 1835, in Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands, at the age of 23, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States.
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- Mary Storer Potter Longfellow, "Find a Grave Index"
- Mary S Potter, "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921"
- Mary Storer Potter Longfellow, "Find A Grave Index"
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1813
The Dutch defeated the French.
1813 · Netherlands Regains Independence
In 1810, when Louis Bonaparte resigned from the throne, the Netherlands was annexed from the French. Finally in 1814, the Netherlands became sovereign and independent.
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
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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