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• Birth	1584
  Gender	Female
  Died	2 Mar 1658/1659	New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut
  Buried	New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut
  Person ID	I85101	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	08 Jun 2003 00:00:00
  Father	John MEAD
  Family ID	F37209	Group Sheet
  Family 1	John POTTER, b. 1580
  Married	, , England
  Children	1. John POTTER, b. 1607, England > 2. William POTTER, b. 1608
  Family ID	F37207	Group Sheet
  Family 2	John BEECHER, b. 1580, , Kent, , England
  Married	Abt 1635	, , England
  Children	1. John BEECHER, b. 1620   2. Isaac BEECHER, Sr., b. 1623, Kent, England
  Family ID	F37208	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Hannah Potter (Beecher) (1600-1639) came from County Kent, England to Boston, Mass in 1637 with sons. Physician and midwife, received grant of land at New Haven, Conn. Hannah was the widow of John Beecher who died in 1637 - the same year she emmigrated. Note: The will of Hannah Beecher was proved April 5, 1659, and is recorded in first part, vol. i., p. 80, of New Haven Probate Records, as follows: Note: "I Hannah Beacher of New Haven, expectying my great change do make this my last will and testament, I bequeath my soul unto the hands of my Lord Jesus Christ by whose meritt I hope to be saved and my body to be burried at the discretion of my Son William Potter my Executor. And for my worldly goods I give unto John Potter my Grand child twenty shillings and to Hannah Blackly, my Grand child, wife to Samuel Blackly, twenty shillings, And to Samuel Potter my Grand child twenty shillings to be paid to them within three months after my decease. And for the rest of my estate I give one third part to my son Isaac Beacher and two thirds to my eldest son William Potter, making him my Executor, desiring him to be as a father to his younger brother and his children. And in dividing my goods my will is that my son William should have my feather bed with that belongeth to it, unto his part and that the rest be divided at the discretion of my Overseers with the assistance of Sister Wakeman and sister Rutherford and I desire my loving freinds [sic] Mr. Mathew Gilbert and John Wakeman to be overseers of this my last will whereunto I have set my hand this 13th day of June, Anno 1657 Of Kent, , England

• Sources

  [S254] Pedigree Resource File CD 12, ((Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 2000)). [S459] #797. [S1183] #979.