Elizabeth Potter

Elizabeth Potter

Born:	Lynn or Marblehead ?	1748
Died:	Yarmouth, N.S.	January 19, 1831
Married:	James Goudey I	Marblehead, Mass. May 10, 1769
Father:	Joseph Potter
Mother:	Unknown

Gravestone of
James and Elizabeth Goudey
Frost Park
Yarmouth N.S.

Children by: James Goudey I

1.	Elizabeth Goudey	Marblehead, Massachusetts Bap. January 28, 1770
2.	James Goudey II Died: Age 20	Marblehead, Massachuestts Bap. October 24, 1773
3.	Hannah Goudey	Yarmouth Nova Scotia April 18, 1776
4.	Thomas Goudey	Yarmouth, Nova Scotia January 25, 1779
5.	Sarah Goudey Died: February 8, 1784	Yarmouth, Nova Scotia February 27, 1782
6.	Benjamin Goudey	Yarmouth, Nova Scotia 1783
7.	Sarah Goudey	Yarmouth, Nova Scotia March 8, 1784
8.	Stephen Goudey	Yarmouth, Nova Scotia August 23, 1787
9.	George Goudey	Yarmouth, Nova Scotia October 10, 1789

Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850
NEHGS

1769  GOUDEY  James, and Elizabeth Potter, May 10, 1769.*                   Marriage  Marblehead
1770  GOWDY   Elizabeth, d. James and Elizabeth, bp. Jan. 28, 1770- C.R.2.  Birth     Marblehead
1773  GOWDY   James, s. James and Elizabeth, bp. Oct. 24, 1773. C.R.2.      Birth     Marblehead 

The first two children were baptized in the 2nd Congregational (Unitarian) Church.

Marblehead Vital Records (hand written compilations, on fiche)
DAR Library (Courtesy of Gary Letcher)

a. The Intention of Marriage between James Goudey and Elizabeth Potter both of this town. Febr 25, 1769. Certificate May 8, 1769. 
b. Marriages performed by the Rd. Simon Bradstreet ... [May 10, 1769] James Goudey & Elizabeth Potter, both of this town 

NOTE: Simon Bradstreet, clergyman (1709-'71), was graduated at Harvard in 1728 and ordained, 4 January, 1738, as minister of the 
second Congregational church of Marblehead, where he remained until his death October 5, 1771.

1771 BRADSTREET [Simon. G. R. 2.], Rev., Oct. 5, 1771, C. R. 2. [a. 63 y. G. R. 2.] Death Marblehead

I transcribed the Monument Inscription from the Tombstone of James and Elizabeth Goudey in Frost Park in Yarmouth Nova Scotia, Canada as Follows:

       Elizabeth Wife

            of

       James Goudey

     Depart'd This Life

       Jan'ry 19 1831

       Aged 82 Years

James and his wife Elizabeth moved with James' brother Phillip and his wife to Nova Scotia in 1775.

A 1902 Error Corrected

"Yarmouth Nova Scotia Genealogies"
by George S. Brown

On Page 630
Transcribed from the Yarmouth Herald JULY 2, 1902

JAMES, m. 1769, May 10. Elizabeth
  Potter, dau. Joseph, of Marlboro,
  Mass. and afterwards of Annapolis
  Co., N.S.
  
   Mrs. Elizabeth (Potter) Goudey
was b. 1738, June 22, and d. 1831,
Jan. 29."

This is in error for three reasons:

1. Her Age at death would make her birth Abt. 1748
2. Her Last child would have been born at age 51
3. There is a conflicting Marriage for Betty Potter:
   1758    POTTER  , Betty of Marlbro, and William Hayden, Mar. 16, 1758  Marriage  Sudbury
   1758    HAYDEN  William and Betty Potter, Mar. 16, 1758.               Marriage  Sudbury

NOTE: Also Elizabeth Potter who married James apparently never used the name Betty.

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