Margaret Elizabeth Potter

Fact	Date	Place	Description	Note	Sources
Birth	1737	Co. Tyrone, Ireland			Person James Scott
Marriage	29 DEC 1757	Lancaster, Lancaster Co., PA	George Latimer (details)	St. James Church Eagle's Notes and Queries of PA, 1700's-1800., Annual Vol, 1897, I, page 4
Death	12 MAY 1810	Canton, Stark Co., OH			Person James Scott

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Spouse 1:	George Latimer (details)

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daughter of John Potter / Martha Beard From Egle's Notes and Queries of PA, 1800's-1800's, Third Series v3, Notes and Queries.     John Potter, of Scotch parentage, was a native of county Tyrone, Ireland, where he was born about the year 1705.  He emigrated to America in 1741, and located in Antrim township, now Franklin county. In the early French war of 1747-48 he was in the service as first lieutenant, and took an active part in the Indian war subsequent to Braddock's defeat on the 17th of February, 1756, following being commissioned a captain in the Second Pennsylvania battalion.  Upon the organization of the county of Cumberland he was appointed the first sheriff, and was again commissioned in 1753.  He died about 1758.  His children were:  James, a major general in the army of the Revolution, Samuel, Thomas, Margaret, m. George Lattimore, Annis, m. Alexander Young, Catherine, Mary, Hannah, and Isabella.  In January, 1761, his widow, Martha, was the wife of Thomas Brown, Brown's Mills, also of Antrim township.