wife of Zenas Potter, age 42
Betty (Blakeslee) Potter was born in Northbury Parish, located in today's Thomaston, Litchfield Co., CT. Prior to the establishment of Plymouth in 1795, records in this area were maintained by the town of Waterbury (originally in today's New Haven Co.). Waterbury encompassed a broad area, including all or parts of the later towns of Watertown, Plymouth, Wolcott, Prospect, Westbury, Naugatuck, Thomaston, and Middlebury, among others.
Betty (Blakeslee) Potter was born in Northbury Parish, located in today's Thomaston, Litchfield Co., CT. Prior to the establishment of Plymouth in 1795, records in this area were maintained by the town of Waterbury (originally in today's New Haven Co.). Waterbury encompassed a broad area, including all or parts of the later towns of Watertown, Plymouth, Wolcott, Prospect, Westbury, Naugatuck, Thomaston, and Middlebury, among others.
wife of Zenas Potter, age 42
Betty (Blakeslee) Potter was born in Northbury Parish, located in today's Thomaston, Litchfield Co., CT. Prior to the establishment of Plymouth in 1795, records in this area were maintained by the town of Waterbury (originally in today's New Haven Co.). Waterbury encompassed a broad area, including all or parts of the later towns of Watertown, Plymouth, Wolcott, Prospect, Westbury, Naugatuck, Thomaston, and Middlebury, among others.
Betty (Blakeslee) Potter was born in Northbury Parish, located in today's Thomaston, Litchfield Co., CT. Prior to the establishment of Plymouth in 1795, records in this area were maintained by the town of Waterbury (originally in today's New Haven Co.). Waterbury encompassed a broad area, including all or parts of the later towns of Watertown, Plymouth, Wolcott, Prospect, Westbury, Naugatuck, Thomaston, and Middlebury, among others.
Inscription
Potter, Betty (Blakeslee) 1-17-1813 Aged 43 years, Wife of Zenus, Dau of Jude Blakeslee, in the County of Niagra, Four hundred miles West.
"There her body lies at resting
hoping when Christ he shall appear
to meet her friends
who lie buried here."
This stone was apparently a memorial to Betty (Blakeslee) Potter, who is probably buried in "Niagara" of 1813, possibly Erie County of today.
Gravesite Details
This memorial was originally erected in the Northbury Burial Grounds, a cemetery that was moved to Hillside in 1888.
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