Child of Mary and John Potter

01. Benjamin Bourn or Potter

cal 1773 or 1776/1780 b. Sussex TNA: HO 107/1097/7 f13 p18; Registers of Horsham General Baptist Meeting House
1799-05-03 of Warnham, Sussex; m. Mary Rowland (1773–1852, of Ifield, Sussex, b. Horsham, Sussex) at Ifield, by licence HO 107/1097/7 f13 p18; Ifield parish register; TNA: RG 4/2729; Registers of Horsham General Baptist Meeting House
Children: Rowland (1810–1851), John (1812 – after 1847), both b. Warnham; Benjamin (? – ?), and Mary (? – ?) censuses; TNA: RG 4/2729; index to Death Duty registers; TNA: PROB 11/2053
1811-09-27 at the Bramber Agricultural Association Shew at Horsham, Sussex, one of the judges for the ploughs and ploughmen Sussex Advertiser, 1811-09-30
1814-02-05 one of a number of signatories to a call for the establishing of a spring fair at Horsham, for South Down Tags, to be held on the 5th of April Sussex Advertiser, 1814-02-14
1841 farmer, of Westons, Warnham, living with his family, three female servants, and four ag. labs; as Benjamin Potter HO 107/1097/7 f13 p18
1844/1846 owner of freehold houses in Chapel lane, Horsham electoral registers
1846-01-31 "GRATITUDE OF THE TRADING COMMUNITY OF THE AGRICULTURAL BOROUGH OF HORSHAM FOR PAST FAVOURS FROM THEIR NEIGHBOURS, THE FARMERS"; had subscribed 4s. to the Anti-Corn-Law League, and £1 towards the ACLL's Quarter of a Million Fund; as Benjamin Potter Brighton Gazette, 1846-02-12, citing the League
1846-02-16 yeoman, of Horsham; made his will: £100 to his wife Mary, and £3000 in trust for her PROB 11/2053
1847-02-10 of Warnham; d. Horsham RD GRO index; Registers of Horsham General Baptist Meeting House

Died, on the 10th instant, Mr Benjamin Potter, of Westons, near Horsham, a most respected tenant of James S. Broadwood, Esq. He was born in the same house in which he, his father, and grandfather died, and tilled the same fields they had trodden and laboured.

Brighton Gazette, 1847-02-18
  bur. Horsham General Baptist meeting house Registers of Horsham General Baptist Meeting House
1847-03-30 of Horsham; will proved at London by Benjn Potter Jr, Rowland Potter, and Robert Rowland PROB 11/2053; index to Death Duty registers


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