General Notes

Emigrated to the province of Maryland in Aug. 1665.  The immigrant was a
large landholder; owned numerous slaves; a man of prominence and influence
and a staunch Presbyterian..  His home place was called Major's Lot which was
on Collington branch of the Patuxent, 5 mi. above Upper Marlborough, MD.
Described as "of Mt. Calvert Hundred, gntleman and planter".  Probate records
of Prince Geo. Co. MD by eldest son to property both here and in England and
ex of will of son --for further time till they have accts' from Great Britain.

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!Of Prince Georges County.  He descends from Waller de Pottinger who was born
in England in 1270 and was the first of his family to come to the New World.
Liber VIII, folio 42 M.L.O.
He arrived in Maryland in August of 1665.  He held large estates of land in
England and in Maryland.  His will, made 2 AUG 1734, probated, Prince George
Co, MD  7 APR 1735. Liber XX, folio 386.
Also MD Cal. Wills, Vol VII, folio 128.
References: "Genealogy of the BEALL Families in the USA" by Fielder M. M. BEALL
(1929) pg 105/6
"Family Records" Daughters of the American Colonists, by Edna Hull,
FWA library # Gc 929.11, H87f, #1518495. pg 29 & 30.  Hull also states on pg 27
that she has D.C.W. papers on John POTTINGER and Richard ISAACS.
"Lineage Book of the NATIONAL SOCIETY of DAUGHTERS OF FOUNDERS AND PATRIOTS OF
AMERICA" VOLUME XXV (1937) lists Commie Zelle Jackson (Mrs T.C. McGuire) #3764
as a descendent of John Pottinger on pgs 253/4.  John's birthdate is given as
1642 and other sources have listed 1662.  It says that John settled in Calvert
County, MD in 1665.  He was an ardent Prespeterian and with Col. Ninian Beall
and others founded the first Prespeterian Church now in Hyattsville, MD then at
Upper Marlboro in 1704.  He was a member of the first Grand Inquest of MD.

!"To Maryland From Overseas" By Harry Wright Newman, Gen Pub Co Inc., 1986, Pg
140, lists a John Pottinger of Sittingbourne, Co. Kent, sailed from Bristol,
Sept 24, 1684 in the "Maryland Merchant" for Maryland.  REF: Bristol & America,
Pg 174. REF: Shipping lists in the English records in the Council House at
Bristol (per "Pottenger Papers, Vol 1 & 2, Ch 6, Pg 25)

!REF: "John Pottenger, Gentleman of the Province of Maryland, and some of his
Descendants" by Samuel Forrest Pottinger.  Property of the Filson Club,
Louisville, KY.  Written in 1940.  Outstanding document!
This work is labled "Pottenger Papers, Vol 1 & 2 " and is a bound xerox copy of
typewritten pages.  This work lists the birthdate as 1662 for John Pottenger
of Berkshire.  This work also mentions another John of Wiltshire, who came to
Maryland 20 years ahead of our John and who has been listed as our ancestor in
error in several publications.
Baptized into the Church of England 17JUL1662.  Ch 3, pg 14 (20).
Chapter 6 is devoted to this John Potenger of Berkshire.  He is said to have
arrived in Maryland about February 1685.  Thirteen months later, according to
the Lord Proprietary's land lists (MHS) he is found in possession of a valuable
tract of land embracing 550 acres.  At the time this was located in Calvert
County.  He settled in the valley of the Patuxent River, about 5 miles north of
Upper Marlboro, the present county seat of Prince Georges County.  His home
consisted of lands situated on the west side of Collington Branch, between St.
Barnabas church and the state highway leading from Washington City through
Hall's Station on the adjacent railroad, to Annapolis.  He called his
plantation "Major's Lot" but it is not known why.
Ch 6, Pg 38.  He executed a lengthy will 2 AUG 1734 and this will was submitted
to probate 7 APR 1735.  This Will is listed as "1735, Pottenger, John  Prince
Georges Co, 21, 236, in "Index of Maryland Colonial
Wills, 1634-1777, In the Hall of Records, Annapolis, Maryland" compiled by
James M. Magruder, Jr; Genealogical Pub Com. Inc. Baltimore, 1975; GEN, R,
929.3752, M212.i (I found this copy in the Long Beach Library)

!REF:"Family Records, Daughters of the American Colonists", by Edna Hull. Gc
929.11, H87f, #1518495. Pg29.  John Pottenger married Elizabeth McGruder after
the death of Mary Beall.  He had no children with Elizabeth.