Potter

Mary Potter
Daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Potter
(1812-1874)
Oakwood Cemetery, Somers Township
(Source: Photo courtesy of Linda and Larry Kopet, USGenWebArchivesProjectWis.)

Mary Potter
Isaac T. Bishop, a prominent member of one of the pioneer families of Kenosha county, who resides in Section 16, Somers Township, was born June 6, 1844, in a log house on his father's farm in this township.  He was the son of Jacob and Fanny (Potter) Bishop.

The maternal grandfather of Isaac T. Bishop, was Nathaniel Potter, a native of New York and a Revolutionary soldier who lived to advanced age.  He married Elizabeth Johnson, who also lived long, becoming the mother of these children:  Ann, Mary, Fanny, Peter, and Sarah.  The Potter family in America dates its history back to two brothers, Nathaniel and Ichabod, who came to New England in 1638.  Nathaniel was admitted as an inhabitant of the Island of Aquidneck April 30, 1639, under King Charles, and he and his brother Ichabod lived at Portsmouth, R.I.  The widow of Ichabod removed to King's Town about 1687.
(Source:  Commemorative Record of Racine and Kenosha Counties, J.H. Beers & Co., Chicago, 1906)