From the book History of Walworth County Wisconsin, by Albert Clayton Beckwith, 
publ. 1912 - Pages 549 - 550
 
ROBERT KNIGHT POTTER (Joseph6, Thomas5, John4, 3, 2, Robert 1), son of Joseph 
POTTER and Anna KNIGHT, was born at Cranston, Rhode Island, April 11, 1791.  
Two of his brothers, Alonzo and Horatio, were bishops of the Episcopal church 
(the first of Pennsylvania, the other of New York), and Paraclete was eighty 
years ago editor of the Poughkeepsie Journal.  Mr. POTTER married Sarah, 
daughter of Daniel and Phoebe PINE, December 25, 1813, and lived many years at 
Beekman, Dutchess county, where four children were born.  In or about 1825 he 
moved to Monroe county, and thence in 1843 to sections 18, 19, Lafayette, with 
his twelve children.  In 1857 he left the farm to his son Joseph and built a 
house at Elkhorn, where he died March 15, 1883.  Mrs. POTTER was born in 1793 
and died July 6, 1887.  Their children were long known in half of the county: 
Emeline (Mrs. Cyrus COLE); Russell (married Lavinia AVERY); Amelia (Mrs. Gain 
R. ALLEN); Joseph (married Rosina ELLSROTH*; 2d, Mrs. Caroline (RANDALL) PENNY); 
Rebecca (Mrs. Marcus C. RUSSELL); Alonzo (married first, Laura PITKIN; second, 
Adelaide MERRICK); Robert (married Mary E. PATTERSON); Horatio; Monroe (married 
Eliza Emily BEMIS); Lorenzo DOW; Paraclete (married Arabella M. SEYMOUR.
 
Submitted By:  Carol
(carolann612@charter.net)

* [per Robert K. Potter's great great great granddaughter, Barbara Davidson 
  (bdavidson645@earthlink.net) the correct spelling for Rosina's maiden name 
  was ELLSWORTH not ELLSROTH.]