Gazlay Family History
Patience Potter
Parents
| Father | [unknown] |
| Mother | [unknown] |
Personal Information
| Record Created: 22 February 2021; Last Edited: 25 May 2021 |
| Person ID | 10488 |
| Name | Patience Potter |
| Gender | Female |
| Born | 17301 |
| Married | 21 October 1750 in Richmond, Washington County, Rhode Island to Ezekiel Tefft1, 2 |
| Died | 18031 |
Person/Family
| Spouse 1 |  Ezekiel Tefft |
| Born | 1728 |
| Married | 21 October 1750 in Richmond, Washington County, Rhode Island to Patience Potter |
| Married | to Eunice Chapman |
| Died | 1811 |
| Children | of Patience Potter and Ezekiel Tefft: |
| +1. | Marcy Tefft |
| Born | 1751 |
| Married | to Gideon Lillibridge |
| Died | 1829 |
| +2. | Hezekiah Tefft |
| Born | 1753 |
| Married | 23 March 1775 in Richmond, Washington County, Rhode Island to Sarah Lillibridge |
| Died | 1822 |
Sources
- Gazlay, Lee, Ancestors of Stephen Tefft, Late of Jewett City, Connecticut. August 5, 2020, Mystic, Connecticut. This paper presents research on Stephen Tefft, who lived in Rhode Island and Connecticut, eventually settling in Jewett City, Griswold, Connecticut. The research indicates that Stephen was a son of Ezekiel Tefft and his wife Amie (or Amy) Wilcox. The couple raised their family in Rhode Island and later removed to Smyrna, New York, while son Stephen remained in Connecticut. Available as a .pdf at Gazlay Family History (website), under Sources.
- Arnold’s Rhode Island Vital Records through 1850, compiled by James N. Arnold. Volume 5, Part VI, Richmond, Marriages, page 19. “Tefft, Ezekiel, of Richmond, and Patience Potter, of Exeter; m. by Stephen Richmond, Justice, Oct. 21, 1750.”