The Bard family : a history and genealogy of the Bards of "Carroll's Delight," together with a chronicle of the Bards and genealogies of the Bard kinship . John Potter Survey The foreiroinff draft of the small Potter tract is from try o a copy made by Emanuel Kuhn, from the originalof John Armstrong. Its position in the Fullerton sur\ey is indicatedapproximately by dotted lines. It is probable thatthe corner of the triangle, at George I^atimers land,touched Muddy Run, and included the spring andthe old dwelling liouse at the grove near tlie BrownsMill graveyard. This is one of the oldest house
The Bard family : a history and genealogy of the Bards of "Carroll's Delight," together with a chronicle of the Bards and genealogies of the Bard kinship . John Potter Survey The foreiroinff draft of the small Potter tract is from try o a copy made by Emanuel Kuhn, from the originalof John Armstrong. Its position in the Fullerton sur\ey is indicatedapproximately by dotted lines. It is probable thatthe corner of the triangle, at George I^atimers land,touched Muddy Run, and included the spring andthe old dwelling liouse at the grove near tlie BrownsMill graveyard. This is one of the oldest houses in 306 THE BARD FAMILY the Conococheague ^alley, and it is the oldest dwel-hno- of the colonial period in the county that is stillstanding. It was built by Captain John Potter, about174(), and was his home at the outbreak of theFrench and Indian war. In it he died, in 1757. Be-fore his death it was a refuge for many of his neigh-bors, flying for safety from the onslaughts of the. Old Idltcr ,,,n savages. A\hen he was at rest, in an unmarkedgrave, in Browns INI ill graveyard, to tliis liouse camethe venera})le Tliomas Brown, the ancestor of theBrowns of l^rowns JNIill, intent upon courting theAN^idow Potter, and from this liouse he married her,in 17(H). After tlie AVidow Potter became Brown, Captain Iotters eldest son, James,afterwards General James Potter, made the househis home, with his unmarried sisters and his cousin, THE BARD KINSHIP Ii07 Katharine Hamilton, until 17(37, when he removedto Penns A alley, in what is now Centre eounty. Itwas early in this latter period, 1760-07, that yoimgJames Chamhers, the eldest son of Colonel BenjaminChambers, the founder of Chambersburg, eame tothe Potter home eourtint^ Miss Hamilton, tlie orphandaughter of John Hamilton and Isabella Potter,whom lie made his wife. So, it will be seen tliat theold Potter homestead has its tales of lo^ e as well aswar. It is a house worthy in every way of its history.
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