Potter, Robert, 1799?-1842
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found: His Mr. Potter's appeal. To the citizens of Nash, Franklin, Warren, and Granville, 1831.
found: Biog. dir. of U.S. Congress, 1989(Potter, Robert; rep. from N.C.; in U.S. Navy 1815-21; lawyer, Halifax, N.C., after 1827 in Oxford, N.C.; member of N.C. House of Commons 1826, 1828, 1834-5; U.S. Congress 1829-Nov. 1831, when he resigned; settled in Texas, 1835; member of Texas Congress 1837-41; b. ca. 1800, Granville, N.C.; d. in Texas Regulator-Moderator War, 3/2/1842)
found: Shearer, E.C. Robert Potter, 1951:p. 2, etc. (b. June, 1799, according to his own statements; several authorities mention birthdate 1/9/1800)
found: LC in RLIN, 2/23/93(hdg.: Potter, Robert, 1799?-1842)
found: NUC pre-1956(Potter, Robert, of Raleigh)
found: MWA/NAIP files(hdg.: Potter, Robert, 1799?-1842; note: resigned from Congress in Nov. 1831 as a result of a scandal in which Potter, in a fit of extreme jealousy, castrated two men whom he accused of adultery with his wife; he was tried for the offence and served two years in Orange Co. jail)
found: Robert Potter, 1976:page 17 (Robert Potter published the poem "The head of Medusa" under the pseudonym Rienzi)
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2019-10-01: revised
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