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HERMAN BOERHAAVE (m). Dutch doctor, theorist, lecturer
and medical writer (1672-1738), of Leyden; he never came to this country.
Dr.
James and Abigail (Barns) Potter of New Fairfield, Connecticut, named their
youngest son Herman Boerhave Potter (1786-1804). Father and
son died within days of each other; the expenses of both funerals were listed
in Dr. Potter's estate papers (1804-06). Dr. Potter's inventory also included
a six-volume set of Dr. Boerhaave's lectures (New Milford Probate #2149),
finally distributed to son William Cicero Potter (1773-1856), who himself
later named a son Herman B. Potter (Charles Edward Potter,Genealogies
of the Potter Families and their Descendants in America [1888], Part
5, p. 3.) (DAR Patriot Index, Millennium Administration [2003],
3:2156 mistakenly gives Mrs. Potter's maiden name as "Boerhave,"
extrapolating from her youngest son's middle name without taking into account
her husband's [and possibly her own] penchant for imaginative naming.)
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The
Name Origins article, written by Julie Helen Otto, originally appeared in The
Weekly Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Issue
#645, July 24, 2013.
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