This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XcB.2ACE/238.3 Message Board Post: Dear Madam, Regarding your search for Hannah that married a Remington in Westerly, Rhode Island, bear in mind that Otter is a frequent enough spelling error for the Rhode Island Utter family. In fact Utter is actually of Swedish origin meaning "Otter". While I dont know about the Potter family of Rhode Island I do know that the Utters are an old Westerly, Rhode Island family, their ancestor Nicholas Utter Sr. ab.t 1630-1722 having first settled there by the 1670's.He first arrived at the short lived, Swedish Colony of New Sweden in 1654 as a soldier colonist and after the Dutch took possession of it a few years later, many of the colonists were allowed to remain if they so wished. Obviously Nicholas migrated to New England sometime after that and earlier record I have seen is in the 1670's in Newport, Rhode Island. So I would not ignore the Utters of Westerly, Rhode Island in your search for Hannah's family. I am looking actually for a different Hannah who was a Palmer that marrried a John Utter of Preston, Connecticut and that has been difficult as there is no marriage record and only a land record which lists Hannah as wife of John Utter and no last name. regards Donald Clink