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| | ALONZO POTTER - LoveToKnow Article on ALONZO POTTER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | His ancestors, English Friends, settled in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, between 1640 and 1660; his father was a farmer, a Quaker, and in 1798 and in 1814 was a member of the New York Assembly. |
 | | In 1833-1854 he was rector of St Peters, Albany; in November 1854 he was elected provincial bishop of New York in place of Benjamin Tredwell Onderdonk (7911861), who had been suspended, and upon Onderdonks death he became bishop. |
 | | In i868 his diocese was divided, the new dioceses of Albany, Central New York and Long Island being separated from it. |
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