{{Short description|18th-century Massachusetts merchant}} '''Jeremiah Pote''' was a leading merchant<ref>{{cite book | last1=Rosenberg | first1=Chaim M. | title=Yankee Colonies across America: Cities upon the Hills | date=24 December 2015 | publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | isbn=978-1-4985-1984-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LSBUCwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Jeremiah+Pote%22&pg=PR9 }}</ref> of Falmouth, Massachusetts (present-day Eastport, Maine) who owned a "hugely profitable shipyard"<ref>{{Cite web| title=The "Pointer Draft" of Falmouth in October 1775 | date=2000-01-06 | author=Charles P.M. Outwin | url=https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1238&context=mainehistoryjournal | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210812123657/https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1238&context=mainehistoryjournal | archive-date=2021-08-12}}</ref> and several mills<ref>{{Cite web| title=1779 to 1783: Looking at Fort George through Loyal Eyes | author=Anette Ruppel Rodrigues | url=http://www.castinehistoricalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/HTY-597-Term-paper-featured-article.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220108001851/http://www.castinehistoricalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/HTY-597-Term-paper-featured-article.pdf | archive-date=2022-01-08}}</ref> rising to prominence during the American Revolution where he was jailed multiple times.<ref>{{cite book | last1=Rosenberg | first1=Chaim M. | title=Yankee Colonies across America: Cities upon the Hills | date=24 December 2015 | publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | isbn=978-1-4985-1984-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LSBUCwAAQBAJ&q=pote&pg=PR9 }}</ref> He was originally from Marblehead, Massachusetts.<ref>{{Cite web| title=1779 to 1783: Looking at Fort George through Loyal Eyes | author=Anette Ruppel Rodrigues | url=http://www.castinehistoricalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/HTY-597-Term-paper-featured-article.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220108001851/http://www.castinehistoricalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/HTY-597-Term-paper-featured-article.pdf | archive-date=2022-01-08}}</ref>

==Life==

Organising the Penobscot Loyalist evacuation with a handful of other prominent figures, Pote fled with the large group to settle in New Brunswick, Canada where he became a central planner for the development of Charlotte County.<ref>{{cite web | title=Gallop, William | url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/gallop_william_5F.html }}</ref>

In 1774, John Adams wrote to Abigail Adams that he had learned of a dispute between Captain Pote and William Gardiner, during which Pote refused to sign an agreement boycotting British goods and "rail'd away at Boston Mobs, drowning tea and tarring Malcolm".<ref>{{cite web | title=Adams Papers Digital Edition - Massachusetts Historical Society | url=https://www.masshist.org/publications/adams-papers/index.php/view/ADMS-04-01-02-0085 }}</ref> In May 1777, Captain Pote fled to British North America in an open boat.<ref>{{cite web | title=Loyalist Trails 2022-02 | date=10 January 2022 | url=https://uelac.ca/loyalist-trails/loyalist-trails-2022-02/ }}</ref>

In the 1780s, Pote offered a supporting affidavit to his son-in-law Robert Pagan noting that as owner of 9/16ths of the ''Favourite'' schooner, he could confirm considerable financial loss.<ref name="source">s:Acadiensis/Volume 2/Number 4/Robert and Miriam Pagan</ref> He built his home in St. Andrews, New Brunswick.<ref>{{cite web | title=Provincial Archives of New Brunswick | url=https://archives2.gnb.ca/exhibits/forthavoc/html/Passamaquoddy.aspx?culture=en-CA }}</ref>

Jeremiah Pote had two daughters, Miriam was engaged to an unknown suitor but broke it off to marry Robert Pagan, and her sister Joanna was the first wife of Thomas Wyer.<ref name="source"/>

==Death==

He died November 23 1796.<ref>https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.8_06939_13/51</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Old St. Andrews | url=http://www.davidsullivan.ca/scrapbook/oldstandrews/loyalists.1907.html }}</ref> Upon his death, he was not buried in a churchyard but on a lot he'd sold which became a graveyard for himself, his wife Elizabeth,<ref>https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.8_06939_13/51</ref> their children, and three families he called friends, Thomas Wyer and wife Mary, Robert Pagan and wife Miriam, and Samuel Andrews and wife Hannah.<ref>{{cite web | title=Loyalist Trails 2022-02 | date=10 January 2022 | url=https://uelac.ca/loyalist-trails/loyalist-trails-2022-02/ }}</ref>

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