Elizabeth Potter
She was widowed in 1643 with three children, and for the next three years the New Haven church would not let her marry again.
The obstacle was on both sides. She was under excommunication, and Edward Parker had been to the elder and had not given satisfaction in his account. What the two of them understood by that, and what they had told other people about it, became a matter for the governor, the magistrates and the elders to examine in 1646, because the woman they had been talking to was Mrs. Brewster, who was on trial for speaking against the church.
Her own testimony is in the record. She had gone out for some aniseeds. Mrs. Brewster, understanding who she was, "bad her sit downe, gave her a cupp of sacke & dranke with her," and the first question she asked was why she was not received into the church. Her answer, as she put it herself, being "sometime in a hurrey of sperit & apt to lay blame on the church," might probably have been that she was kept out because she could not leave Edward Parker, "though now she se cause to judge herselfe for it." The elders replied that they had concluded nothing in the case and had only told her to wait for the rule.
She admitted one other thing. Mr. Malbon had told her that she should keep close to the rule, and in so doing she might have peace though Edward Parker should hang himself at her door. She repeated the second half of that to Mrs. Brewster and left off the first, and she concealed whose speech it was. Mrs. Brewster, hearing only the half, wondered at it.
Mrs. Brewster's own view of them was that Edward Parker and the widow Potter were hypocrites and she would prove them so, and that what they said in court was to curry favour so that she might get into the church again. Asked about her familiarity with an excommunicate person, Mrs. Brewster answered that her pastor in England had wondered that none of the sisters would go to a woman cast out of a neighbouring church, to reclaim her.
She and Edward Parker married. On 7 July 1646 they came into court together and gave up the first husband's house and land to his two sons, and settled a yearling heifer on his daughter Hannah. She outlived Parker and married Robert Rose, and died on 28 July 1677.
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Cite: Heirology, "Elizabeth Potter (d. 1677)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/elizabeth-potter-1677-b011bb.