A couple excerpts below from The Driver Family: A Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of Robert and Phebe Driver.

Note that the second paragraph means that Johannis is a distant direct ancestor of Thomas. It is not meant to suggest that Thomas was Johannis's son.

Nicholas Potter by trade a mason and of Lynn Mass as early as 1634 was the father of Robert Potter Sr On the division of land in 1638 he received as Ids portion 60 acres He Nicholas had an interest in the Iron Works at Lynn till 1660 when he removed to Salem Mass giving his estates in Lynn to his two children by his first wife Robert Potter Sr and Elizabeth Potter wife of Thomas Newhall of Lynn Mass.

"Elizabeth Potter who together with her brother Robert received part of her father's estate in Lynn Mass there married Dec 29 1652 Thomas Newhall born in 1630 the first white child born in Lynn He was a descendant of Johannis de Nova Aula or John de Newehall or Newhall who built a new hall in the manor where he lived in England giving it to that manor the baronial proprietor of which bestowed on him his name " - Bridges