0 HEAD 1 SOUR FTW 2 VERS 11.0 2 NAME Family Tree Maker for Windows 2 CORP MyFamily.com, Inc. 3 ADDR 360 W 4800 N 4 CONT Provo, UT 84604 3 PHON (801) 705-7000 1 DEST ROOTS 1 DATE 24 NOV 2004 1 CHAR ANSI 1 FILE C:\Documents and Settings\Cathy\My Documents\Family_Stories\PidcockStories\Potts\Mabel-Potts-Ancestors.GED 1 GEDC 2 VERS 5.5 2 FORM LINEAGE-LINKED 0 @I0001@ INDI 1 NAME George Sherman /Potts/ 2 SOUR @S02371@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT macchilly@@aol.com 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 28 SEP 1845 2 PLAC Laurence Township, Mercer Co. NJ 1 DEAT 2 DATE 21 OCT 1898 2 PLAC Trenton, Mercer Co. NJ 1 OCCU 2 PLAC Potts & Manley Drapers 1 OCCU 2 PLAC Merchant 2 SOUR @S08139@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 OCCU 2 PLAC Potts' Specialties, 8 N. Broad St.: Notion Store 2 SOUR @S06039@ 2 SOUR @S07910@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 RELI 2 PLAC Quaker 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 CENS 2 DATE 1890 2 PLAC Trenton, Mercer Co., NJ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 ADDR George Sherman Potts 2 CONT 14 Greene St. 2 CONT (1880) 2 CONT Trenton 1 FAMS @F001@ 1 FAMC @F002@ 1 NOTE @NI0001@ 0 @NI0001@ NOTE 1 CONC Friends Intelligencer v 55 p. 785 1 CONT Memorial minute read 12/10/1898 at Burlington First Day School Union, 1 CONC Crosswicks NJ 1 CONT 1 CONT Clerk of Trenton Mtg, Union of First Day School and Association. One of 1 CONC the most active members since 1892. 1 CONT 1 CONT # Occupation: Notion Store 1 CONT # Occupation: Merchant 1 CONT # Religion: Quaker 1 CONT # Note: residence 1884: 8 N. Greene St., Trenton, NJ Manufacturer of 1 CONC Ladies' and Children's Ready-Made Suits, Coats,etc. No. 8 Greene St., 1 CONC Trenton, NJ. Established in 1869 by Potts & Manley. Mr. Manley retired in 1 CONC 1877. Ladies' and children's ready made suits was his specialty. He 1 CONC carried coats, cloaks, muslin wear and underwear, fancy goods, 1 CONC hosiery,gloves, notions, etc. The store was 18x50 feet with an adjoining 1 CONC room 18x25 feet used exclusively for coats and cloaks. He had a 1 CONC reputation for honesty and fair dealing. His products had superior make, 1 CONC quality and excellent finish. 1 CONT # Change Date: 18 FEB 2003[florence-potts-ancestors.FTW] 1 CONT 1 CONT aft 1896 1 CONT NJ 1890 Veterans Schedules, NJ2162264, p. 01 1 CONT residence 1884: 8 N. Greene St., Trenton, NJ Manufacturer of Ladies' 1 CONC and Children's Ready-Made Suits, Coats, etc. No. 8 Greene St., Trenton, 1 CONC NJ. Established in 1869 by Potts & Manley. Mr. Manley retired in 1877. 1 CONC Ladies' and children's ready made suits was his specialty. He carried 1 CONC coats, cloaks, muslin wear and underwear, fancy goods, hosiery, gloves, 1 CONC notions, etc. The store was 18x50 feet with an adjoining room 18x25 feet 1 CONC used exclusively for coats and cloaks. He had a reputation for honesty 1 CONC and fair dealing. His products had superior make, quality and excellent 1 CONC finish. Gardner H. Cain was one of the executors to his will. Cain 1 CONC lived in Trenton, NJ. Francis Peaslee, A. N. Peaslee, and Hannah 1 CONC Peaslee(Esther's sister) were named as witnesses attesting the said 1 CONC codicil and lived in S. Pittsfield, NH. There was an order for commission 1 CONC to deposition of foreign witness on Nov. 11, 1898 regarding the 1 CONC Peaslees. Charles B. Case was also named executor. Will: I Goerge 1 CONC SHerman Potts of the city of Trenton in the county of Mercer and state of 1 CONC New Jersey, Being of sound and disposing mind and memory do make and 1 CONC publish my last will and testament in the manner following: that is to 1 CONC say First: I do order and direct that all my just debts be paid as soon 1 CONC after my decease as can cirmountly? be. Second: I do order and direct 1 CONC that the business conducted and owned by me on Broad Street in said city 1 CONC of Trenton be closed up as is consistent with existing leases and the 1 CONC disposal of the business. The business to be closed out either by retail 1 CONC my executors herinafter named to conduct the business in the manner that 1 CONC will seem to them the best interest of my estate or it may be sold in a 1 CONC lump if a purchaser can be found. All of which I leave to the judgement 1 CONC of my executors. Third: I do order and direct that the house and lot 1 CONC and furniture in which I now live be kept as a home for my children and 1 CONC request that my children make their home there until the youngest child 1 CONC shall have attained the age of twenty-one years unless it may happen that 1 CONC from financial losses it may prove to be too expensive a home for my 1 CONC children to occupy , in which case I do order and direct my executors 1 CONC hereinafter to sell said house and lot either the whole or part as to 1 CONC them shall seem best and do direct my executors to give good and 1 CONC sufficient deeds in law therefore. Fourth: Should the above mentioned 1 CONC house and lot be sold I do order and direct my executors either to rent a 1 CONC house or to purchase a less expensive house to be used as a home for my 1 CONC children in which case my executors shall sell so mcuh of my furniture as 1 CONC will not be needed in the new home always respecting as far as possible 1 CONC the wish of any one of my chidlren to retain possesions or to retain any 1 CONC special piece or pieces of furniture, books, pictures, or plates. 1 CONC Fifth: I do order and direct that the monies insuring from the sale of 1 CONC my business above mentioned and from the sale of such real estated and 1 CONC personal property as may be sold shall be safely invested in first bonds 1 CONC and mortgages in real estate worth fully double the same, so much of my 1 CONC money as shall at the time of my decease be invested in stocks that are 1 CONC paying at least five per cent per annum and seem likely to hold their 1 CONC value or to increase such investment many remain so long as they appear 1 CONC to be safe. The income arising from all of the investments above 1 CONC mentioned shall be used to defray the expenses of living and the 1 CONC education of my chidlren. The estate to be kept as a whole until my 1 CONC youngest child shall attain the age of twenty-one years, at which time 1 CONC said securities shall be either sold by my executors herinafter named and 1 CONC the money arising from such sale divided among my children, share and 1 CONC shrae alike or divided among my children share and share alike without 1 CONC sale or conversion itno cash provided such division can be made so as to 1 CONC be mutually agreeable to all the children. Should either of my children 1 CONC be dead at the time of my decease leaving heirs of their body him or her 1 CONC surviving my estate or should either of my chidlren be dead at the time 1 CONC fixed for the division of my estate leaving heirs of their body him or 1 CONC her surviving such heirs to take their parents share of my estate. 1 CONC Sixth: My life insurance money shall not be considered a part of the 1 CONC estate or money above disposed of but shall be paid direct to the 1 CONC guardian of my children to be invested by said Guardian as the rest of my 1 CONC estate is directed to be invested and held in trust by said Guardians for 1 CONC my chidlren until the youngest child attains teh age of twenty-one 1 CONC years. The income arising therefrom to be used in connection with the 1 CONC income of my first mentioned estate in the support and education of my 1 CONC chidren until the youngest chidl attains the age of twenty-one years, but 1 CONC should my eldest daughter Mabel marry and leave the home of the others' , 1 CONC then it is my wish and I do order if she so desires that her 1 CONC proportionate share of my life insurance be paid to her at the time of 1 CONC her marriage for her own use. The remainder to be divided among the 1 CONC other children when the youngest shall attain the age of twenty-one 1 CONC years. Seventh: I do order and direct that at the final settlement and 1 CONC division of my estate among my children, that all of their mother's 1 CONC effects together with the clothing, furniture and libraries be divided 1 CONC among my surviving children so far as the slightest disagreement prevails 1 CONC about a division, then such articles are to be sold as a public sale and 1 CONC the highest bidder to be teh purchaser, be he child or stranger. 1 CONC Eighth: It is my wish that if Mabel should be taken away before the 1 CONC other children have finished their education, that the children shoulb 1 CONC be placed in George's School, if suitable arraingements can be made 1 CONC during the school year and should board in the country during the 1 CONC summer. Ninth: I do hereby constitute and appoint Charles B. Case and 1 CONC Gardner H. Cain Executors of this my last will and testament, guardians 1 CONC of my children and trustees under this will until the youngest child 1 CONC attains the age of twenty-one years. In witness whereof I have hereunto 1 CONC set my hand and seal the sixteenth day of May eighteen hundred and nintey 1 CONC six. G. Sherman Potts Signed, acknowledged and declared by the said 1 CONC George Sherman Potts as and for his last will and testament, in the 1 CONC presence of us (both being present at the same time) who at his request 1 CONC in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto 1 CONC subscribed ou names as witnesses. Emily Nobel Margaretta Y. Hendrickson 1 CONC Codicil to Last Will and Testament: South Pittsfield New Hampshire 1 CONC Whereas I, G. Sherman Potts of the city of Trenton in the county of 1 CONC Mercer and the State of New Jersey, have made my last will and testament 1 CONC in writing, in the year 1896. Now, therefore, I do, by this my writing, 1 CONC which I hereby declare to be a codicil to my said last will and 1 CONC testtament and to be taken as a part thereof, order and direct that my 1 CONC will is that the sum of Four Dollars ($4.00) a week be paid to my 1 CONC daughter Mabel, from the day of my death, as a payment for keeping the 1 CONC family together and caring for them. Should they go to boarding and her 1 CONC duties be lightened then the amount may be reduced according to the 1 CONC judgement of my executors. In Witness whereof I, the above named 1 CONC testator, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this first day of October 1 CONC in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and ninety eight. Geo. Sherman 1 CONC Potts Then and there signed, sealed and published by G. SHerman Potts 1 CONC the testator as and for a codicil to his last will in the presence of us, 1 CONC who at his request , in his presence, and in the presence of each other 1 CONC have hereto set our names as witnesses. Francis Peaslee A.N. Peaslee 1 CONC Hannah Peaslee Residence at time of inventory of estate 495 Rutherford 1 CONC Ave. There is a long list of the inventory of his store within the 1 CONC will. His personal estate was worth $6003.37. This included household 1 CONC goods, $1379.62 in the Trenton bank, $3795=33 shares stock Woddbury Bank, 1 CONC House and lot Rutherford in Trenton, NJ $4500 less $4300 mortgage, 1/9 1 CONC interest in Potts farm at Lawrenceville, NJ. "The old merchants who yet 1 CONC stick to their stores will miss the two straight forward men whome death 1 CONC called last week. They all honored and respected Wesley E. Wilson, who, 1 CONC by honest and persistent efforts gained a competency, and they no less 1 CONC respected George S. Potts, although fortune did not smile so generously 1 CONC upon him." 1 CONT 1 CONT The wording of their marriage certificate is as 1 CONT follows: 1 CONT Whereas George Sherman Potts Jr. of the City of Trenton in the 1 CONT County of Mercer and the State of New Jersey, Son of George S. Potts of 1 CONC the 1 CONT township of Lawrence in the County of Mercer and the State of New Jersey 1 CONT and Mary B. his wife. And Esther Peaslee Daughter of Amos J. Peaslee of 1 CONT the township of Greenwich in the County of Gloucester and State of New 1 CONT Jersey aforesaid and Hannah his Wife: having proposed Marriage with each 1 CONT other before the Woodbury Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of 1 CONT Friends and having consent of parents their said proposal of Marriage was 1 CONT allowed of by The said Meeting. 1 CONT NOW THESE ARE TO CERTIFY whom it may concern that for the full 1 CONT accomplishment of their said proposal this Eleventh day of the Third month 1 CONT in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and Seventy-five they, 1 CONT the said George Sherman Potts Jr. & Esther Peaslee appeared in a Meeting 1 CONT of Relations and Friends at the house of Amos J. Peaslee aforesaid and the 1 CONT said George Sherman Potts Jr. taking the said Esther Peaslee by the hand, 1 CONT did, on this solemn occasion, openly declare, that he took her, the said 1 CONT Esther Peaslee to be his Wife promising, with Divine Assistance to be unto 1 CONT her a loving and faithful Husband until death should separate them, and 1 CONT then, the said Esther Peaslee did in like manner declare, that she took 1 CONC him, 1 CONT the said George Sherman Potts Jr. to be her husband promising with Divine 1 CONT Assistance to be unto him a loving and faithful wife until death should 1 CONT separate them. AND MOREOVER they the said George Sherman Potts Jr. & 1 CONT Esther Peaslee she according to the custom of Marriage assuming the name 1 CONT of her Husband did, as a further confirmation thereof, then and there to 1 CONT these presents set their Hands. 1 CONT And We whose names are also here Signed by 1 CONT unto subscribed, being present at the George Sherman Potts Jr 1 CONT Solemnization of the said Marriage Esther Peaslee 1 CONT and Subscription, have, as Witnesses 1 CONT thereunto, set our Hands, the day 1 CONT and year above written. 1 CONT 1 CONT There are about fifty signatures attached to the certificate. 0 @I0002@ INDI 1 NAME Esther Lippincott /Peaslee/ 2 SOUR @S06039@ 2 SOUR @S08139@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX F 1 ALIA /Hettie/ 1 BIRT 2 DATE 16 MAR 1851 2 PLAC Greenwich Twp, Gloucester Co., Berkley, NJ 2 SOUR @S08274@ 2 SOUR @S06039@ 2 SOUR @S08139@ 2 SOUR @S07983@ 2 SOUR @S08259@ 2 SOUR @S08231@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 13 MAR 1896 2 PLAC Trenton, NJ 1 BURI 2 PLAC Riverview cemetery , Trenton NJ 1 OCCU 2 PLAC none 2 SOUR @S06039@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 RELI 2 PLAC Quaker 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F001@ 1 FAMC @F086@ 1 NOTE @NI0002@ 0 @NI0002@ NOTE 1 CONC They owned a drapery shop in Trenton, NJ and lived in an apartment above 1 CONC the shop. 1 CONT Friends Intelligencer v53 p 257 says she died of 1 CONC Typhoid[florence-potts-ancestors.FTW] 1 CONT 1 CONT Her nephew Amos Peaslee III was ambassador to Australia residence 1884: 1 CONC 8 N. Greene St., Trenton, NJ At the time of their fourth child's birth 1 CONC the Birth Return lists 4 children, but only three living. Either Esther 1 CONC or Amos had died before Nov. 1884. 0 @I0003@ INDI 1 NAME Mabel /Potts/ 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE 7 SEP 1877 2 PLAC Trenton, Mercer Co. NJ 1 DEAT 2 DATE 23 MAY 1951 2 PLAC Trenton, Mercer Co. NJ 1 FAMC @F001@ 0 @I0070@ INDI 1 NAME George Sherman /Potts/ 2 SOUR @S02371@ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 10 OCT 1807 2 PLAC Mercer Co. NJ 1 DEAT 2 DATE 7 APR 1882 2 PLAC Mercer Co. NJ 1 OCCU 2 PLAC 1860 Farmer 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 OCCU 2 PLAC 1870 retired farmer 2 SOUR @S05984@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 OCCU 2 PLAC 1880 farmer 2 SOUR @S06032@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 RELI 2 PLAC Quaker 2 SOUR @S08259@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F002@ 1 FAMC @F003@ 1 NOTE @NI0070@ 0 @NI0070@ NOTE 1 CONC # ID: I54 1 CONT # Name: George Sherman POTTS 1 CONT # Sex: M 1 CONT # Birth: 10 OCT 1807 in Mercer, NJ 1 CONT # Note: 1808 according to census 1 CONT # Death: 7 APR 1882 in Mercer, NJ 1 CONT # Occupation: Farmer 1 CONT # Religion: Quaker 1 CONT # Note: March 22, 1875 Daily True American reported on Wall StreetMarkets 1 CONC "gold opened at 116 1/8, money is nominal at 3 @@ 4%"Inventory included 1 CONC gild looking glass, card table, stove, smallcollection of books, 12 rush 1 CONC bottom chairs, kitchen stove, washbench, chamber stove, 3 wooden bottom 1 CONC chairs, cherry table,looking galss, barrel of vinegar, maple bed stand, 1 CONC wash stand,wardrobe and looking glass, mahogany stand in space room, 1 CONC doubletrundle bed stead, shot gun, round table, mahogany cradle,Sorrel 1 CONC horse named Pete, 1/2 int in Brown horse named Dexter, 7cows, 3 plows, 1 1 CONC harrow, 1 farm wagon and harness, 3 hogs, 20chickens, 1 royce reaper and 1 CONC wood mower, 1 cultivator, cornworker, grain fan, hand power corn sheller, 1 CONC leather belt, haycutter with knife. Total value $438.50. Executor George 1 CONC S.Potts Jr. 1 CONT # Change Date: 22 JAN 2003[florence-potts-ancestors.FTW] 1 CONT 1 CONT 1808 according to census 1 CONT March 22, 1875 Daily True American reported on Wall Street Markets "gold 1 CONC opened at 116 1/8, money is nominal at 3 @@ 4%" Inventory included gild 1 CONC looking glass, card table, stove, small collection of books, 12 rush 1 CONC bottom chairs, kitchen stove, wash bench, chamber stove, 3 wooden bottom 1 CONC chairs, cherry table, looking galss, barrel of vinegar, maple bed stand, 1 CONC wash stand, wardrobe and looking glass, mahogany stand in space room, 1 CONC double trundle bed stead, shot gun, round table, mahogany cradle, Sorrel 1 CONC horse named Pete, 1/2 int in Brown horse named Dexter, 7 cows, 3 plows, 1 1 CONC harrow, 1 farm wagon and harness, 3 hogs, 20 chickens, 1 royce reaper and 1 CONC wood mower, 1 cultivator, corn worker, grain fan, hand power corn 1 CONC sheller, leather belt, hay cutter with knife. Total value $438.50. 1 CONC Executor George S. Potts Jr. In 1860 his land was worth $11,000 and 1 CONC personal property $2000. In 1870 his land was worth $15,000 and personal 1 CONC property $1000. 1870 lived next to Wm. Hunt 0 @I0087@ INDI 1 NAME Mary /Burdsall/ 2 SOUR @S02371@ 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE 19 JUL 1812 1 DEAT 2 DATE 21 SEP 1889 2 PLAC Lawrenceville, NJ 1 DEAT 2 DATE 25 SEP 1889 2 PLAC Trenton, Mercer, NJ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 RELI 2 PLAC Quaker aka Society of Friends 1 OCCU 2 PLAC Keeping House 2 SOUR @S06032@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F002@ 1 FAMC @F046@ 1 NOTE @NI0087@ 0 @NI0087@ NOTE 1 CONC Friends Intelligencer v46 p. 825 1 CONT She died suddenly of heart failure. 1 CONT 1 CONT She was a member of Chesterfield Monthly Meeting and Trenton Preparative 1 CONC Meeting 1 CONT 1 CONT # Occupation: Keeping House 1 CONT # Note: Inventory of her estate done by Anna Potts, George S. Potts 1 CONC executors and Isaac Cadwallader and James H. Cox appraisers. Included 1 CONC items such as picture of William Burdsall, picture of Niagra Falls, 30 1 CONC yds. Brussels carpet, Brittania Set, Bellows,spittoon, lawn mower, 1 CONC silverplated knives, forks, rockingchair, writing desk, commode, photo 1 CONC album, silk quilts, warmingpan, 2 feather beds, 1 straw bed, sleigh 1 CONC bells, riding bridle and martingale, wine safe, quilting frames, feather 1 CONC bed and straw bed, deer skin, 3 shades, 4 grain boxes, clock, stove, 1 CONC flyscreens in house, small table, scales and weights, wine safe in 1 CONC cellar, washing machine and wringer, 2 meat casks, lye tub, vinegar, 1 CONC lime, 4 wash tubs, grind stone, wheel barrow, plow,farm wagons, carriage, 1 CONC royce reaper, mowing machine, sled and sleigh, furrowing sled, wind mill, 1 CONC hand corn sheller, ladder, little sorrel horse, bay horse, Pete horse, 8 1 CONC cows, 1/2 int. in 4 fattening hogs, 1/2 int. in 4 shoats, 4 pigs, 1/2 1 CONC int. 4 sows and 20 pigs, 30 chickens, heavy harnesses, lot of wheat, 100 1 CONC bushels of corn, 39 bushels of oats, 10 tons timothy hay, 12tons clover 1 CONC hay, 37 1/2 bush potatoes see size, 14 bush potatoes first size, cash in 1 CONC bank $391.52, amt. owing by GS Potts$183.68, 2/3 int. 4 shares Northern 1 CONC Pacific RR Stock $188, Notegiven by GS Potts $1000. Total value $2727. 1 CONC 60. (see actual copy for all inclusive list) 1 CONT # Change Date: 22 JAN 2003[florence-potts-ancestors.FTW] 1 CONT 1 CONT Inventory of her estate done by Anna Potts, George S. Potts executors and 1 CONC Isaac Cadwallader and James H. Cox appraisers. Included items such as 1 CONC picture of William Burdsall, picture of Niagra Falls, 30 yds. Brussels 1 CONC carpet, Brittania Set, Bellows, spittoon, lawn mower, silverplated 1 CONC knives, forks, rocking chair, writing desk, commode, photo album, silk 1 CONC quilts, warming pan, 2 feather beds, 1 straw bed, sleigh bells, riding 1 CONC bridle and martingale, wine safe, quilting frames, feather bed and straw 1 CONC bed, deer skin, 3 shades, 4 grain boxes, clock, stove, fly screens in 1 CONC house, small table, scales and weights, wine safe in cellar, washing 1 CONC machine and wringer, 2 meat casks, lye tub, vinegar, lime, 4 wash tubs, 1 CONC grind stone, wheel barrow, plow, farm wagons, carriage, royce reaper, 1 CONC mowing machine, sled and sleigh, furrowing sled, wind mill, hand corn 1 CONC sheller, ladder, little sorrel horse, bay horse, Pete horse, 8 cows, 1/2 1 CONC int. in 4 fattening hogs, 1/2 int. in 4 shoats, 4 pigs, 1/2 int. 4 sows 1 CONC and 20 pigs, 30 chickens, heavy harnesses, lot of wheat, 100 bushels of 1 CONC corn, 39 bushels of oats, 10 tons timothy hay, 12 tons clover hay, 37 1 CONC 1/2 bush potatoes see size, 14 bush potatoes first size, cash in bank 1 CONC $391.52, amt. owing by GS Potts $183.68, 2/3 int. 4 shares Northern 1 CONC Pacific RR Stock $188, Note given by GS Potts $1000. Total value $2727. 1 CONC 60. (see actual copy for all inclusive list) 0 @I0111@ INDI 1 NAME William /Potts/ 2 SOUR @S14866@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 28 AUG 1773 2 PLAC Monmouth Co. NJ 1 BIRT 2 DATE 28 AUG 1773 2 PLAC Monmouth, NJ 2 SOUR @S06032@ 2 SOUR @S08468@ 2 SOUR @S05684@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 17 MAY 1854 2 PLAC Mercer Co. NJ 1 REFN 12882 1 FAMS @F003@ 1 FAMC @F004@ 1 NOTE @NI0111@ 0 @NI0111@ NOTE 1 CONC # Note: first cousin to wife Resided circa 1815 at the corner of Warren 1 CONC and Perry St.,Trenton, NJ in the "Central House", built in the early 1 CONC 1700's. 1 CONT I William Potts of the city of Trenton, in the county of Mercer and State 1 CONC of New Jersey-blessed with Health and of a sound and disposing mind and 1 CONC memory, do make and ordain this to be my Last Will and testament. In the 1 CONC first place, it is my will that all my debts and funeral expenses be paid 1 CONC by my Executors as soon as conveniently may be after my decease, out of 1 CONC the first moneys that shall come into their hands from any portion of my 1 CONC Estate,real or personal. 1 CONT Item-I give and devise to my beloved wife Anna Potts and to her Heirs, 1 CONC Executors, administrators or assigns forever. All that House and Lot 1 CONC where on I now reside,situate at the corner of Warren and Perry Streets, 1 CONC in the city of Trenton, subject to the present incumberence or mortgage 1 CONC now on it. Also I give an bequeath to her as afores aid, all theHousehold 1 CONC and Kitchen furniture and utensils in and belonging to the said House at 1 CONC the time of my decease, also my Library and all my Plate. Together with 1 CONC the sum of Three Hundred Dollarsper year, to be paid her semi-annually by 1 CONC my Executors in equal payments during her natural life. The above 1 CONC Legacies, together with the further provisions herein after made, are to 1 CONC be taken and received in full satisfaction for Dower, and in lieu thereof. 1 CONT Item_I give and bequest to my two Daughters Rebecca and Margarretta the 1 CONC sum of Five Thousand Dollars each, that is to Rebecca Five Thousand 1 CONC Dollars, and to Margaretta Five ThousandDollars. 1 CONT Item. I give and bequeath to my son George S. Potts,all the debts 1 CONC standing on my Books against him, and all the obligations I hold against 1 CONC him, and hereby discharge and exonerate him from the payment therof and I 1 CONC also in addition hereto, give and bequesth to him all the Stock and 1 CONC Farming utensils which I purchased for him to commence Farming 1 CONC with.Together with the sum of Two Thousand Dollars to be paid him by my 1 CONC Executors. 1 CONT Item_I give and bequeath to my son William Henry Potts, the sum of Three 1 CONC Thousand Dollars, provided he brings no claims or charges against me or 1 CONC my estate, for any debts or services rendered prior to the sixth day of 1 CONC February in the year OneThousand and Eight hindred and forty four. (6th 1 CONC Feb. 1844) and in case he should bring such claims or charges, then they 1 CONC shall be deducted from the above legacy. 1 CONT Item_ After there Legacies are settled, the Residue and remainder of my 1 CONC Estate, I order and direct my Executors hereinafter named, as soon as it 1 CONC is conveniently can be done, to sell and dispose of at Public Sale, and 1 CONC sufficient Deed or Deeds to make the purchasers there of. The proceeds of 1 CONC such sale or sales, I do hereby order and direct my said Executors to pay 1 CONC over to my wife Anna, and the four Children George S., Rebecca, 1 CONC Margaretta and William Henry, equally share and share alike.And in case 1 CONC my wife Anna or either of my daughters above named, should die before 1 CONC this division or distribution, or any former division or distribution of 1 CONC my Estate can be made, the former without leaving a will, and the latter 1 CONC without leaving children, then my will is that the share or leagues 1 CONC intended for the deceased, be equally divided among my surviving heirs 1 CONC and legates as above named share and share alike. Also that the principle 1 CONC , of sum of Five Thousand Dollards, invested for the maintenance of my 1 CONC wife, after her decease, shall be divided among my children in the same 1 CONC equal manner. 1 CONT Lastly~Reposing full confidence in my wife Anna, and my sones George S. 1 CONC and William Henry Potts. I do hereby nominate andappoint them my 1 CONC Executors of this my last will and testament,and vest in them full power 1 CONC and authority to sell and dispose of my Estate as above directed in fee 1 CONC simple or otherwise, in every respects as fully and amply as I could 1 CONC myself do, if living allowing unto them Feve per cent commission for 1 CONC their serving~And I do hereby revoke all former will or wills made byme, 1 CONC and declare this alone to be my last will and testament.For with it 1 CONC whereof I have here unto set my hand and seal, thisFourteenth~day of 1 CONC December in the year of Our Lord one thousandand eight hundred & forty 1 CONC eight~Signed, sealed I pronounced in the presence of us, who 1 CONC havesubscribed in the prescence of each other.Charles PottsB.C. SmithA.C. 1 CONC ThompsonWilliam PottsHe adds a codicil to his will on Jan. 5, 1852 1 CONC witnessed byIsrael Howell, Charles Potts, and Robert Thomson. 1 CONT # Change Date: 4 JAN 2003[florence-potts-ancestors.FTW] 1 CONT 1 CONT first cousin to wife Resided circa 1815 at the corner of Warren and 1 CONC Perry St., Trenton, NJ in the "Central House", built in the early 1 CONC 1700's. I William Potts of the city of Trenton, in the county of Mercer 1 CONC adn State of New Jersey-blessed with Health and of a sound and disposing 1 CONC mind and memory, do make and ordain this to be my Last Will and 1 CONC testament. In the first place, it is my will that all my debts and 1 CONC funeral expenses ve paid by my Executors as soon as conveniently may be 1 CONC after my decease, out of the first moneys that shall come into their 1 CONC hands from any portion of my Estate, real or personal. Item-I give and 1 CONC devise to my beloved wife Anna Potts and to her Heirs, Executors, 1 CONC administrators or assigns forever. All that House and Lot where on I now 1 CONC reside, situate at the corner of Warren and Perry Streets, in the city of 1 CONC Trenton, subject to the present incumberence or mortgage now on it. Also 1 CONC I give an bequeath to her as afores aid, all the Household and Kitchen 1 CONC furniture and utensils in and belonging to the said House at the time of 1 CONC my decease, also my Library and all my Plate. Together with the sum of 1 CONC Three Hundred Dollars per year, to be paid her semi-annually by my 1 CONC Executors in equal payments during her natural life. The above Legacies, 1 CONC together with the further provisions herein after made, are to be taken 1 CONC and received in full satisfaction for Dower, and in lieu thereof. Item_I 1 CONC give and bequest to my two Daughters Rebecca and Margarretta the sum of 1 CONC Five Thousand Dollars each, that is to Rebecca Five Thousand Dollars, and 1 CONC to Margaretta Five Thousand Dollars. Item. I give and bequeath to my 1 CONC son George S. Potts, all the debts standing on my Books against him, and 1 CONC all the obkigations I hold against him, and hereby discharge and 1 CONC exonerate him from the payment therof and I also in addition hereto, give 1 CONC and bequesth to him all the Stock and Farming utensils which I purchased 1 CONC for him to commence Farming with. Together with the sum of Two Thousand 1 CONC Dollars to be paid him by my Executors. Item_I give and bequeath to my 1 CONC son William Henry Potts, the sum of Three Thousand Dollars, provided he 1 CONC brings no claims or charges against me or my estate, for any debts or 1 CONC services rendered prior to the sixth day of February in the year One 1 CONC Thousand and Eight hindred and forty four. (6th Feb. 1844) and in case he 1 CONC should bring such claims or charges, then they shall be deducted from the 1 CONC above legacy. Item_ After there Legacies are settled, the Residue and 1 CONC remainder of my Estate, I order and direct my Executors herein after 1 CONC named, as soon as it is conveniently can be done, to sell and dispose of 1 CONC at Public Sale, and sufficient Deed or Deeds to make the purchasers there 1 CONC of. The proceeds of such sale or sales, I do hereby order and direct my 1 CONC said Executors to pay over to my wife Anna, and the four Children George 1 CONC S., Rebecca, Margaretta and William Henry, equally share and share alike. 1 CONC And in case my wife Anna or either of my daughters above named, should 1 CONC die before this division or distribution, or any former division or 1 CONC distribution of my Estate can be made, the former without leaving a will, 1 CONC and the latter without leaving children, then my will is that the share 1 CONC or leagues intended for the deceased, be equally divided among my 1 CONC surviving heirs and legates as above named share and share alike. Also 1 CONC that the principle , of sum of Five Thousand Dollards, invested for the 1 CONC maintenance of my wife, after her decease, shall be divided among my 1 CONC children in the same equal manner. Lastly~Reposing full confidence in my 1 CONC wife Anna, and my sones George S. and William Henry Potts. I do hereby 1 CONC nominate and appoint them my Executors of this my last will and 1 CONC testament, and vest in them full power and authority to sell and dispose 1 CONC of my Estate as above directed in fee simple or otherwise, in every 1 CONC respects as fully and amply as I could myself do, if living allowing unto 1 CONC them Feve per cent commission for their serving~And I do hereby revoke 1 CONC all former will or wills made by me, and declare this alone to be my last 1 CONC will and testament. For with it whereof I have here unto set my hand and 1 CONC seal, this Fourteenth~day of December in the year of Our Lord one 1 CONC thousand and eight hundred & forty eight~ Signed, sealed I pronounced in 1 CONC the presence of us, who have subscribed in the prescence of each other. 1 CONC Charles Potts B.C. Smith A.C. Thompson William Potts He adds a codicil 1 CONC to his will on Jan. 5, 1852 witnessed by Israel Howell, Charles Potts, 1 CONC and Robert Thomson. 0 @I0112@ INDI 1 NAME Anna /Potts/ 2 SOUR @S14866@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE 20 FEB 1779 2 PLAC Trenton, Mercer Co. NJ 1 DEAT 2 DATE 13 DEC 1868 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 2 SOUR @S14866@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 REFN 8256 1 FAMS @F003@ 1 FAMC @F005@ 1 NOTE @NI0112@ 0 @NI0112@ NOTE 1 CONC [florence-potts-ancestors.FTW] 1 CONT 1 CONT first cousin to husband 0 @I0127@ INDI 1 NAME Richard /Potts/ 2 SOUR @S14866@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 1 JAN 1732/33 2 PLAC Mansfield, Burlington Co, NJ 2 SOUR @S14866@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 25 MAR 1825 2 PLAC New Brunswick, Middlesex Co, NJ 2 SOUR @S14866@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 RELI 2 PLAC Quaker, Chesterfield Monthly Mtg 1 RESI 2 PLAC considerable land owner in Upper Freehold, Monmouth Co. NJ 1 REFN 7057 1 FAMS @F004@ 1 FAMC @F006@ 1 NOTE @NI0127@ 0 @NI0127@ NOTE 1 CONC Resided Upper Freehold Township, Monmouth Co where he was a Considerable 1 CONC land Owner. 1 CONT In the 4th month 1755, Richard Potts produced a Certificate from 1 CONC Burlington Monthly Meeting of Friends to the Monthly Meeting of 1 CONC Chesterfield. He married Rebecca Arney, June 25, 1755. This marriage 1 CONC seems to have been contrary to Friends discipline, as in 9 month, 1755, 1 CONC he made acknowledgment to the Chesterfield Meeting on account of 1 CONC marriage. In the 6 month, 1757, Rebecca Potts made a simiar 1 CONC acknowledgment -actually, she signed her name to his acknowledgement. The 1 CONC color of the ink is different. The acknowledgement can be viewed at the 1 CONC Friends Library in Swarthmore College. (this branch is sometimes called 1 CONC the "Monmouth Potts") 0 @I0128@ INDI 1 NAME Rebecca /Arney/ 2 SOUR @S14866@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE 1 APR 1737 2 PLAC Upper Freehold, Monmouth, NJ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 1801 2 PLAC NJ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 2 SOUR @S14866@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 REFN 7064 1 FAMS @F004@ 1 FAMC @F054@ 0 @I0138@ INDI 1 NAME Stacy /Potts/ 2 SOUR @S14866@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 20 SEP 1731 2 PLAC Mansfield Twp., Burlington Co., NJ 2 SOUR @S07654@ 2 SOUR @S06831@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 28 APR 1816 2 PLAC Trenton, Mercer Co., NJ 2 SOUR @S07109@ 2 SOUR @S07654@ 2 SOUR @S06831@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 OCCU 2 PLAC tanner 1 OCCU 2 PLAC 1766 Secretary and librarian of The Trenton Library Company 2 SOUR @S07654@ 2 SOUR @S06926@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 OCCU 2 PLAC 1811 Incorporator and Director of Trenton's second water works, The Trenton Aqueduct Co. in the early 1800's. 2 SOUR @S07654@ 2 SOUR @S06926@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 OCCU 2 PLAC 1813 Commissioner and Director of the State Bank. 2 SOUR @S07654@ 2 SOUR @S06926@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 OCCU 2 PLAC Entrepreneur 2 SOUR @S07654@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 OCCU 2 PLAC Feb. 10, 1781 One of the original incorporators of the Trenton Academy. 2 SOUR @S07654@ 2 SOUR @S06926@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 OCCU 2 PLAC Fifth Mayor of Trenton March 12, 1806, for eight years. 2 SOUR @S07109@ 2 SOUR @S07654@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 OCCU 2 PLAC Invested in the steel mill that stood along Petty's run. 2 SOUR @S07654@ 2 SOUR @S06926@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 OCCU 2 PLAC Invested in Trenton's first paper mill, along Assunpink Creek. 2 SOUR @S07654@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 OCCU 2 PLAC member of LT John Fitch's steamboat company. 2 SOUR @S07654@ 2 SOUR @S06926@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 OCCU 2 PLAC merchantile pursuits 2 SOUR @S07109@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 OCCU 2 PLAC Owner of a large tanyard on King St, Trenton, NJ. 2 SOUR @S06926@ 2 SOUR @S07246@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 OCCU 2 PLAC partner in the file business with LT John Fitch 2 SOUR @S07654@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 OCCU 2 PLAC Sold Salt 2 SOUR @S06283@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 OCCU 2 PLAC Tanner 2 SOUR @S14866@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 RELI 2 PLAC Quaker aka Society of Friends 1 REFN 7056 1 FAMS @F005@ 1 FAMC @F006@ 1 NOTE @NI0138@ 0 @NI0138@ NOTE 1 CONC # D: I218 1 CONT # Occupation: Entrepreneur 1 CONT # Occupation: merchantile pursuits 1 CONT # Occupation: 1766 Secretary and librarian of The Trenton Library Company 1 CONT # Occupation: Feb. 10, 1781 One of the original incorporators of the 1 CONC Trenton Academy. 1 CONT # Occupation: Fifth Mayor of Trenton March 12, 1806, for eight years. 1 CONT # Occupation: Owner of a large tanyard on King St, Trenton, NJ. 1 CONT # Occupation: Invested in Trenton's first paper mill, along Assunpink 1 CONC Creek. 1 CONT # Occupation: Invested in the steel mill that stood along Petty's run. 1 CONT # Occupation: 1811 Incorporator and Director of Trenton's second water 1 CONC works, The Trenton Aqueduct Co. in the early 1800's. 1 CONT # Occupation: 1813 Commissioner and Director of the State Bank. 1 CONT # Occupation: partner in the file business with LT John Fitch 1 CONT # Occupation: member of LT John Fitch's steamboat company. 1 CONT 1 CONT # Note: "after the close of the war removed from Trenton to 1 CONC Harrisburg,PA" later returning to Trenton.Active member of the society of 1 CONC Friends.The War of 1812 was declared during his incumbency as 1 CONC Mayor.Resided in the house on the corner of Warren and Perry St.,which 1 CONC was the Headquarters for Hessian Colonel Rall, the site ofhis death and 1 CONC 1776 surrender of the Hessians. The house was used extensively for tavern 1 CONC purposes. General William Stryker wrote"Trenton One Hundred Years Ago" 1 CONC and mentions the house duringthe Revolutionary War. It was not occupied 1 CONC by the Potts duringthe Revolutionary Period, but Mr. Pontius Delare 1 CONC Stille. Thehouse was used as a guard house and St. Michael's church as 1 CONC barracks for Col. Rall's grenadiers. Mr. Stille kept a store inpart of 1 CONC the house.In the above state house, December 1784, it served as the 1 CONC official residence of Richard Henry Lee, president of the Continental 1 CONC Congress, when that body was in session at the French Arms Tavern."It was 1 CONC he who entertained Colonel Gottleib Rall night before historic battle 1 CONC here in which Hessian Troops were defeated."Dec. 26, 1776.There were 1 CONC three Potts' homes on the corners of North Warren St., Trenton, NJ. 1 CONC Stacy, William and another.He is recorded in connection with the 1 CONC steamboat enterprise of Lieutenant John Fitch.He is named after Mahlon 1 CONC Stacy.Highly respected and prosperous residents of early Trenton."From 1 CONC about 1785-1803 he resided in the West.""1778. Potts, Stacy, Trenton, 1 CONC offered to rent on reasonable terms, with or without stock on hand, a 1 CONC large tanyard with 64 vats, 5 limes, 2 water pools, a bark house holding 1 CONC about 300 cords of wood, a good currying shop, a skin-dresser's shop and 1 CONC every convenience for carrying on the business of tanning,currying, 1 CONC skin-dressing and breeches-making very extensively. Tanned leather was 1 CONC given in exchange for good bark. (N.J.Gazette, April 29)." This was near 1 CONC Warren Street on the banksof Petty's Run. Also listed for rent "a large 1 CONC two-story building, lately occupied for file-making, brass-foundery, and 1 CONC sundry branches of cutlery, with a convenient black-smith's shop; all of 1 CONC which may be entered on immediately." He intended to go out of business. 1 CONC An ad in the "New JerseyGazette," Dec. 13, 1780 said that he had 1 CONC harnesses, consisting of "coilers, bind-bridles, collars and haimes," 1 CONC also shoes and sole leather in exchange for hides.The Trenton Federalist 1 CONC reported his death "Died-In this city on the 28th inst., after a short 1 CONC illnes, Stacy Potts Esq., in the 85th year of his age."June 20, 1778 the 1 CONC General Assembly of NJ, meeting at Princeton,passed "An act for 1 CONC encouraging the Manufacture of Paper in the State of NJ. Four men, 1 CONC besides the owner, would be exempt from actual service in the militia. In 1 CONC the "Votes and Proceedings of the General Assembly of the State of New 1 CONC Jersey, under date of May 24, 1780, the entry reads"That Mr. Ogden do 1 CONC carry to the House of Assembly the Bill,intitled An Act to empower Stacy 1 CONC Potts to erect a Dam across the Assanpink Creek, a little above his 1 CONC Paper-mill, in Trenton, andrequest their concurrence therein; Which Bill 1 CONC was read andordered a second reading."Imported salt. To be sold wholesale 1 CONC and retail by Stacy Potts, In Trenton, Also dressed buckskins, and a few 1 CONC pairs of breeches." Ad listed in the Gazette, Nov. 25, 1778"Meanwhile, 1 CONC the guard of a dozen men that Sullivan had detailed to go with the 1 CONC Hessian officers accompanied Rahl, Knyphausen andthe young officer to the 1 CONC home of Stacey Potts. Potts was a Quaker and a tavernkeeper, and like 1 CONC most of the Quakers inTrenton, he had remained in the town after its 1 CONC occupation by the Hessians. The two Hessian officers, assister by two 1 CONC more Hessian enlisted men, carried Rahl into the Potts home and upstairs 1 CONC to the second floor. Potts told them to lay the Colonel down on a bed in 1 CONC thefront room, that is his own bed. Pott's daughter had suffered a slight 1 CONC skull wound, and her head was bound up. Pale, quiet, she watched the 1 CONC whole thing, and only when Rahl had been laid out on the bed did she come 1 CONC toward him and help her mother cut away his blood-soaked clothes and to 1 CONC see whether or not they could attend to his wound. At this point 1 CONC Washington had neither the will nor the strength to argue further, and he 1 CONC rode along with Greene to the Potts house.Washington and Greene then went 1 CONC upstairs to where Colonel Rahl had been laid out on the bed of the owner 1 CONC of the house. Mr. and Mrs. Potts were in the room and also their 1 CONC daughter,three Hessian officers and a young American lieutenant. 1 CONC Greene,who was a Quaker himself, had hurriedly explained to Washington 1 CONC who the Pottses were and the circumstances that had brought Rahl to the 1 CONC house." 1 CONT # Change Date: 4 JAN 2003 1 CONT 1 CONT Father: Thomas POTTS Jr. b: 17 OCT 1706 in Mansfield Twp., Burlington 1 CONC Co., NJ 1 CONT Mother: Sarah BEAKES b: 12 MAR 1706 in Nottingham, Chester Twp., 1 CONC Burlington Co., NJ 1 CONT 1 CONT Father: Thomas POTTS Jr. b: 17 OCT 1706 in Mansfield Twp., Burlington 1 CONC Co., NJ 1 CONT 1 CONT Marriage 1 Margaretta YARDLEY b: 6 DEC 1752 in Bucks, PA 1 CONT 1 CONT * Married: 15 APR 1773 in Upper Makefield, Bucks, 1 CONC PA[florence-potts-ancestors.FTW] 1 CONT 1 CONT "after the close of the war removed from Trenton to Harrisburg, PA" later 1 CONC returning to Trenton. Active member of the society of Friends. The War 1 CONC of 1812 was declared during his incumbency as Mayor. Resided in the 1 CONC house on the corner of Warren and Perry St., which was the Headquarters 1 CONC for Hessian Colonel Rall, the site of his death and 1776 surrender of the 1 CONC Hessians. The house was used extensively for tavern purposes. General 1 CONC William Stryker wrote "Trenton One Hundred Years Ago" and mentions the 1 CONC house during the Revolutionary War. It was not occupied by the Potts 1 CONC during the Revolutionary Period, but Mr. Pontius Delare Stille. The 1 CONC house was used as a guard house and St. Michael's church as barracks for 1 CONC Col. Rall's grenadiers. Mr. Stille kept a store in part of the house. 1 CONC In the above state house, December 1784, it served as the official 1 CONC residence of Richard Henry Lee, president of the Continental Congress, 1 CONC when that body was in session at the French Arms Tavern. "It was he who 1 CONC entertained Colonel Gottleib Rall night before historic battle here in 1 CONC which Hessian Troops were defeated." Dec. 26, 1776. There were three 1 CONC Potts' homes on the corners of North Warren St., Trenton, NJ. Stacy, 1 CONC William and another. He is recorded in connection with the steamboat 1 CONC enterprise of Lieutenant John Fitch. He is named after Mahlon Stacy. 1 CONC Highly respected and prosperous residents of early Trenton. "From about 1 CONC 1785-1803 he resided in the West." "1778. Potts, Stacy, Trenton, 1 CONC offered to rent on reasonable terms, with or without stock on hand, a 1 CONC large tanyard with 64 vats, 5 limes, 2 water pools, a bark house holding 1 CONC about 300 cords of wood, a good currying shop, a skin-dresser's shop and 1 CONC every convenience for carrying on the business of tanning, currying, 1 CONC skin-dressing and breeches-making very extensively. Tanned leather was 1 CONC given in exchange for good bark. (N.J. Gazette, April 29)." This was 1 CONC near Warren Street on the banks of Petty's Run. Also listed for rent "a 1 CONC large two-story building, lately occupied for file-making, 1 CONC brass-foundery, and sundry branches of cutlery, witha convenient 1 CONC black-smith's shop; all of which may be entered on immediately." He 1 CONC intended to go out of business. An ad in the "New Jersey Gazette," Dec. 1 CONC 13, 1780 said that he had harnesses, consisting of "coilers, 1 CONC bind-bridles, collars and haimes," also shoes and sole leather in 1 CONC exchange for hides. The Trenton Federalist reported his death "Died-In 1 CONC this city on the 28th inst., after a short illnes, Stacy Potts Esq., in 1 CONC the 85th year of his age." June 20, 1778 the General Assembly of NJ, 1 CONC meeting at Princeton, passed "An act for encouraging the Manufacture of 1 CONC Paper in the State of NJ. Four men, besides the owner, would be exempt 1 CONC from actual service in the militia. In the "Votes and Proceedings of the 1 CONC General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, under date of May 24, 1780, 1 CONC the entry reads "That Mr. Ogden do carry to the House of Assembly the 1 CONC Bill, intitled An Act to empower Stacy Potts to erect a Dam across the 1 CONC Assanpink Creek, a little above his Paper-mill, in Trenton, and request 1 CONC their concurrence therein; Which Bill was read and ordered a second 1 CONC reading. "Imported salt. To be sold wholesale and retail by Stacy 1 CONC Potts, In Trenton, Also dressed buckskins, and a few pairs of breeches." 1 CONC Ad listed in the Gazette, Nov. 25, 1778 "Meanwhile, the guard of a 1 CONC dozen men that Sullivan had detailed to go with the Hessian officers 1 CONC accompanied Rahl, Knyphausen and the young officer to the home of Stacey 1 CONC Potts. Potts was a Quaker and a tavernkeeper, and like most of the 1 CONC Quakers in Trenton, he had remained in the town after its occupation by 1 CONC the Hessians. The two Hessian officers, assister by two more Hessian 1 CONC enlisted men, carried Rahl into the Potts home and upstairs to the second 1 CONC floor. Potts told them to lay the Colonel down on a bed in the front 1 CONC room, that is his own bed. Pott's daughter had suffered a slight skull 1 CONC wound, and her head was bound up. Pale, quiet, she watched the whole 1 CONC thing, and only when Rahl had been laid out on the bed did she come 1 CONC toward him and help her mother cut away his blood-soaked clothes and to 1 CONC see whether or not they could attend to his wound. At this point 1 CONC Washington had neither the will nor the strength to argue further, and he 1 CONC rode along with Greene to the Potts house.Washington and Greene then went 1 CONC upstairs to where Colonel Rahl had been laid out on the bed of the owner 1 CONC of the house. Mr. and Mrs. Potts were in the room and also their 1 CONC daughter, three Hessian officers and a young American lieutenant. 1 CONC Greene, who was a Quaker himself, had hurriedly explained to Washington 1 CONC who the Pottses were and the circumstances that had brought Rahl to the 1 CONC house." 1 CONT 1 CONT Stacy Potts was the son of Thomas and Sarah (Beakes) Potts. He was born 1 CONT on the 20th of the 7th month of 1731. He was a tanner in Trenton, New 1 CONC Jersey. He 1 CONT was a leading member of the Society of Friends and in the government of 1 CONC West 1 CONT Jersey. He married three times. 1 CONT His first wife was Esther Pancoast (daughter of John and Mary Pancoast). 1 CONT They married on the 13th of the 4th month of 1758. Esther was born on the 1 CONC 16th of 1 CONT the 3rd month, of 1739 and died on the 13th of the 5th month of 1769. 1 CONC (Their 1 CONT marriage certificate is in the possession of John Palmer.) 1 CONT Stacy Potts' second wife was Margaretta Yardley. (Their marriage 1 CONC certificate 1 CONT is in the possession of John Palmer.) Their marriage certificate reads as 1 CONC follows: 1 CONT Whereas Stacy Potts of Trenton in the County ofHunterdon and 1 CONT Province of New Jersey and Margaretta Yardley, Daughter of William 1 CONT Yardley of lower Wakefield in the County of Bucks and Province of 1 CONT Pensilvania, having declared their intention of Marriage with each other, 1 CONT before several Monthly Meetings of the people called Quakers, at their 1 CONT Meeting House at the Falls in the County of Bucks aforesaid, whose 1 CONT proceedings therein (after deliberate Consideration) were approved of by 1 CONC the 1 CONT said Meeting. Wherefore for the full accomplishment and solemnization of 1 CONT their said Marriage this fifteenth Day of the fourth month called April 1 CONC in the 1 CONT year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy three, they, the 1 CONT said Stacy Potts and and Margaretta Yardley appeared in a publick meeting 1 CONT at uper Wakefield in the County aforesaid, and he, the said Stacy Potts, 1 CONT taking the said Margaretta Yardley by the Hand, did in a solemn manner 1 CONT openly declare, that he took her to be his Wife, Promising through divine 1 CONT assistance, to he unto her a faithful and affectionate Husband, untill it 1 CONC should 1 CONT please God by Death to separate them; and the said Margaretta Yardley did 1 CONT then in like manner declare, that she took the said Stacy Potts to be her 1 CONT Husband, Promising through divine assistance, to he unto him a faithful 1 CONC and 1 CONT affectionate Wife, until! it should please God by Death to separate them. 1 CONC And 1 CONT as a further confirmation thereof they, the said Stacy Potts and 1 CONC Margaretta 1 CONT Yardly, (she according to the custom of Marriage assuming the name of her 1 CONT Husband) hath to these presents, set their Hands. And we whose names are 1 CONT here unto subscribed, being present at the solemnization of the said 1 CONT Marriage in manner aforesaid, as Witnesses, have to these presents set our 1 CONT Hands the Day and Year above written. -~ 1773 1 CONT Stacy Potts married for a third time. His wife was Mrs. Mary Boyd the 1 CONT widow of John Boyd of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and daughter of George 1 CONC Williams 1 CONT of Paxtang. 1 CONT 1 CONT About 1790 Stacy Potts moved to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania where he 1 CONT purchased large parcels of land. He served in the Pennsylvania 1 CONC Legislature in 1 CONT 1791,1792,1799 and 1801. He was a Burgess of the Borough and a member of 1 CONC the 1 CONT Town Council. 1 CONT About 1795 Stacy Potts returned to Trenton where he later became mayor of 1 CONT the city. He died on the 28th of April, 1816. His widow returned to 1 CONC Harrisburg 1 CONT where she died in 1884 at the age of 84. Stacy Potts' descendants are 1 CONC known as the 1 CONT 'Trenton Potts'. (From The Potts Family in America and A History of 1 CONC Trenton, 1 CONT New Jersey 1679-1929.) 0 @I0140@ INDI 1 NAME Margaretta /Yardley/ 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE 6 DEC 1752 2 PLAC Bucks, PA 2 SOUR @S07109@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 25 AUG 1783 2 PLAC Trenton, Mercer, NJ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 2 SOUR @S14866@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 REFN 8252 1 FAMS @F005@ 1 FAMC @F055@ 1 NOTE @NI0140@ 0 @NI0140@ NOTE 1 CONC Youngest of 3 children. 1 CONT from George McCracken's welcome Claimants ... Proved, Disproved and 1 CONC doubtful pages 587-592 0 @I0158@ INDI 1 NAME Thomas /Potts/ III 2 SOUR @S14866@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 17 OCT 1706 2 PLAC Mansfield Twp., Burlington Co., NJ 2 SOUR @S07654@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 31 MAY 1742 2 PLAC Mansfield, Burlington Co, NJ 2 SOUR @S14083@ 2 SOUR @S14866@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 OCCU 2 PLAC Tanner 2 SOUR @S06982@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 2 SOUR @S14866@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 RESI 2 PLAC White Hill. 1 RELI 2 PLAC became Quaker with his marriage 1 RELI 2 PLAC Raised Baptist 1 REFN 5808 1 FAMS @F006@ 1 FAMC @F007@ 1 NOTE @NI0158@ 0 @NI0158@ NOTE 1 CONC [florence-potts-ancestors.FTW] 1 CONT 1 CONT Resided at White Hill.[edmund-beakes-jald.ged] 1 CONT 1 CONT By the will of his grandfather, Thomas Potts, (Shield), he inherited a 1 CONC lot of ground in Gilbert's Ally, Philadelphia, which he conveyed to 1 CONC Andrew Edge, by a deed dated August 14,1728, but not recorded until 1 CONC August 16, 1799. Deed-Book D 77 page 275 1 CONT 1 CONT 1 CONT Friends Library at Swarthmore has his request for acceptance in 1 CONC Membership. 0 @I0159@ INDI 1 NAME Sarah /Beakes/ 2 SOUR @S14866@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE 12 MAR 1705/06 2 PLAC Nottingham, Chester Twp., Burlington Co., NJ 2 SOUR @S07654@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 11 JUL 1757 2 PLAC Mansfield, Burlington, NJ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 REFN 3715 1 FAMS @F006@ 1 FAMC @F058@ 0 @I0165@ INDI 1 NAME Thomas /Potts/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 30 DEC 1677 2 PLAC Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 2 FEB 1754 2 PLAC Philadelphia, PA 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 BURI 2 DATE 4 FEB 1754 2 PLAC Old Baptist Cemetery, Bordentown, Burlington, NJ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 RELI 2 PLAC Quaker aka Society of Friends 2 SOUR @S07109@ 2 SOUR @S07654@ 2 SOUR @S06926@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 WILL 2 DATE 30 JAN 1754 2 PLAC Probated 2/27/1754 recorded at Trenton, NJ 1 BAPL 2 DATE 30 DEC 1677 2 PLAC Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 EVEN 2 TYPE Arrived in USA 2 DATE DEC 1678 2 PLAC Came to America on the "Shield". Landed in Burlington, NJ with his parents 1 FAMS @F007@ 1 FAMC @F009@ 1 NOTE @NI0165@ 0 @NI0165@ NOTE 1 CONC # ID: I282 1 CONT # Name: Thomas POTTS Jr. 1 CONT # Sex: M 1 CONT # Birth: 30 DEC 1677 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England 1 CONT # Christening: 30 DEC 1677 Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England 1 CONT # Death: 2 FEB 1754 in Philadelphia, PA 1 CONT # Burial: 4 FEB 1754 Bordentown, Burlington, NJ 1 CONT # Religion: Society of Friends 1 CONT # Note: Came over from England on the Shield.Arrived in Burlington the 1 CONC winter 1678.Came over on the Shield with Mahlon Stacy. 1 CONT # Change Date: 24 DEC 2002[florence-potts-ancestors.FTW] 1 CONT 1 CONT Came over from England on the Shield.Arrived in Burlington the winter 1 CONC 1678. Came over on the Shield with Mahlon Stacy. 1 CONT 1 CONT There is a tradition in the family that Thomas Potts Jr's parents having 1 CONC died at sea, the young THomas was brought up by Nathaniel Records and 1 CONC when he reached manhood he married Nathaniel's daughter. It is probable 1 CONC that his mother died, leaving him an infant; but his father lived to an 1 CONC old age. It is at least quite evident that Nathaniel Records thought well 1 CONC of his young son-in-law, becuase on March 8, 1702 he executed a deed 1 CONC wherein he conveyed two tracts of and in Mansfield Township, one of fifty 1 CONC acres, purchased of George Porter May 24, 1686, and one of one hundred 1 CONC aand sixty-five acres, purchased of the said George Porter Dec 5, 1696. 1 CONC By this deed the grantor reserved a one half interest during his life 1 CONC time. Nathaniel died intestate and Letters of Administration were issued 1 CONC to Thomas Potts, March 4, 1705/6. Th erecord in the Surveyor General's 1 CONC Office show a survey in 1722, of 125 acres in Mandsfield Township, 1 CONC belonging to Thomas Potts. - Pidcock records 0 @I0166@ INDI 1 NAME Mary /Records/ 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1678 2 PLAC Mansfield, Burlington, NJ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 2 APR 1741 2 PLAC Mansfield Twp., Burlington, NJ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F007@ 1 FAMC @F063@ 0 @I0170@ INDI 1 NAME Mahlon /Stacy/ 2 SOUR @S14119@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 1 JUL 1638 2 PLAC Dorehouse, Handsworth, County York, England 2 SOUR @S08204@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE BET 3 AND 5 FEB 1703/04 2 PLAC Falls of the Deleware, New Jersey Colony 2 SOUR @S08595@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 OCCU 2 PLAC yeoman 2 SOUR @S08595@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 OCCU 2 PLAC Tanner 2 SOUR @S08204@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 BURI 2 PLAC Friends Burying Ground in Notingham Township 2 SOUR @S11596@ 2 SOUR @S14119@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 CHR 2 DATE 1 JUL 1638 2 PLAC Balifield, Twp of Nottingham, (now Mercer Co.) Co. of Burlington, province of Nova Cesarea, Yorkshire, England 2 SOUR @S14119@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 EVEN 2 TYPE Arrived in USA 2 DATE DEC 1678 2 PLAC on "Shield" to Burlington, NJ 1 RELI 2 PLAC Quaker 1 FAMS @F008@ 1 FAMC @F142@ 1 NOTE @NI0170@ 0 @NI0170@ NOTE 1 CONC [florence-potts-ancestors.FTW] 1 CONT 1 CONT Immigrated to NJ with Thomas Potts on the ship the Shield. Their families 1 CONC intermarried. Mentions Mahlon Kirkbride in his will, son of one of his 1 CONC daughters. Witnesses to will Peter Frettwell, Samuel Frettwell; William 1 CONC Emley, Senior. 1 CONT 1 CONT One of the founders of Trenton, NJ. His mill shows on a 1680 map of NJ 1 CONT 1 CONT # D: I00824 1 CONT # Name: Mahlon Stacy 1 CONT # Sex: M 1 CONT # Birth: 1638 1 CONT # Death: 2 MAY 1704 1 CONT # Occupation: Yeoman 1 CONT # Reference Number: 824 1 CONT # Note: 1 CONT 1 CONT FROM: Calendar of New Jersey Wills, VOL XXlll, 1670-1730, p437, 1 CONT 1703-4 Jan. 11. STACY, MAHLON, of Balifield, Nottingham Township, 1 CONC Burlington 1 CONT Co., yeoman; will of. Wife Rebecca. Children---Mahlon (under 21), 1 CONC Elizabeth, 1 CONT Mary, Ruth, Rebecca; Mahlon Kirkbride co-heir. Plantation of 500 1 CONC acres at 1 CONT Balifield, land on South side of Great Shabbacunck, do. between the 1 CONC greater 1 CONT and the lesser Shabbacunck, the York Road and the Assunpinck, 400 a. 1 CONC on the 1 CONT South side of the Assunpinck. Personal estate. Executors--the wife 1 CONC and son 1 CONT Mahlon. 1 CONT Witnesses---Peter Fretwell, William Emley senior. Proved April 24, 1 CONC 1704. 1 CONT 1704 April 25. Inventory of the estate (£1034.-6, all personal); made 1 CONC by 1 CONT Abel Jancey, Samuel Beaks, Will: Beakes and Francis Davenport. 1 CONC Burlington 1 CONT Wills 1 CONT FROM: Calendar of New Jersey Wills, VOL XXlll, 1670-1730, p437, 1 CONT 1711 Aug. 20. STACY, RABAKAH, of Belifield, Nottingham Township, 1 CONC Burlington 1 CONT Co., widow; will of. Daughters--Elizabeth, Mary, Ruth and Rabakah 1 CONC Wright, 1 CONT son Mahlon Stacy, grandson Mahlon Kirkbride (under age); legacy to 1 CONC Sarah Ely 1 CONT of some money and the remainder of her time (as bound servant); to 1 CONC "nager" 1 CONT woman Jane of her freedom and 20s. yearly for life. Real and personal 1 CONT estate. Son Mahlon executor. Witnesses: William Palmer, John Moore, 1 CONC Andrew 1 CONT Robeson junior. Proved October 26, 1711. 1 CONT !711 Sept. 10. Inventory of the personal estate, £381.15.8, old 1 CONC currency, 1 CONT incl. "History of Josephus, three great Bibles and other books," 1 CONC £6.-, purse, 1 CONT apparill and plate £38.-, two negro boys £100; made by Jno. 1 CONC Bainbridge and 1 CONT John Brearley. 1 CONT 1 CONT He owned land at the Falls of the 1 CONT Delaware (now Trenton, New Jersey). He was a signer of the Constitution 1 CONC of West 1 CONT New Jersey in 1676. He was a member of the Assembly in 1681 and later of 1 CONC the 1 CONT House of Representatives from 1697-1701. Mahlon was a member of the 1 CONC Governors 1 CONT Council in 1682 and 1683 and a member of Council of Proprietors in 1688. 1 CONT (Taken from A History of Trenton 1679-1929 by The Trenton Historical 1 CONC Society page 1 CONT 35.) 0 @I0171@ INDI 1 NAME Rebecca /Ely/ 2 SOUR @S14119@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE 1648 2 PLAC Utterly Manor, Mansfield, England 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 26 OCT 1711 2 PLAC Mansfield, Nottingham, Burlington, NJ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F008@ 1 FAMC @F169@ 0 @I0193@ INDI 1 NAME Thomas /Potts/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 12 JUL 1647 2 PLAC Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 4 SEP 1726 2 PLAC Germantown, Philadelphia, PA 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 BURI 2 PLAC Friends Graveyard, 3rd & Arch ST., Philadelphia, PA 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 WILL 2 DATE 25 FEB 1723/24 2 PLAC Probated 11/18/1726 recorded Philadelphia, PA Will Book E p.8 2 SOUR @S17111@ 1 EVEN 2 TYPE Christened 2 DATE 12 JUL 1647 2 PLAC Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 OCCU 2 PLAC Tanner 1 RELI 2 DATE 1686 2 PLAC Baptist 1 BAPM 2 DATE 1686 2 PLAC Burlington, NJ by Elias Keach 1 EVEN 2 TYPE Arrived in USA 2 DATE DEC 1678 2 PLAC Came to America on the "Shield". Landed in Burlington, NJ with family 1 PROB 2 DATE 18 NOV 1726 2 PLAC Philadelphia, Pa 2 SOUR @S17111@ 1 FAMS @F009@ 1 FAMS @F062@ 1 FAMC @F011@ 1 NOTE @NI0193@ 0 @NI0193@ NOTE 1 CONC Thomas Potts Sr. (Shield) is usually titled in this way to distinguish 1 CONC him from 1 CONT other Thomas Potts who lived in New Jersey. He is thus designated since 1 CONC he arrived 1 CONT in America on the boat The Shield. 1 CONT Thomas Potts (Shield) was christened at Chesterfield, England on the 12th 1 CONC of July. 1 CONT 1647. He and his family arrived in Burlington, New Jersey in December 1 CONC 1678. In 1 CONT 1699 the family moved to Philadelphia where he died in 1726 aged 79 years. 1 CONT Thomas was a tanner by trade and was married three (and possibly four) 1 CONC times. 1 CONT In the Chesterfield Parish registers the name of Thomas' wife was always 1 CONC listed 1 CONT as Joani. There is no record of their marriage in the Chesterfield 1 CONC Parrish records so it is assumed she came from nother pasrish. After 1 CONC arriving in New Jersey, she is always called Ann. Perhaps Ann was 1 CONT his second wife. This might explain the tradition that Thomas Potts Jr.'s 1 CONC mother 1 CONT died during the voyage to America. It also might explain the relationship 1 CONC of Thomas 1 CONT Potts (Shield) to Ruth Kettle. The old court records of Burlington show a 1 CONC marriage 1 CONT of Thomas Bibb and Ruth Kettle. This marriage is recorded as taking place 1 CONC on the 1 CONT 20th of July, 1693 at the home of Thomas Potts (her father in Law). At 1 CONC that time the 1 CONT term 'father in Law' was used as a synonym for stepfather. This might be 1 CONC due to the 1 CONT fact that Thomas' wife Ann might have been a widow with several children 1 CONC one of 1 CONT whom was Ruth. 1 CONT After arriving in America both Thomas and his wife Ann united with the 1 CONC Baptist 1 CONT Church in 1686. They were baptized at Burlington, West Jersey by Elias 1 CONC Keach. 1 CONT When the church at Burlington ceased to exist in 1699, they joined the 1 CONC Pennypack 1 CONT Church in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. 1 CONT On the 9th of September, 1701 Ann the daughter of Thomas and Ann Potts was 1 CONT buried in the Friends graveyard at Philadelphia. This Ann was probably 1 CONC born in 1 CONT America. 1 CONT On the 2nd of February, 1702 Thomas Potts was admitted freeman of the city 1 CONT after he paid twenty-two shillings and sixpence for the privilege. 1 CONT The Pennypack Baptist Church records the death of Ann Potts in 1714. The 1 CONT Friends Monthly Meeting at Third and Arch Streets, Philadelphia shows 1 CONC that Ann, 1 CONT wife of Thomas Potts, tanner was buried in the Friends graveyard on the 1 CONC 9th of July, 1 CONT 1714. The Baptist records show that Thomas married Grace Farmer in 1715. 1 CONC She 1 CONT had been baptized at Pennypack in 1699. She was buried in the Philadephia 1 CONT graveyard on the 15th of June, 1715. In 1716 Thomas married Alice Pusser. 1 CONC Both 1 CONT Alice's baptism and her marriage are listed in the Pennypack records. 1 CONC Thomas' 1 CONT grandson Joshua remained in the Baptist Church and grew up to be a Baptist 1 CONT minister. - From records of Anne Quast 1 CONT 1 CONT His signature was very peculiar, signing his name either "tthomas Potts" 1 CONC or "ttho. Potts" and in legal documents her usially decribed himself as 1 CONC "tanner". Tanning is still an important industry in Chesterfield, 1 CONC Derbyshire, England and it is quite common to see on tombstones. - From 1 CONC Cay Pidcock notes 0 @I0195@ INDI 1 NAME /Joani/ 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 PLAC Chesterfield, Derby, England 1 FAMS @F009@ 0 @I0196@ INDI 1 NAME Richard /Pott/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 1610 2 PLAC Stancliffe, Darley, Derbyshire, England 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 12 SEP 1650 2 PLAC Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England 1 BURI 2 DATE 12 SEP 1650 2 PLAC All Saints, Chesterfield 2 SOUR @S15646@ 1 FAMS @F011@ 1 FAMC @F064@ 1 NOTE @NI0196@ 0 @NI0196@ NOTE 1 CONC Richard was a church warden 1639-40 in Chesterfield, Darbyshire, England 1 CONC but marriage appears to have taken place elsewhere. 1 CONT The names of children copied after personal examination from the Parish 1 CONC registers in 1882 by W.J.Potts, Camden, NJ while visiting Chesterfield, 1 CONC Derbyshire, England. 1 CONT The Chesterfield registers show that Richard Portt was buried 9/12/1650, 1 CONC and Ann Pott, his widow, on September 2, 1673. The Chesterfield registers 1 CONC do not show the marriage of either Richard or his son Thomas Pott, which 1 CONC makes it possible that they got wives in other parishes. The registers 1 CONC were only casually examined before1637. 0 @I0197@ INDI 1 NAME Anne /Ashe/ 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE 8 FEB 1616/17 2 PLAC Chesterfield, Derby, England 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 2 SEP 1673 2 PLAC Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 BURI 2 DATE 2 SEP 1673 2 PLAC All Saints, Chesterfield 1 FAMS @F011@ 1 FAMC @F065@ 0 @I0205@ INDI 1 NAME Walburge /Smith/ 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE 1574 2 PLAC Old Haugh, Cheshire, England 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 2 APR 1643 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 BURI 2 PLAC Darley, Derbyshire, England 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F064@ 1 FAMC @F107@ 0 @I0209@ INDI 1 NAME John /Pott/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1540 2 PLAC Dunge, Cheshire, England 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 1580 2 PLAC Dunge, Cheshire, England 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F010@ 1 FAMC @F012@ 0 @I0210@ INDI 1 NAME Bridget /Jodrell/ 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1540 2 PLAC Erswick, Cheshire, England 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 BURI 2 PLAC Taxal Church Yard, Cheshire, England 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F010@ 1 FAMC @F108@ 0 @I0211@ INDI 1 NAME Rodger /Pott/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1520 2 PLAC Dunge, Cheshire, England 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 PLAC Dunge, Cheshire, England 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F012@ 1 FAMC @F013@ 0 @I0213@ INDI 1 NAME John /Pott/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1486 2 PLAC Dunge, Cheshire, England 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 PLAC Dunge, Cheshire, England 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F013@ 1 FAMC @F014@ 0 @I0215@ INDI 1 NAME William /Pott/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1462 2 PLAC Rainow, Cheshire, England 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F014@ 1 FAMS @F112@ 1 FAMC @F015@ 0 @I0217@ INDI 1 NAME John /Pott/ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 1432 2 PLAC Cheshire, England 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F015@ 1 FAMC @F016@ 0 @I0218@ INDI 1 NAME John /Pott/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1405 2 PLAC Cheshire, England 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE ABT 1431 2 PLAC Cheshire, England 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F016@ 0 @I0224@ INDI 1 NAME Nathan /Haines/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 19 SEP 1702 2 PLAC Burlington Co., NJ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE AUG 1751 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 OCCU 2 PLAC Farmer 1 RESI 2 PLAC Evesham Township, Burlington Co. NJ 1 WILL 2 DATE 24 JUN 1751 1 FAMS @F017@ 1 FAMC @F018@ 1 NOTE @NI0224@ 0 @NI0224@ NOTE 1 CONC Inventory of personal property taken 9/3/1751 0 @I0225@ INDI 1 NAME Sarah /Austin/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX F 1 RELI 2 DATE 5 APR 1725 2 PLAC Quaker Burlington Monthly Meeting 1 FAMS @F017@ 1 FAMC @F019@ 0 @I0226@ INDI 1 NAME Francis /Austin/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX M 1 FAMS @F019@ 0 @I0227@ INDI 1 NAME Mary /Borton/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX F 1 FAMS @F019@ 0 @I0228@ INDI 1 NAME William /Haines/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1672 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 1754 1 BAPM 2 DATE 24 APR 1672 2 PLAC St. Michael's Church, Aynhoe, Northamptonshire, England 1 WILL 2 DATE 24 MAR 1751/52 2 PLAC Probated 4/29/1754 1 IMMI 2 DATE 1682 1 FAMS @F018@ 1 FAMC @F020@ 0 @I0229@ INDI 1 NAME Sarah /Paine/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE 1678 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 5 JUL 1728 1 FAMS @F018@ 1 FAMC @F021@ 0 @I0230@ INDI 1 NAME Richard /Haines/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX M 1 ALIA /Haynes/ 1 BIRT 2 PLAC England 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 1682 2 PLAC Atlantic Ocean 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F020@ 0 @I0231@ INDI 1 NAME /Margaret/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 PLAC England 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F020@ 0 @I0232@ INDI 1 NAME John /Paine/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX M 1 FAMS @F021@ 0 @I0233@ INDI 1 NAME Thomas /Ballinger/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 13 JUN 1685 2 PLAC Evesham, Burlington, NJ 1 DEAT 2 DATE 14 MAY 1739 2 PLAC NOrthampton Township, NJ 1 FAMS @F022@ 1 FAMC @F175@ 0 @I0234@ INDI 1 NAME Mary Elizabeth /Elkinton/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE 1696 1 FAMS @F022@ 1 FAMC @F177@ 0 @I0235@ INDI 1 NAME Jacob /Peaslee/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 11 MAY 1710 2 PLAC Haverhill, Essex, MA 2 SOUR @S08274@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 29 JUL 1744 2 PLAC Kingston, Rockingham, NH 2 SOUR @S08274@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F023@ 1 FAMC @F024@ 0 @I0236@ INDI 1 NAME Huldah /Brown/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE 3 SEP 1715 2 PLAC Seabrook, Rockingham, NH 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F023@ 1 FAMC @F025@ 0 @I0237@ INDI 1 NAME John /Peaslee/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 25 FEB 1678/79 2 PLAC Haverhill, MA 2 SOUR @S08274@ 2 SOUR @S07784@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 BIRT 2 DATE 25 FEB 1678/79 2 PLAC Haverhill, Essex, MA 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 1752 2 PLAC Newton, NH 2 SOUR @S07784@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 1752 2 PLAC Haverhill, Essex, MA 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F024@ 1 FAMC @F026@ 1 NOTE @NI0237@ 0 @NI0237@ NOTE 1 CONC website: http://www.best.com/~mpeaslee/genealogy/d0005/g0000454.htm 1 CONT Tells us that John and Mary Martin Peaslee had sixty grandchildren and 1 CONC their 1 CONT dants are found in many towns of New Hampshire, Canada, and throughout the 1 CONT States. This information comes from Old Families of Salisbury and 1 CONT Amesbury which has the call number H974.45 S 167 at the New York State 1 CONC Library. 1 CONT The marriage of John and Mary was the first marriage recorded among the 1 CONC Society of 1 CONT Friends at Hampton, New Hampshire at the home of Thomas Barnard in 1704. 1 CONT Thomas Nickolls and Joshua Purrington had been appointed at a previous 1 CONC meeting to 1 CONT inquire if they were free to marry. The record was signed by John 1 CONC Peaslee, Mary 1 CONT and 47 others 0 @I0238@ INDI 1 NAME William /Shattock/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX M 1 ALIA /SHATTUCK/ 1 FAMS @F027@ 0 @I0239@ INDI 1 NAME /Hannah/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX F 1 ALIA /Susannah/ 1 FAMS @F027@ 0 @I0240@ INDI 1 NAME Mary /Martin/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE 1680 2 PLAC Amesbury, Essex, MA or Salisbury, MA 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE BET 23 AUG 1744 AND 18 AUG 1745 2 PLAC South Hampton NH 1 FAMS @F024@ 1 FAMC @F028@ 0 @I0241@ INDI 1 NAME John /De Laploded/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX M 1 FAMS @F029@ 0 @I0242@ INDI 1 NAME Joseph /Peaslee/ 2 SOUR @S07784@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 9 SEP 1646 2 PLAC Haverhill, Essex, MA 2 SOUR @S07784@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 21 MAR 1734/35 2 PLAC Haverhill, Essex, MA 2 SOUR @S07784@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 OCCU 2 PLAC Physician 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 OCCU 2 PLAC husbandman 2 SOUR @S07784@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 EDUC 2 PLAC learned to be a doctor from his practicing father 2 SOUR @S07784@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 RELI 2 PLAC Society of Friends 2 SOUR @S07784@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F026@ 1 FAMC @F030@ 1 NOTE @NI0242@ 0 @NI0242@ NOTE 1 CONC [florence-potts-ancestors.FTW] 1 CONT 1 CONT He received children's land in Amesbury in 1659 (after his father died) 1 CONC and a "township" in Amesbury in 1660, but lived in Haverhill after coming 1 CONC of age. He was a large landowner by grants, inheritance, and purchases, 1 CONC owned saw and grist mills, and had large tracts of land beyond the 1 CONC Seicket RIver, now Salem, NH., inherited from his father. He built a 1 CONC brick garrison House with bricks imported from England about 1673. This 1 CONC house is in East Haverhill on the highway now called "river Road" and is 1 CONC still standing in good repair, one ot the landmarks of Merrimack Valley. 1 CONT 1 CONT An article at web site: http://www. bearclaws.basken.com/jpeasleybio.html 1 CONC reads as follows: 1 CONT "Joseph Peasley, Jr. was born in Haverhill, MA in 1646. He was the son of 1 CONC Joseph, Sr, the immigrant and his wife, Mary (perhaps Johnson). Joseph 1 CONC was raised in the eastern part of Haverhill, near to Amesbury in the old 1 CONC riverfront settlement of Rocks Village. The Peasley family members were 1 CONC of a dissenting frame of mind. 1 CONT especially when it came to church affairs. They spoke their minds on many 1 CONC occasions, and often what they had to say didn't agree with the doctrine 1 CONC of the established church. That they got away with this behavior, may be 1 CONC because they were eminently useful to the town, and also, probably due to 1 CONC the fact that they didn't live in the more populated area of Haverhill, 1 CONC When, in 1699 the town of Haverhill voted to build a new 1 CONT meeting house, Joseph formally requested permission for himself and those 1 CONC who worshipped in their own way (Quakers) to hold their meetings in the 1 CONC new building, but the town refused to grant the request. So, he and the 1 CONC other dissenters, met at his house, and this band of Friends held the 1 CONC first meeting of the society in the part of the country at that site. 1 CONC Large groups of folk would assemble at the so called quarterly meetings, 1 CONC there to listen to addresses by the more notable speakers of the day. 1 CONC Earlier, in 1693, Joseph had built a sawmill on a local river, and he was 1 CONC also a physician who ministered to his neighbors. He owned a fortified 1 CONC house, to which people could repair, in the event of an Indian attack. 1 CONC This house was built in the 1690s and still stands in the eastern part of 1 CONC Haverhill, known as Rocks Village. Joseph and his first wife Ruth 1 CONC (Barnard) Peasley were ancestors, through their daughter, Mary, of John 1 CONC Greenleaf Whittier. After Ruth's death in 1723, Joseph married Mary 1 CONC (Tucker) Davis, widow of Stephen. Joseph died 21 March, 1734/35, and as 1 CONC those of the Quaker faith eschewed any large stones at gravesites, the 1 CONC site of his grave is unknown. 1 CONT 1 CONT From Ruth W. Peaslee Engle via Cathy Pidcock Thomas: 1 CONT THE PEASLEE GARRISON HOUSE... EAST HAVERHILL, MASSACHUSETTS 1 CONT Our previous presentations of interesting historical houses of New 1 CONC England have been connected with the Revolutionary history, when America 1 CONC was in the formative process politically; but we now retreat more than a 1 CONC century back of that time to the scenes contemporary with Myles Standiah 1 CONC and Roger Williams, and produce one of the oldest and most picturesque 1 CONC houses in America-The Peaslee "Garrison" house of East Haverhill. This 1 CONC old house figures in the trying times from l670 to 1725 up to which time 1 CONC the pastoral settlers of the frontier towns of the Merrimac were never 1 CONC secure from the terrible cruelties of the savages. On the North the 1 CONC unknown forests stretched away to the St. Lawrence and the upper reaches 1 CONC of the Merrimac afforded them a route to make their raids, over which 1 CONC their canoes made no footprints nor left any trail to be followed when 1 CONC they retreated in the darkness. No axe clearing opened a ray of sunlight 1 CONC to the great wild expanse, and though now many spots are marked by the 1 CONC monuments of the captive martyrs and heroic deeds, yet the great majority 1 CONC perished unknown except to their savage captors and no leaf of history 1 CONC tells where the young and the innocent were cruelly put to death. 1 CONT 1 CONT It was, therefore, imperative that the settlers should build some of the 1 CONC dwellings for the double purpose of shelter and defense to which they 1 CONC could flee in case of attach, and this is a good type of the old Garrison 1 CONC house, a few of which are now standing in the oldest of the Colonial 1 CONC towns. 1 CONT 1 CONT Joseph Peaslee came to Haverhill about l645 soon after it was settled, 1 CONC from Newbury, and his son, Joseph, Junior built the house between 1669 1 CONC and l675, according to the historian, "It appears from all the facts in 1 CONC its hisotry and traditions of its people". It faces the south as do most 1 CONC of the Colonial houses and when the kitchen clock was not regular in its 1 CONC toll, or the family did not have one from old England, the sun, showing 1 CONC squarely through the door, would tell tell the hour of noon. 1 CONT 1 CONT The house attracts at once the attention of the stranger as a historical 1 CONC place. It is made of brick and the walls are 16 inches thick giving it 1 CONC strength to withstand any attack from the Indians. The brick are of two 1 CONC kinds - some coarse and porous, evidently from the clay of the 1 CONC neighborhood-and the others in prominent places in the structure solid 1 CONC and smooth with fancy edges, showing that they were brought from the 1 CONC mother country. No doubt in its earlier days the bricks were exposed to 1 CONC the weather, but later the front was plastered over and on the eastern 1 CONC end, which is shown in this picture, the bricks have been 1 CONT clapboarded over, foundation strips of wood being fastened on to bold 1 CONC them. The leaning shed on the back is also of later construction than the 1 CONC original. The interior stirs the imagination by its quaintness and 1 CONC evident purpose, the deep window seats marking the thick walls, the fine 1 CONC old kitchen where generations of guests have been served in the long 1 CONC past, and mysterious attics from which one may look out through the 1 CONC loop-holes where the long muskets of the defenders spoke mercilessly to 1 CONC the skulking foe. In the cellar are several compartments, and one, 1 CONC stronger than the rest, appears to have been intended 1 CONT as a last resort in case of a successful attack by the Indians, for a 1 CONC massive door was hung in the wall and large stones ready to roll against 1 CONC it. But these were never used, as history does not record that the house 1 CONC was ever captured, So the visitor must shut himself in here, roll these 1 CONC stones against, the door, and in the darkness, imagine history. It 1 CONC looked, however, as though this might be realized in l690, as the 1 CONC settlers held a meeting to consider whether for present security they 1 CONC should "draw-off or send for help abroad." This must have been a crises 1 CONC with those people looking back over their half century of toil. 1 CONT Rough the cart-path, wild the forest 1 CONT And adown the Merrimac, 1 CONT Swiftly came the birch-bark, bearing 1 CONT Savage on the white man's track. 1 CONT 1 CONT But the palefaced grew and flourished, 1 CONT All undaunted, went not hence, 1 CONT But the garrison erected, 1 CONT For a shelter and defense. 1 CONT 1 CONT Joseph Peaslee and Joseph Jr. were Quakers, which was not the popular 1 CONC doctrine of the colonies, and they would probably have been persecuted in 1 CONC consequence of their creed had not it been for the necessity of harmony 1 CONC in defense against the common enemy. 1 CONT 1 CONT The Peaslees occupied this house for four generations but relinquised it 1 CONC in 1758 when it passed to Ephraim Elliott whose wife, Formerly Miss 1 CONC Wingate was a niece of the Honorable Thomas Pickering and a sister of 1 CONC Payne Wingate, Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States. 1 CONT 1 CONT But the mansion changed its owners, 1 CONT Generations came and went, 1 CONT Echoed there the voice of sadness 1 CONT Joy, love, woe and discontent. 1 CONT 1 CONT The old house has its romances as well as its stern realities, and the 1 CONC spreading willow seen at the left is said to have grown from a walking 1 CONC stick left standing in the ground by a young gallant who accompanied his 1 CONC sweetheart home to the old historical house. 1 CONT 1 CONT And the willow, neat and glossy 1 CONT For a century or more, 1 CONT Has its yellow catkins scattered 1 CONT Lavishly before the door. 1 CONT 1 CONT Twas a walking stick, and planted, 1 CONT In the twilight by a Beau, 1 CONT As a token to the lady 1 CONT Whom he courted long ago. 1 CONT 1 CONT This account of the "garrison" house was given to Edward L. Bond by a 1 CONC Peaslee living in Darien, Conn. Hannah gave the account to me to copy 1 CONT llth Mo. 5th, 1955. 1 CONT Ruth W. Peaslee Engle 1 CONT 1 CONT Joseph Peaslee, Jr., son of Joseph, was but fourteen years of age when 1 CONC his father died, consequently, for several years his doings and 1 CONC whereabouts were not of sufficient importance to be recorded by the town 1 CONC clerk. While this heir to the Peaslee estate was growing to manhood, 1 CONC under the guardianship of his mother, in Salibury Newtown, the town of 1 CONC Haverhill was slowly but steadily growing towards the suburb now called 1 CONC Rocks Village. There is abundant proof in well-preserved private papers, 1 CONC as well as public records that, in 1652, a tavern called "Coffin's 1 CONC Ordinary" was kept at the ferry, a short distance above the present Rocks 1 CONC bridge. The "King's Highway", from Newbury, crossed the Merrimac at this 1 CONC point. The "Twelve-rod-away" formerly, called "Goodman Ayer's cart-way", 1 CONC leading from "Coffin's Ordinary" to the county highway between Haverhill 1 CONC and Salisbury, was laid out in 1665. Two years later the road from 1 CONC "County Bridge to Holt's Rocks" was opened, and, in 1667, the River road, 1 CONC once "Jamaca Path", was laid out on condition that those who used it 1 CONC should keep it in repair. James Davis, Sen., and his son James, Jr., 1 CONC possessed considerable land upon the "great river" in 1652 one portion of 1 CONC which was "bounded by a red oke at Coffin's Ordinary". 1 CONT 1 CONT Joseph Peaslee, son of Joseph, married Ruth Barnard, of Salisbury, 1 CONC January 21, l67l. His daughter Mary was born there July l4, l672. She 1 CONC married Joseph Whittier and was the great-grandmother of John Greenleaf 1 CONC Whittier. 1 CONT 1 CONT On page 94, "Chase's 'History of Haverhill', in a 'A list of more houses 1 CONC built which fall under the law made in 1660, which prohibits them from 1 CONC privileges in Common lands,' is the name of 'Joseph Peasly'." Under this 1 CONC list is the following entry: "This account was entered Jan. 25, l675, by 1 CONC the Selectmen. William White, George Brown, Daniel Hendricks, Thomas 1 CONC Baton, Selectmen in l675". 1 CONT 1 CONT The house erected by Joseph Peasley, prior to l675, on the Country Bridge 1 CONT road, a short distance west of the Twelve-rod-way, is now widely known as 1 CONT the "Old Garrison". 0 @I0243@ INDI 1 NAME Ruth /Barnard/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE 16 OCT 1651 2 PLAC Haverhill, Essex, MA 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 5 NOV 1723 2 PLAC Haverhill, Essex, MA 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F026@ 1 FAMC @F031@ 0 @I0244@ INDI 1 NAME John /Martin/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 26 JAN 1650/51 2 PLAC Salisbury, MA 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 6 OCT 1693 2 PLAC Arnesbury, MA 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F028@ 1 FAMC @F032@ 0 @I0247@ INDI 1 NAME Mary /Weed/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE 5 SEP 1653 2 PLAC Salisbury, MA 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE AFT 17 JAN 1714/15 2 PLAC Amesbury, MA 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F028@ 1 FAMC @F033@ 0 @I0248@ INDI 1 NAME Thomas B. /Barnard/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 1612 2 PLAC Arnesbury, Essex, MA 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 1677 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F031@ 1 FAMC @F034@ 1 NOTE @NI0248@ 0 @NI0248@ NOTE 1 CONC [florence-potts-ancestors.FTW] 1 CONT 1 CONT not listed in Gen.Dict of First Settlers of NE, Savage as son of John and 1 CONC Phebe. 0 @I0249@ INDI 1 NAME Helene\Elinor /Morse/ 2 SOUR @S07784@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1616 2 PLAC Essex, MA 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 27 NOV 1644 2 PLAC Arnesbury, Essex, MA 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F031@ 0 @I0250@ INDI 1 NAME John /Weed/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1627 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 15 MAR 1687/88 2 PLAC Arnesbury, Essex, MA 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F033@ 0 @I0251@ INDI 1 NAME Deborah /Winsley/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX F 1 FAMS @F033@ 1 FAMC @F035@ 0 @I0252@ INDI 1 NAME Robert /Hudson/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX M 1 FAMS @F036@ 0 @I0253@ INDI 1 NAME Mary /Thredder/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX F 1 FAMS @F036@ 0 @I0255@ INDI 1 NAME Joseph /Peaslee/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 1597 2 PLAC Bristol or England, Severn, Gloucester, England 2 SOUR @S07784@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 3 DEC 1660 2 PLAC Salisbury, Essex, MA 2 SOUR @S08274@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 3 SEP 1660 2 PLAC New Junction, NH 2 SOUR @S07784@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 IMMI 2 DATE 1641 2 PLAC From England to Haverhill/Salisbury, MA 2 SOUR @S07083@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 IMMI 2 DATE ABT 1635 2 PLAC Newbury, MA 2 SOUR @S07784@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 EVEN 2 TYPE Event 2 DATE 22 JUN 1642 2 PLAC Haverhill/Salisbury, MA 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 OCCU 2 PLAC Gifted Brother in lieu of a minister to the church at Amesbury 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 OCCU 2 PLAC doctor 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 OCCU 2 PLAC Part time farmer 1 RELI 2 PLAC Quaker 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 WILL 2 DATE 11 NOV 1660 1 FAMS @F030@ 1 FAMC @F037@ 1 NOTE @NI0255@ 0 @NI0255@ NOTE 1 CONC From Addressat Peaslee Reunion August 17, 1898 by George F. Beeds, Esq., 1 CONC of FremontJoseph and mary Johnson Peaslee with two or more daughters 1 CONC arrived in Boston, MA and soon went to Newbury, Mass and are named among 1 CONC the early settlers and land owners of that town. They soon, in 1641, 1 CONC moved to Colchester (now salisbury, MA). 1 CONT 1 CONT Joseph Peaslee was noticed as a townsman and landowner of Salisbury as 1 CONC early as 1642 and took the oath of freeman June 22nd, 1642. 1 CONT 1 CONT 1 CONT 1 CONT 1 CONT 1 CONT [florence-potts-ancestors.FTW] 1 CONT 1 CONT Nov. 3, 1661 1 CONT Newbury 1 CONT in his will of Nov. 11 preceding names wife. Mary, and child Mary, 1 CONC beside those three, and gr. d. Sarah. 1 CONT He was one of 91 freeholders in 1642. He was accounted as the "First 1 CONC Quaker" of Haverhill. He was the founder of the Peaslee family in 1 CONC America. 1 CONT 1 CONT Public Offices: townsman, one of the commissioners for the settlement of 1 CONC claims and was selectman of Haverhill in the years 1649,50 and 53 1 CONT "He came from England; was in Haverhill before 1646; was a freeman June 1 CONC 22, 1642, and that he removed to Salisbury where he died." In 1645, when 1 CONC the "Great Pond Meadow" of Haverhill was divided, "beginning at the East 1 CONC end," Joseph peasley received his share "for acres lying by the upland 1 CONC and bounded with two stakes" 1 CONT In 1650 the town voted "that Joseph Peasley and Bartholomew Heath shall 1 CONC have liberty to set up each of them a barn upon the common (ie land not 1 CONC granted to an individual), "...Dec. 30, 1650, voted that Joseph Peasley 1 CONC should have his four acres of land which he was to take up over the 1 CONC little river laid out in the Plain adjoining to his land which formerly 1 CONC was part of the land of Thomas Davis. 1 CONT 1 CONT http://www.best.com/~mpeaslee/genealogy/d0005/g0000458.htm 1 CONT says Elizabeth, Jane and mary were children of a previous marriage 1 CONT 1 CONT From Coffin, the historian of Newbury, we learn that Joseph Peasley was 1 CONC "an early settler of that town, that his daughter Sarah was born 1 CONC September 9, 1642, and he died in Amesbury, December 5, l660". 1 CONT 1 CONT The "Plain" was afterwards known as "Tilton's Corner" now Riverside. Here 1 CONC was the Haverhill home of Joseph Peasley, near what is now the head of 1 CONC East Broadway, on the side towards the river, where now is a small apple 1 CONC orchard. 1 CONT 1 CONT In 1652 it was voted to open a highway "at the upper end of Goodman 1 CONC Peasley's house lot". 1 CONT 1 CONT "June 7, 1652, voted and granted that the second division of plough land 1 CONC shall begin at the head of Joseph Peasley's pond meadow and so to go 1 CONC north and west and east until each man's own proportion is laid out 1 CONC according to order and true meaning". The next year he received in 1 CONC separate tracts and shares of land forty-one acres, besides "his share 1 CONT in the ox-common between the ponds", which was four acres. In the third 1 CONC and fourth divisions of meadow thirty-six acres were set off to him. He 1 CONC belonged to the Society of Friends or Quakers, and sometimes, in the 1 CONC absence of a minister, exhorted the people on the Sabbath, but in 1653, 1 CONC he, with Thomas Macy of Salisbury, was prohibited from exercising his 1 CONC gift of exhortation. 1 CONT 1 CONT From Merrill's History of Amesbury we learned that at a meeting in 1 CONC Salisbury, "July l6th, 1656, Joseph Peaslee was made a townsman, and 1 CONC granted twenty acres of upland, bought of Thomas Macy, and ten acres of 1 CONC meadow at the pond, for which the town agreed to pay 6 pounds to Thomas 1 CONC Macy". "This Joseph Peaslee, whom the commonoers of Salisbury received an 1 CONC to whom they gave considerable land, was a self-constituted preacher, as 1 CONC well as farmer, and eventually proved troublesome on that account". 1 CONT 1 CONT In 1657 Mr. Peaslee had land near "Mill river". "October 29, 1658, a 1 CONC general meeting was held and a large tract of land beyond the pond, 1 CONC bordering on Back river, was ordered to be laid out in lots eighty rods 1 CONC long, ranging southerly"- Of this division of Salisbury land "Joseph 1 CONC Peisly" received forty acres. 1 CONT 1 CONT The old town of Salisbury had almost forced the settlement of the new 1 CONC part, west of the Powow river. May 26, 1658, an attempt was made by the 1 CONC inhabitants of the new part to separate themselves from the old, in order 1 CONC "to be a distinct town and make provision for the maintenance of public 1 CONC worship". This was not liked by the old town and the petition to be made 1 CONC a separate precinct was not granted by the General Court, but they were 1 CONC ordered "to attend the worship of God together in the old towne and to 1 CONC contribute towards the support of preaching there". Joseph Peaslee, 1 CONC however, paid little regard to the order, and continued to preach, while 1 CONC the people refused to attend worship in the old town, for which offense 1 CONC they were fined five shillings each for "every day's absence on the 1 CONC Lord's day". In 1659 five hundred acres of land were given to the 1 CONC children of the commoners, 1 CONT "Joseph, son of Joseph Peasley", receiving a share with sixteen others. 1 CONT 1 CONT The church at Salisbury old town considered the preaching of Joseph 1 CONC Peaslee "very weak and unfit", while the inhabitants of the new portion 1 CONC encouraged him in his labors. He was again fined five shillings per week 1 CONC for his disobedience and ordered not to preach. Merrill states that "he 1 CONC died previous to 1662, in Haverhill", while Chase of Haverhill states 1 CONC that he died in Salisbury. The latter is correct. The record may be 1 CONC found in an 1 CONT old town book of Salisbury. He died December 3, 1660. 1 CONT 1 CONT Of him Merrill says: "If he was 'very weak and unfit' for preaching, he 1 CONC was a successful farmer, and left his son a good property". He made his 1 CONC will November 11, 1660, which is on file in Salem, but so faded it is 1 CONC very difficult to read. It is not plain what portion of the property was 1 CONC willed to his wife during her life, a few words being worn and 1 CONC indistinct, but, from following events, it appears that she lived, after 1 CONC the death of her husband, at the home in Salisbury. 1 CONT 1 CONT "The last Will and Testament of Josef Peasly is that my debts shall be 1 CONC payed out of my Estate and the remainder of my estate .... my debts being 1 CONC payed I doo give and bequeath unto Mary my wiff During her life and I doo 1 CONC give unto Josef my sonne all my land that I have upon the plain at 1 CONC Haverhill and doo give unto Josef my sonne all my medo ling in East medo 1 CONC at Haverhill and doo give unto Josef my sonne five shares of the common 1 CONC rites that doo belong to me on the plain. I doo give unto my daffter 1 CONC Elizabeth my fourty fower acres of upland ling westwards of Haverhill and 1 CONC doo give unto my daffter Elizabeth fower acres and a half of medo ling in 1 CONC the ... at Haverhill and doo allso give to my daffter Elizabeth fower of 1 CONC the common rites that belong to the plain and doo give unto daffter Jean 1 CONC fower shillings and to my daffter Mary fower shillings. I doo give unto 1 CONC Sara Saier my grandchild my upland and medo ling in ... medo. And I doo 1 CONC give unto my sonne Josef all the remainder of my land at Haverhil which 1 CONC is not hererein disposed of I doo allso make Mary my wiff my Soule 1 CONC executrer and do also -leave Josef my sonne and the estate I have given 1 CONC him to my wiff to poss on till Josef my sonne be twenty years of aige." 1 CONT 1 CONT Phillip Challis and Thomas Barnard were witnesses to the will. James 1 CONC Davis, Sen., and Theophilus Satchwell, both of Haverhill, "did their best 1 CONC endeavors" in appraising the estate. In Haverhill they found twelve 1 CONC acres, more or less, in the plain, fenced; another tract of thirty-six 1 CONC acres; one of eighteen, unfenced; fourty-four acres west of Little River, 1 CONC four on Spickett Hill; the west meadow; Spickett meadow; the 4th Division 1 CONC of upland not yet fenced; four acres of the 3d Division of meadow; the 1 CONC "new-found meadow"; four oxen commons and other cow commons; "One 1 CONC grinding stone and iron bar". 1 CONT 1 CONT In the Inventory of the Estate we find House land and meadow; "1 grinding 1 CONT stone; 2 smoothing irons; 1 pair andirons; 1 iron pot; 8 skillets; pot 1 CONC hook; flesh hook and frying pan; 2 Bibles and other books; chests, 1 CONC barrels, spinning wheel and other lumber," forty bushels of wheat, sixty 1 CONC of Indian corn; three cows ana two heifers; wool, flax, hemp and yarn. 1 CONT 1 CONT The widow received a lot of land lying upon the river in Salisbury, soon 1 CONC after his decease. Before he died he received at the March meeting a 1 CONC grant of "a tounsheip for his son" Joseph, which was a right to vote and 1 CONC take part in town meetings when old enough. 1 CONT 1 CONT In 1662 widow Peaslee received a share in a division of land which was 1 CONC lot 19, consisting of one hundred and eight acres. 1 CONT 1 CONT In 1664 "Widow Peaslee, 'Exacitor to Joseph Piesly', received twenty 1 CONC acres of land in exchange for six acres of salt marsh formerly granted to 1 CONC her husband". 1 CONT 1 CONT Mr. Peaslee occasionally practiced medicine; was one of the commissioners 1 CONC of the settlement of claims and was selectman of Haverhill in the years 1 CONC 1649, 1650, and 1655. Mary, the widow, lived many years. 1 CONT 1 CONT The part of Salisbury to which Joseph and Mary Peaslee removed was given 1 CONC the name of Amesbury, from which was granted Newtown, now Newton, N. H. 1 CONT 1 CONT In that town, near the Junction, in the heart of tie woods, is the old 1 CONC Quaker burying ground where rest many early settlers of that faith and 1 CONC the Peaslee name. There, surrounded by graceful hemlocks and murmuring 1 CONC pines, are row of graves unmarked save by rude unlettered stones at the 1 CONC head and foot of each. In this secluded spot may repose the dust of 1 CONC Joseph and Mary. It is gratifying to know that measures have been taken 1 CONC to restore and keep in good condition this ancient burial place. For 1 CONC this purpose it has recently been deeded by Arthur P. French of Danville, 1 CONC New Hampshire, to the "Overseers 1 CONT of the Monthly Meeting of Friends" of Amesbury, Mass. 1 CONT 0 @I0256@ INDI 1 NAME Mary /Johnson/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE 1604 2 PLAC Haverhill, Essex, MA 2 SOUR @S07784@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 BIRT 2 DATE 1625 2 PLAC Llangollen, Denbigshire, Wales 2 SOUR @S15964@ 1 DEAT 2 DATE 27 SEP 1694 2 PLAC Salisbury, Essex, MA 2 SOUR @S07784@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F030@ 1 FAMC @F038@ 1 NOTE @NI0256@ 0 @NI0256@ NOTE 1 CONC Mary was the daughter of fairly wealthy farmer. She outlived Joseph by 1 CONC more than 30 years. After his death Mary was the administratrix of the 1 CONC estate which consisted of extensive holdings of land in several 1 CONC locations. The records show that she did this very competently. 1 CONT This info came from web site 1 CONT http://www.best.com/~mpeaslee/genealogy/d0002/g0000118.htm 1 CONT This site also said the information came from POP vol IIP1,3 0 @I0257@ INDI 1 NAME William /Peaslee/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1580 2 PLAC Yorks, England/Newbury, Essex 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 PROB 2 DATE APR 1663 2 PLAC Estate Probated in Essex Cty., MA 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F039@ 1 FAMC @F040@ 0 @I0258@ INDI 1 NAME Anne /Calvert/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1595 2 PLAC Yorks, England 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE WFT Est 1628-1706 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F039@ 1 FAMC @F041@ 0 @I0259@ INDI 1 NAME John? /Peaslee/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX M 1 FAMS @F040@ 0 @I0260@ INDI 1 NAME Hannah /Sage?/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX F 1 FAMS @F040@ 0 @I0261@ INDI 1 NAME George /Calvert/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 PLAC Danbywiske, Yorkshire, Eng 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 12 APR 1632 2 PLAC London, Middlesex, England 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F041@ 1 FAMC @F042@ 0 @I0262@ INDI 1 NAME Anne /Wynne/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE 20 NOV 1579 2 PLAC Hertingfordbury, Hertfordshire, England 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 8 AUG 1622 2 PLAC Hertingfordbury, Hertfordshire, England 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F041@ 1 FAMC @F043@ 0 @I0263@ INDI 1 NAME Leonard /Calvert/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1550 2 PLAC Danby Wiske, Yorkshire, England 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 PLAC England 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F042@ 1 FAMC @F044@ 0 @I0264@ INDI 1 NAME Alice Grace /Crossland/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1555 2 PLAC Crossland Hill, Yorkshire, England 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 PLAC England 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F042@ 1 FAMC @F045@ 0 @I0265@ INDI 1 NAME John /Wynne/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1550 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE WFT Est 1588-1649 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F043@ 0 @I0266@ INDI 1 NAME Elizabeth /Wroth/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1562 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE WFT Est 1588-1656 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F043@ 0 @I0267@ INDI 1 NAME Job /Burdsall/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 9 SEP 1782 2 PLAC NJ 2 SOUR @S06032@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 15 JUL 1837 1 RESI 2 PLAC Rahway NJ 2 SOUR @S17167@ 1 RELI 2 PLAC Quaker, Rahway Plianfield Meeting, NJ 1 FAMS @F046@ 1 FAMC @F191@ 0 @I0268@ INDI 1 NAME Hannah /Webster/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE 22 JUN 1783 2 PLAC NJ 2 SOUR @S06032@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 17 APR 1859 1 RESI 2 PLAC Rahway, NJ 1 RELI 2 PLAC Quaker, Rahway Plainfield Meeting, NJ 1 FAMS @F046@ 1 FAMC @F190@ 0 @I0283@ INDI 1 NAME William /Jenkins/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1716 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 PLAC Dover, Strattford Co., NH 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 WILL 2 DATE 16 MAY 1782 2 PLAC Written in Lee, NH 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 WILL 2 DATE 1786 2 PLAC Proved 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 RELI 2 PLAC Dover, Strattford Co., NH 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F047@ 1 FAMC @F048@ 1 NOTE @NI0283@ 0 @NI0283@ NOTE 1 CONC [florence-potts-ancestors.FTW] 1 CONT 1 CONT Quaker 1 CONT will proved in 1786 names sons Wm. Jr., Joseph, John, Jonathan & James, 1 CONC and daus Hannah Hanso n, Elizabeth Evans, Phebe Hanson. Wm. Jr. & John 1 CONC were named executors. By 1787 when the rea l estate was divided, John had 1 CONC purchased the rights of his brothers Wm. Jr, Joseph, and Jonat han, and 1 CONC James & John (at least) were still living. His signature witnesses: 1 CONC Samuel Langley , Job Runals Jr. & Hercules Mooney. Inv. Comm. Zeaccheus 1 CONC Clough & Samuel Mathes. Appraised : 8/22/1787. Value: L2224..3..11. 1 CONC Allowed: 8/22/1787 Div. Comm.: Samuel Mathes, Robert Thompson, Ebenezer 1 CONC Thompson, Hunkin Dame & another unamed . To divide the real est. among 1 CONC his children, agreeable to his will. Divisess: James Jenkin s, John 1 CONC Jenkins, who had purchased the rights of his bros. Wm. Jr., Joseph & 1 CONC Jonathan. Allowe d: 9/2/1793. He refused to "sign the test" association 1 CONC test in November 1776, with his son, William, Josep h Cartland, etc. 1 CONC because they were Quakers. 0 @I0284@ INDI 1 NAME Phebe /Hoag/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE 1 JAN 1716/17 2 PLAC Hampton, Rockingham Co., NH 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 29 MAR 1764 2 PLAC Dover, Strattford Co., NH 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F047@ 1 FAMC @F049@ 0 @I0285@ INDI 1 NAME Benjamin /Frye/ 2 SOUR @S07127@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 9 NOV 1701 2 PLAC Kittery, Maine 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE MAR 1754 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F050@ 1 FAMC @F051@ 0 @I0286@ INDI 1 NAME Sarah /Dow/ 2 SOUR @S07127@ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE 23 OCT 1709 2 PLAC Hampton, NH 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE BEF 8 APR 1772 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F050@ 1 FAMC @F052@ 0 @I0288@ INDI 1 NAME George /Martin/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 2 SOUR @S09333@ 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1618 2 PLAC Ramsey, Hampshire, England 1 DEAT 2 DATE 23 NOV 1686 2 PLAC Amesbury, Essex, MA or Salisbury, MA 1 RESI 2 PLAC Knoddishall, Suffolk or Ramsey England 1 WILL 2 DATE 23 NOV 1686 1 OCCU 2 PLAC Blacksmith 1 FAMS @F032@ 1 NOTE @NI0288@ 0 @NI0288@ NOTE 1 CONC 1 CONT 1 CONT Willed his land to Susanna, his wife, and his younger son William and a 1 CONC Hadley grandchild. 1 CONT After Susanna's death the land may have been attainted ie taken by the 1 CONC court. 1 CONT 1 CONT Notes for GEORGE MARTIN: 1 CONT History of Amesbury & Merrimac, Jos. Merrill; Reg. Probate, Essex Co., 1 CONC Salem, 23 1 CONT Nov. 1686. The fact that he was sponsored as a servant to Samuel Winsley, 1 CONC who was from Colchester, Essex, points to this area as a possible 1 CONC birthplace for George Martin. Samuel Winsley served in the militia at 1 CONC Knodishall, according to Edward Banks, on the border of Suffolk County. 1 CONC They seem to have arrived in N.E. at about the same time (abt. 1639], so 1 CONC it is possible they emigrated together, as George "came as a servant to 1 CONC Winsley." George may have even married his first wife, Hannah, in 1 CONC England; but a date of 1642 is more likely, since Hannah was born in 1 CONC 1643. At any rate their marriage is not listed in Salisbury-Amesbury 1 CONC records. 1 CONT 1 CONT As we read George's will, written on dark-stained parchment paper, it is 1 CONC extremely moving to hold it crackling in our hands, knowing that Susannah 1 CONC fingers must have held it too. George's actual gravesite is not known, 1 CONC but his name is listed on a brass plaque on the Memorial Stone. 1 CONT 1 CONT Amesbury has not changed all that much, and one can wander past the 1 CONC various sites mentioned in Whittier's poems with a feeling of 1 CONC recognition. The Merrimac River is broad and bordered by endless beds of 1 CONC reeds below where the Martin home was originally located. A sign 1 CONC indicating Martin Street points us into the village. Though a highway now 1 CONC cuts through the site of the original farmstead, a monument marks the 1 CONC spot. 1 CONT 1 CONT In sharp contrast, the death site on Gallows Hill in Salem is now covered 1 CONC over with houses and a children's playground. 1 CONT 1 CONT 1 CONT More About GEORGE MARTIN: 1 CONT Burial: Amesbury, Essex, MA 1 CONT 1 CONT Notes for HANNAH: 1 CONT !1st marr.; Old Fam. Salis. & Ames.; David Hoyt. 1 CONT 1 CONT 0 @I0289@ INDI 1 NAME Susanna(h) /North/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE 30 SEP 1621 2 PLAC Olney, Buckinghamshire, England 1 DEAT 2 DATE 19 JUL 1692 2 PLAC Gallows hill, Salem, MA 1 BAPM 2 DATE 30 SEP 1621 2 PLAC Olney, Bucks, England 1 RESI 2 PLAC Buckingham England 1 RESI 2 PLAC Amesbury, MA 1 IMMI 2 DATE 1639 2 PLAC England -> New England 1 FAMS @F032@ 1 FAMC @F192@ 1 NOTE @NI0289@ 0 @NI0289@ NOTE 1 CONC When her father died she expected to inherit a large portion of his 1 CONC estate, but she was disappointed. It came to Susannah's attentionat the 1 CONC time of his death that he had supposedly written a new will stating that 1 CONC all previous wills should nbe voided. According to the new will, which 1 CONC had (almost impossibly) been written nearly two decades before his death, 1 CONC all but 22 pounds went to his second wife, Susanna's stepmother. In 1 CONC addition, several irregularities with the will led Susannah to believe 1 CONC someone had tampered with the will. For example one of the witnesses to 1 CONC Richard North's second will would only have beeneleven or twelve years 1 CONC old at the time her father reputedly drafted the will. 1 CONT 1 CONT In 1669 a bond was posted for her appearance in court for suspicion of 1 CONC witchcraft. She wa acquitted of the charges. soon after her stepmother 1 CONC died, prompting a long and tedious battle on the North estate. Susanna 1 CONC failed to make good her claim on her father's estate. (Karlsen, 1989:89-95 1 CONT 1 CONT She was known as the witch of Amesbury and was hanged as a witch for 1 CONC refusing to confess or incriminate her neighbors. Kathleen A. Martin 1 CONC thinks sons Richard and John came at night to remove her body from the 1 CONC "crack in the fels te crudd" where it had been thrown. Rebecca Nurse's 1 CONC children also recovered their mother's body. 1 CONT 1 CONT The following is from http://www.rootsweb.com/~nwa/sm.html 1 CONT 1 CONT TEXT COMPILED BY BONNIE JOHNSON 1 CONT Susanna was baptized in Olney, Buckinghamshire, England September 30, 1 CONC 1621. She was the daughter of Richard and Joan (Bartram) North. While she 1 CONC was still young her mother died. She came to America with her father, 1 CONC stepmother, and at least one sister. She married George Martin, a 1 CONC blacksmith, August 11, 1646 at Salisbury, MA and had eight children. 1 CONC During the first 23 years of her marriage, Susanna's name appears twice 1 CONC in public records. In 1647 or 48 she was fined 20 shillings for an 1 CONC unnamed offense and in 1667 her husband George objected to her seat 1 CONC placement in the meeting house. Perhaps he felt it was below her station. 1 CONT 1 CONT In 1669 Susanna was required to post 100 pounds bond to appear in court 1 CONC on a charge of witchcraft, a capital offense. At the same time George 1 CONC Martin sued William Sargent, Jr. for slander for saying that "...said 1 CONC Martyn's wife had a child at Capt. Wiggins and was wringing its neck in 1 CONC Capt. Wiggins' stable, when a man entered, and she took him by the collar 1 CONC and told him she would be the death of him if he told"; he sued William 1 CONC Sargent "...for saying his wife was a witch and he would call her a 1 CONC witch." George also sued Thomas Sargent "...for saying that his son 1 CONC George Marttin was a bastard and that Richard Marttin was Goodwife 1 CONC Marttin's imp," (a witch's familiar.) 1 CONT 1 CONT Charges were dropped against Thomas Sargent, William Sargent, Jr.. was 1 CONC found guilty of accusing Susanna of " fornication and infanticide" and 1 CONC George was awarded (in what appears to be a public insult) the amount of 1 CONC "a white wampam peague (colonial currency) or the eighth part of a penny 1 CONC damage" by the magistrates. William Sargent (Sr?) was acquitted of 1 CONC witchcraft slander, although, "the Court did not agree." The records of 1 CONC Susanna's first trial for witchcraft have not survived, but as she was 1 CONC around for another 23 years, we might assume that she was acquitted. 1 CONT 1 CONT In October, 1669 George Martin was sued by Christopher Bartlett because 1 CONC Susanna had called him a liar and a thief. The verdict was against George 1 CONC and Susanna but they had other problems to deal with. At that same court 1 CONC session, their son Richard was " presented by the grand jury at the 1 CONC Salisbury Court, 1669, for abusing his father and throwing him down, 1 CONC taking away his clothes and holding up an axe against him." The court 1 CONC found him guilty and sentenced Richard to be "whipped ten stripes." 1 CONT 1 CONT In 1671, George and Susanna (her sister Mary Jones would join them later) 1 CONC became involved in lengthy litigation over Richard North's estate. In 1 CONC October 1674, their inheritance would be lost when the court found 1 CONC against them. 1 CONT 1 CONT Descriptions of Susanna say that she was short, slightly plump, active, 1 CONC and "of remarkable personal neatness." She was also said to be very 1 CONC outspoken, contemptuous of authority, and defiant in the face of slander 1 CONC which had followed her for years. 1 CONT 1 CONT The Rev. Cotton Mather said about Susanna, "This woman was one of the 1 CONC most impudent, scurrilous, wicked creatures of this world; and she did 1 CONC now throughout her whole trial discover herself to be such a one. Yet 1 CONC when she was asked what she had to say for herself, her chief plea was 1 CONC that she had led a most virtuous and holy life." Mr. Merrill, in his 1 CONC History of Amesbury described Susanna differently---------- "The idea of 1 CONC snatching this hardworking, honest woman from her home to be tried for 1 CONC her life by those who never knew her , and witnesses who were prejudiced 1 CONC against her....is almost too much for belief. ...Allowed no counsel, she 1 CONC was her own lawyer, and her answers are remarkable for independence and 1 CONC clearness. She showed herself to be a woman of more than ordinary talent 1 CONC and resolution." 1 CONT 1 CONT On April 30, 1692 a warrant was issued for Susanna's arrest on a charge 1 CONC of witchcraft and she was arrested an May 2nd. "When she saw Orlando 1 CONC Bagley approaching on the morning of her arrest, little did she dream of 1 CONC his errand. He was a personal friend of long standing, and we can but 1 CONC faintly imagine her surprise when..." he read the warrant. 1 CONT 1 CONT During her preliminary examination the at same day, she vigorously 1 CONC answered the charges against her. When the " afflicted girls" began 1 CONC having fits, she laughed out loud. When the magistrates asked why she 1 CONC laughed, she responded, "Well I may at such folly." She refused to 1 CONC express any thoughts on what may have ailed the girls but bluntly stated 1 CONC that she didn't think they were bewitched. Her further testimony show 1 CONC that she realized the seriousness of her situation and she adamantly 1 CONC maintained her innocence. 1 CONT 1 CONT "The mental anguish and suffering of the two and a half months while she 1 CONC lay in Salem jail...is beyond our power of description." Susanna Martin 1 CONC underwent the indignity of a physical examination on June 2 1692. She 1 CONC examinations were intended to discover whether the accused had any 1 CONC physical abnormalities, especially anything that could be used to suckle 1 CONC a familiar or even the devil himself. Susanna was examined twice during 1 CONC the same day; at neither examination was any abnormality discovered, but 1 CONC at the first her breasts appeared to be full and at the second slack. 1 CONC Doubtless the magistrates found this apparent indication that she had 1 CONC actually suckled even more satisfactory than an abnormal "witch's teat." 1 CONT 1 CONT On June 26, 1692 her trial began. Susanna pleaded not guilty, but in the 1 CONC end she was found guilty and condemned to death. 1 CONT 1 CONT On Tuesday, July 19, 1692 Susanna Martin, Sarah Good, Rebecca Nurse, 1 CONC Sarah Wilde, and Elizabeth Howe were taken from their cells, put into a 1 CONC cart and driven up the rocky road to Gallows Hill. While Rebecca Nurse 1 CONC prayed, Rev. Nicholas Noyes exhorted Sarah Good to confess saying, "You 1 CONC are a witch, and you know you are a witch." She replied, calling him a 1 CONC liar and saying that she was no more a witch than he was a wizard 1 CONC and...if you take away my life, God will give you blood to drink." 1 CONC Tradition says that Rev. Noyes died of an internal hemorrhage, bleeding 1 CONC profusely from the mouth. 1 CONT 1 CONT "The bodies...were thrust into a shallow grave in a crevice of felsite." 1 CONC There is historical evidence that the body of at least one of these 1 CONC women, Rebecca Nurse, was secretly removed and given Christian burial; 1 CONC "this was the hour and the power of darkness when a son could not say 1 CONC where he had buried his mother." 1 CONT 1 CONT In 1711, the General Court granted compensation to many of the victims or 1 CONC their heirs, but Susanna's children made no application to the 1 CONC authorities and they received nothing. Susanna was not among those whose 1 CONC attainder was lifted. 1 CONT 1 CONT 1 CONT Let Goody Martin rest in peace, I never knew her harm a fly, 1 CONT And witch or not - God knows - not I? 1 CONT I know who swore her life away; 1 CONT And as God lives, I'd not condemn 1 CONT An Indian dog on word of them. 1 CONT John Greenleaf Whittier 1 CONT 1 CONT 1 CONT 1 CONT 1 CONT Susanna Martin Memorial, Amesbury, MA 1 CONT Photo © Bonnie Johnson, 1998 1 CONT 1 CONT Plaque reads: "Here stood the house of Susanna Martin. An honest, 1 CONC hardworking, Christian woman. Accused as a witch, tried and executed at 1 CONC Salem, July 19, 1692. A martyr of superstition." 1 CONT 1 CONT Notes for SUSANNA NORTH: 1 CONT Susanna was born in Olney, Bucks., England Sept. 30, 1721, daughter of 1 CONC Richard North's wife Joan Bartram. (Her baptismal record calls her 1 CONC Susan.) The source of this information was a TAG article by Dr. David L. 1 CONC Greene [TAG,April 1993], drawn from the Olney Bishop 's Transcripts which 1 CONC are held in the Buckinghamshire Records Office at Aylesbury. In this 1 CONC article almost the entire North family is clearly presented, using 1 CONC relevant information from the Wills of Richard's father John and brother 1 CONC Thomas, along with the Bishop's Transcripts. 1 CONT 1 CONT 1 CONT Her dramatic and tragic life and death in Amesbury is described in the 1 CONC Essex Co. Archives; Salem; Witchcraft; Vol I, p. 35, etc. 1 CONT 1 CONT "Martins of Mooretown," a 300-page book written by Kathleen A. Martin, 1 CONC contains all surrounding court records and transcripts including 1 CONC testimony by the witch examiners and Dr. Barton. Chapter notes provide 1 CONC documentation. It traces mainly the descendance of Samuel(3) Martin 1 CONC (John2, George1) and Ruth Silver and their family in Amoskeag, N.H., and 1 CONC includes the adventures of the Martin boys in a counterfeiting venture 1 CONC with Major Robert Rogers and subsequent trial, in action with the Rogers 1 CONC Rangers, and at the massacre of Fort William Henry. Some were at Bunker 1 CONC Hill, another on the Arnold Expedition and taken prisoner at Montreal. 1 CONC One was seized by Indians in Vermont and taken to Canada. 1 CONT 1 CONT After arrival in the Colonies Susanna went to work in the household of 1 CONC Capt. Wiggins at Squamscot, and lived with the wife of Rev. Stephen 1 CONC Bachellor. This was referred to in the 1669 allegations of child abuse 1 CONC brought against her by William Sargent. 1 CONT 1 CONT 1 CONT More About SUSANNA NORTH: 1 CONT Burial: Salem, Essex, MA 1 CONT 1 CONT Transcripts of the trial and other documents are available online at: 1 CONT http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/ 0 @I0299@ INDI 1 NAME Robert /Peaslee/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX M 1 FAMS @F037@ 1 FAMC @F039@ 0 @I0300@ INDI 1 NAME Jane // 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX F 1 FAMS @F037@ 0 @I0310@ INDI 1 NAME Joseph /Arney/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1710 2 PLAC Burlington, NJ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 5 JUN 1772 2 PLAC Burlington, NJ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F054@ 1 FAMC @F057@ 0 @I0311@ INDI 1 NAME /Sarah/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1715 2 PLAC Upper Freehold, Monmouth Co. NJ 1 FAMS @F054@ 0 @I0314@ INDI 1 NAME William /Yardley/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX M 1 BIRT 2 DATE 24 JAN 1716/17 2 PLAC Bucks Co, PA 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 3 AUG 1774 2 PLAC Lower Makefield, Bucks, PA 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 OCCU 2 DATE 1765 2 PLAC Justice of Bucks Co. PA - appointed by governor of PA 1 FAMS @F055@ 1 FAMC @F059@ 0 @I0315@ INDI 1 NAME Ann /Budd/ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 SEX F 1 BIRT 2 DATE ABT 1720 2 PLAC NJ 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 DEAT 2 DATE 1753 2 PLAC Bucks Co, PA 2 SOUR @S11048@ 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Oct 2, 2004 1 FAMS @F055@ 0 @I0318@ INDI 1 NAME John /Lippincott/ 2 SOUR @S08231@ 2