Stacy Potts and [Unk] Gardiner

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Husband Stacy Potts ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1731 - Trenton, Mercer Co, NJ 1 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 28 Apr 1816 - Trenton, Mercer Co, NJ 3 4
         Buried: 

       Marriage: Abt 1790

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   Other Spouse: Unknown (      -      )

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   Other Spouse: Mary Williams (1761-1844) 3 5

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Wife [Unk] Gardiner ^{3 4}

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            AKA: [Unk] Gardner 6
           Born: 
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           Died: 1799 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 3 4
         Buried: 

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Children

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1 M Stacy Gardiner Potts ^{3 6}

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           Born: Nov 1799 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 3 6
     Christened: 
           Died: 1865 - Trenton, Mercer Co, NJ 3 6
         Buried: 

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General Notes: Husband - Stacy Potts

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Thomas Potts, the ancestor of Stacy Potts, was a Quaker, who emigrated from England with his wife and children, in company with Mahlon Stacy and his family, in the ship "Shield," and landed at Burlington, New Jersey, in the winter of 1678, she being the first ship that went so far up the Delaware.

Stacy was a leading man in the Society of Friends and in the government of West Jersey. He received a good education, and learned the trade of a tanner, a business which he successfully carried on at least up to the time of the Revolution. He seems to have been a very enterprising and public-spirited citizen. In 1776, besides owning a tannery, he built the steel-works on Front street, Trenton, and after the close of the Revolution was largely interested in the erection of a paper-mill in the same locality. This was prior to the publication of Collins' Bible. In December, 1788, it was advertised by its proprietors, Stacy Potts and John Reynolds, as "now nearly completed." About this period Stacy Potts removed to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It is difficult to divine what were his motives in leaving his native town, where he was very popular, and with his ample competency, to settle in the then new town on the Susquehanna. His second marriage may, perchance, have had somewhat to do with his removal from Trenton. Going to Harrisburg, he made large purchases of land, and whether it was due to this fact, or his agreeable manner, Stacy Potts became quite prominent and was chosen to the Legislature in 1791 and in 1792. During the mill-dam troubles of 1794-95, Mr. Potts was quite active, and was one of the committee of citizens who were willing to take upon themselves all responsibility accruing by the destruction of the obnoxious dam. He served as burgess of the borough, and was a member of the Town Council. From 1799 to 1803 he again represented Dauphin County in the State Legislature. About the year 1805, he returned to Trenton; subsequently became mayor of that city, an office he held for several years. He died in that city in his eighty-fifth year. Mr. Potts was thrice married. We have no knowledge as to his first wife. He married, secondly. Miss Gardiner, of Philadelphia, a Presbyterian lady of superior intelligence. She died at Harrisburg in 1799. His third wife was Mrs. Mary Boyd. Upon the death of Mr. Potts, his widow removed to Harrisburg, where she resided with her son, George W. Boyd, until her death in 1844.

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General Notes: Wife - [Unk] Gardiner

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from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she was a Presbyterian lady of superior intelligence.

1 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 528.

2 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 115.

3 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 529.

4 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 116.

5 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 114.

6 William Henry Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1894), Pg 455.