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Short Title: Memorial of Thomas Potts, Jr.
Long Title: Memorial of Thomas Potts,
Junior, who settled in Pennsylvania; with an Historic-Genealogical Account of
his Descendants to the Eighth Gyration.
By: Mrs. Thomas Potts James (Isabella
Batchelder James)
Published: 1874 in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
U.S.A. by the author.
Format: Hard bound, 8.5" x 11", 418 pages
including errata.
Table of Contents:
Preface
List of Subscribers (List of 109 persons who subscribed for
one or more copies of the book and thus facilitated the research)
List of Illustrations (21 included)
Explanations and Abbreviations
Chapter I. Initial Chapter (6 pages)
Briefly states (without proof) that the family of Potts is of
German origin, but that the branch of which this volume is a memorial sprang
from a stock that had flourished in England for more than a hundred years before
a descendant immigrated to the New World. Describes the arms of Sir William Pot,
an English baronet. Briefly discusses: the Pottses of Cheshire and an offshoot
branch in Ireland during the 17th century; the Pottses of Wales (persecuted
Quakers) alluding to the fact that they lived near iron works at Colebrook Dale.
Briefly touches on the confusion caused by so many Potts of the same given name
(Thomas) who arrived and settled in Pennsylvania and New Jersey at the end of
the 17th century.
Chapter II. Germantown, Pennsylvania (18 pages)
Describes in some detail the early German immigration to
Pennsylvania under the guidance of Daniel Pastorius, the contractual
relationship and associated problems with William Penn’s colony, and the laying
out of the settlements. Describes the settlement at Germantown, the interaction
between the religious groups, the arrival of Thomas Rutter and the beginning of
the iron mines.
Chapter III. Manatawny (48 pages)
Describes the efforts to establish and successfully operate
iron mines, blast furnaces and forges in the Manatawny region of the new
settlements. Describes the actions of the principals involved, Thos. Rutter,
Samuel Nutt, Samuel Savage, and the problems with politics, Indians (attacks),
and trade sanctions. An insight is presented to the manner in which the
principals lived, and the economics and politics of operating the forges.
Chapter IV. First through Eighth Generations (288 pages)
Begins with a description of Thomas Potts, Senior, the uncle
of Thomas Potts, Junior, (the subject of this memorial), and then proceeds to
describe Thomas Potts, Junior, and his descendants through the eighth
generation.
Inscriptions (8 pages)
Copy of the inscriptions on the monuments, tablets, and
tombstones in the burial ground of the Potts family, in the order in which they
occur, commencing at the northwest angle of the cemetery, Pottstown,
Pennsylvania.
Rutter (3 pages)
The marriage certificate abstract and family information for
Thomas Rutter.
Samuel Nutt (3 pages)
The arms of Nutt, and the will of Samuel Nutt.
Robert Grace (17 pages)
Miscellaneous family information regarding Robert Grace.
James (2 pages)
Certificates of good character and marriage abstracts for
David James.
Appendix (7 pages)
Contains supplemental notes to the text.
Index (16 pages)
Contains four separate indexes:
Index I. Christian Name of those bearing the Surname of
Potts.
Index II. Descendants of Thomas Potts bearing other Names.
Index III. Names of those who have married Descendants of
Thomas Potts.
Index IV. Miscellaneous.
Errata (2 pages)
Availability:
- LDS Family History Library, U.S. & Canada Film Area 1321281, Item 5.
2. Higginson Book Co., B.O. Box 778, Salem, MA 01970 U.S.A.
Reprint, hard or soft cover, approx. $80 U.S.
Note: This work is an enormous expansion of chapter X of
Thomas Maxwell Potts’ compilation, The Potts Family.
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