Thomas Potts, Jr.

1680 - 1752  (72 years)

• Name	Thomas Potts
  Suffix	Jr.
  Birth	1680	Llangirrig, Montgomeryshire, Wales   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	4 Jan 1752	Colebrookdale, Philadelphia, Penn   [1]
  	Age: 76
  Person ID	I4590	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	26 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	John Potts, ; Welch Immigrant.,   b. 1658, Llangirrig, Montgomeryshire, Wales d. 1698, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 40 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Alice Croasdale,   b. 3 Aug 1673, Newkey, Yorks, England d. 1716, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 42 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F1390	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Martha Keurlis,   b. 1675, Waldniel, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany d. 1716, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 41 years)
  Marriage	20 Oct 1699	Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
  Children	1. Elizabeth Potts,   b. 16 Nov 1699, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA d. 1762 (Age 62 years)  [Father: natural]   2. Mary Potts,   b. 3 Feb 1704, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania d. 1757, Y, Somme, Picardie, France (Age 52 years)  [Father: natural]   3. John Keurlis Potts,   b. 1710, Germantown, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States of America d. 6 Jun 1768, Pottsgrove Manor, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 58 years)  [Father: natural]   4. Martha Potts,   b. 18 Jun 1714   d. 18 Jun 1714 (Age 0 years)  [Father: natural]   5. Martha Potts,   b. 29 May 1715   d. 29 May 1715 (Age 0 years)  [Father: natural]
  Family ID	F1369	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	26 Mar 2021

  
  

  Family 2	Magdalen Robeson,   b. 1693   d. 1764 (Age 71 years)
  Marriage	1717
  Children	1. Thomas Potts,   b. 1720, Colebrookdale, Philadelphia, Penn d. 21 Apr 1762, Colebrookdale, Philadelphia, Penn (Age 42 years)  [Father: natural]   2. Martha Potts  [Father: natural]   3. David Potts   d. 1752  [Father: natural]
  Family ID	F1370	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	26 Mar 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Thomas Potts was a butcher in Germantown. He moved to Philadelphia. He made enough money buying and selling parcels of land he was able to rent Rutters Forge and later the Colebbrook Dale Furnace in the Manatawny Regond north-west of Philadelphia. He built the Potts Mansion, in 1730, which he called "Popodicon;" on land at Colebrookdale, which he had bought of Thomas Rutter's sons. Pleasant Furnace on Perkiomen Creek, is said to have been built by him in 1738, and Pine Forge was erected by him in 1740, on Manatawny Creek Township, near Amity, Pa. 4 At the time of his death he also owned part of Colebrookdale Furnace. Additional information about this story Description Date 1730 Location PA Attached to Thomas Potts (1680 - 1752) Township municipal offices are located at 765 W. Philadelphia Avenue, Boyertown PA 19512; phone: 610-369-1362. Colebrookdale was incorporated September 7, 1741, first settled circa 1720; formerly part of Philadelphia County. Historic Resources Bahr Mill Complex, circa 1828, Ironstone Drive, typical 19th century, small family gristmill. Nicholas Johnson (Schollenberger) Mill, circa 1861, Mill Crest Road, continued in operation until 1956; classic, simple merchant gristmill. Pennsylvania Guide, 1940 COLEBROOKDALE, famous as the seat of the first blast furnace in Pennsylvania, was on Iron Stone Creek, named for the Colebrookdale furnace, in Shropshire, England; it was founded by Thomas Rutter and Thomas Potts in 1720: in 1724, the output was forty-eight tons of pig iron per annum, each ton valued at £5; this was the first furnace to cast pots, kettles, and other hollow ware by the use of sand moulds; it had a long and prosperous career. Federal Writers Project, Works Progress Administration, 1940

  
  

• Sources

  [S35] Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online. Record for Dr. Thomas Sr Potts ; Welch Immigrant