For those interested, there's some a brief biographical note about Stacy Potts, Sr., here: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~clanboyd/wmboyd.htm (about halfway down the page) For even more genealogy related to this Stacy Potts and his family, the NJ State Archives' holdings include a one volume manuscript autobiography written by his grandson, NJ Supreme Court Justice Stacy Gardiner Potts. Finding aid is here: http://www.njarchives.org/links/guides/ppott001.html Scott -- Scott D. Peters Historically Speaking ALHFAM -FPIPN vice-chair for trivia, errata and miscellany 17 Alexandria Dr. Manalapan, NJ 07726 scott@latke.net "The ordinary distinctions in society are often vague, and imply no just pre-eminence: rank and titles are adventitious things and instead of designating merit or virtue, are frequently the baubles of imbecility, or the sparkling decorations of meretricious pageantry" William Griffith, on behalf, and by order of the New-Jersey Society for promoting the gradual Abolition of Slavery, Twelfth Month (December) 20th, 1803