Account book, 1787-1789.

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Account book, 1787-1789.

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The account book dates from the minority of Thomas Potts III, and shows accounts for a variety of iron, repair work and sale of stores. Important accounts are those of Ellis Jones, Thomas Potts, Joseph Potts, Samuel Potts, John Galloway and Thomas Bull. There is at least one reference to a "negro" slave worker.

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May, Robert, 1750-1812

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Robert May was involved in the iron industry. Born in Philadelphia County in 1750, Robert May was the son of Robert May and Elizabeth Brooke. He married into the Potts family and became a partner in the Joanna Furnace on Hay Creek and Coventry Mill through them. Robert's brother, Thomas May, was a Wilmington, De. merchant and an ironmaster and proprietor of the iron furnances at Elk Forge in Cecil County, Md. Robert served as superintendent of the Elk Forge from 1781 to 1790. When Thomas died in...

Potts, Joseph, 1742-1804

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Joseph Potts was a Quaker minister from southeastern Pennsylvania. He was born the 3rd of 1st month 1742, Old Style (14 March 1743, New Style) to John Potts and Ruth Savage Potts of Douglass, Pennsylvania. In 1764 Potts married Mary Morris of Whitemarsh, Pennsylvania; the couple had 11 children together. He died in 1804....

Potts, Samuel, 1736-1793

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Potts, Thomas, 1777-1814

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Coventry Forge, the second iron works to be built in Pennsylvania, was erected by Samuel Nutt, Sr., and William Branson on French Creek, six miles southwest of present-day Pottstown, ca. 1717/18. Another important ironmaster, Thomas Potts, Jr. (1735-1785), received a half-interest in Coventry from his in-laws Robert and Rebecca Grace in 1764, and later received the other half from his father John Potts. Thomas Potts erected the first blister steel furnace in Pennsylvania during his ownership of ...