Born in Burlington, Province of West Jersey
Ancestors 
Daughter of Mahlon Stacy Sr.
and Rebecca (Ely) Stacy
Sister of
John Stacy, Elizabeth (Stacy) Janney, Sarah (Stacy) Kirkbride, Mary (Stacy) Pownall, Ruth (Stacy) Atkinson and Mahlon Stacy Jr.
Wife of
Joshua Wright
— married
7 Jun 1705 in Chesterfield, New Jersey
Wife of
Thomas Mansfield Potts
— married
8 Mar 1742 in Trenton, Hunterdon, New Jersey
Descendants 
Died
at age 69
in Burlington, Province of New Jersey
Profile last modified
| Created 2 Jun 2014
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Biography
Rebecca Stacy was born 8 April 1684 to parents Mahlon Stacy and Rebecca Ely Stacy of Hansworth, Yorkshire, England who were Quakers and emigrated 1678. [1]
Rebecca Stacy married 1st Joshua Wright. [2]
Rebecca Stacy Wright married 2nd Thomas Potts. [3]
Thomas Potts of Mansfield, Burlington wrote his will 30 Jan 1754 naming wife Rebecca and his children.[4]
Research Notes
Her DOD is currently set as the DOD of her husband, 2 Feb; did they die of the same illness on the same day? She was living when he wrote his will 30 January.
Sources
- ↑ Genealogies of Pennsylvania Families: 'Atkinson Families of Bucks County, Pennsylvania' by Oliver Hough. Available in the public domain at https://archive.org/details/jstor-20085360/page/n7?q=Atkinson+family+of+Bucks+County
- ↑ See Oliver Hough, pg. 499.
- ↑ See Oliver Hough, pg. 499.
- ↑ Honeyman, A. Van Doren (ed.), Calendar of Wills, Administrations, Etc. Volume III, 1751-1760, Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Trenton, NJ: Archives of the State of New Jersey, 1924, volume 32, page 257
Historical collections relating to the Potts family in Great Britain and America Authors; Potts, Thomas Maxwell, b. 1836; Potts, William John, 1842-1895. Published; 1901. Thomas Potts, Jr., Page 141 #3.”
Acknowledgements
This profile was auto-generated by David Hughey through the import of Mahlon Stacy6.ged on May 31, 2014.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Rebecca by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Rebecca:
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