In Petersburgh, Rensselaer Co., N. Y., on the 11th inst., Stephen Potter, Esq., in the 88th year of his age. Brother Potter was born in Richmond, in the State of Rhode Island. In his youth he was hopefully converted, and became a member of the Seventh-day Baptist Church of Burdick.
In 1787, he removed with his family into the town of Petersburgh, N. Y., which at that time was an unsettled wilderness, and in which he passed the remainder of his life. After his removal to this country he became a member of the Seventh-day Baptist Church of Berlin, where he continued his membership until the Petersburgh church was organized. He assisted in the formation of this church, and continued a member of it until by death his standing was transferred, as we trust, to the church triumphant. He was a useful and valuable member in the church, and one who accustomed himself to acts of hospitality and to the entertainment of strangers.
He filled the office of Justice of the Peace for many years, and other civil and military posts, until released from them on account of the increase of years and infirmities.
Brother P. has left an aged widow, and a numerous posterity to mourn their loss. Among the latter, there still survive ten children, all of whom, except a widowed daughter, have removed to distant parts of the country. He has left sixty grandchildren, sixty-one great-grandchildren, and one of a succeeding generation.
His funeral discourse was preached by Eld. William Satterlee, of Berlin, from Isaiah 42: 16 - "I will bring the blind by a way that they know not," &c. This discourse was pronounced with firmness and energy, and was well calculated to produce a happy influence upon the large congregation which attended, and to comfort the aged and desolate widow and relations present. W. B. Maxson
