"The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey"; Vol. 37; p 55. This record discloses that David C. Potman, was a freeholder in Reading Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, in 1741. In 1740, an inhabitant, Tom Bell, impersonated the clergy in the county, and a trial placed on the docket determined his guilt. "Freemen above Five and Twenty years of Age." were selected as jurors for the trial, and this included David Potman. The law stated: "The persons qualified to be Freemen ... shall be every planter and inhabitant dwelling and residing within the Province, who has aquired rights to and is in possession fifty acres of ground, and hath cultivated ten acres of it; or in Boroughs, who have a house and three acres; or have a house and land only hired, if he can prove he had fifty pounds in stock of his own..."380