Potterstown is a village along the western border of Readington Township, New Jersey

Readington Township, New Jersey

Readington Township is a Township located in the easternmost portion of Hunterdon County, New Jersey. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township population was 16,126...

. Potterstown once was home to taverns, a blacksmith, a store house, a wheelwright and a pottery shop which gave the village its name It is along an old Raritan Path and on the Jersey Turnpike. Aray Van Guinea, a free African-American donated land for the German Lutheran Church to build a church there. Robert Livingston, James Alexander

James Alexander (lawyer)

James Alexander was a lawyer and statesman in colonial New York. He served in the Colonial Assembly and as Attorney General of the colony in 1721-1723. His son William was later a Major General in the Continental Army during the American revolution...

, his son Lord Stirling and John Stevens

John Stevens (New Jersey)

John Stevens was a prominent politician from New Jersey who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1783....

 all owned land here at some time. John Taylor, an officer with the Hunterdon 4th Militia built a house and mill, which was used during the Revolutionary War to provide soldiers with food. Taylor's Mill has plans to become the fourth Readington Museum.