VENN: Adm. pens. at JESUS, Mar. 2, 1666/7. Of Cheshire. S. of Nehemiah, of Macclesfield. Bapt. there, May 20, 1649. ' Matric. 1668; B.A. 1673/4; M.A. 1678. Incorp. at Oxford, 1680. Successively schoolmaster at Knutsford, Sandbach, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Audlem and Macclesfield. Died Sept. 2, 1690, aged 42. 'Monumental inscription.'M.I. at Macclesfield. (F.M.G., 1241; E. Axon.)
Earwaker, 2.521: MI on small brass plate, now in the baptistry of Macclesfield church [original in latin: translation:
'Caleb Pott, A.M., the son of Nehemiah Pott, of Hurdsfield, clerk, and Elizabeth, his wife, when he had laboured for 20 years as a schoolmasteer [gymnasiarcha], at Knutsford, Sandbach, Newcastle in Staffordshire, Audlem and Macclesfield, an upholder of true religion, and a true lover of his native country, died a bachelor, Sept. 2, 1690, aged 42. Joshua Walker, rector of the church of Great Billing, in Northamptonshire, his uterine brother, placed this.'
J.P. Earwaker, East Cheshire, 2 vols. (1877-1880), 2.436-7, 521: Son of Nehemiah Pott, Minister of Wincle chapel, Prestbury parish, who signed the Cheshire Attestation of 1648 and was buried at Macclesfield, 24 June 1650. Caleb Pott was bapt. at Macclesfield, 20 April 1649.