Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 1703-200, for Israel Potter, Connecticut
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Service Number
Conn. Potter, Israel B.L. WTt. 1703-200
Contents
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Israel Potter
No. 1703
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Litchfield Connecticut
David Gatlin of the town of Litchfield in the County aforesaid being duly sworn doth depose and say that he was well acquainted with Israel Potter
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State of Connecticut,
County of Litchfield
I Ranson S Potter
Grandson and heir at law to Israel Potter deceased do upon oath testify and declare that to the best of my knowledge and belief Israel Potter aforesaid about or in the year 1777 entered the service of the United States
for the term of during the War, and that the
served as Lieutenant in the Connecticut Line and that he continued in the service
aforesaid until the close of the war when he
regularly returned from the service I further
declare that Israel Potter aforesaid died at
Litchfield in the County & State aforesaid about or in the year 1817 and that I have never received a Warrant for the Bounty Land promised to him on the part of the United States nor do I believe he hath ever received it or in any manner transferred or assigned his claim
Therefore Know all men by these presents
that I Ransom & Potter aforesaid do hereby constitute and appoint Lewis Wakeley of Greenville in the State of New York to be my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States a Warrant for the quantity of Land due to me and to the other heirs of Israel Potter Lieutenant as aforesaid In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 25th day of November 1830
Ransom S Potter
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State of Connecticut SS
Litchfield
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Before me Lyman Smith a Justice of Peace in & for the County of Litchfield personally appeared Ransom S Potter who [illegible] the foregoing declaration and in my presence
in my home acknowledged the power of
attorney thereto subjoined whereas made
Solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing
declaration, dated Novr 25th 1830
Truman Smith Justice of Peace

I Frederick Wolcott Clerk of the County Court within & for the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut, certify to whom it doth or may concern, that Truman Smith and Hugh
P. Welch [illegible] were at the date of the preceding Certificate by them respectively subscribed & that they now are Justices of the Peace within for said County legally commissioned and qualified and that the said signatures which purport to be theirs and as I verily believe genuine, I then proper hand writing.
Witness my hand & the seal of said Court this 26th day of November 1830.
Frederick Wolcott
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Greenville Greene Co N.Y.
January 30th 1831

Sir
I have received Bounty Land Warrant No 1703
issued to Ransom S. Potter Grandson and the other Heirs at law of Israel Potter who was a Lieutenant in the Connecticut Line of the Army of the Revolution
Respectfully yours &c
Lewis Wakeley

To William Gordon Esqr
of the Bounty Land Office
War Department
Washington City
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Israel Potter
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I Frederick Wolcott, Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut certify to whom it doth or may concern that satisfactory evidence hath been addressed to me to prove that Ransom S. Potter who now resides & from his youth hath resided in Litchfield in in said District is Son of Enos Potter formally of said Litchfield & that the said Enos Potter was son of Israel Potter formerly of said Litchfield, and that
the said Enos & Israel are now both deceased and that the said Israel was late by reputation a Lieutenant in the Connecticut Line of the army of the American Revolution. I further certify that the said Ransom S. Potter by the laws of the State of Connecticut is an heir at law to the said Israel Potter deceased
Witness my hand and seal of Office at Litchfield in said District this 26th day of
November D. 1830
Frederick Wolcott