Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40275, for David Potts, Virginia
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(3 - 1776 )
SERVICE
Va
CONTENTS
Potts, David
NUMBER
S. 40 275
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[lined out] Letter to Messieurs Elvain and Hunter $3 auditor 18 May 1838

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Paid at the Treasury under Act 6 April 1838 from 4th Sept 1836 to 4 Sept 1837. Agt. notified 30 May 1838

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Cond. July 31, 1821 and sent to G. W. Doan Circleville Ohio. 

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11,618
OHIO
David Potts of _____________ in the state of ____________ 
who was a Private on the regiment commanded by
Colonel Morgan of the  Virginia line
for the term of 3 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 22 of April 1818 

Certificate of Pension issued the 30 June 19 [1819]
and Sent to G. W. Doan
Circleville, Pickaway Co.
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Arrears to 4th of Mar 19                        83"43
Semi-anl, all'ce ending  4 Sept 19         48

[calculations unclear]                         $135.43
9   4
10 30  31
{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
Ohio
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State of Ohio Pickaway County

This day personally came be
fore me Thomas Barr an associate
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Pickaway
County in the State of Ohio, David Potts a resident
of said County and for a number of years personally known 
to me who being duly Sworn deposeth and Saith that he 
enlisted into the service of the United States in the
Month of Decem'r [December] in the year of our Lord one thousand
Seven Hundred and Seventy Six in the Company of Capt
William Smith of Loudoun County in the Eleventh Virginia
Regiment commanded by Colonel Daniel Morgan in the
Virginia line first Brigade as he believes commanded by
Gen. Woodford. That he served in said line as a private
Soldier untill the year one thousand Seven Hundred
and Seventy nine in the month of December when his Term of
enlistment expired and he was Honorably Discharged by
Col. James Wood the then commanded
me Commander of said Regiment
which discharge by time or accident is now lost or destroyed.
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That he served actively in the said line in the Battles of
BrandyWine
Germantown
and Monmouth also at the
Storming of Stoney Point at which General Wayne [unclear]
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and also that after he was honorably discharged as aforesaid
and had returned to his home in Loudoun County in the 
State of Virginia he served in the Militia of said State
under Colonel West at the Capture of Lord Cornwallis
at Yorktown. The said deponent further Saith that
from his reduced circumstances in life he needs
the
assistance of his Country for a comfortable Support

Sworn to and Subsribed before me this
22 day of April 1818
his mark [P]
David Potts

Thomas Barr
Associate Judge
State of Ohio
Pickaway County.
I certify that the within named David Potts is now and for some years past
has been a resident of Pickaway County in the State of Ohio, that during
considerable part of that time I have known him personally that he is a
man of truth and veracity and that from my knowledge of his
character as well as from other proof both possitive and circumstantial I am fully satisfied & convinced that the said David Potts
served in the Revolutionary Army during the Space of time and in the
manner as is in this his affadavit expressed
Given under my hand and seal this

[added notation]
One of the Associate Judges for the
County aforesaid.
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State of Ohio 
Pickaway County
Before me the Subscriber a Justice of the
Peace in and for said County Personally Came
John Todd a resident of said County and a
Person well known by me as a respectable Citizen
and being duly Sworn Saith that he was raised
in the same Neighbourhood of the aforementioned David Potts
enlisted in the Army of the United States and
and that he was well acquainted with the said David untill he
enlisted in the Army of the United States and 
that he has good reason to believe that he served three years
as a regular Soldier and afterwards this deponent met
with him serving in the Militia of Virginia and
was in company with him at the taking of Lord
Cornwallis and well knows him to be the same David Potts
that served as in his affadavit herein stated
and further this deponent Saith not

John Todd 

Sworn to and Subscribed
before me this 22st day of
April 1818 

Christian Brotherton
Justice of the Peace.
The State of
Ohio Pickaway County O
I Andrew Huston Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas 
for said County do hereby certify that the within named Thomas
Barr was an Associate Judge of said Court at the date
of the within deposition duly commissioned and qualified as
such and that the above named Christian Brotherton
he was a Justice of the peace in and for said County
at the date of the above
Affidavit duly commission
to and sworn as such.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
land and affixed the seal of said
Court
at Circleville this 24th
day
of April A.D. 1818
Andrew Huston Clerk
[circle seal slightly visible to left of signature]
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David Potts   68
Seperation
1819
11,618
10. June, 1819.
Suspended
$144-
 
3 years
63 yrs old
Con'd July 31, 1821
and sent to
G. W. Doan
Circleville, Ohio.
Pickaway County
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The State of Ohio
Pickaway County 
On this 24th day of July in
the year of our Lord 1820, personally appeared in
open Court in the Court of Common Pleas of
Pickaway County then sitting being a Court of
Record created such by a Statute of the State of
Ohio, David Potts aged sixty three years last
November a resident of said County of Pickaway
in said State, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he
served in the Revolutionary War as follows to wit:
that on the 5th day of December 1776, he enlisted
for three years in the Virginia line on the Continental establishment, in the company commanded
by Captain William Smith in the eleventh
Virginia Regiment commanded by Col. Daniel
Morgan, in the first Brigade commanded by
General Woodford, that he served faithfully the
whole three years and was honorably discharged
by Col. James Wood, all which will more
fully appear by his original declaration now
on file in the War Office bearing date on the
2nd day of April 1818. That his pension certificate heretofore granted bears date on the 10th day
of June 1819 and is numbered 11. 618. And I do
solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of
the United States on the 18th day of March 1818
and that I have not since that time by gift
sale, or in any manner whatever disposed of my
property or any part thereof with intent thereby
so to diminish it as to bring myself within the
provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act
to provide for certain persons in the land and naval
Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War
"" passed on the 18th day of March 1818
and that I have not nor has any person for
me any property or securities, contracts or debts
due me, nor have I any income other than
what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed
and by me subscribed to wit
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Two mares, one four years old, the other 16 or 17 years
old: a horse 12 years old and a young colt
about a
Week old -
-
$60.00
Two Cows & Calves . . .
20.00
Twelve Sheep and three Lambs.
20.00
Two Sows, one having six young pigs, 
the other six pigs about six months old
10. 00
Two Beds and bedding for the same
20.00
Two Metal ten Gallon Kettles, one crock 6.00
One Dutch oven 
2.00
one Stew kettle of iron
.50
Three Windsor Chairs
3. 00
and two splinter bottom chairs
1.00
Six Knives and forks. 1.00
One Pewter Platter, one earthan Platter 1.025
Three Plates.
.25
Six Tea Cups & Saucers or thereabouts.
.50
Doll's [dollars]144.62 ½
That the debts by him owing account to
about Two hundred dollars and that debts
owing to me do not exceed fifteen or twenty
dollars, that he has no house or land, but
rents the same
This declarant further swears that his
occupation is that of a Farmer, but that owing
to age and decrepitude he can do little
more than half the labor of an ordinary man
that he has a wife and two Children living
with him and one grand child, that his
wife is about Sixty two years old nearly
helpless from age and the rheumatism
that his eldest daughter named Nancy is
23 years old, but is afflicted with the  gravel
so as not to be able to do more than to
support herself, that his son named
David Potts is about fourteen years old
and able to assist in labor, that his grand
Child named Polly Wolverton is an orphan
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child over
fourteen years old and is able
to labor and earn her livelihood and further
saith not.
his
David Potts
mark x
Sworn and subscribed in open Court
before the
honorable John A McDowell
and his associates on this 24th day of July 1820.
the day of
Andrew Huston Clk
The State of
Ohio
Pickaway County

I, Andrew Huston Clerk
of the Court of Common
Pleas
for said
County, do hereby certify that the foregoing
oath and the Schedule hereto annexed
and truly copied from the originals on
file in my office. And I do further
certify, that is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value
of the
property exibited in the aforesaid Schedule
is
One hundred, forty four dollars and
sixty two Cents-
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand
and affixed the seal of
said Court, on this 5th
day of August 1820.
-
Andrew Huston clk
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Mrs. William Drake
629 East Church Street
Marion, Ohio

May 31, 1932
BA-J/AWF
XXXXXXXXXXXXX
David Potts
S. 40275

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which
you request information in regard to David Potts,
a soldier of the War of the Revolution.
The data furnished herein were obtained from
the papers on file in pension claim, S. 440275, based
upon the Revolutionary War service of David Potts.
He was born sometime in November, 1756, place
not stated.
While residing in Loudoun County, Virginia, he
enlisted December 5, 1776 and served as a private in
Captains William Smith's and William Slaughter's companies
, Colonels Daniel Morgan's and James Wood's Virginia
regiments, he was in the battles of Brandywine,
Germantown, Monmouth, storming of Stony Point, and was
discharged in December, 1779.
He subsequently served under Colonel West in the
Virginia troops at the capture of Cornwallis, length of
service not stated.
He was allowed pension on his application executed
April 22, 1818, at which time he was living in
Pickaway County, Ohio.
In 1820 he stated that his family then living
with him were as follows: his wife, her name not given,
aged about sixty-two years; two children, Nancy aged
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[faint heading] &1812 Wars Section

twenty-three years and David aged about fourteen years; and one grandchild, Polly Wolverton, an orphan, aged over fourteen years. 

Very truly yours
A. D. Hiller 
Assistant to Administrator
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[file notes]

Applicant aged 63 yrs.
decribed

wife 62 yr old
Rheumatism, etc
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daughter, 23 of old
unwell,
son - 14 yr old-

: grandddaughter (an orphan
over 14"
Sched $144.62½
no house or land, but rents
the same-

Re [crossed out]

con
served 3 yrs.
Doan
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Treasury Department,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
May 22 -1838

Sir: 
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An
act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain
Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the
Treasury of the United States, David Potts
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Ohio
Agency, at
the rate of ninety six Dollars and " "
per annum, under the law of the 18th March 1818 has
been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1836
to the 4th September 1837-
Respectfully, yours
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS.
Present.
2
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller
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[top of page missing in scan]
of
Elvaine & Hunter
G. C

Record 7 (46) page 498
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War
Department
Pension Office
18 May 1838.

Gentlemen.

The vouchers in the case of
David Potts a pensioned under the Act of the
18th March 1818, have been referred to the 3d Auditor of the Treasury under the provisions of
the Act of Congress of the 6 April 1838, which
direct that all Pensions unclaimed for eight
months are in future to be paid at the Treasury
Department. Enclosed for your future guidance
are printed rules under the above named at
I am [initials, unclear]
Messrs Elvaine & Hunter
Columbus
Ohio
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[initialed right top corner, not clear]
[smeared on carbon copy] Rev. War of 1812 Section


August 18, 1927

Emma Thompson
202 W. Center St.,
Marion, Ohio

Madam: 

I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary
War pension claim S. 40275 it appears that David
Potts was born in November 1756, place not stated.
While a resident of Loudoun County, Virginia he enlisted
December 5, 1776, served as a private in Captains
William Smith's and William Slaughter's Companies, Colonel
Daniel Morgan's and James Wood's Virginia Regiments,
was in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth and
storming of Stony Point and was discharged in December 1779.
He subsequently served under Colonel West in the Virginia
Troops at the capture of Cornwallis, length of service
not stated.
He was allowed pension on his application executed
April 22, 1818 while a resident of Pickaway County, Ohio.
In 1820 the following were living with him: his wife,
name not given, aged about sixty-two years, two children,
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Nancy aged twenty-three years, David aged about fourteen
years, and one grandchild Polly Wolverton, an orphan, aged
over fourteen years.
The above noted is the only soldier named David Potts
of Ohio found on the Revolutionary War records of this
Bureau.

Respectfully,
E. W. Morgan
Acting Commissioner
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[Faint heading] Rev. War Section
Mrs. O. E. Leeka,
613 E. Center St.
Marion, Ohio.
Madam;
Nov. 30, 1930.
In reply to your letter of the 4"" instant, you are
advised that from the records of this Bureau it appears that the
Revolutionary War pensioner, S. 40,275, David Potts, enlisted
from Loudoun Co. Va., Dec. 5, 1776, served as Private three years
in Captains William Smith and William Slaughter Companies,
Col. Daniel Morgan's Regiment of Virginia Troops, and was also
in the Virginia Militia under Col. West at the capture of Cornwallis. He was allowed pension in 1819, at which time he was
63 years of age as a resident of Pickaway Co., Ohio. The date
of his death is not on record. His name is erroneously reported
as of Marion Co. Ohio in the printed lists of 1835.
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Marion Ohio
April 18, 1932
Bureau of Pensions, Rev. Sol. Dept.
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sirs

Can you give me
records of David Potts Revolutionary
Soldier supposed to be buried in
Marion Cemetry. Would very much appreciate
what data you might have to be
used by Daughters of the American
Revolution. Thanking you for same
(Mrs. William) Alma C. Drake
Corresponding Secretary 
Captain William Hendricks Chapter
629 East Church St.
Marion, Ohio
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[Letterhead seal of the Daughters of the American Revolution]

Aug 11 - 27 [1927]

We are marking the
graves of Rev. Soldiers in our
County, and have the following
names but no records. can
you give us any informatin
regarding them?
Davis "Buckeye' buried Mount grave yard
near Prospect Marion Co Ohio
Potts David buried near Marion
Powell Joseph Smith Graveyard - Marion Co
Riggin Jay buried place unknown
Simson Samuel Terry Graveyard
[added note - "not as Samuel, no Simson] Grand Twp.
Tickel [Yickel] Benjamin
Scott twp

Yours Rich
Emma Thompson
202 West Center Street
Marion Ohio

Regent
Captain Wm Hendricks
Chapter D.A.R.
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[Letterhead seal  Daughters of the American Revolution]
[Circular receipt stamp US Pension Office Nov 6 1920]

Marion, Ohio
Nov. 4 - 20
Hon. Commissioner Pensions,
Dept. Washington D.C.

Dear Sir:-
Please give me
any information you may
have in regard to the
Revolutionary service of 
Joseph Powel, R8400 enlisted from 

Sheffield, Mass. Col. Ashley's
Regiment, Buried in Marion
County, Ohio, Buried there but Pa. serv. 
(2) David Potts, served in Capt.
Chas. Porterfield's Co., Co., 
Col. Morgan's 11th and 15th
S40275 the only one of Ohio res -
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Virginia Regiments. Drew a 
pension at Marion, Ohio [Added notation:] Error on 1835 list, he was of Pickaway Co. O. 

The D.A.R. Chapter is
marking the graves of these
soldiers, and we particularly
desire dates of
birth and death. 

Was Jay Riggin, (buried in
Marion Co. Ohio,) a pensioner?

Thanking you for any information you may be able
to give me, I am
---
Yours very truly

(Mrs.) Ora Ellis Leeka
613 E. Center St
Marion, Ohio
Sec. Captain William
Hendricks Chapter D.A.R
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Send
[illegible] data
only

STAMP:
record Division NOV 8 1920
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INVALID.
40275
Rev'y
File No. 40.275
David Potts
Pri Rev War
Act: 18 March 18
Index: -- Vol. [?], Page 898
[Arrangement of 1870.]
 
[Added side notes:]
1920 Nov 30.  Tombstone data to O. E. Leeka [initialed]
1927 Aug 18 - Hist. to Emma Thompson [initialed]
1932 May 31 [Hist to ] 
Mrs. William Drake [initialed]
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Pickaway County. 

[Part of top of doc missing]
...certificate of
last April. I further state & certify, that the within
named David Potts, is a neighbour of mine, that
he has a small family,  that he has no real estate
to
my knowledge; and from appearances and good
information, I believe him to be in indigent circumstances & needing the aid of his country for comfortable support.

Given under my hand and
Seal
this 7th
day
of January 1819
Thomas Barr
Associate Judge
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State
of Ohio Jefferson County
 [faint seal of county]
I, John Patterson, Clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas for said
County do certify that James
Moore Esquire before whom the
the within deposition was taken
and who certified as to the veracity of the deponents
was on the fifteenth day of October last
and now is an associate Judge of
the said Court duly commissioned and quallefied to whose official acts as such full faith
and credit is due. In testimony whereof I
have have hereunto set my hand and affixed
the seal of said Court at Steubenville the second
day of February A.D. 1819
John Patterson
Clerk
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State of Ohio Jefferson County. 
Before me the Subscriber one of the Associate Judges on and for said County appeared John Potts and Jonathan Potts
they being duely Sworn deposeth and saith that is said Jonathan Saith his Brother
David Potts and himself Inlisted both in the same day that is on the fifth day
December in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and seventy six being in
the Eleventh Virginia Regiment under Captain William Smith.  under said Smith
the served together for Several months then said Company was commanded by Captain
William Slauter in which company the both served for the space of three
years and then were honorable Discharged by General Woodford at Baskin [Basking Ridge]
Ridg New Jersey, and from the best information he the said Jonathan can obtain 
believes his brother David Pott Liveth somewhere in Pickaway County State of
Ohio

 further the Deponent saith it not. further the said John Potts saith
that in the said John Potts he did not inlist till the seventh day of March
the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven in
the same company with his two Brother Jonathan Potts and David Doth Commanded
by said Captain William Smith that he as well and both his brothers
Jonathan and David Potts Served the full term of three years in said Company
there and Commanded by Captain William Slauter and were honorably discharge several moths before said
deponent was discharged which was not until
the seventh of March in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred and eighty
then the said John Potts was honorably discharged at Trenton in New Jersey
Most farther the deponent saith not. Sworn and subscribed before
of me the tenth day of October 1818

Seal. 
James Moore, Associate Judge 

John Potts (his mark)

Jonathan Potts (his mark)

N.B. I certify that the above deponent
John Potts and Jonathan Potts are men whose
characters [two words crossed out] for truth and
varacity are such as entitle their oaths to full
faith and credit

 Given under my hand
this
2 day of February A.D. 1819 - James Moore Associate Judge
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3542
case of David Potts
G.W. Doan
Circleville, Ohio
Recd Mar. 20, 1819
David Potts (private)
Colonel Morgan, and
Woods Regt Vi'a [Virginia] line
1776 to 1779

57. 11. 8
On Rolls
Admitted
.
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[envelop - Free frank]

Circleville O
March 13

Hon. Jno. C. Calhoun
Secry at War
Washington
City D.C.
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Circleville 12th March 1819
Hon J C Calhoun
This enclosed is the Application
of David Potts for a pension under the Law of 18th March
1818. As you wrote his name could not be found
the Rolls of the [unclear] we have obtained the affidavit of two of his brothers, which with that of [unclear], all inclosed will furnish  I suppose sufficient  evidence of
his service. Their credibilty
attested to by the Judge and they are entirely  disinterested.  

We have also got annexed a 
certificate of the Judge as to the claimants [insolvency ?]. 
These were all you required in your
[??] & it has taken  time to get the evidence required. 
 If his claim is granted you will please
notice thereof to me & the certificate also
with great respect I am
Yours 
G. W. Doan