Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 4767, for John Potts, Virginia
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Va.    

W4767

Potts, John
Susannah
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5228Ohio

John Potts
Private
Virginia (illegible)

In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.  

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 28 of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 8 of January 1819 and sent to (illegible) (illegible) Esq. Steubenville Ohio

Arrears of 4th of Sept 1818                    $33.86
Semi-Anl. All-ce ending 4 March 1819.    48.
                                                                $81.86


Revolutionary Claim,
Act 18th March, 1818


Jefferson.
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The Deposition of John Potts of the County of Jefferson and State of Ohio 
Sheweth - This deponent entered the service of his County in the army of the Revolution on the seventh day of March in the year of
our Lord one thousand seven hundred and
seventy-seven - enlisting for the Term of
of three years in the Company of Capt. William
Smith of the Eleventh Regiment
in the Virginia Line-Commanded by Col.
Daniel Morgan - that he served in that
Company, Regiment and Line in the Battles
of Brandy-wine, Germantown, Brunswick
and Somerset Court House-
He was marched after the last to Trenton
New Jersey, where on the seventh day of
March one thousand seven hundred and
Eighty he was honorably discharged having
completed the full Term of his Enlistment
That he kept it (his discharge) about two years when he was induced to give it to his Colonel for the  purpose of obtaining Virginia Military Lands. that the Colonel has since died and it is
impossible for the deponent to obtain the
discharge- He further deposes and says
that from the very reduced and necessitous
state of his circumstances in life he is
in great need of the assistance of the United
States for support, that he never has received
any pension or compensation [illegible] for these services
from the United States-
& he doth hereby renounce all claim to any pension
John Potts x his mark
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State of Ohio
Jefferson County] JS
April 28th 1818-
Personally came John Potts & in my
presence signed & was by me sworn to the
matter set forth in the written deposition
& being satisfied of the truth thereof I annex
thereto this certificate.

Benj. Tappan
President of the Courts of
Common Please in the
Fifth Circuit of the
State of Ohio

State of Ohio Jefferson County
In testimony that the Honorable
Benjamin Tappan is President 
of the court of common Pleas in
the fifth circuit of the State of
Ohio, before whom the written deposition
was taken I John Patterson Clerk of
the Court of Common Pleas for the said County of Jefferson have hereinto set my hand and affixed  he seal of said Court at Steubenville the 28th day of April Anno Domini 1818
John Patterson Clk

Admitted
On roll
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Ohio 27th June 1818
John Patts- Private
Enlisted 7th March 1777 & served for
three years & was discharged
Col. Danl. Morgan
11th Reft. Virginia Line
Roll

stamped 
STEUBIO
JUL
9

Honabl. Mo C Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington

Free
Admitted
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State of Ohio
Jefferson County

On the twenty-seventh day of June 1818.
before me the Subscriber, President Judge of
the Courts of Common Pleas of the fifth circuit
in the state of Ohio personally appears
John Potts aged sixty-seven years resident in
said County of Jefferson, who being by me
duly sworn, doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the late act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War"- That he the said John Potts, enlisted for the term of three years on the seventh day of March in the year 1777 in the State of Virginia, as a private in the company of Capt. William Smith of the eleventh Virginia Regiment commanded by Col. Daniel Morgan, then at Leesburg in said state- That  he continued in the service of the United States in that Company, Regiment, or Line until his term of service having expired, he was honorably discharged from service at Trenton in the State of New Jersey
by Captain Kirkpatrick - That he served in the
battles of Brandy wine, Germantown, Brunswick and Somerset Court House- That he
had a written discharge which he gave his Colonel
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who never returned it to him, and who is long since dead. That he has no other evidence of his said services than what is hereto annexed - That he is in reduced circumstances, very aged and infirm, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support 
Declared, sworn to, and subscribed before me the day and year first above written by the said John Potts who expressly resigns all claim he may have to any pension from the United States

his mark
John Potts

State of Ohio
Jefferson CountySs

Jonathan Potts of Jefferson county Ohio
being duly sworn, doth depose and say, that
the facts set forth in the above written statement  are to his certain knowledge correct and  rue in every particular - That the above mentioned John Potts joined his company in
the Regiment and line aforementioned immediately after his enlistment and served his whole term and was discharged according to the above statement  That he is reduced circumstances & in need of the assistance of his country for support

Sworn & Subscribed
this 27th June 1818}
his mark
Jonathon Potts

I, Benjamin Tappan President Judge as is
aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said John Potts did serve
in the Revolutionary War, as is stated in the
preceding declaration against the common enemy more than nine months That he is in reduced circumstances and in need of the assistance of his country for support,
and I now transmit to the Secretary for the
Department of War, the proceedings & testimony
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taken and had before me, pursuant to the directions
of the aforementioned act of Congress
June 27th 1818
Benj Tappan

State of this Jefferson County
I John Patterson Clerk of the Court
of common Pleas for the 
County of Jefferson, by the direction
of the Honorable Benjamin
Tappan President of the Court of common Pleas
in the fifth circuit in said State of Ohio
have hereunto set my hand and affixed
the seal of said Court at Heubenville
the 3rd day of July AD 1818
John Patterson Clk
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2571
Ohio - Potts
Susanna Potts
widow of John Potts
Va
who served in the Revolutionary 
war as a private
Incd. from $80
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
96 Dollars
per annum, to commence on
the 1 July 1848
Certificate of Pension issued the
4 day of July 1851.
and sent to 
Hon J. Cable
Ho of Reps

recorded on Roll of Pensioners under
February 2, 1848, Page 357 Vol. 4

Not n. corrected & retd
Feby 11, 1851
[illegible]
A.S. Ramsay
Apl 10/51
1879 April 3 Gov B.F. Potts with Military
Services of the Soldier
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[1830
76
1763 born]

The State of Ohio
Carroll County}
Court of Common Pleas
February Term Anno Domini 1839-
Be it remembered that on this the twenty
sixth day of February Anno Domini one thousand
eight hundred and thirty nine personally appeared
in open Court Susannah Potts widow of John
Potts late of the County of Columbiana and State
aforesaid deceased - aged Seventy Six on the Sixteenth day of March
next - who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her
oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the
benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed
July 7th 1838 - entitled "An Act, granting half pay and pension
"to certain Widows". That she is the widow of John Potts late
a Revolutionary Pensioner at the rate of Eight dollars per month,
the following is an extract from his pension Certificate- "War
"Department Revolutionary Claim, I certify that in conformity with
the law of the United States of the 18th March 1818 John Potts
late a private in the Army of the Revolution is subscribed on
the Pension Roll of the Ohio Agency at the rate of Eight
dollars per month to commence on the twenty eighth day of
April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen - Given at the
War office of the United States this eighth day of January 1819-
That he enlisted in Berkly County Virginia under Ensign
Thomas Thomas, his captains name I think was Smith of
the Eleventh Virginia Regiment on Continental Establishment
that he was in the Battle of Germantown, Brandewine and 
Monmouth- That she was married to the Said John Potts
in Berkly County Virginia in the month of March the precise day and
year not recollected, but she is confident it was prior to the 1st January
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1794 - and that her Husband John Potts died on the 20th day
of October 1820 at his then residence in the County of Columbiana 
aforesaid, that the said John Potts remained in the Service
of the United States until the cease of the War--

Sworn to and Subscribed in open Court on the day and
year above written-

her mark
Susannah Potts

In Testimony whereof I Daniel M Cook Clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas within and for the Said County of
Carroll have hereunto set my signature and the seal of said
Court at Carrollton this the 16th day of February 
Anno Domini 1839
Daniel M Cook 
Clerk
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The State of Ohio
Carroll County}

Personally appeared before me David 
Watt a Justice of the Peace in and for
Said County Nathan Potts who being 
duly sworn according to law deposit and saith that he was
intimately acquainted with John Potts late of Columbiana
County and State of Ohio who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the
United States, shortly after the War of the Revolution (as the
deponent verily believes) the Said John Potts was married in
Berkly County Virginia to Susannah Hibbens (who I understand
is making application for a pension under the Act of Congress
of July 7th 1838) and that they continued to reside together as
such man and wife until his death, I have often heard the 
said John & Susannah relate the circumstance of their being married,
the deponent resided in the Family of the Said John Potts
for more than six months after the birth of their first child, &
afterwards for years in the same settlement with the said
John & Susannah Potts in western Pennsylvania, and never did
at any time hear the legality of their marriage called in question.

The deponent further saith that he believes the said John
Potts to have been regular soldier in the Continental Army for years
during the War of the Revolution and that he continued in the 
service into the close of the War, - that he saw him the said John
Potts clothed in the military uniform of a soldier when at home on
furlough - during the time the army was encamped at Middlebrook-
and he the said John Potts frequently related to the deponent incidents which took place in the battles of Germantown,
Brandewine & Monmouth in all of which engagements he the
said John Potts by his own statements was an actor - he was enlisted
by Ensign Thomas Thomas, his first Company Commandant was
Captain Smith, the first Lieutenant Isaiah Marks - he afterwards
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he afterwards served under the Company officers one of whom was Lieut. Townsend, and also under Lieut. David Williams and under Lieutenant Isaac Brown late of Hanover Columbiana County aforesaid- he enlisted and served in the Eleventh Virginia Regiment the names of the Superior Officers are
forgotten, and further the deponent saith not-
Nathan Potts  x his mark
Sworn and Subscribed
before me this 22nd day of March
AD 1839-
David Watts J Peace



The State of Ohio
Carroll County}
Personally came before me the Subscriber
one of the acting Justices of the Peace
within and for Said County of Carroll
James M Laughlin of lawful age who being duly sworn as the law directs deposeth and saith, that he was at the House of
John Potts a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States in the fall of the year Eighteen hundred and twenty after the death of of the said John Potts and assisted one John Wallace in dressing and laying him out and assisted in the interment of the said John Potts and that Susannah his wife has continued to remain his widow- further the deponent saith not-

Sworn and Subscribed before me
this 23rd day of March 1839
David Watt J. Peace}

James M. Laughlin
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The State of Ohio
Carroll County}

Personally appeared before me the
Subscriber one of the acting justices of
the peace in and for said County James
Potts who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that John Potts
late a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States died at
his then residence in the County of Columbiana, 
on the 20th day of
October A.D. 1820 - and that Susannah Potts his wife
has continued to remain his widow - and further the
deponent saith not.

James Potts

Sworn and Subscribed before me
this 23rd day of March 1839
David Watts J. Peace}

State of Ohio
Carroll County}

This is to certify that Nathan Potts,
James M. Laughlin & James Potts
who have this day appeared before me
and were [illegible] qualified, and who have Subscribed the
foregoing depositions, are men of good moral character,
and in the settlement in which they reside for truth and
veracity stand as high as men in general, and are entitled
to the most implicit confidence-

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and official seal this the 23rd day of March

Anno Domini 1839
David Watts J. Peace
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The State of Ohio
Carroll County}

I Robert George one of the associate
Judges of the Court of Common 
Pleas within and for said County
of Carroll do hereby certify that he has every reason to believe
from long acquaintance with John Potts
late a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States and
Susannah his wife, that they were lawfully married
and that they lived together and were reputed as such,
that the said John Potts died at his then residence
in the County of Columbiana in the fall of the
year AD 1820 as appears from charges made
on my book of that date and
that Susannah Potts his wife has continued to remain
his widow-

Given under my hand officially this the
22nd day of March 1839

Robert George Associate Judge

The State of Ohio
Carroll County}

I Daniel M Cook Clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas within and for said County
do hereby certify that Robert George whose certificate
is hereunto attached is the Junior
associate Judge of the Court aforesaid duly
Commissioned and qualified as such,
that David Watt before whom the foregoing
depositions were taken and whose certificate is hereunto attached
was at the time and now is one of the acting Justices of the Peace
within and for said County duly Commissioned and qualified in
whose Official acts full faith and credit is and ought to be given
and further that I am acquainted with the signatures of the said Judge
and Justice of the Peace and know the ones attached to be genuine-
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature and the seal
of said Court at Carrollton this 25th day of March 1839

David M Cook
Clerk
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letter from
Clk: Court
Berkley County
Va.

stamped
Martinsburg Va
July 28

J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Free
July 27
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Martinsburg July 25. 1839

Sir,

I find upon file among
the marriage license bonds of 1782,
the bond of John Potts, for license to
marry Susannah Hibbons. I can
find no evidence of the solemnization
of the marriage.

I find upon the marriage
record of 25. January 1794, the following

"John Potts to Mary Vistal" married
25th January 1794 by William Hill.

Nothing further appears
among the license bonds, or upon
the marriage record, in relation
to John Potts.

If you desire any official
certificate in regard to this matter
please inform me.

Respy your Obt. Sevt.

Harrison Waite  CBC


J.L. Edwards Esqr.
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July 17, 1935

BA-J/MCS
John Potts. W. 4767

Mrs. W. H. Weigand
543 Chestnut Street
Nelsonville, Ohio

Dear Madam:

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the
pension claim, W. 4767, based upon the military service of John Potts.

This soldier enlisted in Berkeley County, Virginia, March 7, 1777,
and served as private in Captain William Smith's company in Colonel
Daniel Morgan's Virginia regiment. He was in the battles of Somerset
Court House, Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth and Brunswick, and was
discharged March 7, 1780.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 28, 1818,
while a resident of Jefferson County, Ohio, aged sixty-seven years.

He died October 20, 1820, in Columbiana County, Ohio.

This soldier married March 14, 1782, in Berkeley County, Virginia
Susannah Hibbins or Hibbons. They were both then of Berkeley County,
Virginia. She was born March 16, 1763 or 1764.

The widow, Susannah, was allowed pension on her application
executed February 26, 1839, while residing with her son, Thomas, in
Washington Township, Carroll County, Ohio.

In 1843 she was living in Fox Township, Carroll County, Ohio,
with a son whose name is not given. She was living in 1851.

The eldest child of John and Susannah Potts, a daughter, was
born in February, 1783, and was dead in 1839. Their second child,
Jonathan, was born in the fall of 1785. Their youngest children,
Thomas and David, were born March 20, 1807.
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Nathan Potts and James Potts were living in 1839 and Silas
Potts was justice of peace in Carroll County, Ohio, in 1848, their
relation to the soldier not shown.

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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stamped
REC'D
JUL 3 1935
MAIL SUB-DIV
VETS ADM
READER 4

Nelsonville, Ohio, July 1, 1935.
Pension Bureau, Revolutionary Depart.
Washington, D.C.

Sec. of Interior (?)

Dear Sir:-

I am writing to you for information
about Susan Hibben
Potts, who applied for a pension
(1839) due to the services of
her husband John Potts, a
soldier of the Revolution from
Va. His place of residence during
the war was Berkeley Co, Va.

Susan Hibben Potts widow
of John Potts the Rev. soldier
gave her age as 76 in 1839
when she made application
for a pension. She died
in 1853
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Please give me all the
data you have in reference 
to Susan Hibben Potts.

Do you have a record
of those men who were
over the age of 15 to 60, who
took the oath of allegiance - 
variously called
"Test Oath," "Association Oath",
and etc?


If so will you please
see if in your records you have
the name Jonds Potts, see if he is a pensioner
of Virginia in that list?

Yours sincerely,
Rosa Devore Weigand.

Address-
Mrs. W.H. Weigand
543 Chestnut St.
Nelsonville, Ohio
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stamped
REC'D
JUL 3 1935
MAIL SUB-DIV
VETS ADM
READER
#4
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5064
Susannah Potts
of Johns
Ohio

admitted

Pr. 2 yr $80.-
Cap. Smith, College.
Morgan, Va.

died 20 October. 1820,
Act 7 July 1838

Danl. McCook
Present
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Susannah Potts
of Johns
Ohio

Suspended
per let 22nd July 1839
Clk Court of Berkley
Co. va
let 27th July 1839
Daniel McCook
so 1 October. 1839
let 16 March 1840 Danl.
McCook
Act 7 July 1838
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45080
INVALID.
Revy
File No. 45080
John, Potts
Priv of the Va
Line
Act: 18th Mch. 1818.
Index:-Vol. 3, Page 399
Arrangement of 1870.

1925 - Aug. 11 - Hist to Helen M. Bruner AWF.
1931. Sept. 23. hist to Mrs. J. M Smith.
See letter in Rev. clm. of Jas. Potts. S3707
M.C.S.
1931, July 17, hist to Mrs. W. H. Weigand
M.C.S.
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Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 467
Susanna Potts
Wid.
John Potts
Pvt, Rev: War
Act: Feby, 2"/48
Index:-Vol. M, Page 135
Arrangement of 1870.
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2099
Ohio Pittsburgh
Susanna Potts,
widow of John Potts Rept Sept 26th
who was a Private
in the Va line
for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the
26th day of Sept. 1843
and sent to
Pensioner
Carrollton,
Ohio.
Act of March 3, 1843.
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1. Page 161.
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Copy of husband's declaration sent to Hon S Stokely H.R. feb 22d 1843.
Letter to D. McCook 28 June 1843.

Ohio 5350
Susannah Potts
widow of John Potts, dec'd
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818
and who died on the 20 Octr 1820,
of Carroll Co in the State of Ohio
who was a private in the compy commanded by Captain Smith of the regt commanded by Col. Morgan in the Virginia line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh
at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 day of May 1840, & handed to Dan. M: Cook
Esq Present.
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1840 $320.00
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 Septr '40 40.00
$360.00
Act July 7, 1838.
Recorded by D. M. Curdy, Clerk,
Book A. Vol. 2. Page 218.
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certificate issd. a Duplicate.

Ohio
John Potts
of Jefferson Co. in the state of Ohio
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Morgan of the Virginia line, for the term of three years
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 27th of June 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 14th of April 1818 and sent to B. Tappan, Esquire
Steubenville, Ohio.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 - 8 4/30 4/31 66.09
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1819 - 48.00
$114.09
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.
Jefferson County
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Cable Jun 4/51
Ohio, Pittsburg
Susanna Potts
widow of John Potts
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of Decr. 1848 and sent to
Hon. J. G. Chapman.
H of R
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 357 Vol. 4.
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Mrs. Potts
Payment to be made at Pittsburg
by
John B. Guthrie Esq
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of Ohio
Payable on the 4th September and 4th March
Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 2d, 1848, Page 357 Vol. 4.
Leo. Jenkins
Clerk.
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
WIDOW'S PENSION.
I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2d, 1848,
Susanna Potts.
widow of John Potts.
who was a private in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum, commencing on the 4th of March, 1848, and continuing or life, unless she should again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.
Given at the War Office of the United States this 22d day of December
one thousand eight hundred and
forty Eight.
W. L. Marcy.
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned.
J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
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Carrollton Carroll County Ohio
3rd January 1840
Hon James L Edwards
Dear Sir
On the receipt of your letter of the 1st of Oct, last I informed Mrs Potts of the position of her application, On the 28th of the Same Month she came in to our Court of Common Pleas then in session, and made the Enclosed Declaration, at your suggestion I made immediate application to the Clerk of the Court of Berkeley County Va., for a copy of Her Marriage record, or a copy of the license bond (if any) was on file in his office, And I concluded to setane the application untill I would hear from Virginia - 
On to day I received a Copy of the license bond from the Clerk of the Berkeley County Court, it has not the authenticity of a seal to it, but it has other & sufficient marks of its Authenticity about (I hope) to Enable the Department to receive it,
I think her Amended Declarations with the testimony on file fully complies with the requisitions of the Department, as soon as her application is re examined, and if a certificate is granted, please forward it to me at this office,
What has been done in the case of Diannah Westfall? - if Certificates are granted to Mrs Potts and Westfall, could they not be made payable at the agency at Wheeling Virginia, I find it much more convenient to draw Pensions there than
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at Cincinnati, our County is within 45 miles of the former and 230 from the latter Agency, our County was Erected out of parts of Jefferson Tuscarawas, Harrison, Stark & Columbiana since the Establishment of the Agency at Wheeling I believe and we draw the pension of those Pensioners, now at Wheeling, who resided in those parts, of Jefferson, Harrison & Tuscarawas Counties previous to the Erection of Carroll, and others are drawn at Cincinnati and Pitts.g.h. - if this arrangement could be accomplished it would be much better for the Pensioners-
Very Respectfully
your Obdt Servant
Daniel McCook
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Carrollton Carroll County Ohio
6 April 1843

Hon James L Edwards
Dear Sir
Inclosed you will find the Declaration of Susannah Potts under the  Act of Congress approved 3 March 1843, for a pension, pleas forward her certificate to me at this
place -
Yours Truly
Daniel McCook

PS. You will also find inclosed the Certificate of
Hester Brown, She is dead
Yours
McCook
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Hon. James L Edwards
Com of Pensions
Washington City
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Carrollton Carroll County Ohio
8th August 1839
Hon J.L. Edwards
Dear Sir
Yours of the 27th and
29th ult, were both received on yesterday by the same mail. I forward you an additional declartion made by Mrs. Susanah Potts which I think meets the requisition of your letters of the 27th ult, and which I hope will prove Satisfactory-
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Sert
Daniel McCook
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Payable semi-annually. The first
payment on this Certificate will be
made on the 4th of September
next, in Chilocothe, at the
Branch Bk: U. States
Ohio _
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War Department

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United 
States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
John Potts late a Private
in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed
on the Pension List, Roll of the Ohio
Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to commence
on the twenty seventh day of June one thousand
eight hundred and eighteen
GIVEN at the War Office of the United 
States, this Fourteenth day of
April one thousand eight
hundred and nineteen.

J. C Calhoun
Secretary of War.
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Hall os [illegible]
Washington, Jan. 6th 1851

Hon. J.E. Heath.
Sir:  On the 16th Dec. last I I enclosed to your Dept., the application of Mrs. Susan Potts, widow of John Potts, for an increase of Pension under a joint resolution of Congress.  to that application I have no answer.  Be kind enough to take it up and inform me of your decision.
"Recorded on page 357 Vol. 4.
With considerations of high esteem, &c
J. Cable
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Incd to $96 per annum
[illegible] $80
Comg. 1 July 1848

Pittsburgh Roll

Hon J. Cable
 H of R
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Hall of Reps.
Washington, Feb 1st 1857.

Hon. J.E. Heath

Sir:  Enclosed is the Pension certificate of Susanna Potts, widow of John Potts asking an increase of pension.  Do me the honor to take it up at as early a day as convenient.
I have the honor, with high esteem, to be &c
J. Cable
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Recorded on page 357
of Vol. 4.

Pension for
Mrs. Susanna Potts

2571
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(Copy.)

War Department.
Widow's pension

I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2d 1848, Susanna Potts, widow of John Potts, who was a private in the Revolutionary War is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of eighty dollars per annum, commencing on the 4th of March 1848, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry, in which case the pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 22d day of December, one thousand eight hundred eight hundred and forty eight.
W.L. Marcy,
Secretary of War

Examined and countersigned
J.L. Edwards,
Commissioner of Pensions
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Carrollton  Carroll County Ohio Dec 20th 1850

Sir
Mrs. Susannah Potts of this county has been receiving a pension since about the year 1840
She has been informed that at the last session of Congress an act was passed increasing the pensions of soldiers and widows - of this we have no official information   Will you send to my address a copy of the act-  if any was passed - together with such other information in your possession as you think necessary.
Respct &c
AS Ramsey

Com. o f Pensions
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Free
[illegible] July

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Pension Office
Washington

feb 20 43
Cp[oes
Jno Potts
Ohio roll

[illegible]
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Ho. of Reps.
Feby.18.1843

My dear Sir
May I ask the favour of you, to have copied for me the Declaration of John Potts, who was a pensioner on the earliest list of the Ohio Agency
Please also enclose me several copies of the forms &c for widows of Revolutionary Pensioners
Respectfy Your friend
S. Stokely

Hon. J.L. Edwards
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Hall of Reps.
Washington, Dec. 16th 1850.

Commissioner of Pensions.

Hon. Sir:-
Enclosed is a copy of the certificate of pension to Susanna Potts, which is submitted to your honor to know if she is entitled to an increase of pension .  See joint resolution of 1848.
With considerations of high esteem, &c
J. Cable
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U.S. Pension Agency
Pittsburgh Feby 7 1851

Sir,
Supposing some mistake to exist as regards the increased rate of pension to Mrs. Potts, - she being now on the Roll at the rate of $80. per annum, I respectfully return to you the enclosed order for your revision.
Very respectfully
Your obt Servt
Wm J. Howard
Pen. Agt.

Jas. E. Heath Esq.
Com of Pensions
Washington
DC
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5064
Application of
Susannah Potts
of 
Carroll County Ohio
For a Pension

died 20 6t 1820.
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J.L. Edwards Esqr.
Dear Sir
At the request of Miss Susannah Potts, I forward you the inclosed papers - what is done in the case of the application of Mrs. Westfall of this County - 
Yours respectfully
Daniel McCook

Carrollton  Carroll County Ohio
25th March 1839
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July 12, 1936

BA-J/EEL Rev

Mrs. W.H. Weigand
543 Chestnut Street
Nelsonville, Ohio

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the record of John Potts, of Berkeley County, Virginia, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, whose wife, Susan Hibben Potts, made application for pension in 1839;  also, record of Jonas Potts, of Virginia, who took the oath of allegiance, called "Test" Oath or "Association" Oath.

This office does not have lists of those men who took any kind of oaths of allegiance.  However, a search of the Revolutionary War records has been made and no record found of a claim for pension or bounty land having been made to the United States based upon the military service of a Jonas Potts in that war.


It is suggested that as a possible means of obtaining information in regard to the military service of that soldier, you apply to The Adjutant General, War Department, this city who is custodian of military records.

The record of John Potts W 4767 has been found and is furnished herewith.
Very truly yours
A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.
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WASHINGTON September 23, 1931

Mrs. Q. M. Smith BA-J/MCS
Tennessee Polytechnic Institute
Cookeville, Tennessee

Dear Madam:

BA-J/MCS
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the
Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 4767, that John Potts
enlisted in Berkeley County, Virginia, March 7, 1777, and
served as private in Captain William Smith's Company, Colonel
Daniel Morgan's Virginia Regiment. He was in the battles of
Somerset Court House, Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth and
Brunswick, and was discharged March 7, 1780.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April
28, 1818, while a resident of Jefferson County, Ohio, aged sixty-
seven years.

He died October 20, 1820, in Columbiana County, Ohio.

The soldier married March 14, 1782, in Berkeley County,
Virginia, Susannah Hibbens or Hibbons. They were both then of
Berkeley County, Virginia. She was born March 16, 1763 or 1764.

The widow, Susannah, was allowed pension on her application
executed February 26, 1839, while residing with her son, Thomas,
in Washington Township, Carroll County, Ohio.

In 1843 she was living in Fox Township, Carroll County, Ohio,
with a son whose name is not given. She was living in 1851.

The oldest child of John and Susannah Potts, a daughter, was
born in February, 1783, and was dead in 1839. Their second child,
Jonathan, was born in the fall of 1785. Their youngest children,
Thomas and David, were born March 20, 1807.

Very truly yours,

A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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Rev. and 1812 War Section.

August 11, 1925

Helen M. Bruner
apple
2005 Channing Way
Berkeley, Calif.

Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the
Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 4767, it appears
that John Potts enlisted in Berkeley County,
Virginia March 7, 1777 and served as a private in
Captain William Smith's Company, Colonel Daniel
Morgan's Virginia Regiment, he was in the battles
of Somerset Court House, Brandywine, Germantown,
Monmouth, & Brunswick and was discharged March 7,
1780.
March
He was allowed pension on his application executed
April 28, 1818, while a resident of Jefferson
County, Ohio, aged sixty-seven years.
He died October 20, 1820 in Columbiana County,
Ohio.
Soldier married March 14, 1783 in Berkeley County,
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Virginia, Susannah Hibbens or Hibbons (they were both then of Berkeley County, Virginia), she was born March 16, 1763 or 1764.  She was allowed pension on her application executed February 26, 1839, while residing with her son Thomas in Washington Township, Carroll County, Ohio.
Their oldest child, a daughter was born in February 1783, she was dead in 1839; second child, Jonathan was born in the fall of 1785; youngest children Thomas and David (twins) were born March 20, 1807.
In 1843, she was living in Fox township, Carroll County, Ohio, with a son, his name is not stated. [handwritten notation;  'She was living in 1851.'] There is no further data on file as to children. [notation; 'omit.']

Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
[side notation; ' Silas Potts
Justice of Peace in 1848
[illegible]. not given']
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[STAMP]
U.S. Pension Office
A
Jun 22 1925

2005 Channing Way
Berkeley Calif.
June 15, 1925.

Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:-
In the printed list of Revolutionary pensioners I find a John Pott in Jefferson Co., Ohio.  Do your records shown when and where he was born and died and also when and where and to whom he was married?  And do your records give the names of his children or grandchildren?
In your lists of Revolutionary soldiers do you have a John Dewell (or perhaps Deuel, Duel Deuil, etc.) who was married to Charity Brooks?  He lived probably in Maryland near Annapolis.  He was born about 1745 probably in France.
Any information you can give me I shall greatly appreciate.
Very Truly yours
(Miss) Helen M. Bruner
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4768

The Territory of Montana
Executive Department.

Helena, MT  March 19th 1879

Dear Sir
My grandfather John Potts was a soldier in the War of the Revolution and was a pensioner up to his death and Susannah Potts his widow drew pension from his death until her death in 1854.
I desire to obtain information from your Department showing to what command John Potts belonged, his rank Company and Regiment.  This information is not sought to establish a claim against the government but to complete the family history.  If this request can be complied with by your Department I shall be your
Obliged Servant
B.F. Potts
Governor of Montana

Hon: J.A. Bently
Commissioner &c
Washington D.C.
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[STAMP]
Department of the Interior
Pension Office
Mar 31 1879
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Amended Declaration 
of
Susannah Potts
widow of John Potts Decd
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The State of Ohio
Carroll County Ss
Court of Common Pleas
October Term A.D. 1839

Be it remembered that on this the twenty eighth day of October in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty nine, personally appeared in open Court Mrs Susannah Potts, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows."  That she was seventy six years old on the 16th day of March last, that she is the widow of John Potts who was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States at the rate of Eight dollars per month, that he enlisted in Berkley County Virginia under Ensign Thomas, the Captains name she thinks was Smith, of the Eleventh Virginia Regiment, on Continental establishment, that he was in the battles of Germantown, Brandiwine & Monmoth, that she was married to the said John Potts o the 14th of March, 1782, that previous to her marriage her name was Hibbens - that her husband John Potts died on the 20th day of October 1820 at his then residence in the County of Columbiana and State aforesaid, that she has no family record of
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of her marriage, nor the births of any of her
children, but she well recollects that their oldest
child a Daughter was born in February 1783- the
Second Jonathan in the fall of 1785, the two youngest,
Thomas & David who were twins on the 20th of
March 1807 the dates of the intervening births not
distinctly recollected by deponent, that she was married
to the said John Potts by the Revd Sturges of the
Episcopal Church, his Christian name not recollected,

Susannah X her mark Potts

The State of Ohio 
Carroll County} I Daniel McCook Clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas within and for
the County of Carroll do hereby
certify that that at the October Term
of the Court of Common Pleas began and
held at the Court House in Carrollton
within and for the County of Carroll, and State of Ohio, Susannah
Potts widow of John Potts late of Columbiana County Deceased
personally appeared in open Court, and being sworn in due form
of law, subscribed the foregoing declaration.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature
and the seal of said Court at Carrollton this the twenty
Eighth day of October Anno Domini 1839
Daniel McCook
Clerk C. Pleas
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Carrollton 5th March 1840,

Hon James L. Edwards
Dear Sir
 Misses Potts and Westfall have both called on me this week in relation to their Pensions, I have given them all the information I can on this subject, and informed them that I would suggest to the Com. of Pensions, that the law arranging our Courts has passed fixing our Spring term on the 23rd of this month & the second term on the10th day of August, that if anything was wrong in their papers that they might be informed of that fact previous 
to the 23rd Just, so that they could 
Declaration anew at that time,

Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servant
Daniel McCook
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Certified copy of the
Marriage Licence Bond
of 
John Potts
to
Susanna Hibbons
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1839

Daniel M Cook Esqr
Carrollton,
Carroll County
Ohio

Reced 3 January 1840
McCook
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Berkeley Set.
Know all men by these presents, that we
John Potts and John Sheeley, are held and firmly bound
unto Benjamin Harrison Esq Governor of this
Commonwealth, in the sum of fifty pounds, [illegible]
money of Virginia, to be paid to the said Benjamin
Harrison, or to his successors, to the which payment well
and truly to be made, we bind ourselves on heirs, 
Executors and administrators jointly and severally, firmly
by these presents, sealed with our seals and dated
this Twelfth (12th) day of March Seventeen 
hundred and eighty two (1782)
The Condition of the above obligation is such that
whereas a marriage is shortly to the had and 
Solemnized between the above bound John Potts and
Susannah Hibbons, both of this County. Now if
there should be no just cause or Impediment
to obstruct the said Marriage then the above
obligation to be void, otherwise remains in full
force and virtue
John X his mark Potts
John Shely [sic]

Sealed & delivered 
In Witness whereof⎬


Virginia, Berkeley County Set.
I Harrison Waite, Clerk of
the County Court of said County, do certify, that
the above is a true copy of the original licence
bond executed by John Potts, with the exception
that the dates in the original are in figures
only - and I further certify, that there is no
other evidence to be found of record in said
Court, of the marriage of said John Potts &
Susannah Hibbons. Given under my hand
the 20th day of December 1839
Harrison Waite CBC.
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Payment to be made
at Pittsburgh
by M Tierman
Agent for paying pensioners,
in the Agency of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylva
Payable on the 4th March
and 4th September in each
year

Recorded
Office, in Book A. Vol. 2
Page 218 by
D. McCurdy.
Clerk
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222
Declaration
of 
Susannah Potts
under the Act
of
3 March 1843

3141

Sus. Potts
$80 per anm
Pensioner at
Carrollton,
Ohio

day of April AD. 1843
Daniel McCook
CM
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The State of Ohio
Carroll County Ss
Be it remembered that on this the fifth day of April AD. 1843 personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Associate Judges within and for said County of Carroll Mrss Susannah Potts now residing at her sons in Fox Township in said County, who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith, that she is Eighty years of age in the month of March last, and doth on her oath make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress, Entitled "An act granting a pension to certain widows of Revolutionary Soldiers" approved 3d March 1843.  That she is the widow of John Potts who was a private in the War of the Revolution, that he enlisted in Berkly County Virginia, under Ensign Thomas Thomas the Captains name I think was Smith, that the said John Potts was in the battles of German Town, Brandewine & Monmoth, and received a pension for his services at the rate of Eight dollars per month, under the Act of Congress of the Eighteenth of March 1818, from the 28th of April 1818 up to the time of his death which took place on the 20th day of October 1820.  that the Declarant was a pensioner under the provisions of the Act of Congress of July 7th 1838 and received the sum of Eighty dollars per annum, that she is the identical person named in the Certificate hereunto attached, which is dated on the 4th day of May AD. 1840, and made a part of this Declaration, and the said Susannah Potts further declares that she is still a widow.
Susannah Potts  x her mark
Sworn and subscribed before me on the day and date above written
Robert George  [handwritten seal]
Associate Judge
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The State of Ohio
Carroll County Ss
I Daniel McCook Clerk of the court of Common Pleas within and for said County, do hereby certify that Robert George before whome the foregoing Declaration was made, was at the time and now is one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County duly commissioned and qualified, to all whos official acts full faith and credit is and ought to be given and further, that I am acquainted with the signature of the said Judge and know the one attached to be genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature and the seal of said Court at Carrollton this Sixth day of April AD. 1843
Daniel McCook
Clk
[SEAL]

3141

Sus. Potts
$80 per ann
Pentioner at
Carrollton,
Ohio

222
Declaration of Susannah Potts
under the Act
of 
3d March 1843
Page 70

The State of Ohio Carroll County Ss}
I Robert George one of
the associate Judges of the
Court of Common Pleas within and for said County do hereby
certify, that for twenty years last past, he has been 
intimately acquainted with Susanna Potts, who on the 5th day of
April last appeared before me and was sworn to, and subscribed
the foregoing Declaration, that she resides in the 
same Township with the subscriber, that she was a pensioner
under the act of Congress of July 7th 1838 that she
is the identical person named in the certificate hereunto
attached & that she is the person that she represents herself
to be, and that she continues to remain the widow of the
said John Potts Deceased.
In Testimony whereof I have 
hereunto set my signature and 
seal this 14th day of July
Anno Domini 1843-
Robert George

The State of Ohio
Carroll County}
I Daniel McCook Clerk of the Court
of Common Pleas within and for said County
do hereby certify that Robert George who has
Subscribed the foregoing certificate is the
Senior associate Judge of said Court of 
Common Pleas, duly commissioned and qualified
to all his official acts full faith and credit is and ought to
be given and further that I am acquainted with the 
signature of the said Judge and know the one attached to be
genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature
and the seal of said Court at Carrollton this 14th day ┃
of July A.D. 1843.
Daniel McCook
Clerk
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Five years' Pension.

I certify that in conformity with the act of July 7, 1838,
Susannah Potts a resident of Ohio,
widow of John Potts, deceased
who was a private in the Revolution
and died on the 20th day of October 1820
is entitled to receive five years pension at the rate of Eighty
dollars {crossed out: and---cents] per annum, commencing on the
fourth day of March, 1836; and in case of the death or marriage
of said widow before the expiration of said five years, the pension
will cease on the day of such marriage or death.
Given at the War Office of the United 
States, this fourth day of
May one thousand
eight hundred and forty
J. R. Poinsett
Secretary of War.

Examined and
Countersigned} J L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of 2nd February
1848, entitled, "An act making further provision for the surviving
widows of the Soldiers of the Revolution.

The State of Ohio 
Carroll County⎬Ss
On this 13th day of October 1848
personally appeared before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace,
in and for said County, duly authorized by Law to administer
Oaths, Mrs Susanna Potts, a resident of Fox Township
in the County of Carroll State of Ohio, aged Eighty six years
in April last, [crossed out: years], who being first duly sworn, according to law,
doth, on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain
the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed
the 2nd February, 1848, granting pensions to the widows of persons
who served during the Revolutionary war; that she is
the widow of John Potts, who was a private in the 
company of Captain William Smith, in the 11th Regiment in
the Virginia line, commanded by Col. Daniel Morgan, in the
war of the Revolution, and that she has drawn a pension at the
rate of Eighty dollars per annum ($80) under the
acts of the 3rd March 1843, and 17th June 1844-
She further declares that she is still a widow.
Susanna X her mark Potts
In presence of
Silas Potts
Joseph Walker

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written,
before, Silas Potts {Justice of the Peace

I certify that the declarant is personally known to me, and that she
is the identical same individual she represents herself to be in the
foregoing affidavit.
Silas Pott {Justice of the peace
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The State of Ohio
Carroll Co. S.S.} I W. R. Sloyd, Clerk
of the Court of Common Pleas
within and for said County, do
hereby certify, that Silas Potts,
before whom the within affidavit
appears to have been taken,
was at the time, and now is, an acting
Justice of the peace within and for said
County, duly commissioned and qualified
to all whose official acts full faith and
credit is, and ought to be given. And further
that the signature thereto attached [inserted: purporting to be his] as
well as the signature attached to the certificate
below, is genuine.
In testimony
I have hereunto set my signature
and affixed the seal of your Court
at Carrollton this 20th day of October
A.D. 1848.
W. R. Sloyd Clerk C.
By Geo. T. Kenedy D.C.
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Additional declaration
of Susanah Potts

Original papers
Suspended
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The State of Ohio 
Carroll County } Ss Be it remembered that on this the
Seventh day of August in the year
of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred
and thirty nine, personally appeared before me Robert
George one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common
Pleas within and for the said County of Carroll
(at the residence of her son Thomas Potts in the Township
of Washington in said County) Mr. Susanah Potts
widow of John Potts late of the County of Columbiana and
State aforesaid Deced who being first duly sworn according
to law, on her oath make the following additional declaration
in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made
by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 Entitled "An
act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows"
that she will be seventy six years old on the 16th day
March next, and that she was married to the said
John Potts on the 14th day of March 1782 as she verily believes
in the County of Berkly Virginia about the close of the 
Revolutionary War, her eldest child a daughter was born in
Febry 1783 who is now deceased, her second child Jonathan
was born in the fall of the year 1785 = and her youngest
Thomas & David who were twins, were born or 20th day
of March 1807 that she has no record of her marriage
nor the births of any of her children, neither she
nor her husband being able to wright and that the
said John Potts died at his then residence on the
20th day of October A.D. 1820, and further the deponent
saith not.
Susanah X her mark Potts

Sworn and Subscribed
before me the day and
date above written
Robert George
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State of Ohio Carroll County Ss I Robert George one of the
Associate Judges
within and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify
that Susanah Potts who has this day appeared before me
and subscribed the within declaration is a woman
of truth and veracity and entitled credit and
belief, and that by reason of her present bodily infirmity
She is unable to attend in open Court
Given under my hand and official seal this 7th day
of August Anno Domini 1839
Robert George Associate Judge

The State of Ohio
Carroll County Ss I Daniel McCook Clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas within
and for the said County of Carroll
do hereby certify that Robert
George Esquire before whom the
foregoing declaration appears to
have been made was at the time
and now is the Senior Associate
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas within and for
the County aforesaid duly commissioned and quallified
in whos official acts full faith and credit is and ought
to be given, and further that I am acquainted with the
signature of the said Justice and know the one attached
to be genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereuntoset
my signature and the seal of said Court at
Carrollton this the 8th day of August A.D. 1839
Daniel McCook
Clerk
C. P.