Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40288, for Jonathan Potts, Virginia

SERVICE
Wa.
Potts, Jonathan
NUMBER
S. 40288
CONTENTS
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8864
Ohio Pittsburg
Jonathan Potts,
of Jefferson Co H , 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. (War
scribed 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 17. of March, 1819 and sent to Benjamin Tappan, Jd. Steubenville, Ohio. . . .
  Arrears to 4th of March, 1819. . .  81. 83.    Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4. Sept. 2 1819. }  48 "        $:129. 83.  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Set R. Sherman June 16/57. High School to Sam L. Harkness Esq. 11 Nov 1880 Steubenville Ohio

The Deposition of Jonathan Potts of the County of Jefferson and State of Ohio —
Knoweth — This Deponent entered the service of his Country in the Army of the Revolution on the fifth day of December in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven hundred and seventy-five — enlisting for the term 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 remained in that Company, Regiment and Line, serving therein in the Battles of the Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth also at the encounter at the White Marsh Hills He accompanied with the Army at Morris-Town New Jersey, where on the fourth day of De- cember one Thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, having completed the term of his enlistment, he was honorably dischar- ged — He kept this discharge twelve years, when removing from Virginia to the Western part of Pennsylvania he unfortunately lost it — He further deposes and says that from the very reduced and necessitous state of his circumstances he is in the greatest want of the assistance of the United States for support — That he never has received any pension or any compensation in lieu thereof for all or any of these Services — As he doth hereby renounce all claim to any pension —
his Jonathan Potts Mark

State of Ohio } Jefferson County } April 28 th 1818
Personally came Jonathan Rotts & in my presence signed & was by me sworn to the matter set forth in the within deposition & being satisfied of the truth thereof I annex thereto this certificate
My Sappan
President of the Courts of Common Pleas in the Fifth Circuit of the State of Ohio
the chairman could do not lawfully subscribed in 1876 correct the error
State of Ohio } Jefferson County }
In testimony that the Honorable Benjamin Sappan before whom the
within deposition was taken is Presi- dent of the court of common Pleas in the fifth circuit of the State of
Ohio duly commissioned and qualified to show official acts such full faith and credit is due I John Batterton Clerk of the court of common Pleas for the said county of Jefferson have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Steubenville the 28 th day of April A D 1818
John Batterton KMS

State of Ohio Jefferson County ss. Court of common pleas -
In the matter of Be it remembered that at the August Term of this court Jonathan Potts a in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty. Jonathan Potts of said county of Jefferson comes & files a Declaration of his service & in the words and figures following, to wit - At a Court of common pleas begun and held at Steubenville in and for the county aforesaid on the 21 st day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty. personally appeared in open court being a Court of Record for the said county Jonathan Potts aged sixty five years, resident in said county of Jefferson State aforesaid twenty two years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows. In the year 1776 on the fifth day of December he enlisted in the company of Captain William Smith at Leesburg in Loudon County Virginia in the Regiment of Colonel Daniel Morgan of the Virginia line called the eleventh Virginia, in this he served three years & was in the Battles of Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, & the Storming at the white Plains. and was honorably discharged at Barking Ridge at Morris Town by General Washington on the sixth day of December 1779. all this he has proved in his Declaration heretofore forwarded to the war Department and dated the 28 th day of April 1818. upon which he has received a pension certificate numbered 8.864 - And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818. and I have not since that time by gift sale or in any other manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it or to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & Naval services of the United States in the revolutionary war passed the 18 th March 1818. and I have not since that time as any person for or in trust for me any property securities contracts or debts due to me. nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed. I am a farmer by occupation and
Steubenville Ohio Jonathan Potts
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unable to labour or any thing, I live with my son who is a very poor man and has a family -
Jonathan his Potts mark
Schedule - One ax & necessary wearing apparell - - - - - $1.00 Money saved on his Pension - - - - - 20.00 $21.00
Whereupon the said Jonathan Potts being sworn to the facts above stated and the court being satisfied by the evidence produced that the aforesaid Schedule contains all the property by him owned and that the value thereof (including the cash on hand) is twenty one dollars & no more, Therefore it is ordered by the court that the aforesaid Declaration & Schedule be entered of Record & certified by the clerk of this court to the war department -
State of Ohio Jefferson County
I John Patterson Clerk of the court of common Pleas for the said County of Jefferson do certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Records of said Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is twenty one Dollars -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Steubenville this 23 d day of September AD 1870
John Patterson BM

Stenbenville March 11 th 1834
Hon J. E. Heath
Dear Sir accompanying this you will find the papers of J Potts who was a Revol Pensioner as you will see by reference to the papers. he drew a pension until his death which took place on the 4 th day of July 1831 He drew his last pay the 4 th day of March 1831 just four months before his death leaving just four months due. His son Thomas, as you will see is his executor, and the papers were made out in time and duly executed placed in the hands of Gerald S Stokely but were not attended to he laid them away among his papers where they have been until within the last few months, he was entitled to $32. at his death. his son Thomas Potts, says that his father drew his last money at Pittsburgh and that he thinks it was through the Bankers here
You will please send me a draft for the amt due as soon as convenient if the papers are satisfactory
Yours Truly R. Sherrard Jr

October 6, 1930
Mrs. Emma A. Chalfant 50 Cleveland Avenue Uniontown, Pennsylvania
Dear Madam:
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.40288, that Jonathan Potts enlisted at Hillsboro or Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, December 5, 1776, served as a private in Captain William Smith's Company, Colonel Daniel Morgan's Eleventh Virginia Regiment, was in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, White Marsh, Monmouth and a skirmish at White Plains and was discharged December 6, 1779.
After the Revolution, he moved to western Pennsylvania, then to the State of Ohio.
He was allowed pension on his application executed June 27, 1818, at which time he was aged sixty-two years and resided in Jefferson County, Ohio, where he had lived for twenty years.
In 1820, he was residing in Jefferson County, Ohio, with his son and his son's family, no names are given, nor is the name of his wife and date of marriage stated. A son, Thomas Potts, is referred to, his age is not given. Soldier died July 4, 1831.
The Revolutionary War records of this bureau fail to afford any information in regard to Jonas Potts and the War of 1812 records do not show that a claim for pension was ever made on account of the services of Jonas Potts.
Very truly yours
E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner.

Uniontown Pa.
Sept 10-1930
Pension Office Washington D.C.
Dear Sirs. will you please send me the war record of Jonathan Potts during the Revolution. Mrs. Boughner of Great Meadows chapter and Mrs. Sinclair of Steubenville Ohio, chapter (she is the one who had body of Jonathan moved to Soldiers plot in Steubenville cemetery) told me to write you for full & complete list of war record. He was granted a pension in 1819 and lived at Fairfield at that time & until he died July 4-1831. His daughter Anna Goodrum was keeping house for him and also raising my Grandfather Abimelech George Washington Potts as might be  as his father died when Grandpa was 6 months old.

I remember well of seeing both Jonathan & Jonas Potts' graves in the little cemetery of Fairfield when I was quite young and both graves had flags on them.
Cannot remember what war's they fought in.
Do you have any Record of Jonas 1812 Potts as a soldier. He is given as No. 22 1 Page 316 in Thomas Maxwell Potts Family History published at Cannonburgh in 1901
Am waiting to fill out D.A.R. papers on the data you send . Have all dates but no record only served in La Continental Line.
Trusting you can send me some
Yours sincerely
Mr Emma A Chalfant 50 Uniontown - Pa 50 Cleveland Ave.

Hist. to y. thro
40 274
Apr-17-1903 D.C. Leedom Bordertown N. Hon. Secy,
Very INVALID.
1930-Oct 6-Hist. to Mrs Emma H. Chalfant. E&L
File No. 40 274
Jonathan Potts His Rev. Mrs
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8, Page 898
[Arrangement of 1870.]

40288
Recy INVALID.
File No. 40288
Jonathan Potts Rev Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 398
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of September next, in Cincinnati, at the Branch Bk. U. States
Ohio.

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818, " " "
Jonathan 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 twentyseventh 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.

old case. Addl. proof in the case of Henry Fleet. —
Feb. 12. 1819.
Benjamin Tappan, judge,
Adm c
Jonathan Potts, private
11. Virginia reg't.
April 28, 1818
Steubenville, Jefferson Co. Ohio,

Free
Richmond FEB 4 1840 march
Hon. John C. Calhoun Secretary of War Washington City

Ohio Pentersville 1 st February 1849
James L. Edwards Esq.
Pension Office — Sir,
I had the honor to receive your letter of the 8 th Ult. transmitting pension certificate for John Patts. Declaration of Jonathan Patts — I have corrected the error in the latter & transmits it back. I also enclose two certificates or affidavits to be added to a declaration heretofore transmitted by me to your office on the behalf of Henry Severts, an applicant for a pension under the law of the 18 th March 1818. Be so good as to retain them until their application shall come under your notice. Your kindness, Sir, in informing me of these errors is entitled to my warmest thanks.
Most Respectfully
Your most Obt. Servt.
Sam l Stokely

Ohio
Jonathan 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 five years.
scribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 27 th of June 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 th of April 1819. and sent B. Sappan Esquire, Steubenville, Ohio.
arrears to 4th of March 1819 - $ 44 3/4 66:09 semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Sept. 1819 48.00
$114:09
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Jefferson County
Certificate is on a duplicate.

2 Cases 1263V Benj n Tappan Judge
Steubenville Ohio
Rec d 14 July 1818.
Genl l H. M c G o L t Colchouse Jonathan or Off ce Washington
Jonathan Potts Dec r 27 th June 1818 Private
Enl d 5 th Dec r 1776 for five years which served, was discharged
Col d Morgan Roll. 11 th Virg a Reg t .
Admitted.

State of Ohio Jefferson County ss.
On this twenty-seventh day of June 1818, before me the Subscriber, President Judge of the Courts of Common Pleas of the fifth cir- cuit in the State of Ohio personally appears Jonathan Potts aged sixty-five years resident in said County who being by me duly sworn vouch on his oath make the following dec- laration, in order to obtain the provisions of an act of the late 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 Jonathan Potts enlisted for the term of three years on the fifth day of December in the year 1776 at Hillsborough Lancaster County Virginia, in the company of Capt. William Smith of the eleventh Virginia Regiment commanded by Colo. Daniel Morgan That he continued to serve in said Corps until the term of his enlistment having expired, he was honorably discharged at Monmouth in N. Jersey on the sixth day of December in the year 1779 by Colonel Morgan and Genl. Woodford — That he served in Battles of Brandy- wine, Germantown and Monmouth — That he had a written discharge which he has lost by time and accident — That he is in reduced circum-

- States, very aged and infirm and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support, and that he has no other evidence of his said services now in his power except what is hereto annexed -  Declared, sworn to, and subscribed before me this day & year above mentioned, by the said Jonathan Potts, who expressly avows and claims he may claim to any pension from the United States.  Jonathan Potts mark  State of Ohio Jefferson Co. ss.
John Potts of Jefferson County Ohio being duly sworn doth depose and say that the facts set forth in the above written declaration are to his certain knowledge correct and true in every particular - That he joined the company of Capt. William Smith in which Jonathan Potts was then serving on the seventh day of March 1777. That he served with him until he was discharged at the time & place above mentioned - That he is in reduced circumstances & in need of assistance from his country for support.  Sworn & subscribed This 27 th June 1818  John Potts mark
I Benjamin Tappan President Judge as is aforesaid, do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Jonathan Potts did serve in the Revolutionary War, as is stated in the foregoing declaration, against the common enemy for more than nine months - That he is in reduced circumstances and in need of assistance from his

Country for support and I now transmit with the Secretary of War the the proceedings had, and the testimony taken before me, pursuant to the di- rections of the aforementioned act of Congress June 27 th 1818
My Sappan
State of Ohio Jefferson County ss
I John Patterson Clerk of the court of common Pleas for the county of Jefferson by the direction of the Honorable Benjamin Sappan President of the court of common Pleas in  for the fifth circuit Ohio - have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said court at Steubenville the third day July in the year of our Lord 1818
John Patterson Clerk