Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8,385, for Isaac Potts, New Jersey

SERVICE
New Jersey
NUMBER
Potts, Isaac Rachel
R. 8385
CONTENTS
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State of New York County of Broome August Term 1857. In open Court Present
Hon Horace T. Knowlton County Judge, Broome
In on this twenty fifth day of August A.D. 1857 before the Court of Broome County held within and for the County and Seats aforesaid personally appeared William Rotts aged Sixty Eight years and Mary Rotts his sister aged nearly Seventy years residents of the town of Vestal in the County of Broome aforesaid who being each severally sworn according to Law doth each in their several oaths make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions of the act of 7th June 1832 That they are each of them children and heirs at law of Isaac Rotts deceased who was a private in some Company of these opponents unknown in the war of the Revolution

That the said Isaac Rotts died on the 15 th day of April 1826 and that he drew a pension from or soon after the passage of the first Pension law passed by Congress. That he left a widow named Rachel Rotts who died on the Thirtieth day of March A.D. 1838. That the following are the only surviving children of the said soldier viz
William Mary Rotts above named and Henry Rotts who now resides at Grand Rapids in the state of Michigan aged 59 years. That Rachel Rotts their mother was married to the said Isaac Rotts in the town of Woodbridge in the state of New Jersey on the last of the year A.D. 1786 or first of the year A.D. 1787 by one Roe a Reformed Union clergyman and that her name before her said marriage was Rachel Hickerson That their father died at Vestal aforesaid on the 15 th day of April A.D. 1826 & that their said mother died on the 30 th day of March A.D. 1838

And further that there is no public record of her marriage and that there is no private record of her marriage now in existence: That there formerly was a family record in existence containing the date of her marriage therein but that the same has been lost. They hereby appoint G. C. Walker their true and lawful attorney with power of substitution to prosecute this claim to receive the Certificate when issued and to do all other acts necessary & proper in the premises.
Witness
William Pottary Potts
Sworn to and before me on the day and year first above mentioned and I hereby certify that I know the said deponents William Potts, Mary Potts & believe them to be as is above stated & that they are of the respective ages above stated & further that I am not interested in this claim as attorney otherwise.
Witness my hand & the seal of said court affixed by order of said court and in presence B. Morgan Spj Clerk Broome Co.

STATE OF NEW-YORK,
Broome County Clerk's Office.
I, WILLIAM C. DOANE, Clerk of the County of Broome, do hereby certify,
That John S. Edwards Esq.  Affidavit whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed Instrument, and thereon written, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Broome, duly elected and sworn, and authorized to take the same. And further, that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of such Justice of the Peace, and verily believe that his signature to the said Certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine. And that said Instrument is executed and acknowledged in conformity with the laws of this State.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said County, the 26 day of Feb A. D. 185 7
B. Marvin Clerk.
No 15772
Rachel Patis wi of Isaac NY 1838
Rejected
for the co. m

STATE OF NEW-YORK,
Broome County Clerk's Office.
I, WILLIAM C. DOANE, Clerk of the County of Broome, do hereby certify,
That John N. Edwards Esq.  affidavit .....
whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed Instrument, and thereon written, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Broome, duly elected and sworn, and authorized to take the same. And further, that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of such Justice of the Peace, and verily believe that his signature to the said Certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine. And that said Instrument is executed and acknowledged in conformity with the laws of this State.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said County,
the 26 ..... day of Feb A. D. 185 7
B. Mawr CLERK.
No 157/2 Rachel Potts wi of Isaac NY 1838 Registered

Broome County
The petition of William Potts and Mary Potts of Vestal Broome County State of New York respectfully represent that they are the children heirs of Landy Isaac Rachel Potts deceased that they wish to obtain the remainder money due to them mother Rachel Potts deceased the facts and circumstances necessary to obtain the same and on which their claim is founded are stated set forth in the affidavits hereto annexed that they make this application in their own behalf and on for the share which they as two of the children of said Isaac & Rachel Potts would be entitled to
Sworn & subscribed this 10 th day of Aug. A.D. 1837
{ William Potts Mary Potts
John H. Edwards Justice of the Peace
now - we are seen more many more

State of New York Broome County ss
William Rotts of Vestal in said County, Broome & Mary Rotts of the same place being severally sworn each for himself & herself say that they are the children & legal heirs of Isaac & Matilda Rachael Rotts late of the town of Vestal aforesaid. That said William Rotts is now in his sixty eighth year of his age & that said Mary Rotts is now in the seventieth year of her age. That from their earliest recollections their father the said Isaac Rotts & their mother the said Rachael Rotts lived & cohabited together as man & wife & that these defendants lived at home with their said father & mother until they became of age respectively that the other children of their said father & mother were Henry, John & Ephraim Rotts all of whom are now dead save Henry who lives out of this state that their said father & mother continued to live & cohabit together as man & wife down to the death of their father which took place on the 15 th day of April in the year A.D. 1826. That their mother Rachael Rotts survived their father until the 30 th day of March A.D. 1838 when she died. That they have been told by their mother that they formerly had a family record but that it was lost & could not be found. and the said Mary Rotts says that she has seen said family record

records being her father & mother's Marriage recorded therein & also her own age & the age her Brothers but that said record was taken off by the brother of her Mother over the state & that she cannot now find that her application being annexed is made by them to procure the back pension of their said Mother for their own benefit that the marriage of her father & mother took place in the town of Woodbridge County of Middlesex state of New Jersey the said Mary says that she has heard her grandmother now deceased say that her Mary's father and Mother were married by a clergyman by the name of Roe & the said Mary further says that there was no public registry of marriages at the time her father & mother were married & that there are no public records of their marriage
Subscribed & sworn this 26 th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four
Wm Potts Mary Potts
John R. Edinburg Justice of the Peace

State of New York Broome County ss.
Thimaz Much of Vestal in said County of Broome being duly sworn deposes & says that he was born in the town of Woodbridge Middlesex County State of New Jersey on the 20 th day of July in the year A.D. 1826 that he lived in the said town of Woodbridge until the year A.D. 1804 when he with his parents moved into the County of Broome aforesaid and on a piece of land now in what is now called the town of Vestal that this deponent knew was well acquainted with Isaac Rotts Rachel Rotts his wife & their children from his earliest recollections down to the time of the death of the said Isaac Rotts. That said Isaac Rotts Rachel Rotts lived & cohabited together as man & wife ever reputed to be man & wife in the said town of Woodbridge aforesaid prior to their moving into this County of Broome that since they came into the County of Broome they lived together as man & wife to the time of the death of Isaac Rotts in the year 1826. That this deponent knew said Isaac & Rachel Rotts intimately having for a period of time lived in the same house with them. That they had children by each other two of whom William Rotts & Mary Rotts are now living in said town of Vestal aforesaid that they have always been reputed man & wife in this County of Broome

that in those early days when Isaac Root & Rachel his wife were married there was no public register of Marriages kept in the State of New Jersey to the best of my recollection
Sturminster Newton
Subscribed & sworn { this 26 th day of February { in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven before me {
John H. Edwards Justice of the Peace
I certify that I am well acquainted with William Dotts Mary Dotts Joseph Eldridge Nightingale Williams & Abimael Williams & know them all to be honest upright people & good citizens
John H. Edwards Justice of the Peace

State of New York } Broome County } Joseph Bradley of
the town of Vestal in said County of Broome being duly sworn says that he has resided in said County of Broome for the past forty four years that some time in the year A.D. 1803 Isaac Rotts & Rachael his wife moved into said County of Broome and settled on a piece of land situate in the present town of Vestal in said County that said Isaac & Rachael then lived & cohabited together as man & wife & had several children that William Rotts was one of said children & Mary Rotts another. That this deponent knew & was well acquainted with said Isaac Rotts & Rachael his wife & family of children & continued to be well acquainted with said Isaac & Rachael Rotts from the year A.D. 1803 down to their respective deaths. That they always lived & cohabited together as man & wife so long as they both lived & had children by each other. That the said Isaac Rotts died in Vestal aforesaid in the year A.D. 1826. That Rachael Rotts his wife survived him & lived until the year A.D. 1838 when she died. That they were always reputed to be man & wife in this County & in their neighbourhood
Subscribed & sworn } Joseph Bradley this 26 th day of February A.D. 1857 } John R. Edwards Justice of the Peace

State of New York } Broome County } Nightham Williams of Union in said County of Broome being and from & says that he has heard the wife affidavit of Joseph Edmond read & knows the contents thereof that the deponent knows all the facts con- tained therein relating to Isaac Rotts & Rachael Rotts his wife & knows them to be true
Subscribed & sworn } this 26 th day of February } in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five } before me
" Nightham Williams
John F. Edwards, Justice of the Peace

Broome Com. Pleas In the matter of Isaac Potts a Revolut? Solat? &c.
13.746 Sept 1819
Sent to Mr Platt Esq Owego. Nov 7. 1820

State of New York / Broome County /
On this 13 th day of September 1820 Personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, duly constituted a Court of record by the law of said State with powers to hear, try and determine according to law all actions, real personal and mixed and also all transitory actions with other powers. Isaac Pottz aged 69 years resident in the Town of Union in the said County who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary War as follows. That he enlisted according to the best of his recollection on the last day of February 1776 for one year under Captain Peter Dickerson of Colonel Elias Dayton's Regiment in the Jersey line, that he served the full term of his enlistment that in the month of June next after his discharge he again enlisted for five months under Captain Bona of Col. Ephraim Martin's Regiment in the same line for which term he served and was discharged - That shortly after his discharge he again enlisted for one year into the waggon service under Captain Edmund Martin in Col. Hooper's or Hoope's Regiment in the same line in which service he continued for about three years in the same Company and other Companies and Regiments. That the original declaration made by this deponent bears date on the 12 th day of May 1818 & that he has received a certificate which is numbered 13 746. That after the waggon service he served about one year in a Company of Rangers in Col. Martin's Regiment commanded by Capt. Joseph Walker. — And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to bring myself within the provisions of an 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" passed on the 18 th day of March 1818. And I have not nor has any person in trust 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
Schedule of the above named Isaac Potts
1 Saw 3 Shovels 2 Shovel one of Sled & bob Sled one Plow share & Iron Kettles one Spider 1 Griddle one Frying Pan 2 wooden Pails one Wash tub 2 Chests - one Dresser - 2 Salt barrels - one Soap tub - one meat Cask one 10 gallon Keg - one 2 Gallon do - 2 Tea Cups - 4 Saucers 3 Tin Pans one Tin Pail one Tea Kettle Iron one Spinning wheel 3 Drawing Knives 2 Axes one Smoothing Iron one Scythe with hangings one Pine Table 4 Common Table Knives 4 forks 5 Spoons 2 Broken Chairs 6 Earthen Plates one large earthen dish one tin Dipper Tea pot one quart bottle one Pt. do 4 hams 30 Chickens 2 broad hoes one broken rake 5 Common Chairs one fat tub one Shovel blade 2 Small Close baskets one reel one broad tray 4 old bags one hand saw one Crop Cut Saw one beehive one wedge one horse Sled one Cram trammel one Musket one acre of Potatoes on James Williams Land one acre of Buck Wheat on same Land Real Estate none
Isaac Potts
That the deponent is a labourer that he has become so infirm as to be unable to perform much labour that the only person residing with him is his wife
Isaac Potts
Sworn to and declared before me the 13 th day of September 1820
A. Doubleday Clerk
State of New York
James Doubleday Clerk of the Court of Com.
Pleas in and for the County of Broome do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly Copies from the records of the said Court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the afore said schedule is Sixty four dollars and fifty four cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 27 th day of September 1820
A. Doubleday Clerk of Broome County

Isaac Potts
private Col Dayton Regiment New Jersey Line
1776-17 year
Further evidence of service of a General certificate of the claim and old soldiers. Stancus Martins 1819
Wm Platt Esq Owego Village, Broome County, N.Y.

State of New York
Broome County ss. On this twelfth day of May 1818 before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said County personally appears Isaac Potts aged Sixty Seven years resident in the Town of Union in the County aforesaid, who being by me first duly sworn, according to law doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision 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 Isaac Potts enlisted the 23rd day of February 1776 in the State of New Jersey in the company commanded by Captain Peter Dickinson in Colonel Dayton's Regiment of the New Jersey line; That he continued to serve in the said corps and in the service of the United States until the month of February 1777 when he was discharged from service in the City of New York That he served five months the same year; That he again enlisted in a company of rangers commanded by Captain Joseph Hackett in Colonel at Supers  Supers  Regiment  in  the  State  of  New  Jersey  of  the New Jersey line in the month of March 1778 That he continued to serve in the said Corps or in the service of the United States until sometime in the month of March following when he was discharged from service in Supers County aforesaid That he was in the battle on Long Island and at the White Plains and at Harlem and also against the Indians on the Delaware frontier and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said service as sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid
Isaac Potts one of the Judges of Broome County Common Pleas

I Anson Camp Judge as aforesaid, do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Isaac Potts did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy. And I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the secretary for the War Department pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid act of Congress - and I do further certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Potts and that from his reduced circumstances he pleads an exemption from his Owego May 12 th 1818 - Isaac Potts of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Broome County
Broome County Vs.
I hereby certify that Anson Camp at the time of signing the foregoing was a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County and that the signatures are in the proper hand writing of the said Anson Camp.
Broome Clerks Office August 11. 1818
George Park D y . Clk

Broome County ss: Jacob Kirkendall of the town of Tioga, County of Tioga and State of New York being duly sworn deporeth and saith that he is now personally acquainted with Isaac Potts in the foregoing declaration & statement named with whom he was personally acquainted during the revolutionary war - that he well knew the said Isaac Potts from the time of his enlistment in February 1776 until February 1779. and was acquainted with him in the Company, Regiment & Line and saw him almost daily in the same Company & to which he in the said Statement sets forth he belonged country for support & that he the said Isaac Potts was a faithful soldier - that this deponent did not belong to the same Company but was a soldier in the same Regiment during the aforesaid period with the said Isaac Potts - that he was in New York at the time of the said Isaac Potts receiving his discharge in February 1779.
Sworn & subscribed before me the 25 th day of June 1819.
Jacob his X Kirkendall marks
Anson lampson Judge of Broome County common pleas
I certify that I am personally acquainted with Isaac Potts in the foregoing declaration named & that he is in reduced circumstances & needs the assistance of his Country for support Owego Village June 26 th 1819.
Anson lampson of the judges of the Court of common pleas of Broome County

Application week end Nov 7. 1820 to Spring Plate Hugo C. Wright
13746
New York
Isaac Potts 4
of Broome Cy in the state of New York who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Dayton of the New Jersey line, for the term of one year 1776
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 12 of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 of July 1819 and sent to Anson Camp, Esq Chenango, Broome Cy New York
  Arrears to 4th of March 1819...  $78.19    Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept. ...  48    Gm: 24/31  $126.19  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
8385
P. O.
Rachel Potts
Service:
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

N o 15472
Rachel Potts, wid o of Isaac.
8385 N.Y.
S. H. G. C. Walker, Aug. 8. 1857
Registered
Isaac died in 1826. and Rachel died March 30, 1838. married in 1786. See Set:
G. C. Walker Sept 3 d . 1857
Act 7 th July, 38,

Owego Aug. 25 1888
Sir Enclosed I send you additional papers which I trust will be sufficient They comply I believe to the letter with your letter to me of the 8 th of August inst
Please examine & report as soon as possible to your ob t serv t
Y s Geo. Whiting Commission Pensions
H. C. Walker Owego Tioga Co N.Y.

Clackamas July 11 th 1887
Sir
Please examine the enclosed papers and if proper report them at your earliest possible convenience. Same roots was a Reunion as you will find by examining the records of your office — all other facts necessary to establish the claim of the applicants Mrs. Mary roots are sufficiently set forth in the affidavits herewith enclosed to you. Whether a child can obtain the pension which its mother would have been entitled to if she had applied in her life time is of course a question depending upon the construction given to the law. The applicants are poor people and their claim is allowed it will afford them great relief. Let all communications be addressed to me at Owyhee, Linn County W.T.
Yours truly T. C. Walker 20th Commission of Reunion Washington D.C.

State of New York County of Broome } In open County Broome County } Court August Term 1837
Present
Hon. Horace T. Ennood County Judge of Broome County
It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before the said Court which evidence is hereto annexed:
That Isaac Potts who reported was a Revolutionary soldier of the United States died on the 15 th day of April A.D. 1826 leaving surviving him a widow named Rachel Potts who died on the 30 th day of March A.D. 1838 and that William Potts and Mary Potts who reside at Vestal in the County of Broome aforesaid and Henry Potts who resides at Grand Rapids in the state of Michigan are the only surviving children of the aforesaid soldier
In testimony whereof I have hereunto by order of said

Count set my hand and affixed my seal of office this Twenty fifth day of August one thousand Eight hundred & fifty Seven
B. Martin Off Clerk Broom Co.

Statute 1837 Broome County } for Broome County Court. In open court before Hon. Horace S. Greenfield County Judge Broome Co.
on this 25 th day of August A.D. 1837 personally appeared before me Mary Rachel Rotts who being duly sworn says: That Isaac Rotts her father was a Soldier in the Revolutionary war of the United States, that he died on the 15 th day of April A.D. 1836 having surviving him Rachel Rotts his widow who died on the 30 th day of March 1838, that both Isaac Rotts & Rachel Rotts of Herkshire died at Vestal in the County of Broome (Herkshire) That the only surviving children of the said Soldier Isaac Rotts are Mary  Rachel Rotts & William Rotts of Vestal (Herkshire) (the said Mary Rotts being aged 70 years & the said William Rotts 68 years) and Henry Rotts who resides at Grand Rapids
Clerk of Broome County enter opposite order and give requisite certificate on filing this evidence August 25. 1837
J. H. S. Greenfield
Court Judge

in the State of Michigan
April 5 th year
Sworn & Subscribed this { Mary Potts
25 th day August before
Mr J. H. S. Grinnell
County Judge of { the County of Monroe