Display Patriot - P-272524 - Matthias/Matthew POTTER
Matthias/Matthew POTTER
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P-272524
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Author: David Adriance Foster
Matthias Potter P-272524
Note: Photo of gravestone in Find a Grave, Memorial# 8865332
Matthias Potter was born in 1741 in Middlesex County, NJ son of Joseph and Sarah Woodruff Potter. He died in 1819 in Connecticut Farms, NJ, which is now Union, NJ. Matthias’s grandfather, Samuel, migrated to NJ from Connecticut.
Potter was a Captain in the 1st Regiment of the Essex County Militia. On June 7, 1780 local militias along with NJ Continental troops tried stop the advance of British and Hessian troops heading to Washington’s encampment at Morristown. Their efforts were unsuccessful and after house to house fighting, the town of Connecticut Farms was plundered. A dozen houses were burned and several civilians killed. The British withdrew after Washington’s troops arrived.
Matthias Potter is buried in an SAR marked grave at the Connecticut Farms Presbyterian Church cemetery in Union.
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