Display Patriot - P-272636 - Jonathan POTTS

Jonathan POTTS

SAR Patriot #: P-272636

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State of Service: VA      Qualifying Service: Soldier
DAR #: A091851

Birth: 1754 / / PA
Death: 04 Jul 1831 / Jefferson / OH

Qualifying Service Description:

Private, Capt William Smith's Company, Colonel Daniel Morgan's Seventh Regiment, VA Continential Line


Additional References:
  1. 8th-35th Annual Reports, NSDAR. Senate documents (United States Congress, Senate). Government Printing Office: Washington, DC
  2. Virgil White, Genealogical Abstracts of Rev War Pension Files, Volume 1, pg 294
  3. Mrs. Orville Dailey, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in the State of Ohio, Roster #3, pg 2746. DAR Patriot Index Centennial Edition, Part 3, pg 2352
  4. Mary D. Sinclair, Pioneer Days, pg 146. Mrs Dohrman J. Sinclair, “Official Roster of Graves of Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Jefferson County, OH (Steubenville, Ohio)
  5. Murtie Clark, Pension Roll of 1835, Volume IV, The Mid-Western States, (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc, 1974) pg 196
  6. Hamilton J. Eckenrode, compiler, Virginia Soldiers of the American Revolution, Volume I. (Richmond, Va: State Library and Archives, 1912), pg 244, 357
  7. Gwathmey, Virginians in the Revolution, pg 634

Spouse: Elizabeth English
Children: Samuel L; Jonas; John;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1942-12-03 DC Unassigned William Edward Noll (61882) Josias   
1963-05-07 OH Unassigned John Simon Sawvel Sr (89849) Samuel   
1970-09-11 CA Unassigned Richard Bradshaw Potts (100726) Samuel   
1984-10-02 OH Unassigned John Simon Sawvel Jr (124739) Samuel   
Burial:
Union Cemetery (C-0372628)
Location:
Steubenville / Jefferson / OH / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
43837
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
n/a
Find A Grave Memorial #:
85097898
Marker Type:

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

photo used with permission of Michael B. Gunn, 185230, Cincinnati Chapter, OHSSAR



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Author: Dr. Michael Bernard Gunn
Born on July 10, 1754 Pennsylvania to Parents: Jonas and Mary (Heckathorn) Potts.  He served as a soldier with Virginia Continental Army under Captain William Smith’s Company, under Colonel Daniel Morgan’s 11th VA Regiment. He married Elizabeth English (_-1814) in 1788; children: Joshua, Thomas, David, John, Nathan, Anna, Samuel, Mary Lidia William and Sarah. He lived in Loudoun County, VA during the War, then moved to western PA and on to Ohio.  Jonathan Potts was a large powerful man and even in his last years delighted in feats of strength, when the farmers gathered in the town of Fairview. When his body was being prepared for burial it is said to have been covered with sabre wound scars from his gallant career in the Revolutionary War. He was pensioned Ref S40288 having applied on April 28, 1818 in Jefferson County and given a land granton August 30, 1784 for 100 acres He Died on July 4, 1831 and He was buried in old Fairfield Cemetery near East Springfield, Jefferson Co., OH. but body was removed due to the neglect of the graveyard and placed in Union Cemetery, 1720 Sunset Blvd, Steubenville, Jefferson Co., OH 43952 on plot dedicated to the soldiers of the Civil War. Permission was granted by the Sons of Veterans for placing the body in this plot. The removing and placing the body was done under the supervision and at the expense of Steubenville Chap of D. A. R.  Jonathan Potts family history in a book (“The Simpson Family & Its Branches”) presented to Mrs Sinclair by the Author was placed into the Carnegie Library, on the DAR shelf. Fur infor Steubenville Chap. 28th-35th Annual Reports, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). Senate documents (United States Congress, Senate). Government Printing Office: Washington, DC.  Virgil White, Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files, Vol. 1, p. 294.  Mrs. Orville Dailey, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in the State of Ohio, Roster #3, p. 2746.  DAR Patriot Index Centennial Edition, Part 3, p. 2352.   Mary D. Sinclair, Pioneer Days, p. 146.  Mrs Dohrman J. Sinclair, “Official Roster of Graves of Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Jefferson County, OH (Steubenville, Ohio).  Murtie Clark, Pension Roll of 1835, Vol. IV, The Mid-Western States, (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1974) p. 196.  Hamilton J. Eckenrode, compiler, Virginia Soldiers of the American Revolution, Volume I. (Richmond, Va: State Library and Archives, 1912), pp. 244, 357. Has a flat tombstone.
 

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Additional Information:
  • Buried on plot dedicated to the soldiers of the Civil War. Permission was granted by the Sons of Veterans for placing the body in this plot. The removing and placing the body was done under the supervision and at the expense of Steubenville Chap of D. A. R.
  • Jonathan Potts family history in a book (“The Simpson Family & Its Branches”) presented to Mrs Sinclair by the Author was placed into the Carnegie Library, on the DAR shelf


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