Individual Details
Elizabeth Potts
(30 Oct 1699 - 30 Sep 1762)
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Note: In the marrige record, Peter Cleaver, Jr. is described as "weaver" and Elizabeth Potts as daughter of David and AlicePotts, "seamstress." The marriage certificate was signed by fifty one witnesses, a majority of whom were relatives. They settled in Upper Dublin Township, now included in Montgomery County, where he owned one hundred acres of land.
The Potts Family in Great Britain and America, 1901 - ThomasMaxwell Potts]
She was married to Peter CLEAVER Jr. on Aug 4 1722 in Pennsylvania. Peter CLEAVER Jr. was born on Oct 28 1697 inGermantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died on Apr 8 1772 in Upper Dublin Twp., Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania.
Source: Online @ http://www.gencircles.com/users/jaymac/2/data/4508
ID: I6378
Name: Elizabeth POTTS 1 2 3
Sex: F
Birth: 30 OCT 1699 2 in Potts Grove, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2
Death: 1776 4
Change Date: 18 AUG 2002
Father: David POTTS b: 1670 in Llanidlose, Montgomery, Wales
Mother: Alice CROASDALE b: 3 AUG 1673 in New Key, Yorkshire, England
Marriage 1 Peter CLEAVER b: 28 OCT 1697
Children
John CLEAVER b: 13 DEC 1724 in Philadelphia, PA
Ezekiel CLEAVER b: 4 FEB 1729
Nathan CLEAVER b: 14 SEP 1734
Elizabeth CLEAVER b: 17 JUN 1739
Sources:
Name: www.angelfire.com/wv/MissChievious/Potts.html?clkd=iwm
Name: http://www.flash.net/~jimmoore/dat9.htm
Name: Smith - Hopkins - Alf - Callaham Ancestors by Gail Mitchell @ http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:555932&id=I352
Name: John Maarshburn e-mail
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Cy potts data base has Elizabeth Potts b. dec 30, 1699 with same parents. & marring Peter Cleaver Jr. with 7 issue :http://www.potts.net.au/tree/result_detail.asp?Number=5049
This is a large file. I have tried to be accurate. There may be mistakes in here so please be subjective when using the data. There are many internet sites now and not all data agrees. If you are not sure what is here is correct please do futher research
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Gwynedd Meeting records a double wedding at house of Jonas Potts, his daughs. Rachel and Elizabeth. Among Friends, it was customary in signing marriage certificates, for those, who were near of kin to the contracfting parties, to sign together in the right hand column. Those who signed as witnesses, in the place for relatives, in this instance were Jonas Potts, Mary Potts, David Potts, Thomas Potts, John Potts, Thomas Potts, Rees Potts, Mary, Mary Potts, and Hannah Potts.
"On 8 mo. 15, 1719, a double wedding took place at the house of Jonas Potts, at which two of his daughters were married. In one of the Certificates, Jonas Potts is said to be of Gilberts Manor, and in the other, of Perqueoman Creek. It is said that after the festivities of this double wedding, the newly married young couples left for their respective homes on horseback, each bride mounted behind her husband."
Historical Collections Relating to The Potts Family in Great Britian and America, Published by the Compiler, Canonsburg, PA, 1901, Thomas Maxwell Potts, p.225.
-Richard A. Clark II
Note: In the marrige record, Peter Cleaver, Jr. is described as "weaver" and Elizabeth Potts as daughter of David and AlicePotts, "seamstress." The marriage certificate was signed by fifty one witnesses, a majority of whom were relatives. They settled in Upper Dublin Township, now included in Montgomery County, where he owned one hundred acres of land.
The Potts Family in Great Britain and America, 1901 - ThomasMaxwell Potts]
She was married to Peter CLEAVER Jr. on Aug 4 1722 in Pennsylvania. Peter CLEAVER Jr. was born on Oct 28 1697 inGermantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died on Apr 8 1772 in Upper Dublin Twp., Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania.
Source: Online @ http://www.gencircles.com/users/jaymac/2/data/4508
ID: I6378
Name: Elizabeth POTTS 1 2 3
Sex: F
Birth: 30 OCT 1699 2 in Potts Grove, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2
Death: 1776 4
Change Date: 18 AUG 2002
Father: David POTTS b: 1670 in Llanidlose, Montgomery, Wales
Mother: Alice CROASDALE b: 3 AUG 1673 in New Key, Yorkshire, England
Marriage 1 Peter CLEAVER b: 28 OCT 1697
Children
John CLEAVER b: 13 DEC 1724 in Philadelphia, PA
Ezekiel CLEAVER b: 4 FEB 1729
Nathan CLEAVER b: 14 SEP 1734
Elizabeth CLEAVER b: 17 JUN 1739
Sources:
Name: www.angelfire.com/wv/MissChievious/Potts.html?clkd=iwm
Name: http://www.flash.net/~jimmoore/dat9.htm
Name: Smith - Hopkins - Alf - Callaham Ancestors by Gail Mitchell @ http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:555932&id=I352
Name: John Maarshburn e-mail
___________________________________________________________________
Cy potts data base has Elizabeth Potts b. dec 30, 1699 with same parents. & marring Peter Cleaver Jr. with 7 issue :http://www.potts.net.au/tree/result_detail.asp?Number=5049
This is a large file. I have tried to be accurate. There may be mistakes in here so please be subjective when using the data. There are many internet sites now and not all data agrees. If you are not sure what is here is correct please do futher research
-- MERGED NOTE ------------
Gwynedd Meeting records a double wedding at house of Jonas Potts, his daughs. Rachel and Elizabeth. Among Friends, it was customary in signing marriage certificates, for those, who were near of kin to the contracfting parties, to sign together in the right hand column. Those who signed as witnesses, in the place for relatives, in this instance were Jonas Potts, Mary Potts, David Potts, Thomas Potts, John Potts, Thomas Potts, Rees Potts, Mary, Mary Potts, and Hannah Potts.
"On 8 mo. 15, 1719, a double wedding took place at the house of Jonas Potts, at which two of his daughters were married. In one of the Certificates, Jonas Potts is said to be of Gilberts Manor, and in the other, of Perqueoman Creek. It is said that after the festivities of this double wedding, the newly married young couples left for their respective homes on horseback, each bride mounted behind her husband."
Historical Collections Relating to The Potts Family in Great Britian and America, Published by the Compiler, Canonsburg, PA, 1901, Thomas Maxwell Potts, p.225.
-Richard A. Clark II
Events
| Birth | 30 Oct 1699 | Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania |  | ||
| Marriage | 15 Aug 1719 | Gwynedd Mm, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - William Heald | |||
| Marriage | 4 May 1722 | Germantown Friends Meeting, Montgomery, Pennsylvania - Peter Cleaver Jr. |  | ||
| Death | 30 Sep 1762 | Upper Dublin, Philadelphia Co., Pa.. | | | |
| Religion | Quaker | ||||
| Occupation | Seamstress |
Families
| Spouse | Peter Cleaver Jr. (1697 - 1776) |
| Child | Mary Cleaver (1723 - 1744) |
| Child | John Cleaver (1724 - 1804) |
| Child | Isaac Cleaver (1727 - 1797) |
| Child | Ezekial Cleaver (1729 - 1785) |
| Child | Peter Cleaver (1730 - 1795) |
| Child | Nathan Cleaver (1734 - 1809) |
| Child | Elizabeth Cleaver (1739 - 1808) |
| Spouse | William Heald (1694 - 1747) |
| Father | David Potts (1670 - 1730) |
| Mother | Alice Croasdale (1673 - 1730) |
| Sibling | Thomas Potts (1695 - 1777) |
| Sibling | John Potts (1696 - 1766) |
| Sibling | Daniel Potts (1698 - 1727) |
| Sibling | Jonathan Potts (1701 - 1792) |
| Sibling | Mary Potts (1703 - ) |
| Sibling | Stephen Potts (1705 - 1758) |
| Sibling | Sarah Potts (1706 - 1790) |
| Sibling | Rebecca Potts (1706 - ) |
| Sibling | Ezekiel Potts (1708 - 1781) |
| Sibling | Nathan Potts (1710 - 1754) |
Notes
Marriage
In the marrige record, Peter Cleaver, Jr. is described as "weaver" and Elizabeth Potts as daughter of David and Alice Potts, "seamstress." The marriage certificate was signed by fifty one witnesses, a majority of whom were relatives. They settled in Upper Dublin Township, now included in Montgomery County, wher he owned one hundred acres of land. (The Potts Family in Great Britain and America, 1901 - ThomasMaxwell Potts]Death
Burial: 1762, Horsham Meeting burying groundEndnotes
1. v22t1114.FBC.FBK.FTW.
2. Rick Swayne at ... rswayne@compuserve.com.