Individual Details
John Potts
(8 Oct 1696 - 28 Sep 1766)
ID: I4218
Name: John POTTS 1 2 3 4
Sex: M
Birth: 8 SEP 1696 3 in Bristol Twp, Philadelphia, PA 1 3
Death: 1766 in Philadelphia, PA 1
RUF1: died 1777 3
Father: David POTTS b: 1670 in Llanidlose, Montgomery, Wales
Mother: Alice CROASDALE b: 3 AUG 1673 in New Key, Yorkshire, England
Marriage 1 Elizabeth MCVAUGH b: 1679 in PA
Children
John POTTS
Elizabeth POTTS b: 12 AUG 1723
Thomas POTTS b: 1729
Joseph POTTS b: 12 MAR 1742
Sources:
Name: ancestry.com
Name: http://www.primenet.com/~dlytton/wdc/z0000611.html?clkd=iwm
Name: http://www.flash.net/~jimmoore/dat9.htm
Name: www.angelfire.com/wv/MissChievious/Potts.html?clkd=iwm
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Potts Family Tree
GENERATION 1
Thomas Potts b. abt. 1582 Llangirrig. Montgomery, Wales - d. 1658 Wales
Children: Evan, +John, Anne, Elizabeth
GENERATION 2
John Potts b. abt. 1608 Montgomery, Wales, d. Feb. 12, 1672 Wales (according to the LDS records he married his own sister, Anne Potts)
Children: +Thomas, George, John, Alice, Elizabeth, Anne, Sarah, Margaret
GENERATION 3
Thomas Potts b. 1632 Mont. Wales, d. 1672/73 Wales
married abt. 1657
Elizabeth
Children: Thomas, Elizabeth, Margaret, John, Jane, David, Jonas
GENERATION 4
David Potts b. 1670 Wales, d. Nov. 16, 1730
married Jan. 23, 1694
Alice Croasdale b. Aug. 1673 New Key Yorkshire England. D. bef. 1729 Germantown PA.
Children: Thomas, +John, Daniel, Elizabeth, Jonathan, Mary, Rebecca, Stephen, Sarah, Ezekiel, Nathan,
GENERATION 5
John Potts b.Oct. 8, 1696 Bristol, Phil. PA. d. 1766 PA.
married 1726
Elizabeth McVaugh b. 1679 PA, d. Jan. 5, 1791
Children: +John, Thomas, Elizabeth, Joseph
GENERATION 6
John Potts b. abt. 1721 PA.
married
Hannah b. abt. 1724
Children: +Mary
GENERATION 7
Mary Potts b. abt. 1766 Butler Co. PA.
married
Johnathan Daniel Sams b. Nov. 19, 1762
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ID: I4504
Name: John Potts
Sex: M
Birth: 8 Oct. 1696 in Bristol, Phila, Pa. 1
Death: SEP 1766 in Phila, Pa 2 1
Note: 3
Note: 45. John POTTS was born on Aug 8 1696 in Philadelphia,Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania. He died in Sep 1766 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania. He learned the trade of a millwright. The minutes of Abington Monthly Meeting show that John and Elizabeth passed the second time on 4 mo. 27,1726, and the minutes of 5 mo. 25, 1726 state that the mariage was orderly accomplished.
John Potts, was a witness to the will of David Jones, of Bristol Township, made in 1719. David Potts was one of the appraisers. In 1727, John Potts was a witness to will of Robert Kirkwood, of Plymouth Township. John settled in Upper Dublin Township, now included within the limits of Montgomery County, where he purchased a tract of land from Isaac and John Phipps about 1748. It lies about two miles east of present village of Fort Washington (1901). Transcript of his will can befound on pages 452-453
The Potts Family in Great Britian and America , 1901 - Thomas Maxwell Potts
He was married to Elizabeth MCVAUGH. Elizabeth MCVAUGH was born in 1679. She died on Jan 5 1791.
Father: David Potts b: ABT 1670 in Wales
Mother: Alice Croasdale b: 3 AUG 1673 in Yorkshire, Eng.
Marriage 1 Elizabeth McVaugh b: 1679
Children
Elizabeth Potts b: 12 AUG 1723 in Upper Dublin Twp., Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania.
John Potts b: 1727 in Upper Dubkin, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania.
Thomas Potts b: 1729
Events
| Birth | 8 Oct 1696 | Bristol Twp, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |  | ||
| Marriage | 25 May 1726 | Abington, Pa - Elizabeth McVaugh | |||
| Event | 1748 | Upper Dublin township |  | ||
| Death | 28 Sep 1766 | Upper Dublin, Montgomery, Pennsylvania | | |
Families
| Spouse | Elizabeth McVaugh (1699 - 1791) |
| Child | Moses Potts (1720 - 1793) |
| Child | John Potts (1727 - 1808) |
| Child | Thomas Potts (1729 - 1776) |
| Child | Elizabeth Potts (1733 - 1758) |
| Father | David Potts (1670 - 1730) |
| Mother | Alice Croasdale (1673 - 1730) |
| Sibling | Thomas Potts (1695 - 1777) |
| Sibling | Daniel Potts (1698 - 1727) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Potts (1699 - 1762) |
| 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
Event
John settled in Upper Dublin Township, now included within the limits of Montgomery County, where he purchased a tract of land from Isaac and John Phipps about 1748. It lies about two miles east of present village of Fort WashingtonDeath
His will, made September 28, 1766, in manyrespects is quaint and reads in part as follows :
"Be it remembered that I, John Potts of the Town-
ship of Upper Dublin, in the County of Philad'a and
provmce of Pensilvania, Mill Wright, being now far
advanced in Years, but yet of Sound and Disposing
Mind and Memory, for which mercy and favour
May I ever prais the great author of my being, and
at times feeling the Simtoms of Mortality through
the Decay of nature, but relying on the merits of
my Redeemer, hope for a happy change from this
life to that which is to come of Eternal Peace, and
rest in Daily Kxpectation of such a Change. .And
in as much as God in his Mercy has blessed me with
some worldly estate, do think Proper to make this
my last will and testament in the manner following,
that is to say, first of all I will that all my Just
Debts and funeral Expenses be well and truly paid
and Discharged.
"Item, I will Devise and Bequeath unto my Dear
and Loving wife Elizabeth all my Real and Personal
Estate whatsoever during her natural life, giving her
full Privilege to will or dispose of as much house-
hold goods as she shall see proper in her life time
to either her Children or grand Children and after
her decease. I will Devise and Bequeath unto my
son John the Plantation & Tract of land 1 now live
on containing one hundred and lifty acres of land,
be it more or less with all the Buildings and appur-
tenances thereon or any wise thereunto belonging
unto him his heirs and .Assigns forever and the re-
mainder of my Personal estate except what is here-
after Excepted he paying the several legacies here-
after mentioned that is to say, — I will and Bequeath
unto my son Thomas my Chamber Clock and fifty
Pound Lawful money of Pensilvania to be delivered
and paid unto him by my Executors hereafter named
within one year after my wife's Decease."
Endnotes
1. v22t1114.FBC.FBK.FTW.
2. v22t1114.FBC.FBK.FTW.