Talbot County MD Archives Military Records.....Potts, Thomas 1832 Revwar - Pension ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/md/mdfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Guy Potts http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00017.html#0004214 June 4, 2007, 2:15 pm Pension State of North Carolina } Anson County } On the 6th day of October 1832 personally appeared before the subscribers Justice of the peace for said County Thomas Potts a resident of Sneedsborough in said County & state seventy one years who being just duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 7 1832 That he enlisted in the Army of the United States about two years before Cornwallis was taken - first under Cap't Mitchel & Major Whitley & stationed at Carliles Court House which was the Court House of his native county That he enlisted during the war was marched to Shoptank (Choptank?) Bridge from thence passed over the Bay to Anapolis & was then placed under Capt Price in the third (as he believes) Regiment Col'o Adams that he afterwards marched to Virginia under Gen'l Smalwood and joined the main army at or near Williamsburgh - was at the seige of York & was under the Marquis Dela Fayette at the storming of the British Fort in front of the British lines that after the seige of York his regiment marched to the South under Gen'l Wayne passed through North Carolina into South Carolina & on the Catawba river he was taken such & not able to march was left with Major Bartley a South Carolina officer with whom he remained to the end of the war that he remembers the following officers of the regiment: Capt Price his own captain, Cap't Williams, Cap't Skinner & Cap't Winchester, Sargeant Collis of Prices Company, Sargeant Shomake of Cap't Williams company & the following privates: Phillip Graham, Phil Saboy, Prices Com'y, Sargeant Fields in Williams Com'y That he was born and raised in Carlisle County, State of Maryland That he enlisted but once & that during the war does not remember the date thinks he served upward of two years He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any state Thomas (his x mark) Potts Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Wm Johnson JP I do certify that the said Thomas Potts from age and great bodily affliction is unable to attend the Court Wm Johnson JP I William Dismukes Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions do hereby certify that William Johnson whose signature appears to the above affidavit is now and was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the Peace for the County of Anson duly commissioned and qualified to administer oaths and that the signature attached is his genuine signature In testimony whereof I have hereinto set my hand and seal of office this 13th day of October 1832 Wm Dismukes Clk [Letter found at end of pension] October 17, 1928 S.M. Carothers Sumter, South Carolina Sir: I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War Pension claimS.7326 it appears that Thomas Potts was born (date not stated) and raised in Talbot County, Maryland. He enlisted June 1, 1778 and served as private in Captain Mitchell's Company under Major Whitley and marched to Annapolis where he was put in Captain Price's Company, Colonel Adams' Maryland Regiment, he was at the Siege of York and served to the close of the war. He was allowed pension on his application executed October 6, 1832 at which time he was living in Sneedsborough, Anson County, North Carolina, aged seventy-one years. There are no family data. Respectfully, E.W. Morgan Acting Commissioner Source: HeritageQuest Online This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/mdfiles/ File size: 4.2 Kb