Allegheny County PA Archives Military Records.....Potts, George June 17, 1837
Revwar - Pension Captain Livergood

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Revolutionary War Pension
George Potts Revolutionary War Pension

Source: HeritageQuest Online
Pension # R8382

Declaration - In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress
of the 7th of June 1832

State of Pennsylvania}
County of Allegheny  }

On the 17th of June 1837 personally appeared in open court before the
honorable F.B. Dallas Esq'r President and his associate judges of the
Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Allegheny and state of
Pennsylvania aforesaid George Potts a resident of Pittsburgh in the
county and state aforesaid aged eighty three years who being first
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 in the year (blank)
with (blank) and served in the (blank) regiment of the Pennsylvania
line under the following named officers

This declarant deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and the
consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the place
or time of his enlistment or the precise time or period of service
but according to the best of his knowledge and recollection is as
follows

That the declarant enlisted in the year 1780 as a private soldier in
a riffle company commanded by Captain Jacob Livergood in the town of
Reading Berks County Pennsylvania about four months after the said
company was marched to Philadelphia and the declarant remained with
the said company as a private soldier during the term they were
stationed at a garrison some distance above Philadelphia on the 
Delaware river during winter a period of about six months after which
period the said company was marched to the garrison at Fort Pitt and
was stationed at the point or junction of the river Allegheny and
Monogahala? at which place the said company remained stationed upwards
of six months in the same company then commanded by the said Captain
Livergood during which time at Fort Pitt the said company was attached
to the regiment commanded by Col. John Gibson after which period the
said declarant and company was marched back under the command of said
Captain to the garrison above Philadelphia when the said company was
first stationed after his enlistment and after remaining stationed
at the said garrison for a period of six months or upwards the said
company was marched to the State house in Philadelphia and then this
declarant received an Honorable written discharge from the said Captain
Livergood which discharge was afterwards burnt about four or five years
after about four or five miles above Pittsburg at the time the Indians
burnt the declarants house and the best of the declarants recollection
he was discharged some time in the year 1782 and remained and was an
enlisted soldier in the Contential service in the Pennsylvania line
for a period of two years or thereabouts

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or an
annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on any
the pension roll of any agency in any state

                                George (his x mark) Potts

Sworn to and subscribed this}
day and year aforesaid      }
James Logan

I James Logan Prothanitary? of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny
County and state aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains
the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the
application of George Potts for a pension 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this
7th day of June AD 1837
James Logan

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