February 5, 1929

Mrs. W.H. Weigand
543 Chestnut Street
Nelsonville, Ohio

Dear Madam:

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, W.4767, based upon the military service of John Potts.

This soldier enlisted in Berkeley County, Virginia, March 7, 1777, and served as private in Captain William Smith's Company in Colonel Daniel Morgan's Virginia Regiment. He was in the battles of Somerset Court House, Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth and Brunswick, and was discharged March 7, 1780.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 28, 1818, while a resident of Jefferson County, Ohio, aged sixty-seven years.

He died October 20, 1820, in Columbiana County, Ohio.

This soldier married March 14, 1782, in Berkeley County, Virginia, Susannah Hibbens or Hibbons. They were both of Berkeley County, Virginia. She was born March 16, 1763 or 1764.

The widow, Susannah, was allowed pension on her application executed February 26, 1839, while residing with her son, Thomas, in Washington Township, Carroll County, Ohio.

In 1843 she was living in Fox Township, Carroll County, Ohio, with a son whose name is not given. She was living in 1851.

The eldest child of John and Susannah Potts, a daughter, was born February, 1783, and was dead in 1839. Their second child, Jonathan, was born in the fall of 1785. Their youngest children, Thomas and David, were born March 20, 1807.

Nathan Potts and James Potts were living in 1839 and Silas Potts was justice of the peace in Carroll County, Ohio, in 1848, their relation to the soldier not shown.

Very truly yours,

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator