CHAPTER V

The Potts Family in Pennsylvania

From the year 1683 to 1700 and later several persons appear about Germantown in Philadelphia Count bearing the name of Potts, who where closely associated and evidently nearly related. The following is believed to include an accurate list of these persons, together with the earliest dates at which each has been first noticed. Some of these are believed to have come to America at a much earlier date.

1683. Elizabeth Pott or Potts and her daughter Jane came to Pennsylvania in 1683. Elizabeth Potts married Edmund Bennett in 1685, and her daughter Jane married John Austin in 1686.

1686. Thomas Potts signs the marriage certificate of John Austin and Jane Potts.

1686. Jonas Potts signs the marriage certificate of John Austin and Jane Potts.

1690. Elizabeth Potts (not the first mentioned Elizabeth) died.

1692. David Potts signs the administrator's bond of Elizabeth (Potts) Bennett.

1698. Thomas Potts, (Jr.), is a witness to the will of John Powell, made at sea, during the passage to America.

1698. Several orphan children of John Potts, of Wales deceased, were sent over to Pennsylvania, to the care of Thomas Potts, their uncle. John Potts,one of these children, was a ship carpenter and married Rebecca----. Mary Potts, another of the orphans, married Matthias Tyson.

1700. Joan or Jone Potts signes the marriage certificate of Lewis Lewis and Mary Powell.

1705. Eleanor Potts married Thomas Roberts.

1709. Margaret Potts married Evan Morgan.

1712. Margaret Potts married Richard Cox in 1712.

1716. Reese, Riece or Rees Potts sells land at Germantown to Margaret Tyson.

All of these will be quite fully treated of in separate succeeding Chapters, while a special Chapter will be devoted to the evidences of relationship, and still another to the "Old Potts Putzzle."

From time to time other persons of the name appear who were not connected with these earlier settlers, or whose affiliation has not been proven.