Jane Potts

Notes:

"Jane Austin, being 'weak in body but sound mind and memory,' made her will December 26, 1733, and died September 14, 1734. The will is recorded in Will-Book E, page 309, at Philadelphia. She mentions son Samuel Austin; daughters Ann Robins, Elizabeth Chanel and Mary; grandchildren John Robbins, Mary Robins, John Austin, John Wood. The executors were George Fitzwater, Anthony Morris, and Jacob Shoemaker. Witnesses, Ezekiel Potts and John White."
From--- Historical Collections Relating to The Potts Family in Great Britian and America, Published by the Compiler, Canonsburg, PA, 1901, Thomas Maxwell Potts, p.200.
-Richard A. Clark II

Jane married on 11 Nov 1686 in Middletown, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Elizabeth Potts and Jane Potts, her daughter, came to Pennsylvania in 1683, as shown by a deed recorded in the Recorder's Office of Philadelphia, in Deed-Book E3, Volumn 6, page 42. They were the first of the name known to have settled in that state. Elizabeth Potts seems to been a widow when she came to Pennsylvania, and it is believed that others of the family, besides her daughter Jane, came with her. They were Friends and in 1685 were under the care of the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. In 1684 they obtained a grant of one hundred acres of land, which was supposed to be laid out in Philadelphia County, but a subsiquent resurvey showed it to be in Chester County."

Historical Collections Relating to The Potts Family in Great Britian and America, Published by the Compiler, Canonsburg, PA, 1901, Thomas Maxwell Potts, p.195.
-Richard A. Clark II

Thomas married Elizabeth in ABT. 1657 in Wales, United Kingdom. Elizabeth was born in 1636 in Llangirrig, Montgomeryshire, Wales, United Kingdom; died on 1 Aug 1707 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Elizabeth Potts and Jane Potts, her daughter, came to Pennsylvania in 1683, as shown by a deed recorded in the Recorder's Office of Philadelphia, in Deed-Book E3, Volumn 6, page 42. They were the first of the name known to have settled in that state. Elizabeth Potts seems to been a widow when she came to Pennsylvania, and it is believed that others of the family, besides her daughter Jane, came with her. They were Friends and in 1685 were under the care of the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. In 1684 they obtained a grant of one hundred acres of land, which was supposed to be laid out in Philadelphia County, but a subsiquent resurvey showed it to be in Chester County."
Historical Collections Relating to The Potts Family in Great Britian and America, Published by the Compiler, Canonsburg, PA, 1901, Thomas Maxwell Potts, p.195.
-Richard A. Clark II

Notes:

John and Anne Potts place of residence seems to have been Nantgnernog in the Parish of Llangirrig, Montgomeryshire, Wales.

John married Anne Pott in ABT. 1630 in Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire, Wales, United Kingdom. Anne (daughter of Thomas Pott) was born in ABT. 1612 in Llangirrig, Montgomeryshire, Wales, United Kingdom; died in UNKNOWN in Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire, Wales, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Anne was the daughter of Thomas Pott.

Notes:

"Thomas POTT was born about 1590 in Llangirrig, Montgomeryshire, Wales. Thomas Pott the eldest of the family of Llangirrig so far as we now know, was evidently an aged man at the making of his will in 1654, as his children were then all married and had children of their own, and as he speaks of some of his grand-children as unmarried it is fair to suppose that some of them were grown up and of marriageable age at that time. He calls himself yeoman which, from the English usage of the word, would indicate that he was a landowner. He was a resident of the Parish of Llangirrig, in Montgomeryshire, above described. His will was made in 1654, and proven in 1661, but as the inventory of his personal effects was filed in 1658 he probably died in that year. ( His will is on file in the Consistory Court at Bangor. It is much eaten away by the decay of the paper from age and damp.)
Some if not all the family became members of the Society of Friends. There probably was a Friends Meeting established in this vicinity, but no records are known to be in existence at this day. It is well-known that many Friends came to Pennsylvania from that section of Waltes in the latter part of the seventeenth century, and they may have carried such records as they had with them, as was sometimes done where the whole membership removed in a body. These devoted people suffered persecution in common with those of other sections."
-Historical Collections RELATING TO The Potts Family in Great Britain and America, WITH A HISTORIC-GENEALOGY OF THE DESCENDANTS OF David Potts, AN EARLY ANGLO-WELSH SETTLER OF PENNSYLVANIA INCLUDING CONTRIBUTIONS BY THE LATE WILLIAM JOHN POTTS
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COMPILED BY Thomas Maxwell Potts, Author of The Carter Family, Our Family Ancestors, etc., Cannonsburg, Pa. Published by The Compiler 1901