Elizabeth C. (Potts) Cleaver (1699 - 1762)

Born 30 Dec 1699 in Pottsgrove, Montgomery, Pennsylvania Colony

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Died 31 Jul 1762 at age 62 in Upper Dublin Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania Colony

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Biography

Elizabeth was a Friend (Quaker)

Elizabeth Potts was born 30 October, 1699, the third child and first daughter of David Potts and [Croasdale-20|Alice Croasdale]]^[1]. "

On 4 October, 1722 she married Peter Cleaver, Jr. in the Germantown Friends meeting as recorded in their wedding certificate as transcribed below ^[2] Elizabeth bore seven children between 1723 and 1739.

Her death is reported in unsourced family trees to have occurred on 31 July, Upper Dublin Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

Transcription of Cleaver-Potts Wedding Certificate (Best inference of unreadable words included in square brackets).

“Whereas Peter Cleaver junr of the Township of Bristol in the [County] of Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania, weaver, son of Peter Cle[aver] of the said Township of Bristol Weaver, and Elizabeth Potts of the said Township of Bristol in the said County of Phila, Seamstress Daughter of David & Allice Potts of the same place have Declared their intentions of marriage with each other before several Monthly meetings of the People called Quakers at Abington in the said County of Phila. Which [persons?] therein after Deliberate consideration thereof & having first obtained con[sent] of their parents and Relations & nothing appearing to obstruct or hinder were it Approved by the said Meeting Now these are to Certify all whom it may concern that for the full Accomplishing their said intent of marriage this Fourth Day of the Eighth Month in the year of our Lord and Saviour one Thousand Seven hundred and Twenty two the said [Peter] Clea[ver] Junr and Elizabeth Potts Appeared in a Publick and Solemn Assembly of ye said people for that end and Purpose met in the Publick Meeting house In Germantown in the said County of Phila.. And the said Peter Cleaver standing up in the said Assembly and Taking the said Elizabeth Po[tts] by the hand did in a solemn manner openly Declare that he took her to be his wife Promiscing through God’s Assistance to be unto her a loving and Faithful husband until Death should Separate them and then [--] In the said Assembly the said Elizabeth Potts Did in Like manner Solemnly declare that she took the said Peter Cleaver to be her Husba[nd] Promiscing with God’s Assistance to be unto him a Loving and Faithful wife until Death should them separate and Moreover the said Peter Cleaver & Elizabeth Potts she as is customary in marriage assuming the [surname] of her Husband as a further confirmation of their said marriage did then and there to these presents set their hands and we whose Names are Here under Written being Among others present at the Solemnication of their said marriage & subscription in manner aforesaid to Witness Thereunto have also to these presents Set our hands the Dan and Year Above Written --- Peter Cleaver Elizabeth Cleaver

Peter Cleaver Sr David Potts Thos. Potts Jonas Potts John Potts John Cleaver Peter Shoemaker Jonathon [Potts?] Dan’l Potts Ruth Croasdel Mattias Tyson Mary Tyson Thomas Chalky Isaac Beaves Samuel Blaker John Atkinson Jacob Kolb Mary Cleaver Stephen Jenkins Richard Waln John Simcock Nicholas Austin Joseph Gray Mary Potts Hannah Smith William Smith Thos. Smith Sarah Shoemaker Sarah Fincher Mary Marls[?] Grace White Sarah Blaker Deborah Hood Mary Hood Mary Simcock Derrick Cleaver Teelman Colb Sarah Colb Margret Pearson John Shiers Thos. Roberts Mary Roberts Enock Pearson Benjamin Shoemaker Christian [???] Eve Cl[eaver?] Mary [???] [At least three names Illegible]

Birth

Birth:

User ID: 67376C1B-D0EE-45E1-B29D-8533DFC6EC1F

Record ID Number: MH:IF685

Date: 1699

Death

Death:

User ID: 7ED75CC6-850C-4247-AD7D-2480AEB148FA

Record ID Number: MH:IF686

Date: 1762

Record ID Number

Record ID Number: MH:I360

User ID

User ID: 660DF292-3A60-4775-B442-C80ECB12E88D

UPD

UPD 16 DEC 2011 09:37:55 GMT-7

Sources

• WikiTree profile Potts-632 created through the import of SmthCleaver Tree 2011.ged on Dec 22, 2011 by Richard M Smith. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Richard M and others.

1. ↑ U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Abington Monthly Meeting
2. ↑ U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Abington Monthly Meeting, Peter Cleaver – Elizabeth Potts Wedding Certificate