Elizabeth (Lukens) Potts (abt. 1729 - 1796)

Born about 1729 in Horsham, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Died 1796 at about age 67 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

Elizabeth Lukens was born in 1728 in Pennsylvania. Her parents were William Lukens and Elizabeth Tyson. She married Thomas McVeagh Potts on the 16th of January, 1753. Together they had five children. Elizabeth passed away in 1798.^[1]

"After Thomas died in 1776, Elizabeth m. Dr. John Rookhill (1726-1798), a widower with 4 children."^[2]

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gg-grandmother of president Theodore Roosevelt.^[3]

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1. ↑ "Elizabeth Lukens." Family Search. Accessed Jan. 3rd, 2021. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LDY6-2Y5.
2. ↑ Hurd, Jill J. The Ancestors & Descendants of Jan Lucken. Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 1989. Page 26.
3. ↑ Entered by Bob Fields.

See also:

• "Elizabeth Lukens." Family Search. Accessed Jan. 3rd, 2021. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LDY6-2Y5.

• Hurd, Jill J. The Ancestors & Descendants of Jan Lucken. Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 1989. Page 26.

• http://trees.ancestrylibrary.com/tree/51679378/person/13682704770 cites Millennium File.

• SAR #53231 PA Sons of American Revolution 1933 lists marriage abt 1750.

• "Elizabeth Rockhill (Lukens)." Geni. Accessed July 19th, 2019. https://www.geni.com/people/Elizabeth-Rockhill/6000000000210052413.

• Ancestry trees lists additional children: William Lukens Potts 17 Jul 1771 in Chelsea Forge, Sussex Co., NJ - 17 Jan 1854 in Philadelphia, Pa; Henry Hugh Potts 1773-.

• Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley, Cutler Reynolds, Vol. III, Page 441, Published 1914