William Pottenger (abt. 1794 - 1833)

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Died 5 Feb 1833 at about age 39 in Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland

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entered USN as midshipman 1 Sep 1811 commissioned a Lieutenant in USN 5 Mar 1817. note William's mother may have been Mary (Buchannan) Pottenger. A death record for Mary Pottenger appears in New York Evening Post, Monday Apr 3, 1854: Hagerstown MD 7th Ult, Mary Pottenger in 88y sister of late Judge John and Thomas Buchanan. Maryland Marriages show a Mary Buchanan m Robert Pottenger in Prince George's County 15 Feb 1785.

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• death: Obituary, Tuesday, February 12, 1833 Paper: Daily National Intelligencer (Washington (DC), District of Columbia) Volume: XXI Issue: 6244 Page: 3.
• name,birth: 1830 U.S. census, Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland; digital images, Ancestry.com; citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M19.
• USN service: Edward W. Callahan, List of Officers of the Navy of the United States and the Marine Corps from 1775 to 1900. (New York, New York: L. R. Hamersly, 1901).
• USN service: Publication: American State Papers 038, Miscellaneous Vol. 2; Report: Publication No. 410; December 2, 1816. Repository: Genealogybank.com. Name: William Pottenger, pay $19/mo rations 1/day born MD employed in Lake Erie as midshipman in 1816.