Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Jonathan POTTS
POTTS, Jonathan, surgeon, was born in Popodickon, Berks county, Pa., April 11, 1745; son of John and Ruth (Savage) Potts, and grandson of Thomas, the immigrant, and Martha (Keurlis) Potts, and of Samuel and Ann (Rutter) Savage. His father founded Pottstown, Pa. Jonathan attended school at Ephrata and Philadelphia; was a medical student in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1766-68, and was graduated at the College of Philadelphia, B.M., in 1768, his class being the first to be graduated from the medical school. He was married, May 5, 1767, to Grace Richardson. He practised medicine in Reading, Pa.; was a delegate to the provincial meeting of deputies at Philadelphia in July, 1774, and a member of the Provincial congress at Philadelphia in January, 1775. He was active in raising men and in organizing the forces of Berks county in 1776, and was appointed physician and surgeon in the Continental army, operating in Northern New York, June 6, 1776. He was placed in charge of the hospital at Fort George, and when Gates joined Washington in Philadelphia, Surgeon Potts made his headquarters in Market Street, where General Putnam ordered all officers in charge of the sick to report. He was present at the battle of Princeton, and was appointed medical director-general of the Northern department, April 11, 1777. He was on leave of absence from November, 1777, until Jan. 22, 1778, when he was transferred from the army at Albany, N.Y., to the hospitals of the middle department, and served at Valley Forge, until prostrated by illness. He was elected surgeon of the Philadelphia city troop, May 17, 1779, and in that year assisted in defending from a mob the home of James Wilson, the signer. He resigned from the Continental army, Oct. 6, 1780, and died in Reading, Pa., in October, 178l.
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