Matthew Patton and Elizabeth [Unk]

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Husband Matthew Patton ¹

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           Born:  - northern Ireland
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           Died: 7 Jan 1778 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 1
         Buried: 

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         Father: [Father] Patton (      -      )
         Mother: 

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       Marriage: 

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• Note: This may be the same person as : Matthew Patton.

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Wife Elizabeth [Unk] ¹

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: Aft Jan 1778
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• Note: This may be the same person as : Elizabeth [Unk].

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Matthew Patton

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He and his brother, John, were natives of Northern Ireland, in which part of the British Isles the Pattons had probably been forced to seek refuge because of the Confiscation Act of the British Crown, which dispossessed the Covenanters of Scotland and of other parts of Great Britain; and in effect drove them from the land. At all events, records show that Matthew and John Patton (which is not an Irish patronymic) were prominent Covenanters, and that at an early date in the eighteenth century both left Ireland for America, eventually settling in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, where they jointly purchased a tract of land in what is now Peters township, about the year 1735. They are assessed on the tax lists of that township and county in 1751.

He and his wife were the parents of eight children. Many of this branch of the Patton family served in the Revolutionary War, and afterwards became men of influence in various parts of the country, some settling in the Carolinas.

1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 105.