Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Samuel Patterson and Catherine Campbell


Husband Samuel Patterson 1 

           Born: 1766 - Knockbracken, County Down, Ireland 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 


         Father: [Father] Patterson (      -      )
         Mother: 


       Marriage: Abt 1793

Wife Catherine Campbell 1 

           Born: 1776 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 


         Father: John Campbell (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Sarah Fruity (      -      ) 1


Children
1 F Margaret Patterson 2 

           Born: 1794 - Franklin Co, PA 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 16 Jan 1877 2
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

2 M John Patterson 2 

           Born: Jan 1796 - Franklin Co, PA 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 25 Jan 1880 3
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Margery Jamison (1812-1899) 3
           Marr: Winter, 1841 3

3 M James Patterson 2 4 5 

           Born: 1798 - near New Alexandria, Westmoreland Co, PA 2 5
     Christened: 
           Died: 17 Nov 1870 - ? Derry Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 6
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Jane Thompson (1808-1839) 2 7
           Marr: 18 Nov 1826 or 1828 2 7

         Spouse: Jane Barnett (1807-1870/1870) 4 5 6 7
           Marr: 22 Oct 1840 6

4 F Sarah Patterson 6 8 9 

           Born: 30 Sep 1799 or 1801 - Westmoreland Co, PA 6 8
     Christened: 
           Died: 20 Dec 1857 6
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Thomas Oliver Brown (1800-1866) 6 9 10 11 12
           Marr: 9 Dec 1841 6

5 M Samuel Patterson 6 7 

           Born: 1800 - Westmoreland Co, PA 6
     Christened: 
           Died: 13 Jun 1880 - near New Alexandria, Westmoreland Co, PA 6
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Mary Thompson (1810-1885) 6 7

6 F Catherine Patterson 6 

           Born: 1804 - Westmoreland Co, PA 6
     Christened: 
           Died: 5 Apr 1859 - Burlington, Des Moines Co, IA 6
         Buried: 

         Spouse: John McConaughy (1802-1888) 6
           Marr: 2 Jul 1834 6

7 F Martha Patterson 13 

           Born: 1805 13
     Christened: 
           Died: 28 Dec 1873 13
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

8 F Mary Patterson 13 

           Born: 1809 - Westmoreland Co, PA 13
     Christened: 
           Died: 17 Sep 1868 13
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Josiah Beattie (      -1842) 13

9 M Andrew Patterson 13 

           Born: 14 Apr 1812 - Westmoreland Co, PA 13
     Christened: 
           Died: 18 Oct 1892 13
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

10 F Hannah Patterson 13 

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: in childhood
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

11 M Robert Patterson 13 

           Born: 23 Apr 1817 14
     Christened: 
           Died: 24 Jul 1889 15
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Margret Dorothy Laughlin (1830-1897) 14
           Marr: 23 Mar 1853 14

12 F Nancy Jane Patterson 13 16 17 

           Born: 1821 - Westmoreland Co, PA 13
     Christened: 
           Died: 17 Jan 1857 17
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Samuel Alexander Steele (1821-1860) 13 16 17
           Marr: 7 Nov 1847 13 17

General Notes: Husband - Samuel Patterson



He came to America in 1793, landing at Philadelphia. His future wife, Catherine Campbell, crossed on the same ship. They were married in Philadelphia shortly after landing and remained there a year, where Samuel worked at his trade, weaving. After a year spent in Philadelphia, he and his wife joined the Campbells in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, where two children were born. Little is known of their life there, but in the fall of 1797 they came to Derry township, West­moreland County, crossing the mountains on horseback, where they made their home temporarily with John Campbell, who had come before them to West­moreland. Here Samuel applied himself with all the energy of his race to the support of his family. He worked at his trade of a weaver, and his industry and economy is made apparent by the fact that he soon purchased a farm. The transfer relates that he paid for the same three hundred English pounds in cash. Samuel now became a husbandman in addition to his trade. In the years fol­lowing, children were added to the family, and all were taught to bear their share of the farm and workshop burden. Wife and children all worked. They raised the flax and clipped the wool that was woven into cloth and linen. They were taught the weaver's art, as well as how to break the flax, how to scutch and hackle it, how to skillfully use the distaff, spinning wheel, the reel and the loom. The old loom was made from timber grown on the farm and fashioned in a rude manner with such tools as they had. There was also a sugar grove on the farm, from which large quan­tities of maple sugar and syrup were obtained. Here the pioneer, with his wife and children, twelve, labored and prospered, earning enough for present needs and laying by a goodly sum for the future. The farm contained one hundred and nine acres, afterwards increased to two hundred acres, situated one and one-half miles from New Alexandria, and was purchased from John Elliott, the deed bearing date of March 19, 1798, consideration three hundred pounds. Samuel Craig was the original patentee and this was the fourth transfer. The original log buildings Samuel enlarged and improved. In 1860 new buildings were erected by his son John. It was on this farm that Samuel and Catherine lived and died, and where ten of their children were born.
The religious faith of Samuel was that of the Reformed Presbyterian, or Covenan­ter. He was the first of this faith or belief in the Denistown (later New Alex­andria) neighborhood. He was an earnest Christian and an example to all around him. At least twice a year, when there was no church building around the neighborhood, he made a church of his home, entertaining all who came, and when the house was too small, erected a tent in a grove near by, where preaching and prayer meetings were held. This was the pioneer congregation of the Reformed Presbyterian church in New Alexandria. Samuel and his family were largely instrumental in the building or repairing of the old Associate church of New Alexandria, afterward called the Union Meeting House. He was the means of building up the New Alexandria congregation. This church was the first to debar its members from church membership and privileges for holding in slavery, human beings. So intensely loyal to church service and so anxious was Samuel Patterson for the spiritual welfare of his family, that often he and they attended services at Greensburg, eleven miles distant, going on foot both ways when horses could not be found for all. This family and their neighbors had one of the best schools of that day. It was held in a log house on the Patterson farm.

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Sources

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 378.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 379.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 382.

4 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 72.

5 Jane Maria Craig, Samuel Craig, Senior, Pioneer to Western Pennsylvania, and His Descendants (Greensburg, PA: Privately printed, 1915), Pg 100.

6 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 380.

7 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 611.

8 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 738.

9 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 396.

10 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 169.

11 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 139.

12 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 737.

13 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 381.

14 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 383.

15 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 384.

16 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 474.

17 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 651.

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