Capt. James Patterson and Mary Stuart

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Husband Capt. James Patterson ^{1 2 3 4 5}

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           Born: 1715 - Washington, Lancaster Co, PA 5
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           Died: 1772 - Mexico, Juniata Co, PA 5
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         Father: James Patterson (      -1735) 2 6
         Mother: Susan Howard (      -1755) 7

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Wife Mary Stuart ⁷

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            AKA: Mary Stewart 4 5 8 9
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           Died: 1785 - Middletown, PA 8
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         Father: George Stuart (      -      ) 7
         Mother: Jean [Unk] (      -      ) 7

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Children

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1 F Mary Patterson ^{4 9 10 11}

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           Died: 1791 or 1792 - Penn's Valley, Centre Co, PA 10
         Buried:  - near Linden Hall, Harris Twp, Centre Co, PA

         Spouse: Thomas Chambers (      -      ) 5 10

         Spouse: Maj.-Gen. James Potter (1729-1789) 9 12 13 14 15 16

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2 M Capt. William Patterson ^{1 8 10 17 18}

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         Spouse: Isabella Galbraith (      -Bef 1768) 17
           Marr: 1764 17

         Spouse: Esther Findley (      -      ) 19

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3 F Susanna Patterson ⁸

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         Spouse: James Moore (      -      ) 8

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4 M James Patterson ^{8 20}

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         Spouse: Jane Harris (      -      ) 8 20

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5 M George Patterson ^{7 8}

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         Spouse: Jean Burd (      -      ) 7

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General Notes: Husband - Capt. James Patterson

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Fermanagh Twp, Juniata Co, PA

His father gave him three hundred acres of land along the Conecocheague in Cumberland Valley, Pennsylvania, and he removed there immediately after his father's death.

He was prominent in Juniata in the early days of the settlement on the Indian purchase of 1754. His early life was passed in the woods and among the traders. He moved on a three hundred-acre tract in Cumberland Valley (now Franklin County), left him by his father at his death, and lived there until the Juniata region was opened to settlement.

He settled at Mexico, Pennsylvania, at a very early date, and had a warrant for 407 acres of land dated February 4, 1755, being the day after the land office opened for the sale of lands west of the Kittatinny Mountains. This land he had surveyed on the 29th of the same month, and it was the first land patented within the limits of the present Juniata County.

As he followed the Indian trade with his father in his youth, and later also on his own account, he had doubtless often been back and forth over the Juniata streams and hills, and his selection of land was not a chance location, but carefully picked out as a mill-site. It cannot be admitted that he settled there, as claimed by some writers, in 1751; but he may have been here then, and long and often before, but not as a settler, for such settlements were forbidden by law prior to the purchase from the Indians, in 1754.
In 1767, he built the first gristmill and a saw-mill east of the river.

He was a captain under Col. John Armstrong in the French and Indian war.

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General Notes: Wife - Mary Stuart

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After the death of her husband she lived at Mexico, Pennsylvania, until 1783. She moved to her daughter's, Mrs. Moore, at Middletown, and died there.

1 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 16.

2 —, History of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 851.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 110, 182.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 858.

5 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 315.

6 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 15, 953.

7 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 95.

8 —, History of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 852.

9 —, Book of Biographies of Leading Citizens of Berks County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1898), Pg 12.

10 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 110.

11 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 314.

12 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 901.

13 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 402.

14 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 19.

15 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 857.

16 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 312.

17 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 270.

18 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 97.

19 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 78.

20 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 182.