William Patterson and Margaret Whigham

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Husband William Patterson ¹

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            AKA: Alexander Patterson 2
           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died:  - McKeesport, Allegheny Co, PA
         Buried: 

       Marriage: 

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Wife Margaret Whigham ³

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           Born:  - New York
     Christened: 
           Died:  - McKeesport, Allegheny Co, PA
         Buried:  - Versailles Cemetery, McKeesport, Allegheny Co, PA

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Children

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1 M John Alexander Patterson ^{1 2}

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           Born:  - Mifflin Twp, Allegheny Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died:  - Mifflin Twp, Allegheny Co, PA
         Buried:  - Versailles Cemetery, McKeesport, Allegheny Co, PA

         Spouse: Sarah Crawford (      -      ) 3

         Spouse: Rachel Borland Gray (1820-1874) 2 4
           Marr: 1845 3

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General Notes: Husband - William Patterson

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He was a descendent of Alexander Patterson, a soldier of the Sixty-third Regiment of Foot in the British army, of Scotch ancestry. Alexander Patterson early emigrated to America, where one of his descendants, William Patterson, became an early settler of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, later locating in Mifflin township, Allegheny County, where Dravosburg now stands. There William Patterson took up land, built a log cabin, and resided several years. He later moved to McKeesport.

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General Notes: Wife - Margaret Whigham

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She was born on shipboard in New York harbor.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 658.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 473.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 659.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 685, 888.