Person:James Patrick (9)

James and his siblings may have played with George Washington when they were children, because George Washington's Uncle Lawrence was a neighbor of the Patrick family. James Patrick became a scout for George Washington and was a soldier under George Washington at Braddock's defeat, James scouted eastern Kentucky while it was still part of Virginia. James Patrick received bounty lands in Tennessee and Kentucky for his services in the Revolutionary War. He applied for a RW pension from Floyd County, Kentucky, when he was 103 years old, he was 106 years old when he died, James signed for the RW pension so he was at least somewhat illiterate, James Patrick is known as the greatest soldier of the Patrick Family. The Patrick origin goes back a long way, the Patrick's descended from the ! Norseman/ Vikings who settled in Normandy, Northern France and intermarried with the French woman. The Patrick's came to England with William the Conqueror in 1066 from Normandy, at the battle of Hastings. The Patrick's lived in Floyd County, Kentucky, which became a part of Magoffin County, when it was formed. James Patrick's son Hugh Patrick married Barbara Bailey, the daughter of Joseph Bailey & Martha "Patsy" Brashears in Floyd County, 1809/12, depends on which book that you are looking at, Hugh Patrick died in Madison County, Arkansas in 1845. The Brashears were French Huguenots who came to Virginia in he 1630's from England, they had immigrated from France originally (where their name was Brasseur) to England and then to the Colonies, the Brashears were also involved in the American Revolution, James Patrick served four enlistments in the Revolution. See RootsWeb_ KYPERRY-L Re_ RITCHIE, GRIGSBY in Media section