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- H. Nathaniel Patten1702 - 1779
- W. Ruth Rugg1706 - 1786
m. Aft 1774
Facts and Events
References
- ↑ Baldwin, Thomas W. Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the Year of 1850. (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1914-15)
Vol. 1, p. 546.
PATTIN, Nath[anie]ll, s. of Nath[anie]ll and Deborah, [born] Dec. 10, 1702.
- ↑ "Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions", in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
Vol. 68, p. 338.
Willington Hill Old Cemetery
Deac Nathaniel Patten died April 19, 1779 in his 77 year.
- ↑ There were several Nathaniel Patten's of note, so while I searched the usual places, most mentions of Nathaniel Patten appear to be them. This Nathaniel appears to have moved around a lot, which may be the reason for the lack of coverage. He is covered in Source:Patten, Malcolm Clark. Patten Genealogy, but as it is published in 1990, I only have snippet view, and it remains for somebody to track it down in a library and see the totality of what it offers.
There are two Nathaniel Pattens born 2 months apart that both match the age at death: one to Nathaniel and Deborah of Cambridge in Nov 1702, and another to Thomas and Hannah of Billerica in Feb 1703. Inside this post, in giving the ancestors of a person named Olive Mallory, it shows the Billerica Nathaniel having a son born in Killingly and marrying a wife Ruth who d. 1786. I believe that is the Nathaniel Patten we are interested in, but I believe the post has identified the wrong parents.
The Patten Genealogy, on p. 25, says that a deed in 1727 purchasing land in Killingly, CT, described Nathanial as of Cambridge. But very soon after, a deed (Middlesex deed Vol. 27, p. 361) dated 26 Oct 1727, describes him "of Killingsley in the County of Windham in the Colon of Connecticut", and quitclaims any rights in the estate formerly my Hon'd Grandfather Nathaniel Pattin Sen'r or my Hon'd Father Nath'l Pattin late of Cambridge deceased. And in 1731, administration on brother Jonathan Patten is given to Nathaniel late of Killingly but now resident in Cambridge. Jonathan was a son of Nathaniel and Deborah of Cambridge and all this appears to show pretty conclusively that the Killingly Nathaniel was from Cambridge.
The Patten Genealogy claims (in the snippets that are visible) that Nathaniel "married a woman named Mary", went to Killingly and was a housewright. The Nathaniel of Killingly married in 1732 Anne Huchens and all their birth records name the mother as Anne. And since he and Anne named a son Nathaniel and a daughter Deborah after his mother, it would seem that he had no previous children. It is suspected that the reference to Mary is confusion with Nathaniel Pattin of Billerica, who in 1730 executed a deed with wife Mary signing (Middlesex Deeds Vol. 31, p. 525).
Willington church records note that Nathaniel Patten was accepted in 1774 on recommendation of the church in Tyringham. So he must have moved to Willington not long before he married the widow Ruth (Rugg) Johnson, whose first husband d. 1774. In Tyringham vital records, we find the death of the wife of Nathaniel Patten (name not specified) in 1773. We also find some children born to Daniel Patten, probably the son born to Nathaniel and Anne Patten in Killingly.
So it appears that Nathaniel of Cambridge only had two wives, first Anne Huchens of Killingly in 1732 (recorded in Killingly), then after (presumably) her death in 1773, married the widow Ruth (Rugg) Johnson, dying in 1779, and his widow in 1786, as shown by their gravestones.
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