Patterson Revolutionary War Pension Applications from Southern Campaigns

A Record of the Births, marriages, and Deaths, in the Family of John Patterson, and Anne his wife, of the County of Iredell, and State of North Carolina Man Was Born to die.

John Patterson and Anne Thomson were join’d in the Holy Bands of Matrimony on the 20th day of March AD 1787 [in Burke County NC]

John Patterson Was Born on the 30th day of December AD 1758

Anne Thomson now Anne Patterson Was Born on the 30th day of June AD 1768

Adoniram Patterson their first son Was Born on the 13th day of May AD 1788

Adonijah Patterson their 2nd Son Was Born on the 28th day of March AD 1790

Eliasaph Patterson their 3d Son Was Born on the 19th day of March AD 1792

Asenath Patterson their first Daughter Was Born on the 21st of April AD 1794

Jane Patterson their 2nd Daughter Was Born on the 31st day of May AD 1796

Eliza Patterson their 3 Daughter Was Born on the 12th day of Nov’r. AD 1798

Matilda Patterson their 4th Daughter Was Born on the 10th day of Feb’y AD 1801

Delilah Patterson their 5th Daughter Was Born on the 3d day of June AD 1803

Mira Patterson their 6th Daughter Was Born on the 3d day of April AD 1805 And

Ira their 4th Son Born at the same Birth

Thomas Thomson Patterson their 5th Son Was Born on the 27th day of August AD 1807

Sarah Louisa Patterson their 7th Daughter Was Born on the 5th day of May AD 1810

William Patterson, Sarah Patterson 2nd John B. Patterson and Elizabeth Patterson of King William County, Ann Cauthon the daughter of Richard Patterson, Susan Mourning the daughter of Elizabeth Patterson residence of Essex County – Sarah Patterson the wife of Thomas Patterson deceased, James, Drake [?], Emmala & Josephine Patterson the children of Thomas Patterson deceased all of Henrico County, Robert and Richard Patterson of the State of Alabama beg leave respectfully to represent to your body that they are the only heirs and distributees of Philip Patterson formerly of Essex County in the State of Virginia and who was an officer in the War of the Revolution that the said Philip Patterson entered into the service of his Country early in the struggle with Great Britain for independence and after having served as a Lieutenant in the Virginia State line troops for more than three years in the service of his Country

 William Paterson his children and his only surviving children at his decease 2) That his Father was a Teamster most of the time and that he verily believes that his statements were correct. That his father the said William Patterson (deceased) made application during his lifetime but died on the first day of September 1847 without leaving any widow but the following named persons his children viz. John Patterson aged 63 years, Nancy Boler aged 53 years, Sarah Walker aged 40 years, Elizabeth Crowder who has since died, William Patterson, Senith Price & Anna harpole (since deceased). Said John Patterson further states that he has heard his said father state that he was in the Battle of Bunkers Hill, Battle of Monmouth Plains [,] at the taking of Burgoyne, siege of little York and many other places that he cannot now think of. That his said father went from Loudoun County in the State of Virginia – that he thinks that his father was attached to the French Army and went to Bost [sic] Massachusetts then to Fort Wheeling on the Ohio River & thinks he was discharged at Norfolk after the close of the war that he thinks these statements from what he had has heard his father his uncle John Patterson & James Abbott a Baptist Preacher say