Person:Isaac Patch (3)

THE PATCH FAMILY. The farm where Mr. and Mrs. O. Ewings now reside has been in possession of the Patch family for at least five generations. Dea. Abram Patch, who married Hannah Herrick, The Patch Family owned it in " Ye olden time." Afterward it came into possession of his son, Jonathan. Isaac Patch, son of Jonathan, next occupied it. He married Jane Butler and they were the parents of three children, Nathan, Benjamin, who died in Cincinnati, 0., and Lucy, who is buried beside her mother in the old cemetery in Littleton. Nathan Patch married Lucretia Hartwell, a cousin of Squire Cephas Hartwell, of Boxborough, and lived and died upon the Wright place, adjoining the Patch farm. Nathan and Lucretia (Hartwell) Patch were the parents of five children: Nathan Hartwell, Lucretia Ann, Benjamin Henry, who died in infancy, Obadiah Kendall and Benjamin Henry. The two last named are the only surviving members of the family, and at the present time are residents of South Acton. Nathan Patch was school committee, selectman, assessor and overseer of poor, during the years 1835 to 1838.

Isaac Patch married for his second wife, Hannah (Wetherbee) Cobleigh, widow of John Cobleigh and a sister of Oliver Wetherbee's father. Their two children were Jonathan W. and Cynthia. Jonathan W. married Poselma J. Tarbell, born March 23, 1819, — a native of Vermont but a resident of Lowell at the time of her marriage, — and made his home upon the farm of his ancestors.^[2]

1. ↑ Littleton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Records of Littleton, Massachusetts. (Littleton, Mass., 1900)
   p. 65.

   Isaac Patch Son of Jonathan Patch & Hannah Patch his wife born may ye 22'd : 1757.

2. ↑ Hager, Lucie Caroline. Boxborough : a New England town and its people. (Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Co., 1891, c1890)
   p. 173.
3. ↑ Littleton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Records of Littleton, Massachusetts. (Littleton, Mass., 1900)
   p. 397.

   Oct 4th 1847 Mr Isaac Patch died aged 90 years & 5 months.