Person:James Patterson (77)

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Source

Source:Chalkley's Chronicles

Related

Isabella Patterson Records in Chalkley's Chronicles

Overview

Notes

Will Abstract

Note that the children listed here do not match the current child list (June 2013):

• 1785 Lancaster County will of James Patterson of Drumore, who names wife Mary. He also lists children Sarah, John, Mary, Robert, Jane, Elizabeth and James.

Overview

From "Cross Creek Twp. (pp. 721-742) History of Washington County, Pennsylvania*

James Patterson was the first member of that family who settled in this country, having come to America in 1728. His son William was born in 1733, and in 1758 married Rosanna Scott, of Cecil County, Md., by whom he had four sons and one daughter. His wife died April 5, 1769, and he was married a second time to Elizabeth Brown, April 10, 1770, a family of ten children being born to this last marriage. In the spring of 1778, William Patterson, with two or three of his sons, came into Cross Creek township and settled upon a tract of land containing three hundred and fifty acres. Before coming here William Patterson and two of his sons had seen something of military life, having been engaged in one or two campaigns in the Revolutionary war. During the summer following their advent into this township the Pattersons built a house, cleared some ground, and put in what crops they could, and in the fall all, except the son Thomas, returned to the old home to bring out the rest of the family. During their absence Thomas boarded with the widow, Mrs. Mary Patterson, whose land adjoined that of his father. William Patterson returned with his entire family to Cross Creek township, and continued to live upon the land he had located until his death, which occurred in 1818 at the age of more that eighty years.

James, the second son of Gen. Thomas and Elizabeth (Finley) Patterson, and whose portrait is here given, was born in Cross Creek township, April 24, 1798. His home was always in the township where he was born, and the principal business of his life was farming. But when a young man he was employed in his father's mill, and was at one time engaged in merchandising. In 1837 he moved to the farm now the home of his son, T. M. Patterson, where he died Aug. 17, 1861. He was married June 29, 1820, to Eliza Walker, daughter of Alexander and Elizabeth (Norris) Walker, of Cross Creek township. Their children were eleven in number. The oldest and youngest died in infancy. Those who grew up and married are Elizabeth, the wife of Russell T. Johnson; Mary, the wife of Richard Wells; Thomas M., married to Sarah J. Barber, is a farmer in Cross Creek township; Alexander W., married Jane Hodgens. He is a wool dealer, and resides in New York City; Jane, the wife of Robert Marques, died May 29, 1859, aged twenty-seven years; Ambrose, married Margaret A. Richey, and resides in Plattsmouth, Neb.; James M., married Eleanor Campbell, and resides in Plattsmouth, Neb.; David F., married Mary Gardner, and is a lawyer, residing in Allegheny City; Emily A. is the wife of Samuel Latta, and resides in Cass County, Ne

In politics James Patterson was a decided Democrat, but not so well known in the party councils as his brothers, Finley, William, and John, who were members of the General Assembly of the State. Trained by a father who was proverbial for his honesty, his life was marked by strict integrity in all business transactions. As a business man, he was one of the most successful in the county, winning wealth and position without sacrificing any of those exalted characteristics which betoken the honest man and pure citizen. For nearly thirty-four years he was a member of the Presbyterian Church of Cross Creek, Pa., and as Providence had put him in trust of ample means, he gave a liberal support to all the institutions of the gospel, especially to those schemes of benevolence in which the Presbyterian Church in engaged. During many painful and lingering months of sickness he was sustained and cheered by the promises of the gospel, and when he passed through the dark valley of the shadow of death, the rod and staff of the Shepherd of Israel so comforted him that he feared no evil.

http://www3.sympatico.ca/kfurr/intro.htm

Scots-Irish

James and Mary Patterson and the McCombs are our earliest recorded ancestors in North America on the Furr side of the family. James Patterson was 20 years old when he arrived in the Quaker colony in Pennsylvania in 1728, having left family and sweetheart in County Antrim, Ireland. He settled in the predominantly German Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It took him three years to be able to bring his sweetheart, Mary Montgomery, to join him. Elderly William McComb and his two married sons, their wives, and two teenage sons, and a granddaughter entered America in 1732 from Ballymere, Parish of Ballymere (probably Ballymena), County Antrim, Ireland. Edith Lyons Furr was descended from this line.

The Pattersons and McCombs were probably typical of the many Scots-Irish Presbyterians who arranged their passage by signing contracts of bondage. The Scots-Irish came from the Irish counties of Ulster and Antrim in northern Ireland. Many were descended from the Scots settlers in Ulster who had been sent by Oliver Cromwell to colonize Ireland with strong Calvinist Presbyterians to combat the "Papist" Irish. Others had come from the glens and hills of where the Highland Scots clans lived on the shores on both sides of the channel between Ireland and Scotland -- families such as the McFaddens -- Juanita McFadden Furr's ancestors.

From the time of Cromwell's suppression of the Catholics in Ireland the Presbyterians in Ireland had a privileged position in Irish society. After the ascension of Queen Anna in 1702, a High Church Anglican, a bigoted, intolerant monarch, the Penal Acts which were aimed at the suppression of the Catholics were extended to the Presbyterian. The Church of England was the only religion permitted, with a tithe required from all to support the Church of England. Dissenters were forbidden the practice of their religion, forbidden to receive or give education, enter the professions, hold public office, engage in commerce, hold land, keep arms, or engage in almost any activity which led to wealth, peace of mind, or, in fact, any thing which to sustain life. As the economic foundation of the Presbyterian collapsed rents were doubled or trebled. There was no escape other than conversion to Anglicanism or emigration to America. Thousands and thousands chose William Penn's Quaker colony dedicated to religious toleration.

The trip to America had it own problems, including brutal captains, pirates, shortage of water and food, delays in sailing, rough seas, over-crowding, disease and pestilence and, often, death. In the 1730's Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, was the beginning of the western frontier. The Scots-Irish and German immigrants were rapidly clearing the land. The Scots-Irish typically were not very good farmers. There highland glen and hills in Scotland and Ireland were appropriate to sheep herding but not farming. The Germans, on the other hand, tended to be excellent farmers who had left excellent farmland in Germany, and while poor in their homeland, they knew what good farm practice was.

This is the history of some of our ancestors in North America. In the branches of the family I will be writing about our ancestors were German, Scots-Irish, and English people who came to America in the late 1600's and early 1700's.

http://www.clanmontgomery.org/database/fam03401.html

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  Died: 20 Dec 1791      at: Drumore Twp, Lancaster Co, PA  
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  Died: 1777             at: Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania  
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