Person:Matthew Patton (14)

Name	Matthew Patton
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	May 1750	Augusta County, Virginia[later Rockingham County]
Alt Birth`^?`	May 1750
Marriage	9 May 1775	Baltimore, Baltimore County, Marylandto Rebecca Hay
Death^[1]	6 Jan 1834	Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky

Matthew Patton was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

1 Revolutionary War Pension Information
2 Records in Augusta County, VA

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Revolutionary War Pension Information

Information from “Virginia/West Virginia Genealogical Data from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Records”, Vol. 4, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :

Patton, Matthew - born 5/1740 [prob. s/b 1750] (old style), Augusta County, Virginia; moved to Baltimore, Maryland, when young man, where he entered service 1775 in Maryland unit; granted Pension 1834 in Christian County, Kentucky, as Matthew Sr. when resided there abt. 20 years; query letter in file in 1908 from great granddaughter Mrs. Thomas W.L. Meler, Winchester, Kentucky, who also was great granddaughter of Virginia Revolutionary Soldier Raleigh/Rawlings Williams; query letter in file 1922 from descendant Mrs. Anna L. Martin, Little Rock, Arkansas; query letter in file says soldier married Hester Dyer. F-S31294, R1889.

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Records in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley’s Augusta County Records:

Vol. 2 - DISTRICT CIRCUIT COURT EXECUTIONS., SEPTEMBER, 1794 (A to I). - William Gregg vs. Moses Henkle--Writ to Pendleton, 7th November, 1791. Case. In 1768 William entered 400 acres in Augusta on Roaring Spring, on Seneca and the North Fork, &c., &c., and another entry, 9th January, 1772. Defendant was surveyor for Pendleton, but refused to survey the land for plaintiff, but did survey it for others. Mathew Patton is about to remove to Kentucky, 4th September, 1793.

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