Person:Matthew Patton (4)
Matthew Patton, "The Martyr"
b.Est 1610 Rosenhall, Kilmarock, Scotland
d.19 Dec 1666 Beheaded Square of Glasgow, Scotland for participation in Calvanism
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  1. John PattonAbt 1666 - 1767
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Name Matthew Patton, "The Martyr"
Gender Male
Birth? Est 1610 Rosenhall, Kilmarock, Scotland
Marriage 19 Jun 1639 Scotlandto Christian Porteous
Death? 19 Dec 1666 Beheaded Square of Glasgow, Scotland for participation in Calvanism
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  • Matthew Paton, shoemaker in Newmilns, who was taken at Pentland, and executed at Glasgow, December 19th, 1666.


There is a monument in Glasgow - Matthew Patton was beheaded during the Pent land Rebellion because he was a Covenanter.
The monument stands in Glasgow, Scotland:


"Here lies the corpse of Robert Bunton, John Hart, Robert Scot, Matthew Patoun, John Richmond, James Johnston, Archibald Stewart, James Winning and John Main, who suffered at the Cross of Glasgow for their testimony of the covenants and work of the Reformation because they did not oun the Authority of the Tyrants destroying the same betwixt 1666 and 1668."
"Years sixty-six and eighty-four
Did send these souls to Glore,
Whose bodies here interred lie,
They sacraficed to tyranny,
To covenant and Reformation,
Cause they adhered in their station,
These nine and others in this yard
Whose heads and bodies were not sparred,
Their Testimonies, foes to bury,
Caused beat the drums there in great fury,
They'll know at resurection day
To murder Saints was no sweet play."
[Source: "Scotch-Irish Pioneers in Ulster and America", by Charles Knowles Bolton, pg. 262].


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http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=coaly&id=I10534
http://www.sorbie.net/covenanters.htm
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