John Nice to meet another John Patterson. I have a little information on some of your people. >1 Andrew Patterson [Executor of brother John's Will in Bucks County] >1 John Patterson b. abt 1690 d. 1756 e. 1740 Tinicum Twp, Bucks County, >PA > +Jean Patterson > 2 Robert Patterson b. Oct 12, 1720 m. Feb 18, 1747 d. Jan 1806 > +Sarah Patterson b. d. Au 19, 1794 .. > 2 Alexander Patterson 1724 m. (1)Margaret / (2)Phoebe Carrell Juanita > Co. 1786 My records show that Robert Patterson married Sarah Carrell, sister of Phoebe who married Alexander. I am a distant relative of the Carrell's through their mother. About 125 years later one of their relatives married my Patterson ancestor. My earliest Pattersons were James, Robert, John, Samuel, and Poly, children of Samuel Patterson and Catherine Patison or Patterson. They were in Harford Co. Md in the 1780's and in Harrison Co. Kentucky by 1795. I have no indication that they liven in Virginia. I would be happy to send what I have on the Carrell connection. John ______________________ John Patterson Lindley [email protected] -or- [email protected]

Ruby, Do you know if your Robert Patterson (b 1720) was from PA at any point? I know there was an older Robert Patterson (who had 10 sons by 1728), who immigrated from N.Ireland in 1728 to NJ, then to PA in 1730. 6 of his 10 sons (most of the names are unknown at this point) came with him and his elderly father (John Patterson) in 1728. His father died in 1730. This older Robert prob died in PA, but many of his sons and grandsons (according to Leonardo Andrea) moved into Ohio, KY, VA, and the Carolinas throughout the next few decades after 1730. I have been trying for some time to tie my Patterson line into this group, or any other group for that matter. My John Patterson was born 1766 (prob in SC), and married Margaret Black in 1788, SC. She was also born in SC, about 1766/67. I don't know who my John's ancestors were, but I know that my line, and also this elderly Robert Patterson of PA (imm 1728) were all Scots Irish. Will be happy to help if I can, and would also appreciate any help if possible. Thanks. Wes P.S. Before I sent this email, I referred to Leonardo Andrea's work from 1947 and 1955 on Pattersons across the country, and his bullet #50 lists your family you have just mentioned. His info comes from Robert Patterson's will in York Co., SC, sg 7-1-1775, pr. 2-4-1791, "Robert Patterson of Craven Co". His wife, Sarah, children: Robert Jr (Ex), Peter (Ex), Thomas, Sarah Jr, Lydia, William (my only minor son), Elizabeth, and possibly a Joseph also. "The tract of land between me and my (sic) my Joseph, shall be his". "Each one of my single children shall have as much as I gave to my married children." This is Andrea's reasoning for Joseph possibly being another son. Will also lists Grandson, John, the son of Thomas. It also lists "Lands in Virginia given to my daughter Lydia". Wit. Nathaniel Harrison, and James Dickey. Good luck, Ruby. Wes At 07:30 PM 10/19/98 -0400, Ruby Elrod wrote: >It has been a long time since I have posted my PATTERSON line. Would >appreciate any additions to ROBERT PATTERSON bn abt 1720, d Oct 1775 in >Old Craven Co., SC, married to Sarah ___. Had the following children: > 1. Robert Patterson bn 1755 in York Co., SC, m. bef 1780 to Mabel >and d. 1828 in McMinn Co., TN > 2. Peter Patterson bn bef 1755, d after 1800 York Co., SC > 3. Thomas Patterson > 4. Sarah Patterson > 5. William Patterson m. July 21, 1791 to Susanna Young > 6. Lydia Patterson > 7. Elizabeth Patterson bn abt 1758 in SC, married to Daniel Ponder > >As you can see, my information is rather sparse. Elizabeth PATTERSON is >my ancestor and I have information on the PONDER line, but would >appreciate some help on the PATTERSONs. > >Ruby in NC >[email protected] > >-- >MZ > > > > Wes Patterson 648 Lantern Ridge Drive Winston-Salem, NC 27104 (336) 760-9657 mailto:[email protected] http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/4422/gen.htm http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/p/a/t/Charles-W-Patterson/index.html

Ruby, Wes quoted a Craven County will for Robert Patterson who married Sarah. I have a copy of this information also, but would like to add one item. A correspondent indicated to me that she has seen the original and that the outside of the will was signed by John Black and Daniel Ponder. Your Elizabeth was married to Daniel Ponder, but I had shown her married to a John Black. Could this be the same Elizabeth, or have I confused marriage records? My descent is from the same John and Margaret (Black) Patterson from whom Wes is descended. He is our 4th great-grandfather. However, we are descended from different sons of theirs. Judy

Descendants of Vamum Patterson 1 Vamum Patterson . +Euranis Snyder ... 2 Henry Patterson 1835 - ....... +Mary Stanton 1837 - ........ 3 Charles Patterson 1857 - ........ 3 Louisa Patterson 1859 - ........ 3 Mary Patterson 1868 - ........ 3 Theodore A. Patterson 1874 - 1939 ............ +Grace A. Lampman 1885 - 1973 ............. 4 Rebecca Patterson 1900 - 1984 ................. +Smithy Mattice ............. 4 Robert Henry Patterson 1906 - 1985 ................. +Isabelle Pauline Morris 1917 - 1998 ............. 4 Lulu Mae Patterson 1915 - ................. +Winton Morris 1909 - 1973

It has been a long time since I have posted my PATTERSON line. Would appreciate any additions to ROBERT PATTERSON bn abt 1720, d Oct 1775 in Old Craven Co., SC, married to Sarah ___. Had the following children: 1. Robert Patterson bn 1755 in York Co., SC, m. bef 1780 to Mabel and d. 1828 in McMinn Co., TN 2. Peter Patterson bn bef 1755, d after 1800 York Co., SC 3. Thomas Patterson 4. Sarah Patterson 5. William Patterson m. July 21, 1791 to Susanna Young 6. Lydia Patterson 7. Elizabeth Patterson bn abt 1758 in SC, married to Daniel Ponder As you can see, my information is rather sparse. Elizabeth PATTERSON is my ancestor and I have information on the PONDER line, but would appreciate some help on the PATTERSONs. Ruby in NC [email protected] -- MZ

A beautiful day (for a change) here in Northern California - So we're going to just jump in the car and go somewhere for a couple of days - will be back on-line by the weekend? Or sometime? :-) To our friends and cousins in south Texas - please know our thoughts and best wishes are with you! Regards, Carolyn Carter Johnson and Richard Hunter Greene

Dan Michael and List, Many thanks to you, Dan, for posting this message. It is wonderful. Greatly appreciate you sharing it with the list. Sue Patterson Skinner Dan Michael Patterson wrote: > > Enclosed is message given to Brown-Fisher Reunion, Granite Quarry, NC > today > by Mr. Kevin Cherry, Historian of Rowan Co. Public Library History > Room. > Many of our forefathers went this route..... > > Dan Patterson > Rowan County, NC > > By Kevin Cherry

Help, does anyone out there know the parents or siblings of John Presley Patterson. He was born in South Carolina in 1817, had moved to Alabama by 1852. Was located in Crenshaw County, Alabama by the time of the 1870 census. I've run into a stone wall trying to trace him backwards from Alabama. He married Comfort White and they had the following 11 children: Jane, Andrew B., Sarah, Henry, Josephine, John, Sophrenia, William, George, Comfort Amanda Ann and Ella Marcella. Any help would be appreciated. Would like to correspond with other researchers on this line. My email address is; [email protected]

Enclosed is message given to Brown-Fisher Reunion, Granite Quarry, NC today by Mr. Kevin Cherry, Historian of Rowan Co. Public Library History Room. Many of our forefathers went this route..... Dan Patterson Rowan County, NC By Kevin Cherry When the crops were in, they started. Early in the morning-even early for farm people, they'd set out. During the first years, they walked, leading five or six pack animals laden with supplies: tools, seed, fabric. In places, the famous path they trod was only three or four feet wide. The wilderness literally crept right up to their feet and brushed their faces as they walked. In later years they marched alongside oxen as these oversized beasts pulled two-wheeled carts heaped to overflowing, crossing rivers that licked high about their animals' flanks and often soaked every single, individual piece of their worldly possessions. Finally, when the path had been worn clear by thousands and thousands of previous travelers, they rode in wagons that, themselves, grew as the path widened into an honest to goodness road. These Pennsylvania-German- built wagons (Conestogas) at their largest would be twenty-six feet long, eleven feet high and some could bear loads up to ten tons. It took five or six pairs of horses to pull them. These big vehicles, the eighteen wheelers of their day, were called "Liners" and "Tramps." Ships would later gain their nicknames. No matter if they walked or rode, in the mid afternoon, they stopped to take care of the animals, prepare food, and put up the defense for the night. The cries of wolves in the distance and the pop of twigs just outside of the firelight sounded danger. Bands of Indians in the early days, bands of thieves later,, chased away deep sleep-no matter how tiring the day, how bone-weary the traveler. The fastest loaded wagon could go about five miles a day. The trip took a minimum of two months. Wagons broke down, rivers flooded, supplies gave out, and there was sickness but no doctors. Wagons were repaired, floods ceded, the wilderness supplied, and the sick were buried or stumbled on. This is the first great interior migration in our nation's history. It's the story of a road, the Great Pennsylvania Wagon Road. The Road Only a few trails cut through the vast forests, which covered the continent between the northernmost colonies and Georgia, the southern tip. The settlers, as they moved inland, usually followed the paths over which the Indians had hunted and traded. The Indians, in turn, had followed the pre- historical traces of animals. Who knows why the animals wandered where they did, but some of those early travelers on that road, the Scots-Irish Presbyterians, would have assured us it was certainly predetermined. Even so, few paths crossed the Appalachians, which formed a barrier between the Atlantic plateau and the unknown interior. In his 1755 map of the British Colonies, Lewis Evans labeled the Appalachians, "Endless Mountains." And so they must have seemed to the daring few who pierced the heart of the wooded unknown. But through this unknown, even then, there was a road. The Iroquois tribesmen of the North had long used the great warriors' path to come south and trade or make war in Virginia and the Carolinas. This vital link between the native peoples led from the Iroquois Confederacy around the Great Lakes through what later became Lancaster and Bethlehem, Pa through York to Gettysburg and into Western Maryland around what is now Hagerstown. It crossed the Potomac River at Evan Watkins' Ferry, followed the narrow path across the backcountry to Winchester, through the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia to Harrisonburg, Staunton, Lexington, and Roanoke. On it went into Salem, NC, and on to Salisbury, where it was joined by the east-west Catawba and Cherokee Indian Trading Path at the Trading Ford across the Yadkin River. On to Charlotte and Rock Hill, SC where it branched to take two routes, one to Augusta and another to Savannah, Georgia. It was some road, but it was just a narrow line through the continuous forest. Virginia's Gov. Col. Alexander Spotswood first discovered this Great Road in 1716 when his "Knights of the Golden Horseshoe," finally crossed the mountains, drank a toast to King George's health and buried a bottle claiming the vast valley for the King of England. His Knights' motto became "Sic Juvat Transcendere Montes, ~ or "Behold, we cross the mountains." In 1744, a treaty between the English colonists and the Indians gave the white men control of the road for the first time. By 1765 the Great Wagon Road was cleared all along it way enough to hold horse drawn vehicles and by 1775, the road stretched 700 miles. Boys and dogs, smelling like barnyards, drove tens of thousands of pigs to market along this road, which grew gradually worse the farther South you went. Inns and ordinaries, which spotted the road undoubtedly taught more than a few of them the ways of the world. But that was all later. The majority of the folks who by the thousands would walk over Spotswood's buried bottle would have probably thought his whole 1716 ceremony a little preposterous and quite a bit pretentious. You see, they were plain folk trying to get away from Latin, from mottoes, and from knights with horseshoes no matter their element of manufacture, lead to gold. They were as different from Spotswood's cavaliers as a golden horseshoe is from an ox's hoof. Who were the Wagon Road's Travelers? For 118 years, the English and Dutch settled the New World, lining the harbors and pointing their cities, their eyes, their hearts to the east, across the Atlantic. They were on the fringes of a vast continent but, for the most part, they forever more turned away from it and toward home. They were certainly colonists, even those stem-faced few who came to these shores for religious reasons, and most of the other settlers, you see, had come to expand the business opportunities of home establishments. Their ties to those establishments were strong. It took a different kind of settler, someone who had cut his ties altogether, someone who didn't really have all that much to lose, to look west at a wilderness and there see something more than raw materials ready for exploitation. It took folks like the Germans and the Scots Irish to put their backs to the ocean and see home in front of them. Escaping devastating wars, religious persecution, economic disasters, and all of those other things that still cause people to come to these shores, the Scots Irish and the Germans had no intention of returning to their native lands. They were here to stay. They didn't look east but to the south and west-toward land. They didn't see wolves and Indians. They saw opportunities. And as different as the Germans and the Scots Irish were, they had what it took to flourish in the backcountry. Not possessions that could be lost in the fording of a river, not personal contacts and the sponsorship of powerful men, but rough and tumble ability and a heavy streak of stubbornness. They knew slash and bum agriculture, they knew pigs, they could hunt and forage, they knew hard work. They built their cabins the exact same way. And eventually, they traveled together in that same heavy stream southward along the Great Pennsylvania Wagon Road. In 1749, 12,000 Germans reached Pennsylvania. By 1775 , there were I 10,000 people of German birth in that colony, one-third of the population. When Philadelphia was a cluster of Inns and Ordinaries: the Blue Anchor, Pewter Platter, Penny-Pot, Seven Stars, Cross Keys, Hornet and Peacock, Benjamin Franklin, one of that era's most open-minded men asked, "Why should the Palatinate Boors be suffered to swan-n into our settlement and by herding together establish their language and manners to the exclusion of ours? Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a colony of aliens who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us, instead of our Anglicizing them and will never adopt our language or customs any more than they can acquire our complexion." But the Germans kept coming, thinking like their Scots Irish compatriots who are recorded as noting that!, "It was against the law of God and nature that so much land should be idle while so many Christians wanted it to labor on and raise their bread." In short,, Pennsylvania was flooded. Why they Headed South There is probably no more beautiful land anywhere than that part of Pennsylvania now known as the "Amish Country." It must have appeared to those people fresh off of the boat, truly a land flowing with milk and honey. But it filled rapidly. Land became expensive. The most important reason why the Germans and Scots-Irish put what little they owned on their backs and took the southbound road was the cost of land in Pennsylvania. A fifty-acre farm in Lancaster County, PA would have cost 7 pounds 10 shillings in 1750. In the Granville District of North Carolina, which comprised the upper half of the state, five shillings would buy 100 acres. The crossing of an ocean was move enough for most of the early immigrants. The generation, which could still feel the waves beneath their feet when elderly, often stayed in Pennsylvania, but their children repeated their parent's adventure. Often, they cast off their lines, raised whatever anchors they had, and ~'sailed" south right after their patriarchs had gone to their reward. As North Carolina's Secretary of State, William L. Saunders wrote in 1886, "Immigration, in the early days, divested of its glamour and brought down to solid fact, is the history of a continuous search for good bottom land." In their search for bottom land, English colonists encroached onto territories claimed by France. This pressure became one of the reasons the French and Indians went to war against England and her colonists. The Germans and Scots bore the brunt of the war, a cabin burning, wife- kidnapping, farm ambushing, bloody, horrible guerrilla war. For eleven years mayhem reigned on the frontier. In 1756, three years after the war started, George Washington wrote that the Appalachian frontiersmen were "in a general motion towards the southern colonies" and that Virginia's westernmost counties would soon be emptied. Western North Carolina seemed to those escaping the war to be safer because the Cherokee were on the British side-at least at the beginning. To western North Carolina they came. This French and Indian War, which started the year Rowan County was created, joined the quest for more and better land as a major factor in sending those Germans and Scots-Irish down the Wagon Road to safer territory. Not only that but, the peace treaty that ended the war stated that no English settlers would go over the Appalachians. Thus, the best unclaimed land in all of the colonies lay along the Yadkin, Catawba and Savannah Rivers between the years 1763 and 1768. When the war ended in 1764, the western settlements of Pennsylvania had suffered a loss of population. Virginia and North Carolina had grown. What they Found When those Scots Irish and Germans got here "the country of the upper Yadkin teemed with game. Bears were so numerous it was said that a hunter could lay by two or three thousand pounds of bear grease in a season. The tale was told in the forks that nearby Bear Creek took its name from the season Boone killed 99 bears along its waters. The deer were so plentiful that an ordinary hunter could kill four or five a day; the deerskin trade was an important part of the regional economy. In 1753 more than 30,000 skins were exported from North Carolina, and thousands were used within the colony for the manufacture of leggings, breeches and moccasins." In 1755, NC Gov. Arthur Dobbs wrote to England that the "Yadkin is a large beautiful river. Where there is a ferry it is nearly 300 yards over it, [which] was at this time fordable, scarce coming to the horse's bellies." At six miles distant, he said, "I arrived at Salisbury the county seat of Rowan. The town is just laid out, the courthouse built,, and 7 or 8 log houses built." Most of Salisbury's householders ran public houses, letting travelers sup at their table-and drink, too. In 1762, there were 16 public houses. There was also a shoe factory, a prison, a hospital and armory all here before the Revolution. Even so, it was still only an outpost in the wilderness. Salisbury was for twenty-three years the farthest west county seat in the colonies. And through this outpost the wagon road ran, and on that road the immigrants continued to travel even after the area was settled. Governor Tryon wrote to England that more than a thousand wagons passed through Salisbury in the Fall and Winter of 1765. That works out to about six immigrant wagons per day. Summary In the last sixteen years of the colonial era," wrote historian Carl Bridenbaugh, "Southbound traffic along the Great Philadelphia Wagon Rowan was numbered in tens of thousands. It was the most heavily traveled road in all America and must have had more vehicles jolting along its rough and tortuous way than all the other main roads put together." When the British captured Philadelphia, the Continental Congress escaped down the Pennsylvania Wagon Road. Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett traveled it. George Washington knew it as an Indian fighter. John Chisholm knew it as an Indian trader. Countless soldiers-Andrew Jackson, Andrew Pickens, Andrew Lewis, Francis Marion, Lighthorse Harry Lee, Daniel Morgan, and George Rogers Clark, among them-fought over it. Both the North and South would use it during the Civil War. And down this road, this glorified overgrown footpath through the middle of nowhere leading to even greater depths of nowhere, came those people looking for a better life for themselves and their children,, down it came those settlers, those hardworking stubborn Scots Irish and Germans: the preachers, the blacksmiths, and farmers. Down it came the Holshousers and the Barringers, the Alexanders and the Grahams, the Millers and the Earnhardts,, the Catheys and the Knoxes, the Blackwelders and the Halls, and the Cherrys and the Brauns and the Fishers. When the crops were in, on a day like today, they started. Thank you. Kevin Cherry printed and emailed with permission of Mr. Cherry

Looking for the parents of Harriet Prudence Patterson b. 1743 either Ireland or England d. 8/15/1839 Rock Hill, York Co., SC. buried at Bethel Presbyterian Cemetery next to husband, John Hall. Prudence and her family emigrated to America when she was a child. The family first settled in Maryland then in Pennsylvania. When she was 15 the family then moved to South Carolina, Charleston area. Prudence met and married John Hall b. 1737 d. 1784 in 1763. Together they had 9 children: Jennet, John, James, Josiah, William, Alexander B., Brown, Margaret, and Major Temple. Any information on the parents or other siblings would be appreciated! Thanks, Christy Dallas, Texas

So many John Pattersons. I pick up the trail of my subject ancestor with the 1850 Sub Division 30, Floyd Co., GA census John S. Patterson 40 GA Catharine " 27 GA Jane Ann " 5 GA Mary F. " 2 GA 1860 White Plains, Calhoun Co., AL census John Patterson 50 GA Catharine " 37 GA Jane " 15 GA Francis " 12 GA Martha " 8 GA William " 3 AL 1870 Scottsboro, Jackson Co., AL census Patison, John S. 59 GA " Catharine 47 GA " Martha 18 GA " William 12 AL " Lucinda 8 AL TRAIL LOST ! ! ! Related info - - The S in John's name may be Stephen. - 1870 census indicates his parents were foreign born. - His mother may have been an Underwood. - Wife - Catharine's maiden name prob. Hancock - Daughter, Jane, married Edmond Coady abt. 1863 prob. in Calhoun Co., AL - Daughter, Mary Francis, prob. married James G. Sanders 30 SEP 1868 in Jackson Co., AL - Daughter, Lucinda Texanna, my great grandmother, married Zachariah Taylor Mauldin 27 NOV 1881 in Calhoun Co., Arkansas - Son - William's middle name may have been Monroe. - John may have had brothers named Thomas, James, George and Joe. Interested in obtaining information about the family, especially before 1850 and after 1870. Also, who are the parents of John and Catharine?

Earlier this year someone asked about Effa J. Patterson. I found Effa J. born abt 1851. Please contact me for info. John Patterson Chesapeake, VA

My G grandmother Lydia Ellen PATTERSON b 2 July 1850 in Limestone co ALa. She was the daughter of William A and Rosa Gabrilla Ballard BECKHAM. I am looking for kin folks of Miss Lyddie who married Josephus S BECKHAM in 1882 in Choctaw co, Miss: Known PATTERSON children were John Richard 1853-1938 m Martha Mc CAFFERTY he died in Choctow, Miss; Amelia Delaney 1858 1926 she died in Okibrha co, Miss and married W Oliver GRAY; and James Julius Wyatt David 1861-1924 married # 1 Martha A WASHINGTON and secondly Alueretta MIZE marykate [email protected]

Dale, this is a wonderful find! Thanks for posting it. Wish I could claim kinship, but no such luck. Appreciate you sharing the story with the rest of us. Sue [email protected] wrote: > > I found this story in an old, scrapbook of my > gr-gr-grandfather's. It was > cut from a newspaper and has the date of 1910 written on it. It > mentions the > "New York World", but may have been reprinted in the Pittsburgh paper > of the > time. I found it very interesting and thought I'd post it to the > list. If > anyone knows anything about this story, or the people named in it, > would you > please let me know? > Thanks, > Dale Patterson

John, Was there any documentation of these Pattersons you listed as moving south into NC and SC during the 1750/60s? Wes Patterson At 03:21 PM 10/15/98 -0400, John Patterson wrote: >1 Andrew Patterson [Executor of brother John's Will in Bucks County] >1 John Patterson b. abt 1690 d. 1756 e. 1740 Tinicum Twp, Bucks County, >PA > +Jean Patterson > 2 Robert Patterson b. Oct 12, 1720 m. Feb 18, 1747 d. Jan 1806 > +Sarah Patterson b. d. Au 19, 1794 > From Robert's Bible Record > 3 Solomon Patterson b. 4 Feb 1748 > 3 John Patterson b. 12 Apr 1755 > 3 Lidea Patterson b. 20 Mar 1755 > 3 Ezra Patterson b. 18 Aug 1757 > 3 Tabith Patterson b. 14 Jan 1760 > 3 Obadiah Patterson b. 2 May 1762 > 3 Josiah Patterson b. 1752 d. Jan 23, 1823 > +Mary Patterson b. 1758 d. Nov 27, 1855 > 2 James Patterson 1722-1807? to Cumberland Co. > 2 Alexander Patterson 1724 m. (1)Margaret / (2)Phoebe Carrell Juanita >Co. 1786 > 2 Andrew Patterson 1730-1792 m. Mary Wilson > 2 Grizelda/Rachel m. John Means > 2 John Patterson abt 1732 m. Sarah Wilson 1760 > 2 Nicholas Patterson abt 1734 - 1783 Captain Rev War. > >Alexander, Andrew, John & James all served in the Revolutionary War as >did their cousins Daniel and Peter. > >James (2) , Josiah (3) , Andrew (2) and Robert(2) are listed page 77 of >the 1790 Census in Cumberland County; Hopewell, Newton. The children of >most are documented but the children of James are not. > >Later a James, Robert (b. 1749 d. 1829), John and Samuel are listed 1810 >in Brooke County VA/WV. James, Robert and John had property in Brooke >County. James and Robert applied for U.S. citizenship 29 Jan 1795 having >lived in Brooke County for 1 year. > >Josiah, son of Robert (2) is buried in Cross Creek Graveyard, Wash Co. >PA. There are indications that his father, Robert, lived with Josiah in >old age near Burgettstown, PA. > >>>> Is there any record that indicates a James, Robert, John or Samuel are descendants of James (2) of Cumberland County? > > >Thank you, >John Patterson >Chesapeake, VA > > > Wes Patterson 648 Lantern Ridge Drive Winston-Salem, NC 27104 (336) 760-9657 mailto:[email protected] http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/4422/gen.htm http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/p/a/t/Charles-W-Patterson/index.html

I found this story in an old, scrapbook of my gr-gr-grandfather's. It was cut from a newspaper and has the date of 1910 written on it. It mentions the "New York World", but may have been reprinted in the Pittsburgh paper of the time. I found it very interesting and thought I'd post it to the list. If anyone knows anything about this story, or the people named in it, would you please let me know? Thanks, Dale Patterson VAIN SEARCH FOR GOLD Buried Treasure Cast Overboard in the St. Lawrence Ninety Years Ago Still Undiscovered. >From the New York World. Somewhere about the mouth of Chippewa Creek, hidden beneath the waters of the St. Lawrence River in the heart of the summer colonies there rest several kegs of gold and silver dropped overboard by the American patriot, Samuel Patterson, in the war of 1812. Some time before the war broke out Patterson moved across the St. Lawrence and settled with his wife and three children on a farm near Kingston, Ont. When the war came the British began enlisting Canadians and Indians. An effort to compel Patterson to enter the British ranks led to the discovery that he was an American citizen, and his property was confiscated. Patterson secretly secured a small dugout and embarked in it with his wife and children, and after a perilous trip, brought them to Chippewa Bay. There on the banks of a small creek, he built a rude house for their shelter. Patterson organized a small band of fellow patriots and from time to time they made sallies across the river. These incursions were a great annoyance to the Canadian outposts, and in order to check them, the government offered a reward for Pattersons' capture, dead or alive. Patterson continued his incursions, but after he had experienced many narrow escapes his friends tried to persuade him to forego his daring for a while, and at length won from him a promise to retire after one more expedition. One crisp autumn night Patterson, his brother Ned and two others started around Chippewa Point where they landed and built a fire, intending to wait there until the moon should go down before venturing nearer the enemy's lines. When the fire had died out the men lay down for a short sleep, while Patterson started through the trees toward the other side of the point to reconnoitre. He had lain in the bushes near the shore but a short time when he heard the cautious dip of an oar, and peering out he discovered a boat containing three men creeping up along the shore. Patterson withdrew a little further into the brush and awaited developments. The men rowed along until they discovered a little eddy, and into this they turned the bow of their boat. Drawing it up, they carefully concealed it with the overhanging limbs and started back into the woods in his direction. They went up a short distance until they were hidden in a clump of trees, where they halted and started a fire, around which they gathered to warm themselves. By creeping a little nearer Patterson was able to overhear their conversation, and from it he learned that they were bank robbers escaping with a large booty, taken in the city of Kingston. Patterson edged away from their camp and made a detour for their boat. Reaching it, he found in it several kegs of gold and silver coin. Quietly pushing the skiff off, he got in and drifted out of earshot, and then took up the oars and pulled for the mouth of the creek. He found a place suited to his needs and sunk the treasure, and then rowed back, beached the boat and went to awaken his comrades, to embark for the Canadian shore. Patterson insisted on rowing, and while he pulled the oars, he told them of his adventure of the night, ending by saying: "Boys, when we get back tonight I'll show you where I put the stuff, and we'll whack up." A moment later a rifle shot rang out in the stillness and the oarsman fell back with a bullet through his heart. It had been fired by a British scout on the shore. Patterson's compatriots sprang to the oars and turned the boat back reaching Chippewa Bay about daylight, bringing the body of their leader home to his family. After seeing him laid to rest in the earth Patterson's companions began to search for the hidden treasure, and for many days they dug in the banks of the creek dredged the river bottom and explored the bay without success. So far as known, it was never found. It is not doubted that Patterson dropped the kegs overboard at some spot which he could easily find again by landmarks in preference to landing and burying it. Many an old settler knows the story and has sought in the blue waters for the treasure. Many a river fisherman has gazed over the gunwale of his boat and longed for a divining rod to point him the way to it. Somewhere in the dark depths it lies, to be found some time, perhaps when the story of it's loss has been forgotten. Dale Patterson Hancock Co. WV - http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvhancoc/ Brooke Co. WV - http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvbrooke/brooke.htm

1 Andrew Patterson [Executor of brother John's Will in Bucks County] 1 John Patterson b. abt 1690 d. 1756 e. 1740 Tinicum Twp, Bucks County, PA +Jean Patterson 2 Robert Patterson b. Oct 12, 1720 m. Feb 18, 1747 d. Jan 1806 +Sarah Patterson b. d. Au 19, 1794 From Robert's Bible Record 3 Solomon Patterson b. 4 Feb 1748 3 John Patterson b. 12 Apr 1755 3 Lidea Patterson b. 20 Mar 1755 3 Ezra Patterson b. 18 Aug 1757 3 Tabith Patterson b. 14 Jan 1760 3 Obadiah Patterson b. 2 May 1762 3 Josiah Patterson b. 1752 d. Jan 23, 1823 +Mary Patterson b. 1758 d. Nov 27, 1855 2 James Patterson 1722-1807? to Cumberland Co. 2 Alexander Patterson 1724 m. (1)Margaret / (2)Phoebe Carrell Juanita Co. 1786 2 Andrew Patterson 1730-1792 m. Mary Wilson 2 Grizelda/Rachel m. John Means 2 John Patterson abt 1732 m. Sarah Wilson 1760 2 Nicholas Patterson abt 1734 - 1783 Captain Rev War. Alexander, Andrew, John & James all served in the Revolutionary War as did their cousins Daniel and Peter. James (2) , Josiah (3) , Andrew (2) and Robert(2) are listed page 77 of the 1790 Census in Cumberland County; Hopewell, Newton. The children of most are documented but the children of James are not. Later a James, Robert (b. 1749 d. 1829), John and Samuel are listed 1810 in Brooke County VA/WV. James, Robert and John had property in Brooke County. James and Robert applied for U.S. citizenship 29 Jan 1795 having lived in Brooke County for 1 year. Josiah, son of Robert (2) is buried in Cross Creek Graveyard, Wash Co. PA. There are indications that his father, Robert, lived with Josiah in old age near Burgettstown, PA. >>> Is there any record that indicates a James, Robert, John or Samuel are descendants of James (2) of Cumberland County? Thank you, John Patterson Chesapeake, VA

Phoebe, You've got a couple of those weird birth dates too! You'll get it all straight someday. Have you any idea where the McCall came in ... or where the name Mack originated? My father was Irving Mack PATTERSON (1886 - 1963) and we have no idea why "Mack". Figure it may have come from a close family tie somewhere. Dad's grandfather was James M. (1827 - 1863) A cousin says "James Mack" but another family member has it as "James Madison". We have been able to find no documentation to establish what the "M". was for! As far as I know our PATTERSON line was from Darlington, SC through GA into Butler, AL and then to TX before 1860. Nothing in TN .... but hope springs eternal! If you get insight into your "Mack", I'd love to know. Sue Patterson Skinner [email protected] wrote:...<snip> ... > I find it hard to believe that the birthdates of the two brothers are correct ....<snip>... > Robert Bovel McCall Patterson b. 26 Dec 1862 in Lovelace, Washington > Co. TN > Mack Patterson b. 11 May 1863 > Eliza Patterson > Ellen Patterson > > Thanks, > > Phoebe Pantier Bush > [email protected]

One more piece of follow-up information and clues: My John Patterson who was probably born in IRL and arrived shortly thereafter in VA before arriving in Adair Co. KY in 1802-1803, may have had one or more uncles or great-uncles on his Patterson side who settled in PA and participated in the RevWar, according to a family tradition. Also, his mother's people were of the Welsh. Bruce

In response to Kevin and Dan (and anyone else listening): My John Patterson came into KY from VA, arriving 1802-1803 when he was ca 18-19 yrs old. From later census records of his children and biographical articles they contributed to, there is conflicting evidence where he was born. Half say VA, half say IRL. We know from a reference to an item in his will that his parents came over from IRL. A likely scenario is that John was probably born in IRL, grew up in VA, and moved to KY when he came of age (or his parents died?). We do not know of any kin in the area when he arrived in Adair Co. KY. According to a letter of his we have which has been passed down, *in the yeare (sic) 1802 I was in this part and the next year came out and lived with Mr. Alexander WALKERS* referring to his arrival in Adair Co. That's all we know about his background. Hope this helps someone locate him in their tree!