> This question is for anyone who has done research on the Robert > Patterson family of Craven/York Co., SC (ca. 1727-1791). Have any of you > ever heard of the late Leonardo Andrea and the research that he did in > the 1940s and '50s? Viola Jones is a list member, I believe, and she > shared this information with me a few years ago. Andrea tried to track a > family that came into PA around 1730, another Robert Patterson family. > Here's the basic story of that family: > > This older Robert Patterson was born in Scotland about 1670 or so. He > had a brother named John, and their father was named John Patterson. The > father John was born in 1640 in Scotland, was a miller and a malt maker, > and participated in the siege of Derry, Ireland by those who were loyal > to the English Crown (not sure which side he participated with though. I > assume the loyalists). The town was later renamed to Londonderry, > Ireland (in N. Ireland) and John moved his family there from Scotland. > > About 1727, three generations of this family emigrated from N. Ireland > to Connecticut, as the story goes. John, his son Robert (ca. 1670 - > after 1730), and six of Robert's 10 sons. Leonardo Andrea was never able > to get the list of names of Robert's sons (how very unfortunate). I do > NOT know any names for them. At any rate, I "assume" that the six sons > who came with him in 1727 were his younger sons. Supposedly the other > four sons and their families came in later years, possibly much later. > > >From 1728 - 1730 this family farmed their way across New Jersey, where > grandpa John Patterson died in 1730. Again, as the story goes, Robert > and his sons moved over into PA then (1730), and settled there. Over the > next several years those sons also moved and settled into the PA > counties of York, Chester, Bucks, and Lancaster, all being in the > southeastern corner of PA. Others of this family (sons? and definitely > grandsons) moved down in Augusta and Amelia counties, Va. Later, yet > others pushed down into NC in Mecklenburg and Anson counties and also > the "Longcanes in Abbeville Co., SC and the Waxhaws in Lancaster Co., > SC". > > I CAN'T HELP BUT BELIEVE THAT THE ROBERT PATTERSON OF CRAVEN/YORK CO., > SC (ca. 1727-1791) MAY HAVE BEEN A GRANDSON OF THIS OLDER ROBERT > PATTERSON. Can anyone shed any light on this "theory"? > > Thanks, > Wes Patterson > http://wespatterson.com/patt_roots.html