Reply to [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Ginny Patterson <[email protected]> To: INTERNET:[email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Friday, January 01, 1999 2:26 PM Subject: {not a subscriber} [PATTERSON-L] Elizabeth PATTERSON/John RITCHEY >I have been researching my Patterson line for some time and you may have >provided a clue. My GGgrandfather was George Patterson, b. July 12, 1773, >East of the Blue Ridge Mountains in VA. He married Nance Ellen Judy >(Tschudi) b. April 30, 1797. THey married in 1824 in Green County, OH. Our >ggrandfather said, "I have heard my father tell much about his uhncles >being in the Revolutionary War. I have read of both Pattersons and >Ritcheys in the Virginia Troops but have no definite data as to any of >their service. One uncle on each side was in the war and father was with >them about the beginning of 1800 under General Anthony Wayne. I often >heard him till of receiving his final discharge at Vincennes, IN and how >400 of them started on foot for their Kentucky homes and that several never >made it. He was on of the 75 that stuck together and reached Frankfort." > >My ggrandfather was also named George Patterson b. Aug 18, 1827 in >Montgomery Co, OH. He married Charlotte Hogue b June 28, 1837 in >Washington Co, PA. > >I wonder if you know if your Ritchey's were in the War under General >Anthony Wayne? >