Posted on: Amherst County Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Va/Amherst/605 Surname: Patterson, Simmons ------------------------- I am looking for information on David Patterson b. 1763 in Bedford Co, Va. I have found him in the 1783 and 1785 Amherst census and he married Charity Simmons in Amherst in 1793. They moved to Rutherford Co, NC in 1800. They had 10 children. Charity died in Rutherford.