John PATTERSON

                   WILL: Dated 26 May 1838, witnessed by Frederick Hyatt, John Evans and William Evans probated 5 Feb. 1839 in St. Louis County, Missouri. Copy in possession of Marilyn P. Devaney.

WILL: Filed 10 March 1841 by Elisha Patterson and David Patterson Exectors. Copy in possession of Marilyn P. Devaney.

NOTES: Moved to Orange County, North Carolina sometime in the late 1760's as a young boy. Married here. Lived in the Hillsborough district.
First four children were born here.

NOTES: Settled in St. Louis County after May 1797. Remained in Orange County North Carolina until about 1788 when they moved to the Ninety Six District of Pendleton County in western South Carolina. Between 1790 and 1795 John and Keziah lived near Anderson, near the Savannah River in South Carolina and the remaining six of their children were born there. We don't know where they were between 1788 and 1790. He was willed only his fathers wearing apparel, except one great coat, which indicates (since he got no land) that he was not living within reach of his father's home, at the time of the Will. He came West to take up a Spanish Land Grant west of the Mississippi.

LAND-GRANT: #105 dated 5 Jan. 1809 - copy of the list from "Land Claims in the Missouri Territory" page 566 Commissioners' certificates issued in possession of Dan H. Devaney. This was for 600 arpents in the Dictrict of St. Louis.

LAND-GRANT: John Patterson received a grant or concession from Spain for 600 acres on the St. Ferdinand on 16 Nov. 1802 based on a survey made for Juan Paterson in November of 1798. His son, William Patterson, also received a grant from Spain for 600 acres based on a survey made in April of 1798

CENSUS: 1787 North Carolina Census and in the 1790 South Carolina.

MILITARY: "That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated in the year 1783--that is to say he was drafted to serve a term with the Militia of North Carolina; in the County of Orange; that he served under Capt. -- Christmas, who belonged to the North Carolina Militia in which he served about two months, having been drafted for three months & as ---he can now recollect, about the last of August or the first of September in the year of 1783 he left home under Capt. Christmas, who belonged to Col.
William O'Neil's Regiment of North Carolina Militia, which was attached to Genl. John Butler's Division. After being about two weeks out, Col. O'Neil's Regiment encamped upon the Kaw (?) River in Orange County, North Carolina; & being with about fifteen miles of home, this deponent obtained a permit from his commanding officer, to go home that night and get some new clothes; & got his brother-in-law, James Abbott, who had come to camp to see him, to stay in the place of the depondent furing his absence, which was only a few days. The day after the deponent left the camp, a battle was fought between the Americans & the Tories, who were principally Scotch Tories, at a place called Lindley's Mill, in which Col. Littervill of Chatam County, North Carolina was killed; as was also Col. McNeil, the Col. of the Tories. This deponent was not in the battle at Lindley's Mill because he was absent as above stated. Capt. Christmas was wounded a few days after ---home, when acting as a spy & refurned home. After the battle at Lindley's Mill, Col. O'Neil ordered the men to furnish them-selves with horses, that their efforts might be more efficient against the Tories, against whom the Militia in that district was directed. This depondent furnished his own horse, saddle, bridle, etc., & set out again from home again the middle of September, as near as he can recollect, under Capt. Schoby & Col. O'Neil who was still under Genl John Butler. The forces were directed against the Scotch Tories from Cross Creek, Wilminton and who were very bad & who annoyed the inhabitants very much.
The time the deponent was out, the Americans under Col. O'Neil and the Tories under Col. Fannin had a battle at Brush Creek, in Chatham County North Carolina, in which the Americans were victorious. This deponent, however, was again absent at his own house, by leave of his commanding officer, & was not in the battle; - the troops having camped within two or three miles of his own house, he obtained leave of absence to go home that night, & return next morning; & soon after this deponent left the Camp that night, as he afterward learned, the troops marched all night & came up with the Tories where they had the battle on Brush Creek.
A short time after the Battle of Brush Creek, the news of the Surrendering of Cornwallis came, but the Tories were so bad, & kept such a plundering of the inhabitants of Orange & Chatham, that the troops were not discharged, but kept in the servcice, until late in the fall of the next year, & after the corn had been gathered, when he was discharged. This deponent has no documentary evidence to substantiate these facts; The precise dates of his history and beiang deischarged from Service, he does not recollect account of the length of time which was lapsed since he was engaged in the Service.
Some of the facts in the forgoing decalration this deponent states that he cannot prove by any of the Soldiers who were acquainted with him in the service, because he believes they are mostly or perhaps entirely all dead.
He herelby relinquished any claim whatsover to a pension, or annuity except the present, & decares that his name is not on the pension rolls of the Agency of any State of the United States, or any Territory thereof.
/s/ John Patterson Sworn to
this Subscribed in
Open Court the twenty fifth
day of May 1838.
/s/ Henry Chorteau Clerk"

MILITARY: Revolutionary War soldier. Based on his service, the DAR took over and is operating the Cold Water Cemetery, St. Louis County, Missouri.

MILITARY: Military record is found in North Carolina records Vol. 17, page 238. From Roster of Continental Lines by North Carolina, 1783. "John Patterson, private 5 th Regiment Colonies Co. date of commission or enlistment 1777. Period of service 2 1/2 years Must'd 4th Reg. jan 1779 for 3 years." From abstract of Army Acct. of North Caroline lines. No.709 , John Patterson. IS THIS THE SAME PERSON ????DON'T THINK SO.

PENSION: Application in National Archives, Washington,. D. C.: Case R 8 005. It is here that his birth date was given as 15 Oct. 1760 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Copy of application in possession of Marilyn P. Devaney.

PENSION: In a pension application dtd 25 May 1838, John Patterson Senior gave some answers to verbal questions. "I was born in Pennsylvania, & I think in Bucks County, on the fifteenth of October 1760. I lived in Orange County, North Carolina, about thirty miles west of Hillsborough when I was called into the Service, and lived there for three or four years after the Revolutionary War, when I removed to South Carolina & settled in Pendletown County, where I resided for about seven years. I then removed to Jefferson County, Kentucky and settled on Goose Chreek about nine miles above Louisville where I lived about eighteen months, & from there I removed in May 1797 to that part of Louisiana now known as the State of Missouri, where I have resided ever since."

SOURCE: History of St. Louis County by William Thomas p. 87. The Patterson Settlement. The very early settlers of St. Ferdinand township, aside from the long line of French pioneers, were Richardson, Musick, Hyatt, Hume, Harris, Patterson, Utz, Carter, Evans and other. James Richardson, who became a very large land holder came from Virginia and aided and influenced many American settlers to secure locations. It is said that a thousand arpents of land, of which the Patterson settlement was a part, were given to Mr. Richardson by the Spanish Alcalde in return for a side-saddle which Mr. Richardson had presented to the grandee's wife. The old plat books show the Patterson road, leaving the city of St. Ferdinand, crossing Coldwater creek near the property formerly of the St. Louis University, running across the common fields a distance of one and three-fifths miles until it reaches the domain of Lucy Patterson. On one side of her was William Patterson, on another Prior Patterson. Survey 105, covering about 350 acres, is credited to John Patterson. In the same settlement were Hiram and Joseph Patterson and Lucy owned a number of other goodly sized parcels of land thereabouts. The Hyatts, the Humes, the Douglases, the Tylers, the Hughes, Evans, Bassetts, and their successors appear to monopolize one side of Coldwater creek, while the Aubuchons, the Chomeaus, Tissons, Antoines and Montaignes got possession of the other.

SOURCE: Father's Will: The Patterson Family History by William B.
Putman, Jr. tells that John Patterson (father) wrote his Will on 10 July 1790 while still living in Orange County, North Carolina and it was proved there in May of 1791 after his death. Sons John, James and William were married and living in the same area of St. Asaph's in the Hillsbourough district of North Carolina. (We think John had moved to South Carolina abt 1788) Two of the sons, John and William later went to St. Louis County, Missouri. Late in 1795 or early in 1796, Johns family traveled to Goose Creek in the northern part of Kentucky some nine miles above Louisville in Jefferson County. They remained there until May of 1797 when they traveled, probably by river, to the St.
Louis area.

SOURCE: "A Social History of Scotch Irish" by Carlton Jackson 1993 #325./241 J. The Scotch-Irish pushed across the Susquehanna River and followed the arc of the mountains that acted somewhat as a barrier for further westward expansion but furnished easy access to the valleys, to Virginia, and to the Carolinas. Generally, in their move southward, the Scotch-Irish followed the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road.
Starting in Philadelphia, the road went to Lancaster and York, and crossed the Potomac River into the Shennandoah Valley at Williams's Ferry. Then it ran south through Winchester, Stephensburg, Strasburg, and Staunton, crossing the James River at Looney's Ferry ( now Buchanon, West Virginia ), and then swung south to Roanoke. From there it headed east through the Staunton River gap of the Blue Ridge Mountains, then south along the mountains, going across the Blackwater, Pigg, Irwine, and Dan to a terminus at Wachovia, in North Carolina.
From here the Scotch-Irish, and, of course, other immigrant groups, spread out even further into South Carolina areas known as the "New Mesopotamia," between the Yadkin and Catawba Rivers.
Off the wagon road at various points were "wilderness trails" going west into Tennessee and Kentucky.
The first major clustering of the Scotch-Irish in Virginia was in Augusta County, the principal city of which became Staunton.
A decade after the move into Virginia, settlers, predominantly Scotch-Irish, poured into the area between the sandy plains of the east and the Blue Ridge Mountains in the west known as the Carolina piedmont.
The primary route for the Scotch-Irish from Pennsylvania to the south was through Winchester and Staunton, In Virginia; Salem and Salisbury, in North Carolina; and Lancaster and Florence, in South Carolina. A secondary route brought settlers from Pennsylvania to Williamsburg, Virginia, through Halifax, North Carolina - the so-called "Chesapeake Route," or "Trading Path" to what is today the Winston-Salem area.
In time, the port of Charlestown became almost as importent as Philadelphia in receiving Scoth-Irishmen from the Old World.

QUESTION: His death date is either 31 Jan 1839 which showed as the date in various family resources. The Cold Water Cemetery Book has him passing 30 June, 1839. At this point, we don't know for sure. Also, John Patterson, Sr. current tombstone indicates 15 October, 1760 as date of birth. William Thomas' History of St. Louis County Missouri Volume II page 87 shows the original tombstone as: Born October 10, 1760.

QUESTION: Mentioned on a copy of report to DAR by Lucy Jones Preston in possession of Marilyn P. Devaney. In this report it is stated that John Patterson was born in North Carolina. We have him born in Buck County, PA. See Pension application now in the National Archives, Washington, D. C. case No. R 8 005. Here it states that he was born 15 Oct. 1760 in Bucks County, PA.
Referred to as an ancester of Clara Lindley Finch DAR #81358 accepted by Board of Management 5 Oct 1910 and of Amy Bell French, DAR #277231 accepted by Board of Management 2 June 1932.