Cpt. John PATTERSON, Sr.

1711 - 1806  (94 years)

• Name	John PATTERSON  [1]
  Prefix	Cpt.
  Suffix	Sr.
  Birth	24 Jun 1711	Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, British Colonial America   [1]
  Gender	Male
  FamilySearch ID	L83J-RWM
  Name	Jno PATTERSON  [2]
  Name	John Patterson Sr.  [3]
  Name	Patteson  [3]
  Burial	Jan 1806	River Road Cemetery, Piermont, Grafton, New Hampshire   [1]
  Death	20 Jan 1806	Piermont, Grafton, New Hampshire   [1]
  Person ID	I594765905	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	2 Jan 2025

  
  

  Father	Andrew PATTERSON,   b. 1659, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland, d. 2 Dec 1746, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America (Age 87 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth PEET,   b. 19 Feb 1669, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America d. 1765, Cornwall, Litchfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America (Age 95 years)
  Marriage	19 Feb 1690	Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States   [4]
  Family ID	F536728563	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary CURTISS,   b. 25 Jul 1711, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut d. 18 Jul 1789, Piedmont, Grafton, New Hampshire (Age 77 years)
  Marriage	4 Jun 1730	Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut   [2]
  Children	1. Parthenia PATTERSON,   b. 29 Nov 1730, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, British Colonial America d. 26 Jan 1746, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, British Colonial America (Age 15 years)   2. Josiah PATTERSON,   b. 25 Mar 1732, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, British Colonial America d. 10 Dec 1819, New Lebonon, New York (Age 87 years)   3. John PATTERSON,   b. 11 Dec 1734, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, British Colonial America d. 30 Aug 1754, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut (Age 19 years)   4. Ashbel PATTERSON,   b. 3 Apr 1737, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut d. 30 Jun 1756, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, British Colonial America (Age 19 years)   5. Ephraim PATTERSON,   b. 22 Mar 1739, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, British Colonial America d. 3 May 1809, New Lebanon, Columbia, New York (Age 70 years)   6. Stephen PATTERSON,   c. 3 May 1741, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, British Colonial America d. Yes, date unknown   7. Mary PATTERSON,   b. 1742, Stratford, Connecticut d. 7 Dec 1822, New Hampshire, Connecticut (Age 80 years)   8. Matthew PATTERSON,   b. 6 Mar 1745, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut d. 12 Feb 1807 (Age 61 years)
  Family ID	F536728562	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Dec 2022

  
  

• Notes

  John Patterson, birth Jun 24, 1711, Stratford, CT; death Jan 20, 1800, Piermont, NH; married Jun 4, 1730, Stratford, CT Mary Curtis (her birth July 25, 1711, Stratford, CT death Jul 18, 1789, Piermont, NH), daughter of Josiah Curtis and Mary Beach; grad 1728, Yale Coll. SOURCE: AndrewPatterson of Stratford, Connectiuct and the first four generations of his descendants c.1892 55pgs. p.18 #7 John b June 24, 1711; graduated at yale College, Sep 11, 1728, married Jan 1730, Mary daughter of Josiah and Mary Curtiss. Dester's "Yale Annals" (1885) makes record of John as follows: "John Paterson was the seventh and youngest child of Andrew Patterson, one of a shipload of Scotch emigrant who had refursed to take oath of Allegiance and were consequently banished from their homes and arrive at Perth Amboy, New Jersey in Dec 1685; thence in the following summer, he removed to Stratford, Connecticut, where he married Elizabeth Peet, in 1691, and where his son was born, Jun 24, 1711. At the age of nineteen, or two years after graduation, he married Mary daughter of Captain Josiah and Mary Curtiss of Stratford two years his junior. In 1746 he was enrolled as Lieutenant in the expediton proposed against the French. He resided in Stratford until about 1753, when he remove to Cornwall, Litchfield Co, and there, after 1760, to Westminster, on the West bank of the Connecticut River, in what is now Windham County, Vermont. He finally settled shortly before the outbreak of the revolution, in Piermont, a new town some sixty miles further north, on the New Hampshire side of the river. Here his wife died, Jul 18, 1789, in her 79th year, and here he himself died Jan 20, 1806, in his 95th year, having been for six years the oldest graduate. He retained in a remarkable degree all his facutlies to the day of his death. He was active and regular in his habits, very fond of gardening, and had charge of a large garden the year beford his death. He had twn children born in Stratford.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 15 Dec 2022), entry for Mary PATTERSON, person ID KXN1-QV8. (Reliability: 3). [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 15 Dec 2022), entry for John Patterson Sr., person ID L83J-RWM. (Reliability: 3). [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 2 Jan 2025), entry for John PATTERSON, person ID L83J-RWM. (Reliability: 3). [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 2 Jan 2025), entry for Elizabeth PEET, person ID LZ8Z-1WD. (Reliability: 3).