James Patterson

1710 - 1735  (~ 25 years)

• Name	James Patterson
  Born	Bet. 1697 and 1710
  Gender	Male
  Died	Oct 1735
  Person ID	I2733056914	Master Tree
  Last Modified	8 Feb 2007

  
  

  Father	Arthur Patterson,   b. 1683, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom ,   d. 3 Jul 1765, Donegal, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States  (Age 82 years)
  Mother	Ann Scott,   b. 1683, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom ,   d. 5 May 1792, Donegal, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States  (Age 109 years)
  Married	1705	Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
  Family ID	F2593280491	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Susanna Howard,   b. Bet. 1681 and 1710,   d. 1753  (Age ~ 43 years)
  Married	Bet. 1705 and 1734
  Children	1. Sarah Patterson,   b. 1721,   d. Dec 1743, Falling Springs, Chambersburg, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States  (Age 22 years) + 2. Jr James Patterson,   b. Bet. 1691 and 1726,   d. Nov 1771, Mexico, Juniata, Pennsylvania, United States  (Age ~ 45 years)   3. Thomas Patterson,   b. 1732,   d. 1747  (Age 15 years)   4. Rebecca Patterson,   b. Bet. 1708 and 1736,   d. Bet. 1727 and 1825  (Age ~ 89 years)   5. Susanna Patterson,   b. Bet. 1712 and 1736,   d. 1760  (Age ~ 24 years)
  Family ID	F2593282339	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  James lived on the Maryland Eastern Shore, near Salisbury, where kin still live, before moving to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in what was known as the Conestoga Manor. The Pattersons have been in the Maryland and Pennsylvania areas as early as 1660. He was instrumental in the Cresaps War when Marylanders tried to move the State line north. This trouble started in 1681 and in 1683 Lord Baltimore issued a proclamation by which he claimed jurisdiction over the tract of land on the west of the Deleware Bay and River now held by William Penn by deed of the Duke of York. William Penn died in 1718 after requesting that the King settle this dispute. Penn personnally went to England to plead his case, but the King could not reconcile Penn and Lord Baltimore. In 1731 Thomas Cresop obtained grants from Lord Baltimore for the land upon which James Patterson settled. In May of 1732 Lord Baltimore and the Pennsylvania propietaries agreed to a solution. The war ended in 1738, after Jame's death, and the King of England's order in Council of the 25th of May 1738. James traveled to Lancaster County Pennsylvania from Salisbury, Maryland by canoe on the Susquehanna River with his family. He was warrented 500 acres in Conestoga Manor in 1718, the same year that his benefactor William Penn died. The warrent was confirmed by Thomas Penn. Conestoga Manor consisted of 16,000 acres and was officially formed March 1, 1718 by order of James Logan. James's name appears on the first assessment list of Conestoga Township. On November 21, 1734 Thomas Penn awarded James and Susanna 200 additional acres where they built their home in which he died and in which his two famous half-brothers General James Ewing and Colonel John Connolly were born. James and Susanna were Charter Members of the Donegal Presbyterian Church which was founded in Lancaster County, Pa near Elizabethtown and Maytown. The Church was founded by Scottish families who fled their previous homes in Northern Ireland. The Church was founded sometime prior to 1721.