Wednesday, October 26, 2011

WILLIAM PATTON-VETERAN OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR



William Patton was born April 10, 1758 in Carlisle, Cumberland, Pennsylvania. (Same place my sons Michael and Scott were born). He served in the Revolutionary War while a young man. He married Margaret Silvers in Mifflin, Pennsylvania in 1786. They had ten children: Elizabeth (1787-1855), Mary P. (1789-1798), Margaret (1791-1821), John (1793-1794), Jane (1795), John (1796-1811), Mariah (1798-1876),* Sarah (1802-1805), and James Silvers Patton (1804-1874).

After the death of Margaret in 1804 William married Isabella Young Patterson and they had three children. He lived in Mifflin in the 1790's, Cumberland in 1800, Mifflin in 1810, 1820, 1830, and Juniata in 1840. William Patton died in Spruce Hill, Juniata, Pennsylvania March 20, 1848. His memorial is in the Lower Tuscarora Presbyterian Cemetery, Juniata County, Pennsylvania.








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