Re: Pendleton & Abbeville, SC ; GA; AL
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Pendleton & Abbeville, SC ; GA; AL
Martha Irwin 7/07/03
Martha there are two extant tax records for Elbert County, GA, 1801 and 1816..... but you will only get hints at the ages of John and Margaret Baskin Patterson.
As far as I'm concerned, no one on the web has this family history close to being accurate.... but then, most would say "prove it" and if I could, I'm not sure that I would on this medium.
Nearly everyone has a John Patterson, Jr. who was married to Rebecca (Ford?) as the son of John Patterson, Sr., everyone except me.... and there are sufficient records at the Georgia Archives to cast serious doubt that he is and more than enough to make you question how it can be possible. But John Patterson, Jr. is your more likely candidate. Although I DO NOT have your James Patterson in my files, "Betsy" Patterson, daughter of John Patterson, Jr. of Elbert County (will dated in 1818) married Joel T. Smith, son of George and Mary Menzies Smith according to my files. George died in 1834 in Elbert County, GA. (There is a person much more knowledgeable about this Patterson family, but hasn't been very active lately to my knowledge.)
James Patterson, son of John and Margaret Baskin Patterson, was born between 1770-1774 according to my records. I believe that the James living in Pendleton County to be this James because he was not in the 1801 Tax census of Elbert County, GA, nor was he in Abbeville County, SC at that time. (The James Patterson in Abbeville died leaving a will in 1795, I believe. He was one of the brothers that gave rise to the family mostly associated with the Josiah Patterson's of America.)Our James moved back to Elbert County to live on the land devised by his father after his death and left Elbert County after his mother died, moved several times before dying in Texas. Both his father and his mother were born in America, unless John's parents left a child less than five years old in Ireland to be shipped later to America. My research has found both of the fathers of John and Margaret in America before 1734. His father failed to mention John when he swore oath in court as to whom he brought to America. And..... this is the easy part because only a few of the eleven children went in the same directions or can be found together later.
It seems every Patterson ever born in South Carolina was born in Pendleton County. A quick check of the male children enumerated in the Pendleton census between 1790 and 1810 will show that the percentage was not large compared to the total number of Patterson children born in ALL of SC during the same period of time. And after you subtract the children that descended from John and Nancy Chapman Patterson, that percentage is much smaller. No one seems to have descended from the Colleton or Laurens or Orangeburg Patterson's, yet the naming patterns are similar.
According to a bio of Mary Louise Jones, wife of James Patterson, go to "The History of Hart County, GA", page 204. It states they had no children and he was buried in Anderson County, SC.
I hope that the above helps.
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Re: Pendleton & Abbeville, SC ; GA; AL
Todd Somers 10/08/03