William Patten (1738 - 1775)

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Died 16 Jan 1775 at age 36 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

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1754, graduated Harvard

1759, Yale honorary degree

taught in Dedham, MA for a while

He was licensed to preach and ordained at Halifax, Massachusetts on February 2, 1757.

He married Ruth Wheelock, daughter of Rev. Eleazer Wheelock, of Lebanon, and Sarah Davenport, on June 9, 1758;

In the fall of 1774, he went to his father's house in Roxbury, where he died January 16, 1775.

inscription on marker: Rev. William Patten, who after a life of peculiar trials Died in great peace, At his father's house in Roxbury Mass, Jany. 16, 1775 in the 37th year of his age, and 18th of his ministry.

Sources

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/143345386/william_patten

Baldwin, Thomas W. "Patten Genealogy William Patten of Cambridge, 1635, and His Descendants." 1908. Page 72-77.