John Patten (abt. 1717 - 1795)

Born about 1717 in Dunboe, Coleraine, Londonderry, Ireland

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Means) Patten — married 1742 in Biddeford, York, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 7 Apr 1795 at about age 78 in Maine, USA [uncertain]

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John Patten was born in Ireland.

Biography

John Patten was born about 1717 to Actor Patten and Pauline Suter. He moved with his parents at about age 10 from Ulster to Saco, Maine in 1727. He married his wife Mary Means in 1742.^[1] In 1749 John moved to the Topsham/Bowdoinham area of Maine and purchased there the rights to 661 acres on Cathance Point near Merrymeeting Bay.

John Patten died in 1795 from "falling off a horse."^[2] He was buried in Patten Cemetery in Bowdoinham, Maine.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Topsham, ME: Vital Records, 1717-1892. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013), (Orig. Pub. as Vital Records of Topsham, Maine to the Year 1892, Volumes 1 (births) and 2 (births, marriages and deaths), 1929. Published under authority of the Maine Historical Society. Edited by Mary Pelham Hill. Concord, N. H., Rumford Press, 1929-30, p.161.
2. ↑ Topsham, ME: Vital Records, 1717-1892. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013), (Orig. Pub. as Vital Records of Topsham, Maine to the Year 1892, Volumes 1 (births) and 2 (births, marriages and deaths), 1929. Published under authority of the Maine Historical Society. Edited by Mary Pelham Hill. Concord, N. H., Rumford Press, 1929-30.
3. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 18 November 2017), memorial page for John Patten (1717–1795), Find A Grave: Memorial #124109516, citing Patten Cemetery, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA.

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• Martin, Kenneth R., and Ralph Linwood Snow. 1996. The Pattens of Bath: a seagoing dynasty. Bath, Me: Maine Maritime Museum and Patten Free Library.
• Jordan, John W. Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., New York, 1915, Vol. 3. pg. 1195-1198).
• Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of James Patten, 1747?-1817, of Arundal (Kennebunkport) Maine (Portland, ME: The Southworth-Anthosen Press, 1941); images, The Internet Archive (http://archive.org/details/ancestryofjamesp00davi : accessed 13 Aug 2022).