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Caution: Nicholas and Elizabeth (Owlsey) Patch's sons James and Thomas have frequently been confused in print and in family files with other immigrants of the same name--James Patch (abt.1615-1658) and Thomas Patch Sr (abt.1638-1711). See Research Notes.

Nicholas Patch, son of Nicholas Patch Sr (abt.1555-1637) and his wife, Jane (____) Patch was baptized at South Petherton, Somerset, England, 26 June 1597.[1] Nicholas Patch died in Beverly, Massachusetts, before 26 November 1673 (administration granted to sons John and Thomas).[2]

Nicholas married at South Petherton, 17 September 1623. Elizabeth Owley .[3][4]

Immigration

The details of the family's immigration are not known. Robert Charles Anderson (2015) reports Nichols Patch immigrated 1639 from South Petherton, Somerset to Salem, Massachusetts Bay.[5] See Research Notes.

At Massachusetts Bay

  • 1639, July 25: Nicholas is received as an inhabitant of Salem, Massachusetts Bay and granted 40 acres of land.[6]
  • 1647: July 6: "NIcholas Patch, sr., Willia Woodbury & comp. inhabitants of Makerell Cove" petitioned the court for exemption from 'watching'.[7]
  • 1650: April 14: Admitted to the church at Salem.[8]
  • 1650: December 31: Nicholas Patch was chosen for the Grand Jury at the Salem Court.[9]
  • 1650/1: January 2: Nicholas was freed from training due to his age.[10]
  • 1651: June 24: Nicholas was again chosen for the Grand Jury.[11]
  • 1657: Nicholas and his wife were among those testifying in the case of the illegal will of Agnes Balch.[12]
  • 1667: June 23: Nicholas and Elizabeth Patch were among the many petitioners to the residents a Salem, to establish a church on the 'Bass River side' (Beverly). [13]
  • 1667: Jul 21: The petition was granted and NIcholas was one of the founders of the church at Beverly. [13]

Probate

Sons John and Thomas Patch submitted an agreement of the estate division to the court, which was allowed.[14][15] See John and Thomas Patch agreement regarding estate of Nicholas Patch. Under the terms of the agreement, son John Patch received the house, land and orchard, plus 4 lots of 1 to 4 acres each. Thomas Patch received 14 acres of upland, 5 acres of meadow, 1 acre if the homestead, and livestock. [16]

Children

  1. John Patch, baptized South Petherton, December 26, 1623;[17] married Elizabeth Brackenburry of Salem, Massachusetts.[18][13]
  2. James Patch, baptized at South Petherton, Somerset, England. 28 September 1625 [19][20] no further record; unlike his brothers John Patch and Thomas Patch, James Patch was not included in the distribution of Nicholas Patch's estate. See John and Thomas Patch agreement regarding estate of Nicholas Patch. See Research Notes.
  3. Thomas Patch, born perhaps Mackerel Cove, then Salem, Massachusetts Bay, about 1638, died in Beverly, 28 September 1711;[21] married probably Mackerel Cove, about 1667 (baptism of children, 1668), Mary Lovett, daugher of John and Mary Lovett.[22]

Research Notes

John and Thomas Patch agreement regarding estate of Nicholas Patch
Essex County contemporaries, both Thomas Patch

Great Migration Directory. Anderson includes Nicholas Patch in the Directory: South Petherton, Somerset; 1639; Salem [STR 1:90; EQC 5:255; NEHGR 71:166-70, 100:72][23]

James1 Patch not son of Nicholas Patch and his wife, Elizabeth Owsley. Nicholas and Elizabeth are believed the parents of a James Patch, baptized South Petherton, 18 September 1625, the younger brother of John (baptized there 26 December 1623)--the parish register abstracts call both the sons of Nicholas Patch Junr. The older son, John Patch, is presumed the man referred in James' 1658 will as a brother. The History of Salem also refers to John and James as brothers. They were treated as brothers in the oft' cited genealogical sketch published in New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 71 (1917):168, wherein James reportedly married his first cousin, Hannah Woodbury, daughter of William Woodbury and Elizabeth Patch.

It is not surprising, then, that a series of published genealogical sketches, such as William Richard Cutter and even Dawes-Gates, refer to James as Nicholas' son, or the first cousin of his wife Hannah, and to find these associations in countless user contributed genealogy sites and online family files.

Nonetheless, 2021 authors Dearborn and Arthaud[24] write, "“Genealogical Research in England,” Register 71 (1917):170; corrected by Winifred Lovering Holman, who proved that James1 Patch could not have been a son of Nicholas1 and Elizabeth (Owley) Patch, although he was probably a cousin (Winifred Lovering Holman Papers, R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Department of NEHGS, Mss [920], Patch folder, 8–9, 15–19)." No further logic is provided, but Hannah's husband is described as born, probably South Petherton, about 1615.



James1 Patch not son of Nicholas Patch and his wife, Elizabeth Owsley. James1 Patch (Patch-21) is frequently reported in print and family files as the same person baptized baptized South Petherton, 18 September 1625, the brother of John Patch, both sons of "Nicholas Patch Junr." James1 Patch was Hannah Woodbury's first husband. He died in 1658, leaving several Patch heirs.

In 2009, Dearborn and Arthaud reported about the oversight found in oft' cited in NEHGR 71 (1917):170, wherein Hannah Woodbury and her first husband, James Patch, are reported to have been first cousins--based on the assumption that James was son of Nicholas and Elizabeth Patch. Dearborn and Arthaud write, "“Genealogical Research in England,” Register 71 (1917):170 [was] corrected [later] by Winifred Lovering Holman, who proved that James1 Patch could not have been a son of Nicholas1 and Elizabeth (Owley) Patch, although he was probably a cousin (Winifred Lovering Holman Papers, R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Department of NEHGS, Mss [920], Patch folder, 8–9, 15–19)." Holman's research points out that none of Hannah and James' children were mentioned in the settlement of Nicholas' estate.



, none of whom were mentioned in the settlement of Nicholas' estate. See John and Thomas Patch agreement regarding estate of Nicholas Patch.


Nicholas and Elizabeth were the parents of a James Patch, , the younger brother of John (baptized there 26 December 1623)--the parish register abstracts call both the sons of Nicholas Patch Junr. Despite countless reposts to the contrary, son James is now (2022) thought to have pre-deceased his father as no such son is mentioned in the settlement of Nicholas' estate between the other brothers, John and Thomas. See John and Thomas Patch agreement regarding estate of Nicholas Patch.



The older son, John Patch, is presumed the man referred in James' 1658 will as a brother. The History of Salem also refers to John and James as brothers. They were treated as brothers in the oft' cited genealogical sketch published in New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 71 (1917):168, wherein James reportedly married his first cousin, Hannah Woodbury, daughter of William Woodbury and Elizabeth Patch.

It is not surprising, then, that a series of published genealogical sketches, such as William Richard Cutter and even Dawes-Gates, refer to James as Nicholas' son, or the first cousin of his wife Hannah, and to find these associations in countless user contributed genealogy sites and online family files.

Nonetheless, 2021 authors Dearborn and Arthaud[25] write, "“Genealogical Research in England,” Register 71 (1917):170; corrected by Winifred Lovering Holman, who proved that James1 Patch could not have been a son of Nicholas1 and Elizabeth (Owley) Patch, although he was probably a cousin (Winifred Lovering Holman Papers, R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Department of NEHGS, Mss [920], Patch folder, 8–9, 15–19)." No further logic is provided, but Hannah's husband is described as born, probably South Petherton, about 1615.

Son Thomas. His son Thomas was born about 1638 and died in Beverly, 1711, otherwise Thomas Patch of Salem and Beverly (Patch-950). A prior version of this profile associated his son as Thomas Patch (c1638-1721) of Ipswich and Wenham (Patch-46). See also Essex County contemporaries, both Thomas Patch. See G2G, "Proposal to sever Nicholas and Elizabeth Patch from linked son Sgt. Thomas Patch and attach son Thomas Patch Sr."

Records and Files. For an attempt to catalog most of the indexed Patch entries appearing in the 9 volumes of George Francis Dow's Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts (1911-1975) see Thomas Patch Research - Records and Files.

Sources

  1. ↑ Citing Horatio Gates Somerby, "Somerby Manuscripts, vol. 12, 58-64" for selected abstracts of South Petherton parish registers, "Patch" in "Genealogical Research in England," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 71 (1917):166-67, digital images, Hathi Trust.
  2. ↑ George Francis Dow, The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts, 3 vols. (Salem, Mass: The Essex Institute, 1916-1920), 2:383; digital images, Hathi Trust.
  3. ↑ Citing Horatio Gates Somerby, "Somerby Manuscripts, vol. 12, 58-64" for selected abstracts of South Petherton parish registers, "Patch" in "Genealogical Research in England," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 71 (1917):166-67, digital images, Hathi Trust.
  4. ↑ By subscription Image 86 South Petherton Parish Register https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/60856/42886_1831115184_0931-00082?pid=3381216.
  5. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Directory... (2015), p. 256.
  6. ↑ Sidney Perley and Martha O. Howes, Town Records of Salem, Massachusetts, 3 vols. (Salem, Mass., The Essex Institute, 1868- ), 1:90; digital images, Hathi Trust.
  7. ↑ "Salem Quarterly Court Records and Files," Sidney Perley, ed., Essex Antiquarian, 13 vols. (Salem, Mass. : Essex Antiquarian, 1897-1909), 6:25, citing "Court, 6 : 5 : 1647."
  8. ↑ "Patch" in "Genealogical Research in England," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 71 (1917):169-70, digital images, Hathi Trust.
  9. ↑ "Salem Quarterly Court Records and Files," Sidney Perley, ed., The Essex Antiquarian 13 vols. (Salem, Mass. : Essex Antiquarian, 1897-1909), 7 (1903):25; digital images, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015030567153?urlappend=%3Bseq=47%3Bownerid=13510798882537906-47 Hathi Trust]
  10. ↑ "Salem Quarterly Court Records and Files," Sidney Perley, ed., The Essex Antiquarian 13 vols. (Salem, Mass. : Essex Antiquarian, 1897-1909), 7 (1903):26; digital images, Hathi Trust.
  11. ↑ "Salem Quarterly Court Records and Files," Sidney Perley, ed., The Essex Antiquarian 13 vols. (Salem, Mass. : Essex Antiquarian, 1897-1909), 7 (1903):81; digital images, Hathi Trust.
  12. ↑ George Francis Dow, The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts, 3 vols. (Salem, Mass., Essex Institute, 1916-1920), 1:263-4; digital images, Hathi Trust.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Records of the First Church in Beverly, Massachusetts, 1667-1772, The Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts, 1905, p. 2-7: 85-8
  14. ↑ George Francis Dow, The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts, 3 vols. (Salem, Mass: The Essex Institute, 1916-1920), 2:383; digital images, Hathi Trust.
  15. ↑ John & Thomas Patch agreement, 26 : 10 : 1673 as Essex (Mass.) Deeds, 4:47, "Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986"; images, FamilySearch, img. 77-78; witnesses as John Lovet, Senr and Hilliard Veren, Senr.
  16. ↑ George Francis Dow, The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts (Salem, Mass: The Essex Institute, 1916-1920), 3 vols., 2:383; digital images, Hathi Trust.
  17. ↑ Citing Horatio Gates Somerby, "Somerby Manuscripts, vol. 12, 58-64" for selected abstracts of South Petherton parish registers, "Patch" in "Genealogical Research in England," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 71 (1917):166-67, digital images, Hathi Trust.
  18. ↑ "Patch" in "Genealogical Research in England," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 71 (1917):169-70, digital images, Hathi Trust.
  19. ↑ Citing "Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1531-1812," Doug Sinclair comment, 6 January 2023 on "Nicholas Patch" profile, "Septemb 18 Baptizaty fuit Jacoby filias Nichola[?] Patch Jr." [1625], not 1626 as is found in the Somerby abstracts.
  20. ↑ Citing Horatio Gates Somerby, "Somerby Manuscripts, vol. 12, 58-64" for selected abstracts of South Petherton parish registers, "Patch" in "Genealogical Research in England," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 71 (1917):166-67, digital images, Hathi Trust.
  21. ↑ Thomas Patch 1711 death notation, William P. Upham, Records of the First Church in Beverly, Massachusetts, 1667-1772 (Salem, Mass., Essex Institute, 1905), 39; digital images, Hathi Trust.
  22. ↑ John Lovet 1686 Will (image), citing "Probate records v. 12-12 1657-1697," "Suffolk County (Massachusetts) probate records, 1636-1899"; digital images, FamilySearch; abstract at Eugene Tappan, "Essex County Estates Administered in Suffolk County, Prior to 1701," Essex Institute Historical Collections, multiple vols. 40 (1904): 215; digital images, Internet Archive, cites "Docket, No. 1523."
  23. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Directory... (2015), p. 256.
  24. ↑ Citing, "Winifred Lovering Holman Papers, R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Department of NEHGS, Mss [920], Patch folder, 8–9, 15–19," David Curtis Dearborn and John Bradley Arthaud, "William1 Woodbury of Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 175 (2021):207-222, in particular, 209
  25. ↑ Citing, "Winifred Lovering Holman Papers, R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Department of NEHGS, Mss [920], Patch folder, 8–9, 15–19," David Curtis Dearborn and John Bradley Arthaud, "William1 Woodbury of Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 175 (2021):207-222, in particular, 209

See also:

  • Ezra S. Stearns, Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire (Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), 2:621; digital images, GoogleBooks.
  • William Richard Cutter, New England Families ... 3rd. series, 4 vols. (New York, Lewis historical Pub. Co., 1915.), 1:714 (Patch); digital images, GoogleBooks.




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