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Frederick Schwarz, son of William and Mary (Butterman) Schwarz, was born in 1855. in Petersburg, now part of the city of Scranton, and received his education in the schools of his native town, from which he was honorably graduated. During his youth and early man- hood he was engaged in the coal industry and later became a general teamster. For six years he was connected with W. S. Pearson in the wholesale green truck business, and is now with H. Burgerhoff in the same line. Mr. Schwarz is a man of means and influence, owning three houses and eleven lots in Petersburg. For four years he held the office of councilman. He is a member of St. Peter's Society.
Mr. Schwarz married, January 20, 1881 Louise D. Apple, and of their eight children five are living: Mary, William J., Gertrude, Frederick, Jr., and Helena. Mrs. Schwarz is a daughter of Adam and Catherine Apple, both natives of Germany, who emigrated to this coun- try in 1852. Mr. Apple was a carpenter by trade and was respected by all as a man of genu- ine worth. He and his wife were the parents of two children : Louise D., born January 21, 1856, in Petersburg, wife of Frederick Schwarz, as mentioned above, and Louis, who died June 10, ICO3.
GENEALOGY OF THE PATTERSON FAMILY
COMPILED FROM MANUSCRIPT LEFT BY D. WILLIAMS PATTERSON, WITH A FEW ADDITIONS BY ANNA PATTERSON.
PATTERSON FAMILY.
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James Patterson was a native of Scotland, and was born about 1633. He was one of the prisoners of war taken by Cromwell, probably at the battle of Worcester, 3 September, 1651. These prisoners were sold as bond-servants by the English government and a large number of them were sent to New England in the ship "John and Sarah," of London, Captain John Green, mas- ter ; they embarked 6 November, 1651, probably sailed about 14 November, 1651, and arrived at Boston, Massachusetts, probably early in the following May, as on 13 May, 1652, the list of servants sent on board the ship was re- corded in Boston. (See New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. i, pp. 377-380). In 1658 he was a resident of Billerica, as he then received a grant of land from that town. Between 1658 and 1685 he received sixteen different grants of land from the town of Billerica. In 1661 his name ap- pears upon the town records in a vote of the proprietors. He married, 29 May, 1662, Rebecca Stevenson, before "Thomas Danforth, Esq." She was daughter of Andrew Stevenson of Cambridge, and was born about 1642. "At a meeting of Selectmen & Committee of Militia held October 8, 1675, In persuance of an order from the Hon. Councill sent unto them," twelve garrisons were formed in Billerica. "6. They appoint James Patersons house for garrison and to entertain John Baldwin, Edward & Thomas Farmer, Henery & John Jeffts & two soldiers. 8 soldiers & 4 families."1 ( Billerica town records, p. 121). He was admitted freeman 18 April, 1690. His will was dated 12 May, 1701, and he died in Billerica 14 July, 1701, aged about sixty-eight years, according to the town records, but his inventory states that he died 14 June, 1701.
Children of James1 and Rebecca (Stevenson) Patterson :
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I. MARY PATTERSON,2 born in Billerica, 22 August, 1666; mar- ried 30 January, 1688-9, Peter Proctor, of Chelmsford.
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II. JAMES PATTERSON,2 born in Billerica, 28 February, 1668-9; died 3 October, 1677.
III. ANDREW PATTERSON2, born in Billerica, 4 April, 1672 ; mar-
4 ried 1697, Elizabeth Kebbe, of Charlestown. He was a mariner, and tradition says "was lost at sea." He was alive at as late a date as 27 March, 1707, as appears by deeds recorded in Cambridge.
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I. James Patterson's house used for garrison in King Philip's War. Reff. Hazen's "History of Billerica," pp. 110-117; N. E. H. & G. R. vol. xxxvii, p. 148.
EXPLANATORY NOTES
The first number within marginal lines on left of page is the number the person bears in the Genealogy.
The next number on the left in Roman numerals, is the number the person bears in the family.
The small number just above the name shows to which generation that person belongs.
The number within the marginal lines at the right is the number the person bears in this book, and by it may be found either a previous or later mention of that person.
Quotations from ancient manuscripts preserve their original forms of spelling and so differ from the present forms
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Elizabeth Patterson of Reading, Massachusetts, (probably widow of
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Andrew), bought 8 September, 1725, of Thomas Hodgeman, of Reading, part of his homestead in Reading, containing four acres. She died in Read- ing, June, 1738.
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IV. JOHN PATTERSON,2 born in Billerica 8 April, 1675, married Concord, 29 December, 1702, Joanna Hall, of Billerica. He had, I March, 1707, a grant from the town of Billerica of twenty acres of upland and swamp for £20 money.
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V. JOSEPH PATTERSON,2 born in Billerica I January, 1677-8. He was a tailor, and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, as early as the be- ginning of 1701. He bought of Edward Harrington, 19 March, 1701, "one mansion house with twelve acres of orchyard, meadow, and arable land, sit- uate, lying and being in Watertown aforesaid." He married first in Sud- bury, 22 September, 1701, Mercy Goodenow, born in Sudbury, 1680, daugh- ter of Captain John Goodenow of Sudbury. She died in childbed, I Sep- tember, 1710, and he married (second) Mary She died and he mar- ried (third), 19 November, 1724, Rebecca, widow of James Livermore, and daughter of John and Elizabeth (Trowbridge) Myrick of Newton. She was born 20 April, 1687, and married 5 October, 1718, James Livermore. of Weston, who died 20 August, 1720. ( Bond's "History of Watertown," pp. 374 and 392.) In 1714 he was constable or collector of Watertown. He had. by small purchases at different times, acquired a good farm, which is said to have included the top of Prospect Hill, about half a mile west of Waltham Plain. The date of his death is not now known, but his will was executed 15 November, 1736, and offered for probate 14 February, 1736-7.
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VI. REBECCA PATTERSON,2 born in Billerica, 18 July, 16So ; died 1683.
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VII. JAMES PATTERSON,2 born in Billerica, 13 April, 1683 ; mar- ried Mary He was probably a resident of Billerica till 1707. In ITII he was a resident of Dunstable, and remained there till 1716, when he moved to Groton, where he resided the remainder of his life. He drew lot No. 44 in "Narragansett No. 6" (now Templeton) as the representative of his father, for his services in "King Philip's war," in 1675 or 1676. The time of his death is not known, but he was alive on the 6th day of November, 1735, and mortgaged his Narragansett lot to Samuel Belknap, of Woburn: and on the 20th of March, 1738, Belknap executed a deed of release of the same lot to Joseph Patterson, of Watertown, in which deed he mentions James Patterson as "late of Groton deceased." But a small por- tion of this mortgage is now in existence. The date, signature, and de- scription are gone, but on the back of what remains is an indorsement of the date when recorded, 10 January, 1737-8. His wife survived him, as 27 August, 1739. she and her children are named in a deed of the same prop- erty to Joseph Patterson, of Watertown, in which the grantors were de- scribed as "Mary Patterson, widow: James Patterson, Jonathan Patterson and Hezekiah Patterson. labourers, all of the town of Groton in the County of Middlesex in New England, and Mary Patterson of Watertown in ye County aforesaid, spinster." These I have supposed to be the widow and children of James Patterson who drew the lot. The deed was signed by but
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one Mary, and by James and Hezekiah; seals are attached for the other names, but there is no sign of the names. I think the James Patterson who signed the deed to be identical with James Patterson mentioned by Butler in his history of Groton.
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VIII. JONATHAN PATTERSON,2 born in Billerica 30 January, 1685-6. In a deed dated 27 February, 1706-7, he describes himself as a "tailor of Watertown." He then deeded to Enoch Kidder of Billerica fifty- one acres of land which he received from his father's estate in Billerica. He was a resident of Deerfield, Massachusetts, as early as 1713. He mar- ried, in Deerfield, 1713, Mary Hawks, born 1695, daughter of Deacon Eliezer and Hawks, of Deerfield. He resided in Deerfield till after the birth of his second child, I September, 1716, after which he moved to Northfield, Massachusetts, where he died 1718. Mrs. Mary Patterson died in Northfield, 1757, "aged 61 years."
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Children of Andrew2 and Elizabeth (Kebbe) Patterson :
I. JAMES PATTERSON.3 born in Medford, Massachusetts, 5 October. 1707 ; married 14 October, 1730, Lydia Fisk, born in Lexington, daughter of Deacon Jonathan and Abigail (Reed) Fisk. (See Bond, p. 209; and Barry's "History of Framingham," p. 356). He was a blacksmith, and 17 February, 1729-30, he purchased a homestead in Sudbury, where he resided till 1763. He died in Princeton, Massachusetts, 4 May, 1766. Mrs. Lydia Patterson died in Princeton, September, 1776, aged sixty-six years. Barry in his "History of Framingham, Massachusetts," says his "father is said to have been 'James,' prob. g. s. of James (I)," but that is the only evidence which I find to prove that he was the son of James, while, on the contrary, much can be found to show that he was not the son of James, but was the son of Andrew. James2 (8) had a son James,3 but in 1739 he is described as a "laborer of Groton," while James3 (10) was a blacksmith of Sudbury. James3 (10) of Sudbury, deeded to Joseph3 of Watertown, 6 February, 1734-5, "all the right he might have in his grandfather's' right in the lands granted to the Narragansett soldiers, his grandfather being one of the grantees." Now, as his grandfather did not will any such right to him, the only way in which he could become possessed of it was through his father, and he could have no such right until after the decease of his father, and James2 (8) of Groton was certainly living till after 6 November, 1735, nine months after the date of the deed made by James3 (10), and he probably did not die till the latter part of 1737, which facts led me to believe that James3 (10) could not have been the son of James2 (8), while in proof that he was son of Andrew2 (4) I find the following facts :
His descendants have a tradition that Andrew2 (4) died, or was lost at sea, while no other branch of the family has any traditionary knowledge of Andrew at all, and the descendants of James3 (10) have no traditionary knowledge of James2 (8). Now, each family would naturally be much more likely to retain such traditionary knowledge of their own ancestor than of a brother of their ancestor. Again, there is no record to show that Elizabeth Patterson, of Reading, did, in any way, during her lifetime, convey the title to the property which, in 1725, she bought of Thomas Hodgeman ; but 7 April, 1757, James3 (10) of Sudbury, sold a part of this same property, and 24 July, 1758, the remainder of it, while there is no record of any convey-
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ance to him in any way of the property, so that he must have inherited it from Elizabeth Patterson of Reading; and the fact that he disposed of it without reference to any other heir would show that he was sole heir, and that, if he had ever had any brothers or sisters, neither they nor their rep- resentatives were living in 1757.
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Children of John2 and Joanna (Hall) Patterson : I. KEZIA PATTERSON8, born in Billerica, 5 February, 1703-4.
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II. REBECCA PATTERSON,3 born in Billerica, 15 January, 1705-6.
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III. HANNAH PATTERSON3, born in Billerica, 9 July, 1710.
IV. MARY PATTERSON,3 born in Billerica, 19 March, 1713-14.
V. ELIZABETH PATTERSON,3 born in Billerica, 24 February, 1722-3.
Children of Joseph2 and Mercy (Goodenow) Patterson :
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I. MERCY PATTERSON,3 born in Watertown, I September, 1702; married, 1721, Samuel Brown, a tailor of the East Precinct ( Watertown). She was admitted to full connection in Waltham Church, 9 April, 1724, and he 21 March, 1724-5. They were both dismissed from Waltham to Leicester Church, 18 February, 1738-9 ( Bond, p. 727), about which time they removed to Leicester, where they resided in May, 1742. They removed from there to Stockbridge, where, in 1749, at the death of Rev. they, and the families of their son, Samuel Brown, Jr., and son-in-law, Deacon John Chamberlain, were three of the only twelve English families in town. He was a deacon of the church, and had a large share of the municipal offices and business of Stockbridge while it was a precinct and after it was in- corporated as a town. He was a member of the Provincial Congress in 1775 (Bond, p. 122). He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. His will, dated 1782, making son Samuel sole executor, was proved 2 March, 1784. He willed all his estate, real and personal, to his grandsons, John, Isaac, Abram, Joseph, and Lemuel, sons of Captain Abraham Brown. She died in Stockbridge, 6 March, 1774, and he died 7 February, 1784.
II. MARY PATTERSON3, born in Watertown, 16 August, 1704; married 14 February, 1733-4, Jeremiah Hewes, of Needham.
III. · LYDIA PATTERSON3, born in Watertown, 9 October, 1706; died young.
IV. EUNICE PATTERSON3, born in Watertown, 19 April, 1708; married 28 December, 1726, Jonathan Flagg, of Watertown, born I May, 17041. They removed to Framingham about 1731, after the birth of their second child.
1. Son of Allen and Sarah (Ball) Flagg, grandson of John, Jr .. and Sarah (Bull- ard) Ball, and cousin of David Ball, who married Sybilla3 (22) Patterson. (Bond, p. 12).
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V. JOSEPH PATTERSON3, born in Watertown, 27 August, 1710, married 1737, Lydia Marean, of Newton, born in Roxbury, 1711, daugh- ter of William and Elizabeth (Clark) Marean2. He was a farmer and lived in Watertown till 1767, when he moved to Richmond. He was a member of Captain Eleazer Melvin's company in Governor Shirley's expedition to the Norridgewock country in 1754. (Ref., N. E. Hist. & Gen. Reg., vol. xxxvii, p. 148, Society of Colonial Wars, Illinois 1897). They were dismissed 24 May, 1767, from Waltham Church "to the Christian brethren in Rich- mond, Massachusetts, soon to be embodied into a church." (Bond, p. 392). He was "constable and collector" of Watertown in 1747. He died in Rich- mond, 8 September, 1780. She died in Richmond, 8 February, 1785, "in ye 74th year of her age."3
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Children of Joseph2 and Mary (-) Patterson : VI. HEPZIBAH PATTERSON3, born in Watertown, 7 December, I713.
VII. SIBILLA PATTERSON, born in Watertown: baptized in Wa- tertown, 27 November, 1715 ; married, 10 July, 1735, David Ball, of Water- town, born 17 January, 1716-174.
VIII. LYDIA PATTERSON3, born in Watertown, 12 October, 1718.
Children of Joseph2 and Rebecca (Myrick) Patterson :
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IX. ELIZABETH PATTERSON3, born in Watertown, 27 September, 1727 ; married, 6 July, 1749, Abijah Bond, of Watertown, born 28 Novem- ber, 1727. They settled in Concord, Massachusetts. (See Bond, pp. 50 and 164-5.)
Children of James2 and Mary (- -) Patterson :
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I. JAMES PATTERSON3, born -; married in Groton, Massa- chusetts, 17 January, 1744-5, widow Elizabeth Bartlett. She was born 20 March, 1718. They lived in that part of Groton which was set off in 1753 to form the district (afterwards town) of Shirley, for which he was one of the petitioners, I March, 1747. He was a witness, 20 March, 1738, to the deed from Samuel Belknap to Joseph Patterson (20) of Watertown, and 27 August, 1739, he signed a deed to Joseph (20) of Watertown, of the same "lot No. 44 in Narragansett No. 6" (Templeton, Massachusetts) which his father mortgaged to Belknap, and Belknap deeded to Joseph (20) of Water- town. He died in Shirley, Massachusetts, 4 May, 1759. His estate was ad- ministered by his widow, who married (third) 27 January, 1763, Samuel Nichols. She died 28 July, 1813, aged ninety-six.
2. "William Marean and Elizabeth Clark were married in Roxbury, 7 January, 1702, and had (in Roxbury), PHILIP, 1703; WILLIAM, 1707; THOMAS, 1712; removed to Newton and lived near Kenrick's bridge. He died 1761, age 83; she died 1747." (Jackson's "History of Newton," p. 362).
3. A small copper tea-kettle which belonged to Lydia Marean at the time of her marriage to Joseph Patterson is now in the possession of the compiler.
4. He was son of Joseph and Elizabeth ( Parkhurst) Ball, grandson of John and Sarah (Bullard) Ball, and cousin to Jonathan Flagg, who married Eunice Patter- son3 (19). (Bond, page 13.)
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II. JONATIIAN PATTERSON3, born He was mentioned in a deed, 27 August, 1739, as "labourer of Groton." He died in Groton about 1752. James Patterson, his brother, was appointed administrator of his estate, 16 March, 1752.
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III. JOHN PATTERSON3, born in Dunstable, 10 April, 17II. (See Fox's "History of Dunstable, Massachusetts.") I have thus far found no other record of him, and presume that he died young.
28 IV. HEZEKIAH PATTERSON3, born - -. He was a signer of the deed to. Joseph (20) of Watertown, 27 August, 1739, in which he was called "labourer of Groton."
29 V. MARY PATTERSON3, born -. In the deed of 27 August, 1739. to Joseph (20) of Watertown, she was called "of Watertown, spin- ster." Mary Patterson (probably this one) was married in Groton, 2 April, 1745, to Nathan Hubbard. (Butler's "History of Groton," pp. 409 and 455).
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Children of Jonathan2 and Mary (Hawks) Patterson :
I. JONATHAN PATTERSON3, born in Deerfield, Massachusetts, 18 December, 1714; died 1721.
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II. ELIEZER PATTERSON3, born in Deerfield, Massachusetts, I September, 1716; married Lydia -; resided in Northfield.
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I. JONATHAN PATTERSON+, born in Sudbury, Massachusetts, 30 November, 1735: unmarried ; killed in the French war by the Indians, 20 July, 1758.
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II. DAVID PATTERSON4, born in Sudbury, 17 May, 1739 ; married Beulah Clark, born in Framingham, 23 July, 1740, daughter of Isaac and Mary (Stone) Clark. (See Barry's "Framingham," pp. 208-9). He and his wife covenanted with the church in Framingham, 16 November, 1759.
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III. ANDREW PATTERSON4, born in Sudbury, 14 April, 1742; married in Worcester, 21 October, 1761, Elizabeth Bond, of Worcester, daughter of John and Ruth (Whitney) Bond. She died in Sudbury, 13 September, 1772, aged thirty-six years. He married (second) Mrs. Anne Russel, widow. They moved to Princeton, and probably afterwards farther west.
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Children of Joseph3 and Lydia (Marean) Patterson :
I. JOSEPH PATTERSON4, born in Watertown 15 (or 26) August. 1738. In 1761 he was one of the earliest settlers of Mount Ephraim (now Richmond), Massachusetts. (See Barber's Mass. Hist. Coll.) He married, in Richmond, 15 Tune, 1774. Jerusha Phelps, born in Lebanon, Connecticut, 4 April, 1745. He settled in the southwest part of the town, near the State line *. He died in Richmond, 17 January, 1821, of paralysis. She died in
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* On the 25th of May. 1764, at a town meeting (of Yokun Town and Mount Ephraim) a committee was appointed to build a meeting house in Yokun Town (Rich- mond). (Yokun Town was Lenox, but that house might have been built in Richmond). And on the 9th of October, 1764, a committee (Samuel Brown, Jr., Joseph Patterson,
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Children of James3 and Lydia (Fisk) Patterson :
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New Lebanon, Columbia county. New York, 13 December, 1827, of typhus fever.
II. ELIZABETH PATTERSON+, born in Watertown, 2 April, 1740; married, 9 December. 1760, William Saltmarsh, born in Watertown, 20 Jan- uary, 1734-5, son of Thomas and Mary ( Hazen) Saltmarsh, of Watertown. He was a farmer, and a lieutenant under Captain Jonathan Brown at Lake George, in 1758. They resided in Watertown till 1765 or 1766, about which time they removed to Canaan, Columbia county, New York. They lived near the Massachusetts line, and belonged to the church in Richmond. About 1795 or 1796 they moved to Union, Broome county, New York, where they lived about two years on the farm since owned by their son-in-law, Manna Newell, when they settled in Tioga Point (since Athens), Bradford county, Pennsylvania. Lieutenant William Saltmarsh died in Athens, Pennsyl- vania, 13 January, 1811, and Mrs. Elizabeth Saltmarsh died in Owego, New York, I April, 1816. She was buried at Athens by her husband's side.
III. BEULAH PATTERSON4, born in Watertown. 20 January, 1741-2; married her cousin, Abraham Brown, of Stockbridge. He was a captain in the militia, and was repeatedly out on military duty in the Revolu- tionary War. He died 8 January, 1777. of natural smallpox, communicated to him by a letter (see Bond, p. 130). Their residence* was in the first house
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and John Benton) was appointed "to allot the pews ground in the meeting house to those proprietors that they think in justice out to have it" -- twenty-six pews and the rest of the space to be laid out in long seats. The first pew was assigned to the minister, the second to John Coggswell, the third to Joseph Patterson, and the seventh was assigned to Benedict Dewey and Joseph Patterson. At the same time a seat was assigned to William Saltmarsh and his wife. (Manuscript letter of Dr. Bond).
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north of the old meeting-house in Stockbridge, where his widow remained till 1775. when she moved to Brown's Settlement (now Berkshire) Tioga county, New York, where she died, 6 July, 1820. Her five sons left Stock- bridge and settled on different parts of the "Boston Purchase" about the same time that she did.
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IV. ABIGAIL PATTERSON+, born in Watertown, 7 January, 1743-4. After the death of her mother, who willed her all of her property, she resided with her sister, Mrs. Pixley. She died at Owego, New York, un- married, 9 February, 1808, "aged 64 years." She was buried in the ground now occupied by the public square and buildings at Owego, but was soon after removed to the burial ground in the rear of the Presbyterian Church at Owego.
V. LYDIA PATTERSON+, born in Watertown, 16 December, 1745 : married David Pixley, son of David and Abigail Pixley, of Stockbridge *. She was his second wife. (He had by his first wife one son named David, who married Drusilla Bond). Mr. Pixley was one of the first men (Cap- tain Joseph Raymond and Amos Patterson being his only companions) who went to explore the tract of land afterwards purchased of the government of Massachusetts by the "Boston Purchase Company." He was one of the commissioners sent out by the company to treat with the Indians for the purchase of the right to the soil. The tract included that part of the counties of Broome and Tioga, New York, which lies between the Chenango river on the east and the Owego creek on the west, and extending northward from the Susquehanna river about twenty-five miles. It contains about 230,000 acres. Wilkinson, in his "Annals of Binghamton," says "Col. D. Pixley settled in a very early day about one mile west of Owego on a beau- tiful and level area of about 3.000 acres. Col. Pixley acquainted himself with the Indian language, and became thereby the more popular with them." He entered the service of his country at the first alarm. He was a member of Colonel John Patterson's regiment; they received the news of the battle of Lexington at noon, two days after it occurred, and the next morning were on their way to Boston, completely armed and equipped, and mostly in uniform. (Holland's "History of Western Massachusetts," vol. i. p. 222). His first commission, dated May 19, 1775, just one month after the battle of Lexington, was as "Lieut. in the - Foot Company, in the Reg-
iment of Foot, whereof John Patterson. Esq., is Colonel." It was signed "Joseph Warren, President P. T. of the Congress of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay." After his removal to the State of New York he was honored by Governor George Clinton with a commission as major, 7 March, 1792, and 28 March, 1797, he received from Governor John Jay a commis- sion as lieutenant-colonel. "Mrs. Pixley was eminently pious, and made her house a home for strangers, and especially for the missionaries and ministers of that early day." ("Annals of Binghamton," III). She died at Owego, New York, 2 February, 1808, of pleurisy, and was first buried in the ground now occupied as the public square of that village, but was shortly afterwards removed to the burial ground in the rear of the Presbyterian
* The estate of David Pixley, the elder, was administered, 3 October, 1786, by Henry Van Schraack, of Pittsfield. (See Bond, p. 392).
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church at Owego. In a funeral discourse and obituary notice of her, by Rev. Seth Williston, published in the "Connecticut Evangelical Magazine" for 1808, pages 366-374, it is stated that "she moved in to Owego in Febru- ary, 1791," and that "she never had but three children of her own, one only of whom survived her." The following is a copy of the inscription upon hier gravestone :
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