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"In memory of Lydia, Consort of Col David Pixley, who departed this life Feb. 2nd, 1808, in the 63rd year of her age.
A pattern she through every scene of life, A pious Christian and a faithful wife,
A neighbor kind, a sweet and pleasant friend, 'Twas thus she lived and peaceful was her end."
Colonel Pixley died of dropsy, 25 August, 1807, and was first buried on or near the public square of that village, but was soon afterward removed to the burial ground in rear of the Presbyterian church, where the following inscription may be seen on his gravestone :
"In memory of Colonel David Pixley, who de- parted this life August 25, 1807, in the 67th year of his age. He was an officer of the Revolution at the siege of Quebec in 1775 under Gen. Mont- gomery ; was the first settler of Owego in 1790. and continued its father and friend until his death."
VI. AMOS PATTERSON4, born in Watertown, 18 February, 1747- 8, according to the town records, while the family account says 24 January, 1749. Possibly there were two of the name, the first born at the date given by the town record, and dying soon, and the second born at the date given by the family account, and not mentioned in the town record, though it is more likely that the family account is an error, and the town record correct. When about sixteen years of age he was riding on horseback from Boston to Watertown, when his horse fell with him, and crushed his left leg upon the frozen ground, breaking the bones in several places. He managed, how- ever, to remount his horse without assistance, and rode to his father's house. On his arrival there were icicles of blood hanging to his shoe. His leg was shortened one inch and a half by the accident. He moved with his father to Mount Ephraim (now Richmond), Massachusetts, in 1766 or 1767. He married, 30 March, 1775, Anne Williams, born in Colchester (Westchester Society), Connecticut, 22 March, 1753, daughter of John and Abigail (Crocker) Williams. He was out with the militia three times during the Revolution, once in 1775, once in 1776, and again in 1777, at the time when his eldest son was born. He was at White Plains in October, 1776, when the armies were encamped in sight of each other. He, in company with Thomas Marean and another soldier, managed to pass the British sentries one night, went to the meadow in which the British horses were pastured, took each of them a fine horse, with which they returned in safety to their own camp. When the American army left White Plains he was one who was left to assist in loading and carrying off the stores of the army, and he gave an amusing description of the distribution of a hogshead of molasses, which they could not remove for lack of teams. They broke in the head, and gave liberty for any to take what they wished of it, and said that everything that
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would hold molasses was brought into requisition, from pails, canteens, bot- tles, and tin cups, down to hats, boots and shoes. He would have been in the regular army but for the crippled condition of his leg. He was one of the originators of the company which bought what is known as the "Boston Purchase," or "Boston Ten Townships" in the counties of Broome and Tioga, New York. He in company with Colonel David Pixley and Captain Joseph Raymond, of Richmond, went into that part of the country to view the land, about the year 1785 or 1786. They were the first men who went from the east for that purpose ; they explored the country, and made the lo- cation before any other persons had anything to do with it, or knew any- thing about the enterprise. They at first intended to form a company of eleven proprietors, but the number was afterwards increased to sixty. Amos Patterson spent the most of his time, except winters, in that country from 1786 till 1791, when he began to clear land for a farm and built the house of hewn logs, which stood till 1855 on the farm owned, in 1856, by Lawrence Allen, in Union, New York, about three miles west of Binghamton. He con- tinued to work on his farm till 1793, when he took his family from Rich- mond to share his life in the wilderness ; they reached there 3 March, 1793, having been thirteen days on the road. Mrs. Lucy Day (66) says, (26 Sep- tember, 1857) that "Amos Patterson's family started for the Boston Pur- chase 18 February, went the first day to McGowan's tavern, about nineteen miles from their starting place, where they laid by one day on account of rain. On the 20th they all went on, except Mrs. Patterson, who was so unwell that she went back to Richmond with her brother, David Williams, at whose house she staid till after her son Amos was born. Her husband went back after her in June, and they arrived at their new home in Union early (about 3rd or 4th day) in July, and within an hour of their arrival began the shower which caused such a severe freshet in 1793." During that season he built on the Choconut creek the first saw-mill ever built in the present town of Union, New York. On the 5th day of May, 1797, he removed with his family to the farm about three miles below, on the Susquehanna river, where he resided for the remainder of his life. He first lived in a small plank house about thirty rods from the river, but the 12th of October, 1800, he moved into the large house which he had built on the bank of the river. This house is still standing (1906) in a perfect state of preservation. He was a prom- inent man among the inhabitants of that region, and on the formation of Broome county, in 1806, he was appointed one of the judges for the county, which office he held till 1813, having been twice reappointed. He took great interest in the culture of fruit, and in 1803 made the first cider ever made in what was later Broome county. He planted his apple seeds in the fall of 1792, and in 1803 made forty-five barrels of cider, which found a quick market at the press, at eight dollars a barrel. His wife died at Union, 25 December, 1815, of bilious colic. The following obituary notice appeared in the "Owego Gazette" of January 2, 1816:
"Died at Union, December 25, Mrs. Amos Patterson, consort of the "Hon. Amos Patterson. Her funeral was attended, and a sermon preached "on the occasion by the Rev. Hezekiah May on the Wednesday following. "A numerous concourse from this and the neighboring towns testified the "loss which society has sustained by the death of this estimable lady, as "also the sympathy with the afflicted relatives. She was charitable to the "poor, and assiduous and affectionate in the discharge of the duties of her "station, and of her family, and her memory will be ever dear to her sur-
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"viving consort and children, and to numerous relatives and acquaintances." Anne (Williams) Patterson had three, and probably five, ancestors in the "Mayflower :" John Tilley ; Elizabeth Tilley, his daughter ; and John How- land, who afterwards married Elizabeth Tilley; Governor Carver and his wife, who were, according to family tradition, grandparents of Elizabeth Tilley. In support of this family tradition is the record in the old Hartford Bible, which gives John Howland's marriage to "John Tilley's daughter Elizabeth, granddaughter of Gov. Carver." Mrs. Annie Arnoux Haxton, in her "Signers of the Mayflower Compact," 1897, says that she is satisfied that Elizabeth Tilley was the grand-daughter of Governor Carver, and that John Tilley probably married Carver's daughter in England before going to Holland. The Leyden record says that in "Feb. 1615" he "married Brid- get Van der Velde." As the marriage of Howland and Elizabeth Tilley was one of the earliest celebrated in the colony, taking place, according to the official account of the "Society of the Mayflower Descendants" in 1621, Bridget Van der Velde could not have been the mother of Elizabeth. Mrs. Haxton says that Elizabeth was born in 1607, married 14 August, 1623 ( ?), and died 21 December, 1687. For connection between Anne (Williams) Patterson and John Howland, see "The Whitney Family of Connecticut," vol. ii, p. 1582, chart showing ancestry of David Williams Patterson. Amos Patterson died at Union, 5 March, 1817, of gravel. He and his wife were buried in the family burial ground on the southwest corner of the farm. A family monument of Pittsfield marble was erected by the family in 1853. The intention was to place it directly over the graves of Amos Patterson and his wife, but through the carelessness of the workmen it was set somewhat too far south, so as to bring it more over his grave than hers. Upon that monument are several errors in dates, which will be given correctly in this genealogy in their proper connection.
VII. MARTHA PATTERSON+, born in Watertown, 26 May, 1750; married William Woodbridge, born Springfield, Massachu- setts. He was a farmer, and resided at the time of his marriage in Stock- bridge, but afterwards removed to Ferrisburg, Vermont, where Mrs. Wood- bridge died of pleurisy, 31 August, 1801. They had a daughter, Lucy, who lived for several years in Owego with her aunt, Mrs. Pixley. Mr. Wood- bridge died at Madrid, St. Lawrence county, New York, 16 July, 1814, of paralysis.
VIII. SARAH PATTERSON+, born in Watertown, 30 June, 1753: married - October, 1775, Phineas Brown, Esq., of Stockbridge, born in Waltham, Massachusetts, 30 May, 1747, son of Captain John and Hannahı (Bemis) Brown, of Waltham. (See Bond, pp. 124, 140). She died in Waltham, Vermont, August 10, 1800, and he married (second) May 6, 1802, Elizabeth, widow of Timothy Rosseter, and daughter of Sylvanus and Elizabeth (Gamble) Backus, of Windham, Connecticut, a descendant of William Backus, one of the first settlers of Norwich, Connecticut, and of Governor William Bradford, of the "Mayflower." She was born 24 Novem- ber, 1766, and died at Salisbury, Vermont, 20 July, 1828. Phineas Brown, Esq., died at Waltham, Vermont, 6 July, 1818. (For continuation, see Bond, p. 140).
IX. ESTHER PATTERSON+, born in Watertown, 10 January, 1756; married -- , her cousin Thomas Marean, born in Newtown, Massachu-
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setts, 17 October, 1753, son of Thomas and Margaret ( Hammond) Marean. (See Jackson's "History of Newtown.") They settled in Canaan, Columbia county, New York, near the. Massachusetts line, where they resided till the beginning of the year 1791, when they removed to the Boston Purchase, in company with her brother Amos.
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Children of James3 and Elizabeth (- -) Patterson : I. SYBIL PATTERSON4, born in Groton (now Shirley), 22 July, 1747. She chose James Prescott, Esq., of Groton, as her guardian, 12 De- cember, 1764; was called eighteen years old; married Brown; she died - September, ISII.
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II. NICHOLAS PATTERSON4, born in Groton (now Shirley), 22 March, 1749. 12 December, 1764, he chose James Prescott, Esq., to be his guardian ; he was called sixteen years old. He was a merchant of Shirley. Is said by Deacon James Patterson of Clinton, to have had daughters but no sons.
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III. JOSEPH PATTERSON4, born in Groton (now Shirley), 25 De- cember, 1751. 12 September, 1766, James Prescott, Esq., was appointed his guardian ; he was called fifteen years old. He was a carpenter, lived in Shirley, and is said by Deacon James Patterson to have left daughters, but no sons.
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IV. JAMES PATTERSON4, born in Shirley, 8 May, 1754. James Prescott Esq., was appointed his guardian, 12 September, 1766; he was called thirteen years of age; married 19 October, 1778, Mirriam Hovey, daughter of -. He died - November, 1787, aged thirty-three years. Mrs. Mirriam Patterson died - May, 1805.
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V. JANE PATTERSON4, born in Shirley, 23 June, 1756. James Pres- cott, Esq., was appointed her guardian, 2 September, 1766; called eleven years old ; married ,Oliver Scripture, born - 9 December. 1750. They resided in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, and both joined the New Ipswich church on the first Sabbath in October, 1786. He died 29 July, 1821 ; she died 22 April, 1837.
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VI. THOMAS PATTERSON+, born in Shirley, 25 March, 1759. James Prescott, Esq., was appointed his guardian, 2 September, 1766; called eight years old. No other word of him.
Children of Jonathan3 and ( ) Patterson : ) Patterson or Hezekiah and
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I. ESTHER PATTERSON4, born 1731 ; married in Groton, 20 No- vember, 1751, Jonas Longley. He was perhaps a brother of John Longley, who married her sister Elizabeth. Both Jonas and John were bondsmen in 1752 for James Patterson, administrator of the estate of Jonathan Patter- son, who was most likely the father of their wives. They resided in Shirley, where she died, 5 June, 1767, aged thirty-six years.
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II. ELIZABETH PATTERSON4, married in Pepperell, 16 July, 1751, John Longley. They resided in Shirley, where he died, 17 March, 1792.
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III. JOHN PATTERSON+, married in Groton, 4 January, 1758, Jane Parker. He was then called of Shirley, in which town they settled. For his children, see Butler, p. 494.
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IV. HEZEKIAH PATTERSON4, married in Groton, 18 November, 1762, Mary Pierce, (she was perhaps daughter of Simon and Susanna (Parker) Pierce, and born in Groton, 29 March, 1743. Butler's "History of Groton," p. 427). They resided in Shirley. For their children, see Butler, P. 494.
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II. JAMES PATTERSON5, born in Sudbury, 22 February, 1768; died in Sudbury, 13 April, 1771, "aged 4 years."
Child of Andrew4 and Anna (Russell) Patterson : III. DAVID PATTERSON5, born in Sudbury, 31 August, 1778. It is not certain that the above three were all the children that Andrew had, but they are all of whom I have found any record.
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Children of Joseph* and Jerusha ( Phelps) Patterson : I. LUCINDA PATTERSON5, born in Richmond, 10 April, 1775; died in Richmond, 12 August, 1777.
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II. ELIJAH PATTERSON5, born in Richmond, 28 December, 1776; died in Richmond, 13 August, 1777.
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IV. LYDIA PATTERSON5, born in Richmond, 27 November, 1780; married, February, 1802, Elisha Hatch, born in Richmond, 25 January, 1778. They settled in Canaan, Columbia county, New York, where she died, 30 November, 1827, of typhoid fever, and where he died, I January, 1844, of consumption.
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V. JERUSHA PATTERSON5, born in Richmond, 8 October, 1782; unmarried ; resided in 1856 at Warsaw, Wyoming county, New York. I am indebted to her for much valuable information respecting her father's descendants.
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VI. JOSEPH PATTERSON5, born in Richmond, 2 February, 1786; died in Richmond, - June, 1786.
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Children of Amos and Anne (Williams) Patterson :
LUCY PATTERSON5, born in Richmond, 3 January, 1776: died in I.
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Children of Andrew4 and Elizabeth (Bond) Patterson : I. Sarah Patterson5, born in Sudbury, 13 May (15 May, according to Barry), 1764; died in Sudbury, 8 April, 1771, "aged 8 years."
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III. EUNICE PATTERSON5, born in Richmond, 14 July, 1779 ; mar- ried, 16 November, 1814, Zalmon Skinner, of New Lebanon, Columbia county, New York, in which town they settled and spent the remainder of their lives. She was his second wife ; he died in New Lebanon, 22 Novem- ber, 1849. She died there, 14 December, 1855, of typhoid fever.
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Richmond, 6 January, 1779. Her death was caused by scalds from falling into a kettle of hot tallow. She was buried in the old burial place in the south part of Richmond, near West Stockbridge.
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II. CHESTER PATTERSON, born in Richmond, 24 September, 1777. He left Richmond, 14 February, 1793, for Union, Broome county, New York, where he arrived on the 23d of the same month. He was a farmer and lumberman, and was connected in business with his father as long as his father lived. He was town clerk of Union for many years, sheriff of Broome county from 1809 to 1812, inclusive; represented the county in the state legislature in 1819, 1820 and 1821 ; was one of the pres- idential electors for the state of New York in 1824, giving his vote for John Quincy Adams. He married, 26 March, 1823, Mary Ann Elliott, born in Kill- ingworth (now Clinton), Connecticut, 5 May, 1804, daughter of William and Lovisa (Lane) Elliott. They continued to reside in Union, on the farm where his father died, till April, 1839, when he removed with his family to the village of Newark Valley, Tioga county, New York, where he died, 22 Sep- tember, 1857, two days less than eighty years of age. He is buried in Hope cemetery, in Newark Valley. She died in Newark Valley, 23 July, 1873, and is buried in Hope cemetery.
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III. NANCY PATTERSON5, born in Richmond, 10 March, 1780; married, 17 November, 1803, Dr. Erastus Robinson. They settled in Union, where she died in childbed, 28 August, 1804. She was buried in the family burial ground with her infant daughter. Dr. Robinson, after her death, re- moved to Brooklyn, Connecticut.
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IV. LUCY PATTERSON3, born in Richmond, 18 September, 1781 ; married, 4 October, 1802, Jonathan Day, born in Richmond, 23 March, 1779, son of Thomas and Jerusha (Miller) Day. (Thomas Day was born in Newark, New Jersey, and Jerusha Miller was born on Long Island). They settled in Union, where they resided till 1849, when they moved to the east. part of Owego, where he died, 14 December, 1849, and was buried near the Presbyterian church. She resided in Union with her son Darwin till her death, 6 or 12 November, 1864.
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V. LYMAN PATTERSON5, born in Richmond, 28 June, 1783 ; mar- ried 30 August, 1817, Mehitabel Seymour, daughter of Colonel Samuel Sey- mour. He was a very expert hunter, and the woods were full of game at that time, so that he found an abundance of his favorite exercise. He was, in the latter part of his life, a merchant of Binghamton, New York, where he died, 22 November, 1824; he was buried in the family burial place at Union, sixteen feet nine inches north of the base of the monument. His widow married, 26 August, 1826, Solon Stocking, of Binghamton, New York.
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VI. SALLY PATTERSON5, born in Richmond, 27 May, 1785 ; mar- ried, - -, 1808, Dr. Charles Coryell, of Nichols, New York. He abused and deserted her, and she obtained a divorce from him. She died in Union, New York, 3 March, 1826, of measles ; was buried in the family burial place.
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VII. ANN PATTERSON, born in Richmond, 19 October, 1787; married 7 March, 18II, Anson Higbe, farmer, of Berkshire (now Newark Valley) New York. He died 27 August, 1854, in Newark Valley. She died 8 November, 1862. Both buried in Hope Cemetery.
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VIII. SOPHIA PATTERSON3, born in Richmond, 31 December, 1789 ; unmarried ; died at Union, New York, at the home of her niece, Mrs. Ralyea, 21 November, 1854, of typhus fever ; was buried in the family burial ground, fifteen feet south of the monument.
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IX. AMOS PATTERSON5, born in Richmond, 22 April, 1793, after his father had moved to the Boston Purchase. He was drowned in the Susquehanna river at Union, 8 July, 1800, and was buried in the family burial place, twelve feet six inches north of the base of the monument.
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X. JOSEPH PATTERSON5, born in Union, New York, 22 Febru- ary, 1795 ; he graduated at Union College, 1815 (or 1816) with the highest honors. He married (first) 20 March, 1820, Eliza Seymour, daughter of John and Sarah (Stoddard) Seymour, of Lisle, New York. Rev. Niles, of Binghamton performed the marriage ceremony. He was sheriff of Broome county in 1820 and 1821. He removed with his family to Ontario, Wayne county, New York, 28 February, 1824. His wife died 3 November, 1828; and he married (second) 24 October, 1831, Hannah Maria, widow of Dr. Greenwood, of Ontario, and daughter of Noah and Lois (Spooner) Fuller, of Williamson, New York. In December, 1836, he moved to Penfield, New York, where he resided till December, 1839, when he returned to Ontario, New York. He was supervisor of Penfield during his residence there, and was always a prominent man in Ontario, serving the people of the town in some capacity his full share of the time. For many years he was a country merchant in Ontario, but in January, 1854, his dwelling-house and store, with all their contents, were destroyed by fire, reducing him at once to com- plete poverty. On the death of his sister Sophia5 (70) he received from her a small legacy which enabled him to live comfortably on a farm. At the time of his second marriage he had three children, and his wife had one, William Eugene Greenwood1, and, although they afterwards had several children, yet no difference was ever known between the three kinds of children. The writer of this, during a residence of several months in the family, never saw a single expression of jealous feeling or envy on the part of any one of the family toward another, theirs being one of the few cases in which step- fathers and stepmothers have given entire satisfaction to all concerned. In April, 1857, he went to Emporia, Kansas Territory, with the idea of found- ing a new home in the west. He died at Emporia, of congestion of the brain, 12 August, 1857, just four months after leaving Ontario. She mar-
I. Dr. William Greenwood was born in Rutland, Vermont, in October, 1792. He studied medicine in Manlius, Onondaga county, New York, and was licensed to practice in 1822 by the Onondaga County Medical Society. He settled in Ontario in 1824, after having previously resided a year at Penfield, Monroe county, New York. He married, 22 April, 1829, Hannah Maria Fuller. He died in Ontario, 12 February, 1831, of congestion of the lungs, leaving one son, William Eugene Fuller, born in Ontario, 31 January, 1830; married (Rev. N. T. Allen, officiating) Julia Cornelia Sophia Topliff, born Willington, 19 November, 1832, daughter of Jerome and Lucina (Leonard) Topliff, of Willington.
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ried (third) 19 December, 1861, Archibald Huston. She died 10 January, I866.
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XI. MARTHA PATTERSON5, born in Union, 12 December, 1796; married 7 March, 1820, Philander Hooper, a farmer of Union, New York, born in West Stockbridge, 18 November, 1795, son of Captain Elisha and Ruth (Newell) Hooper. He died 18 February, 1869 ; she died 9 December, 1885; both are buried in the Patterson family burial ground at Hooper (town of Union), New York.
Children of John+ and Jane (Parker) Patterson : I. LEMUEL PATTERSON5, born in Shirley, 8 January, 1759.
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II. SARAH PATTERSON5, born in Shirley, 19 March, 1761 ; died 21 November, 1764.
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III. JOHN PATTERSON5, born in Shirley, 8 December, 1762; is said by Deacon James Patterson to have gone to Troy, New York.
IV. SAMUEL PATTERSON5, born in Shirley, 3 October, 1764; he is said to have gone to Troy, New York.
V. SARAH PATTERSON5, born in Shirley, 3 February, 1767.
VI. JAMES PATTERSON5, born in Shirley, 26 July, 1769.
Children of Hezekiah+ and Mary ( Pierce) Patterson :
I. JONATHAN PATTERSON5, born in Shirley, 9 May, 1763; died 16 September, 1765.
II. HEZEKIAH PATTERSON5, born in Shirley, 26 August, 1765.
III. JOANNA PATTERSON5, born in Shirley, 26 February, 1768.
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IV. MARY PATTERSON5, born in Shirley, 7 September, 1770.
Children of Chester" and Mary (Elliott) Patterson :
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I. DAVID WILLIAMS PATTERSON6, born in Union, Broome county, New York, 15 July, 1824. He removed with his parents in 1839 to Newark Valley, New York, where he married, 8 June, 1853, Helen Maria Lincoln, born in Newark Valley, 8 June, 1832, daughter of Otis and Sarah (Slosson) Lincoln. He died at Newark Valley, 18 November, 1892. She lives (1906) at Newark Valley.
After obtaining a good common school education, D. Williams Patterson studied dentistry at Rochester, New York, and entered the dental profession in 1844. He went to West Winsted, Connecticut, 24 December, 1846, where he resided until May, 1865.
The subject of genealogy, especially in the case of his own and other families which had their sources in New England, had interested him from an early age, and he gave much time during his residence at West Winsted
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to its study, seeking information in town and church records, and upon tombstones, and putting in order the facts he obtained. In May, 1865, he abandoned the practice of his profession and returned with his family to Newark Valley. From that time until his death he lived on the old family farm, and carried on his study of genealogy. He became an authority on American genealogy, and devoted the latter years of his life to its study, compiling and editing a number of books on the subject. The present work, as well as several other compilations, were left in manuscript by him.
The most extensive published production on which he was engaged was the "The Whitney Family of Connecticut," comprising three quarto vol- umes of 916, 898, and 826 pages respectively. He was employed in this work continuously for seven years. The book was privately printed in 1878 for the late S. Whitney Phoenix, of New York, who wrote as follows in the preface :
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