WIFE

Elizabeth Peet

CHILDREN

1. Sarah Patterson
    b. 17 Mar 1693/4
    m. 3 Jul 1712 Ephraim Beach
    d. 15 Mar 1717

2. Charles Patterson
    b. 04 Apr 1696
    m. 19 Jan 1718 Eunice Nichols
    d. Bef. 23 Feb 1726/7

3. William Patterson
    b. 2 Jul 1698
    m. 22n Aug 1723 Anne Uffoot
    d. 31 Dec 1758

4. Elizabeth Patterson
    b. 28 Jan 1699/1700
    m. 12 Apr 1722 Abraham Morehouse
    d. 21 Nov 1785

5. Hannah Patterson
    b. 18 Apr 1703
    m. 16 Apr 1724 Joseph Murray
    d. 13 Mar 1760

6. Mary Patterson
    b. 27 Mar 1706
    m. John Adams

7. John Patterson
    b. 24 Jun 1711
    m. 4 Jun 1730 Mary Curtiss
    d. 20 Jan 1806

Andrew Patterson
by Susan Brooke
May 2023

Andrew Patterson was born about 1659 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, England. (1) He was a Scottish Presbyterian and refused to take an oath to the King and was thus imprisoned in the Tollbooth at Leith. (2) Two other men named Patterson were shot by Captain Bell about the same time; Robert Patterson and his son William Patterson. (2)  They may have been related. 
In May 1685 the Laird of Pitlochie in Scotland was given authority to transport those who were refusing to take the oath to the king to New Jersey.  He chartered the Henry and Francis which sailed on 5 Sep 1685.  Many on board were in poor condition due to their confinements and the conditions on board were bad.  The meat began to putrefy and many came down with a fever.  Three or four bodies were cast overboard every day.  Seventy people died at sea including the Laird of Pitlochie and his wife. (3)  But John Patterson survived the 15 weeks at sea and arrived in Perth Amboy in Dec 1685.
He soon moved to Stratford, Fairfield, Ct where he married Elizabeth Peet on 19 Feb 1690. (2) In 1691 "He bought of Richard Blackleach sixteen acres of land on 'the west side of Stonibrooke Hill. "
His son Charles died before 23 Feb 1726/7 and Andrew Patterson was named guardian of his two young children, Andrew and Elizabeth.  (4) He gave his "loving son John Patterson" 1 and 1/2 acres in 1734. (5) Then on 8 May 1742 Andrew Patterson wrote his will.  He had already given most of his estate to his sons and daughters. In his will he gave his moveable estate to his beloved wife, Elizabeth and left land to his grandsons: Abraham, James and Elnathon who were son of his deceased son, Charles Patterson.  Sons, William and John Patterson were named executors. (6) His inventory valued at £397.7 included 14 books and 6 acres of land. (7)

 Sources

(1) The gravestone of Andrew Patterson reads that he was 87 when he died in 1746.

(2)  Andrew Patterson of Stratford, Conn. and the First Four Generations of his Descendants by Elisha G. Patterson, 1892

Andrew Patterson refused to take an oath of loyalty to King James II and was thus sent to the New World. "Thus, on the 18ty of December, 1685 (according to the diary of his fellow passenger, Robert McEwen), Andrew Patterson, at 26 years of age, landed at Perth Amboy. They were received coldly by the loyalist residents of that place, and for a short time enjoyed the hospitality of the people of the town of (probably) Woodbridge. Patterson and McEwen, having heard in Scotland of the greater degree of religious freedom enjoyed in Connecticut, proceeded there on foot, and on the 18th of July, 1686, arrived at and made their future home in 'ye old Town of Stratford.' "

In the Town records he, as Sergt. Andrew Patterson, is recorded as School Committeeman in 1717.  He and his sons William and John were Town 'proprietors,' and drew their proportion of undivided land, Novemeber, 1738.  February 19, 1690, at age 31 years ofa ge, he married Elizabeth Peet, who came from Derby England in 1635.  He died in Stratford, and, with a granddaughter and grandson, lies in the old congregational Burying Place, in inscription on his memorial stone reading.

"Here lies ye body of Mr. Andrew Patterson, who departed this Life, December ye 2d, Anno Domni 1746. Aged 87 years."

photo from http://www.findagrave.com

(3) Andrew Patterson's Journey to America

(4) Guardianship of Andrew and Elizabeth Patterson, children of his son Charles Patterson

(5) Stratford CT Deed BK 6 pages 196-7 Edmund Sharman to John Patterson land and dwelling house in Stratford in a place called Pembrook for £225. Land bounded on the east by Mr. Andrew Patterson                             28 Feb 1734/5 Andrew Patterson to his loving son John Patterson 1 1/2 acre of land      3 Mar 1734/5

Stratford CT Deed BK 6 pages 196-7

(6) Will of Andrew Patterson

Fairfield Ct Probate Records

Volume 9  pg 380
Ct State Lib Reel #1164

In the Name of God Amen.  I Andrew Patterson of y town of Stratford in ye County of Fairfield & coloney of Connecticut in New England being aintient and weak in body but of Sound mind & Memory Considering ye Great Uncertainty of Life & Knowing My Stay on earth must not be long I do Make & Ordain this my Last will and Testament: first & chiefly I recomend my soul to God that gave being firmly Trusting in his redeming Love through Jesus Christ my body I recomend to ye Earth to be once to Bury att ye direction of my Chiefhan sinor. & Also my worldly Goods After my my Just debts & funeral Charges are Sattisfied I give & Depose of them in manner following.  Having Already by Deed of Gift & otherwise Given the Most of my Estate to my Sons and Daughters & to all or Each of them there full Portions. I now Give and Bequeath unto my beloved wife Elizabeth Patterson all my Moveable Estate of what Kind So Ever.  Item: I Give unto my grandson Abraham Patterson & to his turn and assigns for ever two Acres of Land in ye field Called Newrapture it being one third part of my six acre Lott in sd field.  Item.  I give and bequeath unto my grandson James Patterson two acres of Land in ye above sd field being one third part of ye Above Lott to him his heirs & Assigned for Ever.   Item.  I Give unto my grandson Elnathon Patterson & to his heirs & Assigns forever two Acres of Land in sd field Called New Rapture it being of other third part of my sd  six acre Lott:  I doe hereby Ordain my Beloved wife Elizabeth Patterson and my two Sons William and John Patterson Executors of this my Last Will & testament hereby nuling all other wills By me made & declaring this & this onley to be my Last Will & Testament only to be my Last Will & Testament to confirm which I had hereunto Set my hand & Seal this 8th Day of May, 1742

Signed Sealed & in presents of Theophilus Nickhols John Patterson William Beem

Will of Andrew Patterson Fairfield Probate Records Volume 9 pg 380 Town Records Microfilm CSL Reel # 1164 Lds # 0004289 Fairfield Probate Records Volumes 9-10 1741-1755

2nd half of page 380 Will being proved on 15 May 1746

(7) Inventory
Fairfield Probate Vol 9 page 394

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