1. Blumenson, Martin, The Patton Papers: 1885-1940. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin Company, 1972. 23-25. "The widow [Susan Thornton Glassel] of
George Smith Patton remarried in 1870. Her second husband was her late
husband's first cousin and schoolmate at VMI, George Hugh Smith...[George
Hugh Smith] became a devoted stepfather to her four children. So well
did he bring up these youngsters that the eldest, George William Patton,
legally change his name to George Smith Patton, Jr., the second to be
so known, in order to honor both his father and his stepfather."
2. MacKenzie, George Norbury, Colonial Families of the United States of
America: in which is given the history, genealogy and armorial bearings
of colonial families who settled in the American colonies from the time
of the settlement of Jamestown, 13th May, 1607, to the Battle of
Lexington, 19th April, 1775, Volume IV. New York: privately published,
1912. 568-570.
3. Van Wagenen, G.H., "Early Settlers of Ulster County, N.Y.," The New York
Genealogical and Biographical Record, 16 (1885): 25-31.
4. Riker, David M., Genealogical and Biographical Directory to Persons
in New Netherland from 1613 to 1674. CD-ROM. Cambridge: The
Learning Company, 1999. 1295.
5. Heidgard, William. The American Descendants of Chrétien Du Bois of
Wicres, France, Part 1. New Paltz: Huguenot Historical Society of
New Paltz, 1968. 4-14.
6. Ibid., p. unnumbered page near the beginning of Part 1.
7. Ibid., p. 20-21.
8. Jones, Henry Z., Jr., Ralph Conner, and Klaus Wust, German Origins of
Jost Hite, Virginia Pioneer, 1685-1761. Edinburg: Shenandoah History,
1979. 8, 12, 32, 33.
9. Riker, op. cit., p. 131.
A special thanks goes out to Howard Swain for alerting me to the New
Netherland ancestry of George Smith Patton, and sharing his findings with me.
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