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From: Gail Budda <>
Subject: Re: NJ PATTERSONS
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 18:14:41 -0800

Lorin Snyder wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am currently at a roadblock in my Patterson lineage. Our family
> history says that my Patterson family came from Middletown, Monmouth
> Co., New Jersey, and I have traced the line back to a Safety
> Patterson, who does seem to show up in the the tax records of that
> place in 1806.
>
> Safety Patterson was born between 1770 and 1775, most likely in New
> Jersey. He seems to have married a woman named Phoebe, born in about
> 1781, in New Jersey. They had at least three sons while stil living
> in New Jersey- John (b. c1798), Sidney (1803), and David (c1811). In
> the mid 18-teens, Safety and family made the trek across NJ and into
> Pennsylvania. Along the way, he supposed to have made a few stops,
> and was a worker on the National Road then being constructed from
> Cumberland to Wheeling.
>
> By 1820, they had come to Fayette County, Pennsylvania, where they
> settled and many of the family remain until today. Safety seems to
> have had at least three more sons in PA, one named Robert, (b. c1818),
> and one daughter. Safety died between 1840 and 1850, and Phoebe died
> after 1850.
>
> A biography book claims that Safety is of the Patterson family
> descended from James Patterson, native of Cluny, Scotland, who was
> exiled from that country for political reasons. However, the
> connection the book made was erroneous, and I have been unable to make
> any connections myself. He is living near them in 1806, so it does
> seem possible. I have seen numerous Pattersons showing up in Monmouth
> records that could *possibly* be Safety's father, but never anything
> concrete.
>
> Safety may also have gone by the name William, but that is uncertain.
> One source claims the family was Irish, but, again, uncertainty.
>
> I do hope that someone can help me out here.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lorin A. Snyder
>
>

Lorin, I hope you can find some answers too. I am researching Emma
Patterson who probably wasn't born until the late 1850's. However, she
married John Schooley Beeson (b. 1857) who was the grandson of Henry
Beeson, founder of Uniontown, Fayette Co., PA in 1776. I am convinced
that Emma's family was from the Uniontown area as well and probably moved
west to OH with Henry Beeson and his wife, Mary (Martin) in the early
1800's. If your research definately places your family in the Uniontown
area, perhaps we can work together on this line.

Gail Harvey Budda, Ben Lomond, CA

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