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Marriage: Children:
  1. Thomas William Patterson: Birth: 14 SEP 1791 in Co Down, Ulster, Ireland or PA. Death: 16 OCT 1866 in Richland, Logan Co, OH

  2. Eliza Patterson: Birth: 1798 in Co Down, Ulster, Ireland. Death: 1819 in Mercer Co, PA

  3. Joseph C Patterson: Birth: APR 1799 in Co Down, Ulster, Ireland. Death: 16 APR 1879 in Harrison Co, OH

  4. William Patterson: Birth: 1804 in Ballymcreeley, Co Down, Ulster, Ireland. Death: 13 FEB 1857 in McArthur Twp, Logan Co, OH

  5. Isaac Patterson: Birth: 31 DEC 1805 in Co Down, Ulster, Ireland. Death: 31 MAR 1872 in Huntsville, Logan Co, OH

  6. Samuel Patterson: Birth: 5 MAY 1807 in Co Down, Ulster, Ireland. Death: 17 MAR 1874 in Marion Twp, Hardin Co, OH

  7. David Calvin Patterson: Birth: 15 MAY 1810 in Belfast, Co Down, Ulster, Ireland. Death: 26 SEP 1888 in Huntsville, Logan Co, OH

  8. Martha Ann Patterson: Birth: 1817 in Ireland. Death: 1896 in McArthur Twp, Logan, OH

  9. Jane Patterson: Birth: 1817 in Ireland. Death: 1817 in Ireland

  10. Eliza Jane Patterson: Birth: 31 MAR 1819 in Mercer Co, PA. Death: 3 JAN 1906 in Belle Center, Logan Co, OH

  11. Robert Patterson: Birth: in Co Down, Ulster, Ireland. Death: BEF 1798 in Co Down, Ulster, Ireland

  12. Mary Patterson: Birth: in Down Co, Ulster, Ireland. Death: BEF 1798 in Down Co, Ulster, Ireland

  13. William Patterson: Birth: in Co Down, Ulster, Ireland. Death: BEF 1798 in Co Down, Ulster, Ireland

  14. John or James Patterson: Birth: in Co Down, Ulster, Ireland. Death: BEF 1818 in Ireland or Scotland

  15. Agnes Nancy Patterson: Birth: in Co Down, Ulster, Ireland. Death: 1884


Notes
a. Note:   co-founded Geneva College Theological Seminary; Northwood, Logan Co, OH
  Abraham Patterson was born near Belfast, County Down, Ireland, in 1767. He and Martha Gourley were married in Ireland. They had 14 children five of whom died in Ireland and Scotland. Three are known to be buried in the graveyard at Colinchie, Ireland. The stone Reads, "Erected by Abraham Patterson of Bally McReely --- A.D. 1798. Here lieth the remains of his children, viz. Robert, Mary and William." The inscription above was verified by J. Milligan Wylie, D.D. a grandson of the first Robert Wylie, while traveling in Ireland, visited this cemetary in 1898 and read the inscription above.
  In Ireland, Abraham Patterson had been a Merchant. Later, he served as a captain during the Irish Rebellion against Catholic domination. A price was offered on his head, with the result that he was forced to flee to Scotland. There he remained for a time and then secured a pass and with his wife and nine children came to the United States in September, 1818. The sailing vessel upon which this family crossed the Atlantic took 14 weeks to make the journey.
  The Abraham Patterson Family settled in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, remaining there for eleven and a half years. There on March 31,1819, Eliza Jane Patterson was born. Eliza received her name by the following story. It seems that the oldest Patterson child, Eliza, had married one Graham and settled near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In order to visit her parents because she was homesick, she walked to their home in Mercer County, Pennsylvania. On the way she caught cold and upon arrival she remarked,"I have brought death." Shortly thereafter, she died. The new baby her mother had just borne was named Eliza for this deceased sister, and Jane for the other sister buried in Ireland. In Aprox March of 1830 they moved to Huntsville, Ohio, Abraham and 2 sons bought 500 acres of military land,which they divided equally; he was an ardent beliver in the doctrines of the reformed Presbytarian church, and the first one of the denomination in that comunity, he helped build the first church, and attended church Synod at Pittsburgh on horseback. He died in 1855 aged 89 years,his wife having died three years Previously aged 80 years. His Son David was one of the Sons that bought Military land near Huntsville, Ohio.
Note:   Abraham Patterson


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