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Our American Family - Person Sheet
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1Mary McCRACKEN 
266,466,464, 361
266,466,464, 361Birth Date1725
Birth PlaceLimerick, Ireland
Death Date12 Nov 1767 Age: 42
Death PlaceHamiltonban, Adams County, Pennsylvania
FatherAnthony McCRACKEN , 722 (?-1774)
MotherMary _____ , 723 (?-1793)
Family ID2108
Marr Date1753
Marr PlaceLimerick, Ireland
Notes for John Logan PATTON
IRISH IMMIGRANT ANCESTOR
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Researchers: Donald Curtis Taylor, 1002 South Third Ave., Bozeman, MT; Ann Hollen, 510 Ritter, Republic, MO 65738 (417)-732-1125; Jesse D. Patton, 28 Simon St., Babylon, NY 11702 (516)-669-2598 The information on this page is primarily based on the Kelly Letters, written 1931-1955 by Dr. John Kelly of Haverford College. He apparently had seen the "Blair Record" and maybe some early Patton Bibles. This material needs hard documentation. Researchers: Matthew T. Patton, 366 Main Lake Rd., Fredonia, KY 42411 (1993); Frank Liburn Wells, 15516 S.E. 23rd St., Vancouver, WA 98684 (1990)
PATTON is British, double diminutive of “Patrick” the “on” suffix is Old French.
Source: Taken from Abstract of Lancaster County Wills., Will made 4 December 1760, Proved 1768. Page 179. 2nd Source Pg 804 of Abstract of Lancaster County wills, Pg 804 Shows Exec Mary Patton, Twp. (omitted) Wife Mary Patton, Children Robert, Elizabeth, Margaret & John. Will drawn 9 Mar 1948, Proven 1 Nov 1762
This is from the new.familysearch program.
The following is what I have in my notes:
The information of his birth and death dates can be found in the Ancestral File of the Family Search site. shows sources on there. It shows birth as 1725.
One of the IGI says he was born in 1730 and one of them shows before 1767.
The second dates on here came from Jackie Frye. Also the places. She says he was born 1760.
The following is from the IGI
Birth:
1720 Londonderry, , Ulster Province, Ireland
Christening: Death:
1760 , Rowan, North Carolina
Marriages: Spouse: Mary MCCRACKEN
1753 , Limerick, Ireland
more information from Rachel Jorgenson a descendant of John Patton & Mary McCracken.
Rachel lives in San Diego, California. rachjorg@roadrunner.com 467
SOURCE: Barbara Parry found found the following on the internet and has read it through. This Donald C. Taylor seems to have done a good job of comparing a lot of things that others have submitted to the internet. The site is from.
PA-Roots Bringing our past into the future.
Patton, John
http://www.pa-roots.org/data/read.php?31,595866,595866
March 26, 2009 03:32PM Admin Registered: 3 years ago Posts: 629
THE UNTANGLING OF JOHN PATTONS
OF COLONIAL LANCASTER COUNTY
Compiled by Donald C. Taylor
When I began my paper about my ancestor John Patton of Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania my motive was simple enough. It was to clarify the confusion many Patton descendants have about the Pennsylvania origin of this John Patton family. I intended to make it short and precise. However, it turned out to be much more. My project became a case study in the problems one has in finding a true family history. Family traditions are almost always partly right and partly wrong. Seemingly innocent mistakes in a family tradition can lead a researcher down a wrong, time-consuming path. Mistakes in a family tradition are a well-known hurdle a genealogist must overcome. But there are other hurdles that can be more destructive to the truth than mistakes in a family tradition. Usually these hurdles occur silently and for that reason they become more de-structive, for example, mistakes in public records or a family bible. Mistakes in public records are usually transcription errors, or facts being reported incorrectly, while mistakes in a family bible are usually late entries of earlier family events that the recorder believe to be true. Finally, sometimes a genealogist must sort and identify multiple people with the same name living in the same area at the same time.
Almost every Patton family in colonial Lancaster County had a member named John. Conflicts in the records concerning many of these John Patton families persist throughout their early years in America. This note is about the untangling of the histories of a few John Pattons of colonial Lancaster County. The John Pattons of whom I write are probably closely related, but it is not clear to me how they are. The John Pattons included in this note are: John Patton (1760) of Lampeter Township; John Patton (1758) of Manheim Township, and his son John; John Patton (1810) of Mar-tic Township.
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John Patton: died about 1760 in Lampeter Township, Lancaster County. Section 51 of David V. Agricola’s treatise "A Patton Compendium" is a compilation about the decendents of John Patton of Lampeter Township and his wife Mary McCracken, daughter of Anthony McCracken. Agricola never knew that this John Patton first settled in Lancaster County; consequently, he starts with the children of John Patton in Hamilton Bann Township, York County, Pennsylvania. It is not hard to understand why. To understand, we must note that earlier researchers believed that this John Patton died intestate. They also believed that he was related to the Pattons found in Peters Township of Cumberland County, now Franklin County, and they accepted a claim by a "reliable authority" that this Patton family first settled in that part of Pennsylvania that later became Huntingdon County. Although Dr. Agricola had evidence to suggest otherwise, he chose not to challenge the claim that the patriarch John Patton died intestate. On the other hand, there were other researchers who believed that he left behind a will. The Lancaster County will these researchers cited as John’s was dated 9 Mar 1748 and in this will four children were named, including his son Robert. It is well known that his son Robert Patton was born in the year 1754, so this will seems to imply that John named his son Robert in his will six years before he was born. This fact, together with the knowledge that there were many different early Patton families living in Lancaster County with the same names, should give any researcher pause. However, those researchers were correct. It is his will. But one must explain the apparent contradiction. The microfilm of early Lancaster County wills that one gets from The Family History Center in Salt Lake City or The Lancaster County Historical Society is not a microfilm of the original wills but a microfilm of a nineteenth century hand written transcription of the original wills. To verify the nineteenth century transcription, one must read a copy of the original will found in the Lancaster County Archives. In the case of John Patton’s will, it is clear that it was written on 9 Mar 1758 and was proved on 1 Nov 1762. Furthermore, on the front of the will the year 1760 was recorded. Since the year 1760 was not the year the will was written nor the year it was proved, it is my belief that 1760 was the year that John Patton died.
John Patton of Lampeter Township was born about 1720 somewhere in Ireland. According to a Lancaster County deed, John Patton purchased approximately 255 acres of land in Lampeter Township on 23 Nov 1744 (Deed Book RR, Volume 2, pages 220-223); no doubt he came to Lancaster County before the date of purchase. It is not known to me whether or not John came to America as a young boy with his parents or he came singly as a young man. In either case, it is most likely that sometime before 23 Nov 1744 his father died and John inherited enough money from his father to purchase the land. John married Mary McCracken in Lancaster County before 1751. Mary was born about 1730 and was the daughter of Anthony and Elizabeth McCracken of Strasburg Township, Lancaster County. John died testate about 1760 in Lampeter Township and in his will he names his children Elizabeth, Robert, Margaret, and John. He also writes, "Also I give to my loving wife Mary . . . And in case she be now with child . . ." which suggests that John believed Mary was pregnant. On 2 Mar 1762 Mary, and her new husband Alexander Adams, reported to the Lancaster County Orphans Court concerning the administration of John Patton’s estate. The Orphans Court appointed William Hamilton, John Smith, and John Whitehill, as guardians over the estates of Elizabeth Patton, Robert Patton, Margaret Patton, John Patton, and Anthony Patton. So Mary was pregnant when John’s will was written, as shown by the birth of her son Anthony.
John and Mary’s oldest daughter Elizabeth Patton was born about 1753 in Lampeter Township; she married Edward Clingan, son of George Clingan, on 15 Feb 1774 in Hamilton Bann Township, York County. Their son Robert Patton was born on 1 May 1754 in Lampeter Township; he married Mary Adams, daughter of John Adams, prior to 1777 in Hamilton Bann Township. Their daughter Margaret Patton was born about 1755 in Lampeter Township; she married John McCrack-en of Peters Township, Cumberland County about 1773 in Hamilton Bann Township. Their son John Patton was born in 1757 in Lampeter Township; he married Elizabeth Clingan, daughter of George Clingan, about 1779 in Hamilton Bann Township. Finally, their youngest son Anthony Patton was born in October 1758 in Lampeter Township; he married Elizabeth Wood Mathes on 9 Aug 1795 in Washington County, Tennessee.
John Patton’s children, along with their mother and stepfather, moved to Hamilton Bann Township, York County, Pennsylvania. It is not clear the exact year that they moved to York County. Alexander Adams purchased land in Hamilton Bann Township as early 1766. Lancaster County Orphans Court records seem to suggest that they lived in Lancaster County until 1772, however. It is certain that they had moved to Hamilton Bann Township by 1772. Alexander Adams, Mary McCracken’s second husband, died 1 Dec 1776 in Hamilton Bann Township, York County, Pennsylvania. According to York County Orphans Court records, Alexander Adams and Mary McCracken Patton had six children: Martha, born in 1765 in Lancaster County, married Andrew McFerrin of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania; Rebecca, born in 1766 in Lancaster County, married George McCartney of Mifflin County; Ann, born in 1768 in Lancaster County, married Alexander Dean in 1788 in Huntingdon Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania; John, born in 1770 in Lancaster County, married Margaret Kelsey about 1791 in Washington County, Tennessee; Mary, born on 15 May 1775 in Hamilton Bann Township, married William Patterson Chester in May 1792 in Huntingdon Township; Alexander, Jr., born in 1776 in Hamilton Bann Township and died before November 1814 in Washington County, Tennessee. After Alexander Adams died, Mary married, for the third time, Joseph Hamilton about 1778 in Hamilton Bann Township. Joseph died about 1783 and Mary died about 1796 in Hamilton Bann Township. By 1784 all of Mary McCracken’s children, except Margaret, had moved away from Hamilton Bann Township. Margaret, and her husband John McCracken, remained behind and looked after Mary until she died. By the later part of the 18th Century, all living children of Mary McCracken, except the three oldest Adams sisters, had moved to Washington County, Tennessee.
For a complete family history of John Patton of Lampeter Township and his wife Mary McCracken, including source documentation, I refer the reader to my paper (62). 467
These corrections are based on my viewing the original will, a copy of which is in my possession. Donald C. Taylor, 6715 Northvale Lane, Colorado Springs, CO 80919-3470.
Orphan Court records prove that Mary Patton, widow of John Patton, had remarried Alexander Adams by 2 Mar 1762. John Patton was appointed tax collector for Lampeter Township on 7 Dec 1759 (see 1759 Lampeter Township tax returns), so he died after that date. The year 1760 was written on the front page of John Patton's will. Since 1760 can not refer to the year the will was proved, which was 1 Nov 1762, and since his widow had remarried by 2 Mar 1762, the year 1760 most likely is the year John Patton died.467
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Researchers: Donald Curtis Taylor, 1002 South Third Ave., Bozeman, MT; Ann Hollen, 510 Ritter, Republic, MO 65738 (417)-732-1125; Jesse D. Patton, 28 Simon St., Babylon, NY 11702 (516)-669-2598 The information on this page is primarily based on the Kelly Letters, written 1931-1955 by Dr. John Kelly of Haverford College. He apparently had seen the "Blair Record" and maybe some early Patton Bibles. This material needs hard documentation. Researchers: Matthew T. Patton, 366 Main Lake Rd., Fredonia, KY 42411 (1993); Frank Liburn Wells, 15516 S.E. 23rd St., Vancouver, WA 98684 (1990)
PATTON is British, double diminutive of “Patrick” the “on” suffix is Old French.
Source: Taken from Abstract of Lancaster County Wills., Will made 4 December 1760, Proved 1768. Page 179. 2nd Source Pg 804 of Abstract of Lancaster County wills, Pg 804 Shows Exec Mary Patton, Twp. (omitted) Wife Mary Patton, Children Robert, Elizabeth, Margaret & John. Will drawn 9 Mar 1948, Proven 1 Nov 1762
This is from the new.familysearch program.
The following is what I have in my notes:
The information of his birth and death dates can be found in the Ancestral File of the Family Search site. shows sources on there. It shows birth as 1725.
One of the IGI says he was born in 1730 and one of them shows before 1767.
The second dates on here came from Jackie Frye. Also the places. She says he was born 1760.
The following is from the IGI
Birth:
1720 Londonderry, , Ulster Province, Ireland
Christening: Death:
1760 , Rowan, North Carolina
Marriages: Spouse: Mary MCCRACKEN
1753 , Limerick, Ireland
more information from Rachel Jorgenson a descendant of John Patton & Mary McCracken.
Rachel lives in San Diego, California. rachjorg@roadrunner.com 467
SOURCE: Barbara Parry found found the following on the internet and has read it through. This Donald C. Taylor seems to have done a good job of comparing a lot of things that others have submitted to the internet. The site is from.
PA-Roots Bringing our past into the future.
Patton, John
http://www.pa-roots.org/data/read.php?31,595866,595866
March 26, 2009 03:32PM Admin Registered: 3 years ago Posts: 629
THE UNTANGLING OF JOHN PATTONS
OF COLONIAL LANCASTER COUNTY
Compiled by Donald C. Taylor
When I began my paper about my ancestor John Patton of Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania my motive was simple enough. It was to clarify the confusion many Patton descendants have about the Pennsylvania origin of this John Patton family. I intended to make it short and precise. However, it turned out to be much more. My project became a case study in the problems one has in finding a true family history. Family traditions are almost always partly right and partly wrong. Seemingly innocent mistakes in a family tradition can lead a researcher down a wrong, time-consuming path. Mistakes in a family tradition are a well-known hurdle a genealogist must overcome. But there are other hurdles that can be more destructive to the truth than mistakes in a family tradition. Usually these hurdles occur silently and for that reason they become more de-structive, for example, mistakes in public records or a family bible. Mistakes in public records are usually transcription errors, or facts being reported incorrectly, while mistakes in a family bible are usually late entries of earlier family events that the recorder believe to be true. Finally, sometimes a genealogist must sort and identify multiple people with the same name living in the same area at the same time.
Almost every Patton family in colonial Lancaster County had a member named John. Conflicts in the records concerning many of these John Patton families persist throughout their early years in America. This note is about the untangling of the histories of a few John Pattons of colonial Lancaster County. The John Pattons of whom I write are probably closely related, but it is not clear to me how they are. The John Pattons included in this note are: John Patton (1760) of Lampeter Township; John Patton (1758) of Manheim Township, and his son John; John Patton (1810) of Mar-tic Township.
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John Patton: died about 1760 in Lampeter Township, Lancaster County. Section 51 of David V. Agricola’s treatise "A Patton Compendium" is a compilation about the decendents of John Patton of Lampeter Township and his wife Mary McCracken, daughter of Anthony McCracken. Agricola never knew that this John Patton first settled in Lancaster County; consequently, he starts with the children of John Patton in Hamilton Bann Township, York County, Pennsylvania. It is not hard to understand why. To understand, we must note that earlier researchers believed that this John Patton died intestate. They also believed that he was related to the Pattons found in Peters Township of Cumberland County, now Franklin County, and they accepted a claim by a "reliable authority" that this Patton family first settled in that part of Pennsylvania that later became Huntingdon County. Although Dr. Agricola had evidence to suggest otherwise, he chose not to challenge the claim that the patriarch John Patton died intestate. On the other hand, there were other researchers who believed that he left behind a will. The Lancaster County will these researchers cited as John’s was dated 9 Mar 1748 and in this will four children were named, including his son Robert. It is well known that his son Robert Patton was born in the year 1754, so this will seems to imply that John named his son Robert in his will six years before he was born. This fact, together with the knowledge that there were many different early Patton families living in Lancaster County with the same names, should give any researcher pause. However, those researchers were correct. It is his will. But one must explain the apparent contradiction. The microfilm of early Lancaster County wills that one gets from The Family History Center in Salt Lake City or The Lancaster County Historical Society is not a microfilm of the original wills but a microfilm of a nineteenth century hand written transcription of the original wills. To verify the nineteenth century transcription, one must read a copy of the original will found in the Lancaster County Archives. In the case of John Patton’s will, it is clear that it was written on 9 Mar 1758 and was proved on 1 Nov 1762. Furthermore, on the front of the will the year 1760 was recorded. Since the year 1760 was not the year the will was written nor the year it was proved, it is my belief that 1760 was the year that John Patton died.
John Patton of Lampeter Township was born about 1720 somewhere in Ireland. According to a Lancaster County deed, John Patton purchased approximately 255 acres of land in Lampeter Township on 23 Nov 1744 (Deed Book RR, Volume 2, pages 220-223); no doubt he came to Lancaster County before the date of purchase. It is not known to me whether or not John came to America as a young boy with his parents or he came singly as a young man. In either case, it is most likely that sometime before 23 Nov 1744 his father died and John inherited enough money from his father to purchase the land. John married Mary McCracken in Lancaster County before 1751. Mary was born about 1730 and was the daughter of Anthony and Elizabeth McCracken of Strasburg Township, Lancaster County. John died testate about 1760 in Lampeter Township and in his will he names his children Elizabeth, Robert, Margaret, and John. He also writes, "Also I give to my loving wife Mary . . . And in case she be now with child . . ." which suggests that John believed Mary was pregnant. On 2 Mar 1762 Mary, and her new husband Alexander Adams, reported to the Lancaster County Orphans Court concerning the administration of John Patton’s estate. The Orphans Court appointed William Hamilton, John Smith, and John Whitehill, as guardians over the estates of Elizabeth Patton, Robert Patton, Margaret Patton, John Patton, and Anthony Patton. So Mary was pregnant when John’s will was written, as shown by the birth of her son Anthony.
John and Mary’s oldest daughter Elizabeth Patton was born about 1753 in Lampeter Township; she married Edward Clingan, son of George Clingan, on 15 Feb 1774 in Hamilton Bann Township, York County. Their son Robert Patton was born on 1 May 1754 in Lampeter Township; he married Mary Adams, daughter of John Adams, prior to 1777 in Hamilton Bann Township. Their daughter Margaret Patton was born about 1755 in Lampeter Township; she married John McCrack-en of Peters Township, Cumberland County about 1773 in Hamilton Bann Township. Their son John Patton was born in 1757 in Lampeter Township; he married Elizabeth Clingan, daughter of George Clingan, about 1779 in Hamilton Bann Township. Finally, their youngest son Anthony Patton was born in October 1758 in Lampeter Township; he married Elizabeth Wood Mathes on 9 Aug 1795 in Washington County, Tennessee.
John Patton’s children, along with their mother and stepfather, moved to Hamilton Bann Township, York County, Pennsylvania. It is not clear the exact year that they moved to York County. Alexander Adams purchased land in Hamilton Bann Township as early 1766. Lancaster County Orphans Court records seem to suggest that they lived in Lancaster County until 1772, however. It is certain that they had moved to Hamilton Bann Township by 1772. Alexander Adams, Mary McCracken’s second husband, died 1 Dec 1776 in Hamilton Bann Township, York County, Pennsylvania. According to York County Orphans Court records, Alexander Adams and Mary McCracken Patton had six children: Martha, born in 1765 in Lancaster County, married Andrew McFerrin of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania; Rebecca, born in 1766 in Lancaster County, married George McCartney of Mifflin County; Ann, born in 1768 in Lancaster County, married Alexander Dean in 1788 in Huntingdon Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania; John, born in 1770 in Lancaster County, married Margaret Kelsey about 1791 in Washington County, Tennessee; Mary, born on 15 May 1775 in Hamilton Bann Township, married William Patterson Chester in May 1792 in Huntingdon Township; Alexander, Jr., born in 1776 in Hamilton Bann Township and died before November 1814 in Washington County, Tennessee. After Alexander Adams died, Mary married, for the third time, Joseph Hamilton about 1778 in Hamilton Bann Township. Joseph died about 1783 and Mary died about 1796 in Hamilton Bann Township. By 1784 all of Mary McCracken’s children, except Margaret, had moved away from Hamilton Bann Township. Margaret, and her husband John McCracken, remained behind and looked after Mary until she died. By the later part of the 18th Century, all living children of Mary McCracken, except the three oldest Adams sisters, had moved to Washington County, Tennessee.
For a complete family history of John Patton of Lampeter Township and his wife Mary McCracken, including source documentation, I refer the reader to my paper (62). 467
These corrections are based on my viewing the original will, a copy of which is in my possession. Donald C. Taylor, 6715 Northvale Lane, Colorado Springs, CO 80919-3470.
Orphan Court records prove that Mary Patton, widow of John Patton, had remarried Alexander Adams by 2 Mar 1762. John Patton was appointed tax collector for Lampeter Township on 7 Dec 1759 (see 1759 Lampeter Township tax returns), so he died after that date. The year 1760 was written on the front page of John Patton's will. Since 1760 can not refer to the year the will was proved, which was 1 Nov 1762, and since his widow had remarried by 2 Mar 1762, the year 1760 most likely is the year John Patton died.467
Notes for Mary (Spouse 1)
IRISH IMMIGRANT ANCESTOR
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Researchers: Donald Curtis Taylor, 1002 South Third Ave., Bozeman,MT; (406)-587-3209; Ann Hollen, 510 Ritter, Republic, MO 65738 (417)-732-1125; Jesse D. Patton, 28 Simon St., Babylon, NY 11702 (516)-669-2598
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Anthony McCracken’s will is on file at the York Co. courthouse, York, PA. Mary McCracken is named as his daughter who was married to Alexander Adams (Sr.) who died. They have his will also and many court records of his children’s guardianships. Mary is married to a Hamilton in the will.468
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Mary McCracken was first married to John Patton. Their daughter, Margaret, married a John McCracken (Jr.?, II, he also had a son, John).468
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MCCRACKEN (also McCrackin) is Irish. Page 6736
MCCRACKEN (also McCrackin) is Irish5
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Researchers: Donald Curtis Taylor, 1002 South Third Ave., Bozeman,MT; (406)-587-3209; Ann Hollen, 510 Ritter, Republic, MO 65738 (417)-732-1125; Jesse D. Patton, 28 Simon St., Babylon, NY 11702 (516)-669-2598
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Anthony McCracken’s will is on file at the York Co. courthouse, York, PA. Mary McCracken is named as his daughter who was married to Alexander Adams (Sr.) who died. They have his will also and many court records of his children’s guardianships. Mary is married to a Hamilton in the will.468
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Mary McCracken was first married to John Patton. Their daughter, Margaret, married a John McCracken (Jr.?, II, he also had a son, John).468
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MCCRACKEN (also McCrackin) is Irish. Page 6736
MCCRACKEN (also McCrackin) is Irish5
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