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James Patton was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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21. JAMES (ROGERS)5 PATTON (JOHN (LYNN)4, HENRY (PATTEN)3, HENRY (UNKNOWN)2, WILLIAM1) was born October 12, 1735 in Ireland, and died December 29, 1815 in Louisville, Kentucky. He married (1) PHOEBE MCCAUSLAND. She was born April 27, 1782. He married (2) MARY DAUGHERTY 1768 in Augusta Co., Virginia. She was born Abt. 1750. He married (3) [Mrs.] ELIZABETH REAGER June 14, 1772 [s/b 1792].

Notes for JAMES (ROGERS) PATTON: Jack/Jacks/Jacques & J.V. Thompson Journals 67463 total entries, last updated Fri Aug 31 17:10:07 2001 All questions, comments or suggestions regarding information on this page should be addressed to: Cheralynn Wilson <charwil3@@home.com> ID: I42992 Name: James PATTON Sex: M Birth: 12 Oct 1735 in Ireland Or Virginia Death: in Virginia Note: James Patton disposed of his property in Augusta Co., VA in the spring of 1778 & accompanied General George Rogers Clark to Kentucky on the way to the conquest of the Illinois country. The expedition reached the Falls of Ohio on May 27, 1778, and landed on Corn Island. Captain Patton did not accompany the soldiers to the Illinois country, but remained on the island under orders from General Clark, to care for the stores landed there & to protect the families of the soldiers who were with the expedition. The duty was difficult, but he was successful in providing for the garrison. In 1779, following General Clark's return, the families on Corn Island decided to move to the mainland & called a meeting of the Falls inhabitants who appointed a 7-man committee to plan & establish a town. James Patton was one of the seven. The town was incorporated as "Louisville". James Patton was appointed as one of the Louisville trustees several times. Later when the town was incorporated as part of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, James was elected trustee of the city several times.

His military record shows him in 1779 in Bowman's march on the Indian towns of Ohio. In 1780, he was with Capt. William Harrod, then stationed at the Falls of Ohio. He served with General Clark in 1780 on the expedition against the Ohio Indians to avenge the attacks by upon Martin's and Ruddle's stations. In 1782, he again served with General Clark on an expedition to avenge the "Blue Licks" Massacre.

James Patton held large amounts of land, both in the city of Louisville & the surroundint country. Most of his holdings were purchased with the funds received from the sale of his VA holdings.

He was a member of "The Society of Cincinnati" an organization formed by George Washington and his military associates in 1783, for the purpose of promoting friendship, of cherishing the memories of mutual hardships, and of aiding members and thier families in case of need. Membership was made hereditary and has descended only through "eldest sons".

James Patton owned a half acre lot on 8th Street between Main and the river. The land was heavily timbered. A giant Sycamore grew on the lot which was hollow at the roots. The hollow was as large as a small room of a house, so James Patton built a log cabin around the tree, using the hollow as one of the rooms. He occupied this cabin & hollow tree until danger from the Indians was gone from the Falls. At that time, he built a large, double stone house upon the site where he lived until the time of his death. On top of the house, he built a cupola with a view of the Falls. He was so familiar with the rapids that he was considered the most skillful person to conduct a boat through them. This was considered a difficult and dangerous task and the Legislature in 1798, passed an act creating the Office of "Falls Pilot". James Patton was the first to hold the office, remaining in it until his death.

Father: John PATTON b: Abt 1689 in Newton-Limavady, Derry, Ireland Mother: ROGERS b: in Of Ireland

Marriage 1 Mary DAUGHERTY b: Abt 1750 Children Martha "Patsy" PATTON Margaret "Peggy" PATTON Mary "Polly" PATTON

Marriage 2 Elizabeth Married: 14 Jun 1792 Children PATTON

Marriage 3 Phoebe b: 27 Apr 1782 Children PATTON

Note: American Revolution. Came to Corn Island (Louisville) Ky., with General George Rogers Clark, 1778; pvt. Ill. campaign, 1778; Lt., Capt. Bowman's Co., 1779; capt. militia, Jefferson Co., 1782

More About JAMES (ROGERS) PATTON: Burial: 1815, Old Jefferson St., Louisville, Kentucky Occupation: Surveyor

Children of JAMES PATTON and MARY DAUGHERTY are: i. MARTHA "PATSY" (DAUGHERTY)6 PATTON, b. 1770, Virginia. ii. MARGARET "PEGGY" (DAUGHERTY) PATTON, b. 1772, August Co., (Now Rockingham Co., ) Virginia; m. THOMAS MCCLAREY, July 25, 1999.

Notes for MARGARET "PEGGY" (DAUGHERTY) PATTON: MARRIAGES PERFORMED BY REV. JOSEPH P. HOWE RECORDED IN HIS JOURNALS

Groom Bride Date Thomas McClarey Peggy Patton July 25 1799

Notes for THOMAS MCCLAREY: MARRIAGES PERFORMED BY REV. JOSEPH P. HOWE RECORDED IN HIS JOURNALS

Groom Bride Date Thomas McClarey Peggy Patton July 25 1799

iii. MARY "POLLY" (DAUGHERTY) PATTON, b. 1773, August Co., (Now Rockingham Co., ) Virginia.

1.   The Doughertys of Kentucky, by William C. Stewart, 1955.

   The glimpses we catch of Mary, first wife of Captain James Patton. one of the founders of Louisville, Kentucky are tantalizing, now dim, not sharp and clear, but always just out of reach. We see her, Watts' hymn book in hand, gathering the settlers around her for Sunday services on a warm day in 1778, safe on long-vanishing Corn Island while General George Rogers Clark pursues the conquest of the Northwest country. A little later, we see her keeping house for her husband and three daughters in the trunk of a hollow sycamore tree, which formed one room of the Pattons' log cabin on Eighth Street between Main Street and the Ohio River, in Louisvile. She must have watched with pride, the little girls gathered about her ample skirts, as Captain Patton and John Dougherty brought in the timbers and built Fort Nelson. In time, as danger from the Indians passed, she became the mistress of a large stone house. Atop it was a kind of cupola or balcony, somewhat like the widow's walk of a New England seaport house, from which Captain Patton delighted to watch the Falls of the Ohio. There must have been times when she stood there, watching her husband, the most skillful pilot of the town, guiding boats through the rapids.
   
   It is possible to reconstruct Mary Patton's life, as Isabel McLennan McMeekin did delightfully in "Louisville, The Gateway City", but very little is known about her, almost nothing prior to 1778. This is an attempt to explore the mystery of her origin.
   
   Her name, according to family tradition, was Mary Dougherty. She was married, it is conjectured, about 1769. When she and Captain Patton, among the twenty families accompanying General Clark and his little army down the Ohio from the Monongahela country, arrived at the site of the future Louisville on May 27, 1778, they had with them their three daughters, the elder eight years old. The three were Martha, born in Virginia in 1770; Margaret; and Mary, born in Virginia in 1773; usually the girls were called Patsy, Peggy and Polly. Mary, the mother, perhaps was born about 1750. She died in 1787 and five years later Captain Patton took a second wife, and in 1804 a third.

2.   Kentucky Historical Society (Frankfort, Kentucky). The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. (Frankfort: Kentucky Historical Society)
   pg. 57-58.

   Capt. James Patton (following the death of his first wife, Mary Doherty Patton, which occured on or about 1787) married a second time, on June 14, 1792, Elizabeth Reager, a widow, and her by her, a son, who died childless; and on the death of this second wife, Capt. James Patton married a third time on July 21, 1804 to Phoebe McCausland (born April 27, 1782; died May 22, 1848), the widow of William Basye, and had by her a son, born 1811, who died 1819.
   
   Phoebe McCausland had one daughter by her first husband (Wm. Basye), viz: Sarah Payne Basye, who was born in 1802, and who married in 1819 Dr. John Moil Talbot, and had by him a daughter, Cordelia Lafayette Talbot, who married Dr. Madison Pyles. After the death of Capt. James Patton, his widow, Phoebe McCausland Basye Patton, married for the third time to William Marshall, who long survived him.
   
   Captain James Patton was born in Virginia in 1785 and died in Louisville, Ky, Dec. 29, 1815.