THE
PATTERSON FAMILY
The Patterson Family is detailed and important enough
to warrant this separate treatment as a portion of my overall Sharon Family
History.
The Patterson family was Scotch Irish and came to
America in the early 1700s arriving in the Port of Philadelphia. Like many
others, the family came to Penn's Colony to escape persecutions at home and to
find a better life in the New World.
The family of John Patterson came from Bucks County,
Pennsylvania, and moved to Orange County in North Carolina before the
Revolution and eventually made their way a generation later to St. Louis
County, Missouri. John Patterson's children, including my William Patterson
remained in Florrisant, Missouri. The next generation, that of Lemuel James
Patterson, went north into Illinois. It was there that Lemuel's daughter,
Minerva Patterson, married John Jones. This marriage united my two great
grandparents on my mother's side of the family.
Families that married into the Patterson family
included Scottish nobility and famous frontier soldiers. The Patterson line is
a distinguished one in my family.