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 1741 - 1801 (60 years)
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| Name |
John Patterson |
| Birth |
1741 |
PA  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
1801 |
Camden Co, GA |
| Burial |
Camden Co, GA |
| Person ID |
I242 |
Georgia Revolutionary War Graves |
| Last Modified |
4 Oct 2015 |
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| Notes |
- John Patterson was born in 1750 in Philadelphia. After the Revolutionary War, John Patterson, who was described as a ?Master shipbuilder from Philadelphia,? established a shipyard in St. Marys, during the 1790s. He built many ships including the U.S. Galley, St. Marys, and The General Oglethorpe, a live oak timbered vessel built for overseas trade. He married Ann whose last name is unknown.
John Patterson and another resident of St. Marys from Philadelphia, John Stotesbury, had served as captains in the Pennsylvania Continental Line. John Patterson and John Stotesbury both became original members of The Society of the Cincinnati in 1783, at the end of the Revolutionary War. John Stotesbury, who was buried in an unmarked grave at Oak Grove, lived in a house which is still standing near the waterfront in St. Marys.
St. Mary?s prosperity and growth was interrupted several times by epidemics of yellow fever. This gravestone identifies five victims of the 1801 epidemic: Colonel John Patterson, his daughter- Mary Young, her son- Charles Young, and two young relatives, James Batcholer and John Morris. It is believed that all five people were placed together in the Patterson vault, and were buried quickly, with little handling, and with little ceremony. This grave of Colonel John Patterson and his family, dated 1801, is the oldest marked grave in Oak Grove Cemetery. Possibly, he is called ?Colonel? on his gravestone as a matter of respect
- John and Ann Patterson?s children?s included: 1) a son, William Patterson who married Ann, and had a daughter named Mary Patterson. William Patterson was a captain in the War of 1812; 2) a daughter, Mary Patterson, who married Francis Young; she died of yellow fever with their son Charles. Their daughter named, Cornelia Jane Young, survived her mother?s death; 3) and another daughter who married Lewis Levy and had a daughter named Anna Eliza Levy.
- John Patterson (1750-1801), a native of Philadelphia, served as a captain in the Second Pennsylvania Regiment of the Continental Line for the entire Revolutionary War from June 1776 until January 1, 1783. Some of the early battles in which he participated included the Invasion of Canada, Ticonderoga, Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth. In 1779, he served on Garrison Duty at West Point, and served in the New Jersey Summer Campaign the following year. He fought in the Southern Campaign including Carolina during two last years of the war. Encampments where his regiment wintered included: Morristown, Whitemarsh and Valley Forge.
- SOURCES:
1-- Oak Grove Cemetery, --Kay Westberry page 118
2?Court of Ordinary Records by Folks Huxford, Georgia Intestate Records (book)
3-- Wikipedia- The first USS St. Mary's was a Galley in the United States Navy. St. Mary's was built in 1797 at the Patterson Yard, St. Marys, GA., was commissioned in 1798. St. Mary's officers were appointed by the Secretary of the Navy, while the remainder of her crew was composed of local recruits.
4-- Original Members and Other Officers Eligible to the Society of the Cincinnati, 1783-1938, by Bryce Metcalf (Shenandoah Publishing House, Inc., 1938)Page 245
5-- Pennsylvania in the War of the Revolution Battalions and Line 1775-1783:
6--Military History of John Patterson (n.d. - 3/??/1786)
- No correctly matching SAR or DAR record, so "new" SAR Ancestor #P-334280
- Grave marking by Marshes of Glynn Chapter 12 Sep 2015
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