Source: ID: 1156
Ancestors of Robert Palmer Rhoads (decsendents)
Source: ID: 1483
Ancesrots of Robert Palmer Rhoads.
(Reasearch): Born in 16920in Newton, Limavaddy, not slated ot
inhearit any of the Patton estates, so he went to sea when very
young. The Book goes on to say "A very impressive ship's
master he must have been, as he was a 'man of gigantic statue,
handsome and dignified and of remarkably commanding powers'. He
was dark-haired and brown-eyed and over sis feet two inches
tall." it is said that James took part in theWar with France
called "Queen Anne's War" which terminated in 1713.
In the 'James Patton' book p 21 is a mention of Samuel Patton, as
follows:
"The suggestion has been made that James Patton was
responsible for the importation of the first Arabian horses into
the English colonies in North Ameica. An Arabianstallion named
Bulle Rocke was imported into Virginia about 1730. One Samuel
Patton had the first cetificate for Bulle Rocke.
It is thought that Samuel was a brother of James Patton already
established in Virginia and Captian Patton, the ship;s master,
brought him Bull Roche on one of his Trans-Atlantic voyges."
The following is from "The Family Tree" by Mary Preston
Gray
Henry Patton was a ship builder and ship owner, operating
merchant ships. His son James was in the royslnavy and held in
high esteem by the King. Sometine after leaving the navy, James
married Mary Borden (some accounts say Mary Osborne and others
Burden) and had two daughters, Mary Patton B. 1728 and Margaret
Patton. James was Captian of a ship called the
"Warpole", one of Henry Patton's sips. Not sure if it
was a merchant ship or passenger but I would guess a merchant
ship. It is said that James made as many as 20 or 25 passages
fromNorthern Ireland to America, specifically, Hobbe's Hole,
Virginia on the Rappahannack Ruver. He carried Ulster Immigrants
to Virginia and returned with peltries and tobacco. In about
1738, James Patton received a grant of120,000 acres of land in
America. The King's only sipulation was that the land should be
west of the 'Blue Mountains', and that settlements should be
established for worthy and dependable British subjects. James
Patton made one last voyage along with Alexander Breckinridge and
his wife Jane (according to MPG, sister of John Preston), there
were McCues, McClungs, McPheeters and many other Scottish names.
Counties Donegal, Derry andAntrim nad given refuge to the
Protestant Scots who fled from Roman Catholic persecution and
these descendentsof those Presbyterian Scotchmen were ready to
brave the dangers of the new world to found for themselves a home
of religous freedon. James Paton brought his wife andtwo
daughters, John Preston and his wife Elizabeth Patton Preston,
their three daughters, Letitia, Margaret, and Mary and their one
son, William Preston (founder of the Smithfield Preston). Johns
fourth daughter, Ann or Elizabeth Ann Preston was apparently born
in this country in 1739. Others were John Buchanan and his two
sisters Margaret and Martha, John Preston's sister , Mary Preston
who later married Phillip Barger. The Walpole arrived in
Belhaven, near Alexandria on the Potomac on August 26, 1736.
There were supposedly 56 passengers aboard the Walpole on this
trip and it is believed 30 of them were imported to settle a
30,000 acre tract, 1000 acres each. Patton, Lewis (a relative and
land speculator) and William Beverley had entered a joint venture
to obtain land from thr Councle of Virginia. The Pattons and
Prestons settled adjacent to Tinkling Spring in the southern part
of Beverley Manor (near what it now Staunton). See how the
Beverley Manor was divided. They were among those who in the fall
of the same year formed the Triple Forks of the Shenando
Congregation, which later became the Tinkling Spring Meeting
House Congreation. These These Presbyterians were considered
"dissentors", that is theydissented from the Anglican
Church of England. (See also a page on James Patton which shows
family connections better. John Preston is burried at Tinkling
Spring Church neae Staunton, VA. See Pictures of the Church and
its history.) Patton later built on the upper waters of the James
River two villages and two forts. One was called Pttonsburg and
the other, Buchanan. These two villages remain still,
Patttonsburg is very small but Buchanan hasgrown into a thriving
town.
He also took large numbers of acres in Botetourt County, VA. His
own home he names "Spring Farm", which is now within
the corporate limits of Staunton, VA. Theother place was called
,"Spring Hill" and was recently by a Mr. Leonard
Hunter, near Waynesboro, Virginia. Young John Buchanan soon
married Patton's oldest daughter, Margaret, and they lived for
years at Buchanan's Fort. Martha Buchanan, John's oldest sister,
married a cousin newly arrived in the colony, another John
Buchanan. John's youngest sister Margaret Buchanan, married Major
Charles Campbell. they became parents of General William
Campbell, the hero of the Battle of Kings Mountain.
James Patton took up several thousand acres on the New River, in
what is now Montgomery County, Virginia. Here, on the river,
Phillip and Mary (Preston) Barger built a fort and began a
settlement. To this day it is known as the "Barger's Fort,
and across the ridge Patton built a fort and began a settlement
known as "Draper's Meadows". Here the Drapers, Ingles,
McDonalds, Cloyds, ect. made their first home in the new New
World. Pattons home was called "Solitude" and it was
here, on July 8, 1755, Col. James Patton met a tragic death when
much of the settlement was wiped out on a bright Sunday morning
by the savage Tomahawk. It is said that Patton had sent his
nephew William Preston on an errand to Sinking Spring (near
present day Newport). William had left early that morning. Draper
Meadows is now known as Blacksburg, the home of Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University, Currently the largest
(and best) college in the state of Virginia. Four generations of
Pattons lived here (at what is now known as "Solitude")
as well as Governor John Floyd.
William Preston's home "Smithfield" is also located
nearby. Mary Preston, grand-daughter of John and Elizabeth Patton
Preston wa born here and married Capt.John Lewis of Sweet
Springs. This John Lewis is descended from the Lewis family
mentioned above.
This is only part of Mary Preston Gray's narrative and obviously
only a small parat of the book "James Patton and the
Appalachian Colonists". Some additiona comments and details
have been added from work compiled by G. Mallory Boush.
Taken from"
Colonerl James Patton Chapter of the National Society Daughters
of the American Revolution:
James Patton, a Scotch-Irish sea captian, settled near Waynesboro
in 1738 and was instrumental in the developement of Augusta
County. He was the first sheriff and tax collector, and Colonel
of all militia. He was an elected leader of the Tinkling Spring
Presbyterian Church and of the Augusta Parish Vestry. He was an
owner of vast tracts of land in western Virginia on which he
established settlements of Scotch-Irish immigrants. Colonel
Patton was a representative of Virginia at the Treaties of
Lancaster and of Logstown with the Iroquis Indians. He was also a
member of the Virginia House of Burgesses. During the French and
Indian War uprisings, hewas killed by Indians at Draper's Meadow
in 1755.
Source:
Taken from the file of Descendants of William M. A. Patton posted
on http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Park/1479/patton.html
Death Date July 8, 1755 Blackburg, VA.
Source:
Ball and Autrey Ancestry
The Roseberry-Keister Family Tree
ID: I5739
Reference Number: 5739
Title: Col. 1 2
Name: James Patton 1 2
Sex: M
Change Date: 19 SEP 2000
WILL: 01 SEP 1750 Augusta Co., VA
Note:
CHRONICLES OF THE Scotch-Irish Settlement IN VIRGINIA EXTRACTED
FROM THE ORIGINAL COURT RECORDS OF AUGUSTA COUNTY 1745-1800
ABSTRACTS OF WILLS OF AUGUSTA COUNTY, VIRGINIA. AUGUSTA COUNTY
COURT. WILL BOOK NO. 2.
ADDITIONAL MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
page 41
Page 131.--1st September, 1750. James Patton's will--Daughter,
Mary, wife to William Thompson, 1 negro woman; tract called
Spring Hill; 3,000 acres on which Saml. Stalnaker and others is
living, known by name of Indian Fields,
on waters of Houlston's river, a branch of the Missisipio.
Grandson, James Thompson, infant, remainder in above in fee tail.
Daughter, Margaret, now wife of Col. John Buchanan. To
son-in-law, William Thompson, the tract called
Springfield, joining where widow Gouldman now lives and on which
Henry Patton lives. William is to keep the estate intact for his
son, James, until 1772. To Margaret. tract called Cherry tree
bottom, near Robert Looney's tract
at mouth of Purgatory, tract on which there is a small stone
house. Margaret's daughter, Mary; sister, Preston, and her son,
William Preston, £10 to be paid to Rev. John Craig, pastor at
Tinkling Spring, to pay his stipends
from 1740 to 1750, to be paid by the congregation out of the
money advanced by him to help build the meeting house. £10 of
same to be laid out for a pulpit and pulpit cloth. John Preston's
bond to be given up to his son, Wm.
Preston. All debts due by George Wilson, who is married to
testator's wife's niece, Rebecca Vicers (Viers?), to be given up.
Granddaughter, Mary Buchanan. Executors, John Buchanan, Wm.
Thompson, nephew, Wm. Preston, Silas
Harte. All disputes between executors to be left to arbitration
of the minister and elders of Tinkling Spring church. Testator
was agent for John Smith, Zachery Lewis, Wm. Waller, Wm. Green,
Wm. Parks for the Roanoke and James
River grants. As to the Great Grant on the waters of Misicipia,
James Gordon, James Johnston, John Grimes, John ----, Richard
Barns, Robert Gilchrist, James Bowre, Robert Jackson. have
assigned their parts to testator. Richard
Winston's part is assigned to little John Buchanan. To Mary
Preston, horses. Teste: Thomas Stewart, Edward Hall, John
Williams. Proved, 26th November, 1755, by Stewart and Hall. Wm.
Preston refuses to execute, also Silas Harte.
Buchanan and Thompson qualify, with sureties David Stewart,
Joseph Culton, Wm. Preston, Edward Hall, Thomas Stewart. 16th
August, 1769, Wm. Preston qualifies executor. [p.41]
3
Immigration: ABT 1730
Note: From Ireland to America with brother John Patton and sister
Elizabeth 4 5
Event: Milit-Beg 27 MAY 1742 Augusta Co., VA
Note: Lt. Col. then Col. of militia (in May); appt. co. lt. in
1754 6 7
Event: Position BETWEEN 1752 AND 1755 VA
Note: Burgess 6
Birth: 08 JUL 1692 in Newton Limavady, Limavady, Londonderry,
Ireland 8 9
Death: 30 JUL 1755 in Draper's Meadow,, Augusta Co., VA
Note: Killed by Shawnee Indians at Draper's Meadow. This was the
massacre in which Mary Draper Ingles and two children were taken
captive. 6 10
Event: 1744
Note: Signed the Treaty of Lancaster, one of the most important
treaties ever negotiated between the Iroquois and the British
colonies 11
Note: 12
From "James Patton and The Appalachian Colonists", by
Patricia Givens Johnson:
James Patton was born in 1692 in Newton, Limavaddy, Derry Co.,
Ireland. He married Mary Borden (Mrs. Osborn). James, being a
younger son, wasn't scheduled to inherit anything so he went to
sea in the Royal Navy. He became a
ships captain and was held in high esteem by the King. His
father, Henry, was a ship builder and/or merchant fleet owner and
operator. The King granted James Patton 120,000 acres of land
with the only stipulation that it be
located on the west side of the Blue Mountains and that it be
settled by loyal British subjects. James sailed in one of his
father's ships, the "Walpole." This ship is said to
have made 20 or more passages to the states. He
carried Ulster immigrants to America and returned with furs,
skins and tobacco. In one of the passages in 1738, James and his
wife Mary, and his two daughters, Margaret and Mary, along with
John Preston, his wife Elizabeth
Patton Preston, their children Letitia, about 10 years old,
Margaret, about 8, William, about 7, and Mary Preston, about 6,
along with John Preston's sister, Mary Preston, who later married
Phillip Barger, and supposedly
another of John's sisters, Jane Preston Breckinridge and her
husband, Alexander Breckinridge, arrived in Belhaven, near
Alexandria on the Potomac on August 26, 1738. One of James
Patton's settlements was known as "Drapers
Meadows," located at the present site of Blacksburg,
Virginia. One sunny Sunday morning on July 8, 1755, Indians wiped
out much of the settlement including James Patton. James and his
wife Mary Borden had two daughters and no
sons. He adopted (officially or unofficially?) William Preston,
son of John Preston. Margaret "Peggy" Patton married
John Buchanan. John's sister, Martha Buchanan married a cousin
newly arrived in America, another John
Buchanan. His other sister, Margaret Buchanan, married Maj.
Charles Campbell, parents of Gen. William Campbell. Mary
"Molly" patton (1728-1778) married capt. William
Thompson. They had 10 Children.
James served in the Navy in Queen Anne's War. After the Treaty of
Utrecht, he procured a passenger ship and traded to the Colony of
Virginia at Robbs Hole on the Tappahannock. He penetrated the
then wilderness of the state as
far as Orange County, thence across the Blue Ridge and commenced
a settlement near Waynesborough in Augusta County. He crossed the
Atlantic 23 or 25 times as Master of a ship in and around 1728.
In his private shipping
enterprises, Capt. James Patton made contracts with promotors of
the settlement of the western part of Virginia. He sailed on the
ship Walpole to Virginia, arriving August 26, 1738. His first
residence was Beverly Manor on
the south fork of the Shenendoah. From his headquarters there,
Adventurer Patton soon extended his interest to the management of
the Roanoke & James River Grant of 1740 and the Woods River
Grant of 1745.
After the organization of Augusta County, Patton became county
lieutenant, justice, sheriff, burgess and general leader in
county affairs. He was an alert, energetic businessman imbued
with a definite purpose and equipped with
enough education and intellect to be a successful community
leader.
While tending to affairs of the community, Colonel James Patton
was killed by Indians in July 1755 at Drapers Meadow.
From "Early Adventures On the Wesstern Waters" by Mary
B. Kegley and F. B.Kegley:
James Patton Sees An Opening.
It would be interesting to know how much James Patton and his
brother-in-law, John Preston, knew about opportunities for the
acquisition of land in the region of western Virginia before they
decided to leave Ireland and take
their chances on the Virginia frontier. An historian of the
Patton family has said that the Pattons were an outstanding
family of Scottish origin, a number of members of which in
different generations served with distinction
in the Royal Navy, in the British Army, and in civil offices. The
progenitor of the family in Ireland was William Patton, rector of
several parishes in County Donegal. The father of James Patton
was Henry Patton, a grandson
of William. His mother was Sarah Lynn of a prominent English
family seated in Donegal County, Ulster, Ireland. James, the
fourth son of Henry and Sarah, was born in 1692 and married a Ms.
Osborne; a sister, Elizabeth, married
John Preston, a ship's carpenter. James served in the Navy,
taking part in Queen Anne's War. He appears to have crossed the
Atlantic as master of a ship only once in 1738 (Wilson, Tinkling
Spring, p. 22). About this time
economic opportunities in Scotland and Ireland were not
encouraging, so many Scotch-Irish families were looking toward
America for a better field to cultivate. The Pattons and the
Prestons became a part of this gret exodus of
the 1730's and 1740's. The Patton home place in Ireland was the
Manor of Springfield, Barony of Kilmacrenan, County of Donegal,
Province of Ulster. Later in Virginia the names Springfield and
Kilmacrenan remained associated
with the family.
In his private shipping enterprises, Captain Jame Patton had made
some contacts with the promoters of the settlement of the western
part of Virginia. There is no record that he made frequent trips
to the coastal towns carrying
indentured servants to Virginia shores, but as early as 1737 he
had some acquaintance with William Beverley and considered
joining in the acquisition of a grant to be located on the
Calfpasture River. With these arrangements
completed, the ship Walpole, owned by Walter Lutwidge, was
chartered to bring the Patton and Preston families with fifty-six
others, including personal and indentured servants, sixty-five in
all, to Virginia. They arrived at
Hobb's Hole (Tappahannock) August 26, 1738. Once here the first
land Patton owned was in the Calfpasture grant; but his and
Preston's first residences were in Beverley Manor on the south
fork of the Shenandoah. From his
headquarters there, Adventurer Patton soon extended his interest
to the management of the Roanoke and James River grant of 1740,
and the Wood's River grant of 1745.
Since John Preston had not been a landowner in Ireland, he was
willing to take chances with his brother-in-law in at least
acquiring a homestead in the New World. In proving his
importation into the colony of Virginia, he said
that he had come to America at his own charge "in order to
partake of his Majesty's bounty for taking up land." He made
this declaration in 1746 and died in 1747. He was satisfied with
only a few tracts of land for which
titles were later made to his son, William. His home was on Lewis
Creek near Beverley's Mill Place. The family consisted of his
wife, Elizabeth, his son, William, and his daughters, Mary,
Lettice, Margaret, and Ann.
James Patton was more ambitious. He had in mind acquiring as much
as 30,000 acres in his own name. In the first surveys made for
him in 1738, he was designated as captain. Following the
settlement of Borden's grant, a number
of tracts were entered in the Forks of the James and on the
Catawba, a south branch of the James some distance away. These
scattered settlements were made prior to 1740 when the Virginia
Council granted permission to John
Smith, Zachary Lewis, and others for surveys totalling 100,000
acres (with no specific boundaries) on "River and Branches
of the Roanoke and the Branches of the James River"
(Virginia Executive Journals, V, 173). As a result
of purchasing shares of all partners (except John Smith and
Zachary Lewis), James Patton became the controlling agent of this
company, all patents issuing in his name and all land being
transferred by him by deed to the people
who bought the land.
The surveys and plats for the first grants in this territory were
not preserved in the Orange County records and no trace of them
has been found in the Secretary's office. However, it is from the
Augusta County surveys, deeds,
and grants that the account of the early western settlement can
be carried forward. For further details, see Kegley's Virginia
Frontier, pp. 60-62.
After the organization of Augusta County, Patton became county
lieutenant, justice, sheriff, burgess, and general leader in
county affairs. He was an alert, energetic businessman imbued
with a definite purpose and equipped
with enough education and intellect to be a successful community
leader. His first interest was to secure the land he wanted; his
first action was to select choice tracts while they were still
available. The terms of the
Wood's River grant allowed him the privilege he wanted -- to
select small or large tracts, in any shape, anywhere in the
region covered. His scheme was a good example of competitive
private enterprise, and although there were
groups of family relatives settling in contiguous valleys, there
was no suggestion of a socialistic colony.
It was unfortunate that western Virginians lost their first
prominent early adventurer soon after the beginning of the
settlement. While tending to affairs of the community, Colonel
James Patton was killed by the Indians in
July 1755 at Draper's Meadow. For further details of his life,
see Johnson, James Patton and the Appalachian Colonists.
"Memoirs of Mrs. Letitia Floyds": James Patton was bred
to the sea and in the wars of England with the low countries
served as an officer in the royal navy. After the treaty of
Utrecht he procured a passanger ship and traded
to the Colony of Virginia at Robbs Hole, on the Tappahannock. He
penetrated the then wilderness of the state as far as Orange Co.,
thence across the Blud Ridge and commenced a settlement there
near Waynesborough in Augusta
County.
Father: Henry Patton b: 1660 in Caiggo, Dundee, Scotland
Mother: Sarah Lynn b: 1664 in Kilmacrenan, Scotland
Marriage 1 Mary Borden b: 1696 in Whitehaven, Cumberland Co.,,
England
Married: ABT 1720 6
Children
Margaret Patton b: ABT 1725 in Lumwaddy, Ireland
Mary Patton b: 1728 in Augusta County, Virginia
Sources:
Title: Marriages of some Virginia Residents 1607-1800
Abbrev: Marriages of VA Residents, Vol 2
Publication: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD,
1995
Page: p. 169
Title: James Patton and the Appalachian Colonists
Abbrev: Patton and Colonists
Author: Johnson, Patricia Givens
Publication: Edmonds Printing Inc., Pulaski, VA, 1983
Page: p. 3
Title: Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia (Records of Augusta
County, Virginia, 1745-1800 (three volumes)
Abbrev: Scotch-Irish in VA
Publication: Baltimore, MD, 1912
Page: p. 41
Title: The Compendium of American Geneaolgy, 1600s-1800s
Abbrev: Compendium American Genealogy
Author: Virkus
Publication: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, Baltimore, 1997
Page: v. 5; p. 164. Lists c. 1740
Title: Coming to America: A Chronicle of the American Lineage of
the Pattons
Abbrev: Coming to Americal
Author: Patton, C. L.
Publication: Springfield, IL, 1954
Page: quoted from within World Family Tree, Vol. 27, Tree #2183
Title: The Compendium of American Geneaolgy, 1600s-1800s
Abbrev: Compendium American Genealogy
Author: Virkus
Publication: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, Baltimore, 1997
Page: v. 5; p. 583
Title: Virginia Vital Records #1, 1600s-1800s
Abbrev: VA Vital Records #1, 16-1800s
Publication: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1997
Page: Militia Companies in Augusta Co., 1742, pp. 23, 24
Title: The Compendium of American Geneaolgy, 1600s-1800s
Abbrev: Compendium American Genealogy
Author: Virkus
Publication: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, Baltimore, 1997
Page: v. 5; p. 583 Lists 1689
Title: James Patton and the Appalachian Colonists
Abbrev: Patton and Colonists
Author: Johnson, Patricia Givens
Publication: Edmonds Printing Inc., Pulaski, VA, 1983
Page: p. 5
Title: Early Adventurers On The Western Waters, Vol. I
Abbrev: Early Adventurers, I
Author: Mary B. & F. B. Kegley
Publication: Green Publishers, Inc., Orange, VA, 1980
Note:
History of SW Virginia's earliest settlers that has family
sketches and numerous SW Virginia county records.
Page: p. 55
Title: James Patton and the Appalachian Colonists
Abbrev: Patton and Colonists
Author: Johnson, Patricia Givens
Publication: Edmonds Printing Inc., Pulaski, VA, 1983
Page: p. 4
Title: World Family Tree Research, Vol. 1-27
Abbrev: World Family Tree
Publication: Broderbund Software, Inc.