Brief Life History of Robert
When Robert Patterson, Jr. was born on 13 April 1806, in Jefferson, Putnam, Georgia, United States, his father, Robert Patterson, was 47 and his mother, Eleanor Wright, was 35. He married Winifred Smith about 1830, in Jefferson, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Jefferson, Georgia, United States for about 10 years. He died on 21 April 1861, at the age of 55.
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- Robert Patterson, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Robert Patterson, Jr. - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Robert Patterson, Jr.
- Robert Patterson, "United States Census, 1850"
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1807
Historical Boundaries: 1807: Putnam, Georgia, United States
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land
A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
Name Meaning
Scottish and northern English: variant of Patrickson ‘son of Patrick ’, which was either shortened to Patrison and metathesized to Patterson, or shortened from Paterickson to Patterson.
Irish: in Ulster, this name is of English or Scottish origin, but in County Galway, it was also taken by bearers of the Gaelic name Ó Caisín ‘descendant of the little curly-headed one’ (from Gaelic casín ‘curly’), which is usually Anglicized as Cussane. In addition to the confusion between Irish Gaelic casín ‘curly’ and cosán ‘path’, there has also been an erroneous assumption that the English name Patterson is somehow derived from the English word path.
English: 19th-century variant of Patteson, a shortened form of Pattinson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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