When Polly Patterson was born about 1780, in Henniker, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States, her father, Joseph Patterson, was 31 and her mother, Susannah Duncan, was 35. She married Joseph Hoyt on 8 March 1802, in Henniker, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States in 1850. She died in Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States.
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Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
On June 21, 1788, New Hampshire became the ninth and final state needed to ratify the US Constitution and make it the official law of the land
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
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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