When John Joseph Patterson was born on 17 March 1738, in New Castle, Delaware, British Colonial America, his father, William Patterson Sr., was 53 and his mother, Mary Garretson, was 35. He married Elizabeth Matson on 4 May 1770, in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 7 daughters. He died on 5 June 1808, in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
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When the American Revolution began in 1775, the people of Delaware were not sure they wanted to split from England. When it came time to vote for the Declaration of Independence in 1776, even the delegates were split with two delegates in favor of independence and one against. The night before the vote, Caesar Rodney, who was for independence, was in the city of Dover. When he learned that the vote was taking place, he rode 70 miles at night through a thunderstorm to Philadelphia in order to vote so that Delaware would join the other colonies in declaring independence.
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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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