When John Patten was born in April 1746, in New Castle, Delaware, United States, his father, William Patten, was 26 and his mother, Anne Shannon, was 25. He married Ann Haslet in December 1788, in United States. He died on 26 December 1800, at the age of 54.
English:
occasionally a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of clogs, from Middle English paten ‘clog’ (Old French patin).
variant of Patton (a Middle English pet form of Patrick) with -in substituted for -on.
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