Rebecca Patterson

Rebecca Stevenson

• Born 20 Jan 1643 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
• Died about 1701 in Billerica, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Province
• Daughter of Andrew Stevenson
• Wife of James Patterson — married 29 Mar 1662 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
• Mother of Mary (Patterson) Proctor, James Patterson, Andrew Patterson, John Patterson, Joseph Patterson, Rebecca Patterson, James Patterson and Jonathan Patterson

AKA: Rebecca Stevenson. Stevenson is birth surname.

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"The Patterson Family Descended from James Patterson of Scotland by D. Williams Patterson

with a few additions by Anna Patterson Newark Valley, Tioga County, New York, USA -5 July 1906-

EDITORIAL NOTE

This Record was Collected and Compiled by the late D. Williams Patterson. It appears here substantially as it was left by him in manuscript at his death in 1892. A few additions have been made in an effort to bring the Record up to date.

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James Patterson was a native of Scotland, and was born about 1633. He was one of the Prisoners of War taken by Cromwell, probably at the Battle of Worcester, 3 September, 1651. These prisoners were sold as bond-servants by the English government and a large number of them were sent to New England in the ship "John and Sarah," of London, Captain John Green, Mas- ter; they embarked 6 November, 1651, probably sailed about 14 November, 1651, and arrived at Boston, Massachusetts, probably early in the following May, as on 13 May, 1652, the list of servants sent on board the ship was re- corded in Boston. (See New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. i, pp. 377-380). In 1658 he was a resident of Billerica, as he then received a grant of land from that town. Between 1658 and 1685 he received sixteen different grants of land from the town of Billerica. In 1661 his name ap- pears upon the town records in a vote of the proprietors. He married, 29 May, 1662, Rebecca Stevenson, before "Thomas Danforth. Esq." She was daughter of Andrew Stevenson of Cambridge, and was born about 1642.

"At a meeting of Selectmen & Committee of Militia held October 8, 1675, In persuance of an order from the Hon. Councill sent unto them," twelve garrisons were formed in Billerica. "6. They appoint James Patersons house for garrison and to entertain John Baldwin, Edward & Thomas Farmer, Henery & John Jeffts & two soldiers. 8 soldiers & 4 families."1 (Billerica town records, p." 121). He was admitted freeman 18 April, 1690. His will was dated 12 May, 1701, and he died in Billerica 14 July, 1701, aged about sixty-eight years, according to the town records, but his inventory states that he died 14 June, 1701.

Children of James1 and Rebecca (Stevenson) Patterson:

I. MARY PATTERSON,2 born in Billerica, 22 August, 1666; mar- ried 30 January, 1688-9, Peter Proctor, of Chelmsford.

II. JAMES PATTERSON,2 born in Billerica, 28 February, 1668-9; died 3 October, 1677.

III. ANDREW PATTERSON,2 born in Billerica, 4 April, 1672: mar- ried ____1697, Elizabeth Kebbe, of Charlestown. He was a mariner, and tradition says "was lost at sea." He was alive at as late a date as 27 March, 1707, as appears by deeds recorded in Cambridge.

Elizabeth Patterson of Reading, Massachusetts, (probably widow of

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1 James Patterson's house used for garrison in King Philip's War. Reff. Hazen's "History of Billerica," pp. 110 - 117 ; N. E. H. & G. R. vol. xxxvii, p. 148.

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Andrew), bought 8 September, 1725, of Thomas Hodgeman, of Reading, part of his homestead in Reading, containing four acres. She died in Read- ing, June, 1738.

IV. JOHN PATTERSON,2 born in Billerica 8 April, 1675, married Concord, 29 December, 1702, Joanna Hall, of Billerica. He had, 1 March, 1707, a grant from the town of Billerica of twenty acres of upland and swamp for £20 money.

V. JOSEPH PATTERSON,2 born in Billerica 1 January, 1677-8. He was a tailor, and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, as early as the be- ginning of 1701. He bought of Edward Harrington, 19 March, 1701, "one mansion house with twelve acres of orchyard, meadow, and arable land, sit- uate, Iving and being in Watertown aforesaid." He married first in Sud- bury, 22 September, 1701, Mercy Goodenow, born in Sudbury, 1680, daugh- ter of Captain John Goodenow of Sudbury. She died in childbed, 1 Sep- tember, 1710, and he married (second) Mary . She died and he mar- ried (third), 19 November, 1724, Rebecca, widow of James Livermore, and daughter of John and Elizabeth (Trowbridge) Myrick of Newton. She was born 20 April, 1687, and married 5 October, 1718, James Livermore, of Weston, who died 20 August, 1720. (Bond's "History of Watertown," pp. 374 and 392.) In 1714 he was constable or collector of Watertown. He had, by small purchases at different times, acquired a good farm, which is said to have included the top of Prospect Hill, about half a mile west of Waltham Plain. The date of his death is not now known, but his will was executed 15 November, 1736, and offered for probate 14 February, 1736-7.

VI. REBECCA PATTERSON,2 born in Billerica, 18 July, 1680 ; died 1683.

VII. JAMES PATTERSON,2 born in Billerica, 13 April, 1683; mar- ried Mary . He was probably a resident of Billerica till 1707. In 1711 he was a resident of Dunstable, and remained there till 1716, when he moved to Groton, where he resided the remainder of his life. He drew lot No. 44 in "Narragansett No. 6" (now Templeton) as the representative of his father, for his services in "King Philip's war," in 1675 or 1676. The time of his death is not known, but he was alive on the 6th day of November, 1735, and mortgaged his Narragansett lot to Samuel Belknap, of Woburn ; and on the 20th of March, 1738, Belknap executed a deed of release of the same lot to Joseph Patterson, of Watertown, in which deed he mentions James Patterson as "late of Groton deceased." But a small por- tion of this mortgage is now in existence. The date, signature, and de- scription are gone, but on the back of what remains is an indorsement of the date when recorded, 10 January, 1737-8. His wife survived him, as 27 August, 1739. she and her children are named in a deed of the same prop- erty to Joseph Patterson, of Watertown, in which the grantors were de- scribed as "Mary Patterson, widow ; James Patterson, Jonathan Patterson and Hezekiah Patterson, labourers, all of the town of Groton in the County of Middlesex in New England, and Mary Patterson of Watertown in ye County aforesaid, spinster." These I have supposed to be the widow and children of James Patterson who drew the lot. The deed was signed by but

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one Mary, and by James and Hezekiah; seals are attached for the other names but there is no sign of the names. I think the James Patterson who signed the deed to be identical with James Patterson mentioned by Butler in his history of Groton.

VIII. JONATHAN PATTERSON,2 born in Billerica 30 January, 1685-6. In a deed dated 27 February, 1706-7, he describes himself as a "tailor of Watertown." He then deeded to Enoch Kidder of Billerica fifty- one acres of land which he received from his father's estate in Billerica. He was a resident of Deerfield, Massachusetts, as early as 1713. He mar- ried, in Deerfield, 1713, Mary Hawks, born 1695, daughter of Deacon Eliezer and ____ Hawks, of Deerfield. He resided in Deerfield till after the birth of his second child, 1 September, 1716, after which he moved to Northfield, Massachusetts, where he died 1718. Mrs. Mary Patterson died in Northfield, 1757, "aged 61 years."

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