Sir Patrick Houston of that Ilk, Baronet

SIR PATRICK HOUSTON OF THAT ILK Baronet

Merchant in Glasgow; Burgess and Guild Brother of Glasgow; Comptroller of the Customs at Port Glasgow; Chamberlain of Kinneil; President of the Council at Georgia in British North America; Register of Land Grants at Georgia in British North America

HOUSTOUN PATRICK
PATRICK HOUSTOUN/ISSOBELL JOHNSTOUN
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24/06/1697
644/1
70 308
Glasgow

Evidence from the Burgess Records of Glasgow

19 April 1719: Houston, Patrick, merchant, B. and G.B., as second l. son to dec. Patrick H., merchant, B. and G.B. Glasgow Burgesses 1573-1751: 335

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

Eighteenth Century: Memorial by Patrick Houstoun [Houston], late comptroller of customs at Port Glasgow, representing that the tobacco frauds at that port, for which he and others had been suspended, had taken place before his arrival. National Records of Scotland, Papers of Clerk family of Penicuik, Midlothian, reference GD18/2831

Biographical Summary

"Sir Patrick Houston, Baronet [S. 1668], of Savanna, in Georgia, cousin and h. male, being 2d s. but eventually (before Dec. 1747) h. male of Patrick Houston, Merchant, of Glasgow, by Isabel, da. and h. of George Johnstone, also of Glasgow, Merchant, which Patrick, who d. before 1717, was 2d s. of the 1st Baronet. He, who was b. about 1698 and was Comptroller of the Customs at the Port of Glasgow in 1723 and Chamberlain of Kinneil, 1730 ; emigrated to America( c ) about 1740, and became President of the Council at Georgia. He suc. to the Baronetcy, but not to any of the family estates, 27 July 1751. He m. Priscilla Dunbar. He d. 5 Feb. 1762, at Savanna, aged 64. His widow d. 26 Feb. 1775, aged 70. M.I. to both of them in the cemetery at Savanna."

SOURCE: Complete baronetage; Cokayne, George E. (George Edward); 1904; Vol. IV; page 269

Notes

• Came to His Majesty's colony of Georgia in 1734.
• Served as President of His Majesty's Council for the Province of Georgia
• Married to Pricilla Dunbar (Lady Houstoun)

Unattributed Biographical Summary

Houstoun, Sir Patrick, was one of those who came over with Oglethorpe and labored assiduously for the upbuilding of the Colony of Georgia. He was made the first register of land grants at a salary of £ 50 a year, but this was subsequently increased to £ 100, with fees amounting to £ 71 additional. He was one of the witnesses to the agreement of the Creeks acknowledging Malatche as their king or mico, made at Frederica on Dec. 14, 1747, and which led to the famous Bosomworth case. He became a large landowner near Savannah and his son, John Houstoun, (q.v.) was elected governor in 1778. During the Revolution Sir Patrick was so unfortunate as to incur the displeasure of both the British and Americans, being one of those denounced by the royalist legislature convened by Governor Wright, and in May, 1782, was branded as a Tory by the act of attainder passed by the colonial assembly, the penalty being banishment and confiscation of his property.