Adeline (6 May 1817-~1856) — m. Solomon Spicer in 1836
Samuel Danford (11 May 1819-22 Jul 1897) — m. Barbara Campbell about 1844; m. Bessie S. Bates Annis on 7 Oct 1878; m. Sarah ?Garwitt? Weatherman on 8 Nov 1881
others
Laura (30 Jan 1831-7 Aug 1883) — m. Joseph Jourden on 23 Apr 1848
Hiram James, Jr. (~1837-16 Mar 1888) — m. Persis M. Huggins Heath on 18 Jan 1866
Maria Amanda (22 Feb 1841-28 Feb 1920) — m. Israel B. Luther about 1858
Hiram was the son of Danforth Patterson (1770-23 Mar 1832) and Chloe Smith (8 Aug 1774-5 Apr 1836), who married on 30 May 1792 in New Braintree, Worcester County, Massachusetts. They promptly moved to Vermont, and, by 1797, to Missisquoi County, Quebec, where they remained until their deaths. According to one descendant, the Pattersons could trace their lineage to English and French royalty.
Amanda was born in Lower Canada, meaning Quebec. Her parents are unknown.
Hiram and Amanda married around 1816, probably in Noyan, Missisquoi County, Quebec. Their first child, Adeline, was probably born there, but their next child, Samuel, was reportedly born in Ogdensburgh, New York.
The 1830 census for Fort Covington, Franklin County in upstate New York showed a Hiram Patterson in his thirties, but there’s not enough data to be sure this was our man. He had a wife in her twenties, and six children: a girl and boy age 10-14 (presumably Adeline and Samuel), a boy and girl age 5-9, and two girls under 5. The household also included a man in his twenties, too old to be their son. It could have been Hiram’s brother James.
Hiram Patterson was listed in the Field Return of the Company of the First Regiment of Hastings Militia under command of Captain George Bleecker, Assembled 18 Oct 1834 at Shannonville, Ontario, which is on the Bay of Quinte, on the north side of Lake Ontario. He was age 38, and listed living in “The Indian Tract”, which is likely Tyendinaga. The place, time, age, and name are right – probably our man. A separate account claims the Pattersons were living on the Bay of Quinte, Ontario around 1840, although it might derive from the same source.
The 1850 US census showed Hiram Patterson (54, born in New York), laborer, in Edwards, St. Lawrence County, New York, with wife Amanda (50, born in Canada), and children Hiram (13) and Maria (8). This location is less than 100 miles due east of the Bay of Quinte, so they hadn’t moved far.
Why they moved again more than 200 miles east and north up into Quebec, where the 1861 Canada census found them, well, who knows. The census showed Amanda (62) and her son Hiram, Jr. (25) in Hereford, Compton District, just across the border from Canaan, Vermont, living either with or next door to daughter Maria and her husband Israel Luther. Hiram “Pattason” (67) was listed living with a different family in the same area.
Hiram died in 1870 in Hereford. The US census that year showed Amanda living with son Hiram Jr. and family in Pittsburg, Coos County, New Hampshire. I’ve been unable to trace her any further or tell where she and Hiram Sr. are buried. Note Hiram was Church of England.
Adeline married Solomon Spicer (26 Jun 1812-6 Dec 1889) from Quebec in 1836. They moved to New York in the late 1830s, after their first child was born. The 1850 census listed them in Alexandria, Jefferson County, New York with the first six of their nine (I think) children:
Eunice (9 Sep 1836-7 Dec 1901) — m. William Van Arman about 1855
Hiram (1839-????)
Henry W. (19 Feb 1841-7 Mar 1916) — m. Minerva Jane McCue
Charles (~1843-10 Jul 1916) — m. Mary Ann Foster on 5 Sep 1866; m. Rilla A. W. Treft on 15 Mar 1902
Mandana (1846-????)
Eliza Jane (6 May 1848-13 Sep 1916) — m. ??? Howe; m. Arthur Alexander on 26 Apr 1877
Ellen (~1851-30 Dec 1884) — m. Andrew Wilson on 20 Aug 1877
Zenith (~1851-????) — PROB. SAME AS ELLEN/HELEN
Lavina (2 Jul 1853-27 Mar 1916) — m. George Hensley about 1875; m. Myron Dalrymple on 18 Mar 1886
William (25 Mar 1856-8 Feb 1921) — m. Frances M. Hyde
The (June) 1855 New York census listed the family in the same place with eight children. Adeline probably died in late 1856 or early 1857. Her findagrave.com page lists date of death as 11 Mar 1852, but there are two good reasons to doubt that: the 1855 census showed her still living, and the same findagrave.com page lists her age at death as 39 years 5 months, which would place her death in October 1856. It’s easy to misread old stones and old writing. Anyway, Adeline is buried in Church Street Cemetery, Alexandria Bay, Jefferson County, New York.
Solomon married a widow named Mary Bishop Wright (1831-1880) in the late 1850s. Mary came with a daughter, Fanny Wright (~1853-????). The 1860 census for Alexandria showed the blended family with Adeline’s children Henry (19), Eliza (12), Zenith (9), Lovina (7), and William (5), plus Fanny Wright (7) and the first of Solomon’s children with Mary:
Mary Jane (~1858-????) — m. John Lafavre about 1874
Solomon (1861-2 Dec 1932) — m. Margaret Ann Vance on 11 Mar 1880
Elizabeth (1863-????)
David (1864-1949) — m. Emily Cole in 1884
Joseph S. (1866-????)
The 1870 census showed Solomon and Mary still in Alexandria with their five children. In the 1875 New York state census, they were still there, with David, Joseph, Mary, and Mary’s (much older) husband and baby boy.
Mary Bishop Wright Spicer died in 1880. The census for that year showed Solomon as a widower, living alone in Alexandria. He returned to Canada, where he died in 1889. He’s buried in Holstein Cemetery, Holstein, Grey County, Ontario.
Although son Henry’s findagrave.com page claims he was born in 1844, early censuses show that he was a couple of years older than Charles. Ellen never appeared in census records for this family, but the 1877 record of her wedding (as Helen Spicer) in Hastings, Ontario claimed Solomon and Adeline Spicer as her parents; barring a coincidence of names and places, I suspect she was the child originally listed as Zenith but going by a different name. Familysearch.org lists William as the son of Mary, but, given the uncertain timing of Adeline’s death and Solomon’s re-marriage, his birth mother was more likely Adeline.
Samuel’s first wife was Barbara Campbell (15 Aug 1826-29 Aug 1878) from Germany, whom he married in Canada about 1844. Their children:
James E. (1845-191x) — m. Emily E. or Emeline Eyer on 7 Oct 1879; m. Minnie Snell on 13 May 1889; m. Emily Gunther Wagner on 23 Mar 1893
Emeline (1847-????)
Amos (1849-1923) — m. Mary A. Bielwell on 9 Sep 1873
William H. (1852-after 1920) — m. Elizabeth “Lizzie” Shaffer on 19 Jul 1880
Leslie (Dec 1854-after 1910) — m. Minnie or Winnie Batterson on 3 Jun 1896
Ida M. (1857-????)
Samuel, Jr. (6 May 1860-18 Oct 1937) — m. Margaret Shaffer on 1 Nov 1880
Amanda (1861-????) — m. Augustus Vieu in 187x; m. ??? Spear/Spears in 188x; m. Thomas Waddell on 5 Aug 1890; m. Paul Tappen on 1 Dec 1896; m. Albert Charles Brix on 29 Jul 1897; divorced/died
Charles (Aug 1863-after 1910) — m. Clara Irene Richardson on 6 Aug 1884
From the places of birth for the children, they lived at first in Canada, moved to New York in the late 1840s or 1850, and moved to Wisconsin in the mid-1850s.
The 1860 census listed them in Decatur, Green County, Wisconsin, which is well inland and just north of the Illinois border, with Samuel (43) saying he was born in Canada, and their eldest six children present. By 1870 they were living in Kenosha, Kenosha County on the coast of Lake Michigan south of Milwaukee with their seven youngest, and Samuel (55) was claiming he was from New York.
Barbara died in 1878, and is buried in Fox Hill Cemetery (now called Fort Howard Memorial Park), Green Bay, Wisconsin. Son Samuel Jr. was later buried there as well. Samuel Sr. married divorceé Bessie S. Bates Annis (28 May 1840-21 May 1923) from Ohio on 7 October of that year, up north in Brown County, the area of Green Bay. His remaining children apparently took that as their notice to clear out. Four of them – William, Leslie, Samuel Jr., and Amanda – were sharing a place at Fort Howard, Brown County in the 1880 census. That year’s census showed Samuel Sr. and Bessie in Mentor, Clark County, Wisconsin with a newborn son:
Halbert Ashton (9 Sep 1879-after 1930) — m. May Nelson in 190x
Bessie must have left soon after; she went on to marry a man named Hiram Shively about 1891, divorced him too, and married Jeremiah Gray in 1913.
In 1881 Samuel married Sarah Garwitt Weatherman in Bloomer, Chippewa County, way out in western Wisconsin. The marriage record, which named his parents, helpfully cited his place of birth as Ogdensburgh, New York, which is in northern New York on the St. Lawrence River. It’s about halfway between Noyan, Missisquoi County, Quebec, where his parents married, and their later home in the Bay of Quinte on Lake Ontario.
When Samuel, by then a widower, died in 1897 in Forest Home, Salt Lake County, Utah at the reported age of 80, the death record claimed his parents were Archie and Maria Paterson from Scotland. It did at least get his (first) wife’s name as Barbara. Forest Home appears to be a ghost town in the mountains east of Salt Lake City. It’s possible the record is mistaken about where Samuel died.
An 1895 Wisconsin state census showed the household of son Samuel Patterson in Green Bay, consisting of 5 males and 3 females. The 1910 census showed the families of sons Leslie and Charles living near one another in Milwaukee; they appear to have been running boarding houses. Son James kept claiming his parents were from Scotland (he must have been the reporting party on his father’s death record), and in later life claimed he was from Scotland.
The 1830 census record that I’m pretty sure is for this family indicates they had a boy and three girls born in the 1820s for whom there’s no other information.
Laura variously claimed to have been born in New York or Canada. She married Ireland-born Joseph Jourden (1825-29 Dec 1891) on 23 Apr 1848 in Fowler, St. Lawrence County, New York. Their children:
Francis (Mar 1850–12 Apr 1907) — m. Hannah Amelia Durphy on 8 Nov 1870
William H. (30 Jun 1851–1 Oct 1901) — m. Jane Toothaker on 11 Jul 1869
Joseph, Jr. (7 Jun 1853–13 Jan 1870)
Philander (16 Mar 1857–20 Jul 1883)
Pearl Gellette (Mar 1866–8 Dec 1933) — m. Sylvia Cerena Patterson on 2 Feb 1883
Ella M. (Jul 1867–27 Jan 1933) — m. Isaac DeCan on 25 Dec 1883
The 1850 and 1860 censuses showed Laura, Joseph, and children in St. Lawrence County. By the 1870 census, they were in Polkton Township, Ottawa County, Michigan with their children and Joseph’s mother. By 1880 they were in Ravenna, Muskegon County, Michigan.
Laura died in 1883, and is buried in Coopersville-Polkton Cemetery, Coopersville, Ottawa County, Michigan. Joseph died in 1891 and is buried there as well.
Hiram Jr. was with his mother in Quebec in the 1861 census. He married Persis M. Huggins (4 Jul 1843-5 Jan 1905) on 18 Jan 1866 in Pittsburg, Coos County, New Hampshire. Persis had divorced her previous husband, Albert Heath. She came with two children, Charles Herbert (10 Jan 1859-????) and Henry E. (5 May 1862-27 Feb 1914). She and Hiram had one child I know of, a daughter, although there might have been others who also died young:
Fanny (~1866-187x)
The 1870 census listed the family in Pittsburg: Hiram (33), Persis (28), Herbert (11), Henry (8) and Fanny (4), plus Hiram’s recently widowed mother Amanda (71). In 1881, the Canadian census showed Hiram (43) and Persis (39) in Coaticook, Stanstead County, Quebec, near Hiram’s sister Maria Patterson Luther. Hiram was working as a cooper, and they had no children with them.
Hiram died on 16 Mar 1888 in Franklin, Merrimack County, New Hampshire and is buried in Franklin Cemetery. I don’t know what he was doing that far south of his usual stomping grounds, but his stepson Henry Heath lived in Franklin and was later buried in the same cemetery.
On 25 Nov 1895, Persis married Jamon Perry in Vermont. She died in 1905 in Essex County, Vermont, and is buried with Jamon there.
Maria has her own entry in the family tree.
http://woodwaugh.com/mine/p92.htm -- Hiram’s ancestry and story
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~waughp/patterson/patte001.htm -- different page, same source
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~waughp/mine/p84.htm -- different page, same source
https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/samuel-danford-patterson_77958766 -- Date of birth for Samuel, little other data
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39871942/danford-patterson -- 1832 grave of Hiram’s father
https://www.ancestry.com/boards/localities.northam.canada.ontario.hastings/1770/mb.ashx -- 1834 militia thing
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC1X-66N -- 1850 census
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCYK-X95 -- 1850 census, Adeline
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC16-ZBM -- 1850 census, Laura
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82233697 -- 1852 grave of Adeline; links to children, family details
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K6QK-57F -- 1855 census, Adeline’s children
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FL6Z-R12 -- 1858 marriage of Persis Huggins
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWMB-B14 -- 1860 census, Samuel
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC4Z-D1C -- 1860 census, Laura
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC4Q-J7Q -- 1860 census, Adeline’s husband and children
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCWJ-3Y4 -- 1860 census, Adeline’s daughter Eunice
http://data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca/1861/jpg/4108690_00330.jpg -- 1861 census; note Hiram “Pattason”
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FL62-PJ3 -- Hiram, Jr.’s 1866 wedding
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH56-33L -- 1870 census, Amanda and son Hiram
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHC8-R36 -- 1870 census, Laura
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN9K-RWH -- 1870 census, Samuel
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4QM-9JB -- 1871 census, Adeline’s daughter Eunice
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NQWC-Z8W -- 1873 wedding of Samuel’s son Amos
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VT8L-KX1 -- 1875 NY census, Adeline’s husband
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XLXH-BLD -- 1878 death of Samuel’s wife Barbara
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VJGT-4HC -- Ditto
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRVQ-V2K -- 1878 wedding #2 of Samuel
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRDV-GTR -- 1879 wedding of Samuel’s son James
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN4H-7J4 -- 1880 census, Samuel
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MW3S-BQJ -- 1880 census, Laura
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNHR-JFB -- 1880 census, Samuel’s son Amos
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNHS-KYB -- 1880 census, Samuel's son James
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN4W-SSQ -- 1880 census, Samuel’s children William, Leslie, Samuel Jr., and Amanda
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MW37-XZM -- 1880 census, Adeline’s son Henry
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MW3F-WVR -- 1880 census, Adeline’s daughter Levina
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRVQ-YSN -- 1880 wedding of Samuel’s son Sam Jr.
http://data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca/e/e326/e008145834.jpg -- 1881 census, Hiram Jr.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRKC-TKK -- 1881 wedding #3 of Samuel
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MVXK-XPK -- 1881 Ontario census, Adeline’s daughter Ellen
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/91251518/laura-j-jourden -- 1883 grave of Laura
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRD5-PFF -- 1884 wedding of Samuel’s son Charles
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCDW-997 -- 1886 wedding of Adeline’s daughter Levina
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDJ6-98B -- 1888 death of Hiram Jr.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131359012 -- 1888 grave of Hiram Jr.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDVS-LTG -- 1889 wedding of Persis’s son
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XZQW-KFN -- 1889 wedding of Samuel’s son James
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRP9-T65 -- 1890 wedding of Samuel’s daughter Amanda
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRNM-3D7 -- 1893 wedding of Samuel’s son James
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XF36-8TM -- 1895 wedding of Persis
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRPM-K2T -- 1896 wedding of Samuel’s daughter Amanda
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRN9-Q4X -- 1896 wedding of Samuel’s son Leslie
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK85-S5HD -- 1897 wedding of Samuel’s daughter Amanda
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XLXG-2RF -- 1897 death of Samuel
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VJP7-PKT -- same, I think
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMVV-5NY -- 1900 census, Samuel’s son Leslie
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMK3-CV7 -- 1900 census, Samuel’s son Amos
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMVV-VP8 -- 1900 census, Samuel’s son Charles
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMG1-61H -- 1900 census, Persis
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N38B-V7M -- 1902 wedding of Adeline’s son Charles
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XF3N-5Z1 -- 1905 death of Hiram Jr.’s widow Persis
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/166701431 -- grave of Hiram Jr.’s widow Persis
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMS6-RV1 -- 1905 census, Samuel’s son Sam Jr.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MPVF-Q65 -- 1910 census, Samuel’s son Leslie
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MP2C-X7J -- 1910 census, Samuel’s son Sam
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLDZ-LHW -- 1917 wedding of Persis’s daughter
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFKR-TD4 -- 1920 census, Samuel’s son Sam Jr.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFK9-R1P -- 1920 census, Samuel’s son William
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92590205 -- 1923 grave of Samuel’s son Amos
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X93G-9KM -- 1930 census, Samuel’s son Sam Jr.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9Q2-K8R -- 1930 census, Samuel’s son Halbert
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84210460 -- 1937 grave of Sam, Jr.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHPN-VRD -- 1830 census
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XR6C-QHY -- 1879 wedding of a possible unknown daughter
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NQM3-7GP -- 1921 wedding of an undocumented son of Adeline’s husband
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC4Z-N7L -- 1860 census, "H. Patterson"; had thought this was Hiram Jr.
