Captain John Patten1

b. 22 June 1787, d. 20 February 1834
Captain John Patten|b. 22 Jun 1787\nd. 20 Feb 1834|p7900.htm|Robert Patten|b. 21 Jun 1732\nd. 14 Mar 1819|p7894.htm|Susanna Goodwin|b. 29 Jul 1764\nd. 4 May 1841|p7897.htm|Matthew Patten|b. c 1691\nd. 25 Sep 1773|p7538.htm|Margaret (—?—) (Patten)|d. b 1748|p7539.htm|||||||

1st cousin 5 times removed of Ruth Minerva Fairfield.
1st cousin 7 times removed of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Fairfield and Allied Families
     Captain John Patten was born on 22 June 1787 in Arundel, York County, Maine.1 He was the son of Robert Patten and Susanna Goodwin.1 He married Olive Lassell, daughter of Israel Lassell and Abigail Hill, Aug (or 10 Jun) 1807.2 He died on 20 February 1834 in Portland, Maine, at age 46.3 He was buried in Portland in a tomb which he constructed in the Eastern Cemetery.3
     
     John and Olive Patten had six children.4 He was an inn-keeper, auctioneer and merchant in Arundel from 1809 to 1820 when he moved to Portland where he kept a hotel on Middle Street.5

Citations

  1. [S726] Walter Goodwin Davis, "The Ancestry of James Patten," Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): A Reprinting, in Alphabetical Order by Surname, of the Sixteen Multi-Ancestor Compendia (plus Thomas Haley of Winter Harbor and His Descendants) compiled by Maine's Foremost Genealogist, 1916-1963), (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1996), 3, 94, citing Robert Patten's Bible.
  2. [S726] Walter Goodwin Davis, "The Ancestry of James Patten," MMF, 3, 94.
  3. [S726] Walter Goodwin Davis, "The Ancestry of James Patten," MMF, 3, 95.
  4. [S726] Walter Goodwin Davis, "The Ancestry of James Patten," MMF, 3, 95, 96.
  5. [S726] Walter Goodwin Davis, "The Ancestry of James Patten," MMF, 3, 94, 95.