Thomas Patten
Thomas Patten
| Born | 1695-03-12 |
| Died | 1747-10-10 |
| Father | William Patten |
| Mother | Mary |
| Spouses | Miriam Stearns |
| Children |
Sarah
William (b. 1732-09-24) |
Thomas Patten, a cooper, was born on March 12, 1694/5, the eldest surviving son of Deacon William Patten and his first wife, Mary, and a grandson of Thomas Patten (1636-1690). The records call him Thomas Patten Jr., to tell him from his uncle, Sergeant Thomas Patten. He married Miriam Stearns, a daughter of Isaac Stearns.
His father died of smallpox at Cambridge on October 5, 1730 while attending the General Court, leaving no will. Thomas administered the estate, paid his stepmother Elizabeth 106 pounds for her dower, and on December 8, 1731 his brother and sisters, for 130 pounds each, quitclaimed to "our Brother Thomas Patten of Billerica" all their right in their fathers Billerica real estate. He thus held the whole Patten homestead near the corner, the farm of the William Patten House, running from the country road, now Pollard Street, west to the Concord River. As Thomas Patten Jr. he witnessed deeds for his neighbors in 1727 and 1745.
Miriam died on September 16, 1747 and Thomas on October 10, without a will. Jeremiah Abbot took out administration, and the inventory of October 28, 1747 begins with "the Home Stead About Twenty Seven acres & three quarters with the Buildings thereon standing," bounded east and north by the highway, west by the Concord River and south by Oliver Farmer, at 1,100 pounds old tenor, with eighteen acres more near it. The accounts of 1749 paid for 132 squares of glass, window frames, boards and clapboards "all used about ye house." In November 1747 his son William, "in the Sixteenth year of his age," chose Deacon William Stickney as his guardian, and his daughter Miriam chose Jacob Danforth. When the estate was divided in 1754 the homestead, then about 41 acres, went to William and the eighteen acres north of "the Bridge Lane" to the second son, Thomas, by then a saddler in Boston, who sold them in 1756 to Isaac Foster; the Tavern at the Corner was later built on that land.
His children were the twins Mary and Miriam (1730); Sergeant William (1732), who kept the homestead until his death in 1801 and was the father of Deacon Jeremiah Patten; Thomas (1734); Sarah (1735), who married Timothy Danforth; Mary (1737); Isaac (1739); Jonathan (1742/3); and David (1745).
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| March 5, 1728 | Deed of Sale | Nathaniel Rogers Jr. of Billerica | John Shed Jr. of Billerica | as Thomas Patten Jr. | John Shed House | 27/272 (South) |
For five hundred pounds "current money of said Province," Nathaniel Rogers Jr. of Billerica, with his wife Mary releasing her dower, sold to John Shed Jr. of Billerica "one messuage or house lot situate in Billerica aforesaid containing about thirty acres be it more or less of upland, swamp and meadow land," bounded "Northward by the land of Oliver Farmer, Eastward by the County Road, Southward by the land of Daniel Rogers, westward by Concord River," "with all the buildings fences and trees thereon standing or being." Dated Dec. 26, 1727, acknowledged Jan. 12, 1727/8, recorded Mar. 5, 1727/8; witnesses Thomas Patten Jr. and Eleazar Whiting. No earlier deed is recited: Rogers had bought the same thirty acre house lot, then bounded north by Edward Farmer, from Henry Jefts Jr. in 1718. Billerica town book 3, pages 112-114.
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| 1730 | Administration | Estate of Deacon William Patten of Billerica, intestate (died at Cambridge, 1730) | Thomas Patten, administrator; the widow Elizabeth and the children | administrator of his fathers estate | William Patten House Wendy's Food Basket Monarch Diner William D. Mason House 314 Boston Rd |
Probate #17041 |
Deacon William Patten, the towns representative, died of smallpox at Cambridge in April 1730 while the General Court sat there. His son Thomas Patten administered; the personal inventory was taken Dec. 25, 1730. The account of 1731-32 charges "the improvement of the Real Estate one year" and a payment to "Eliz. Patten, the widow of ye deced for quitclaiming her Right of Dower in said Estate it being an agreement made between ye widow & the heirs being all of age," 106 pounds. Papers read, pages 2-9.
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| December 13, 1731 | Heirs Quitclaim | William Patten, Mary Patten, Jacob and Rebecca Danforth, Mehetabel Patten, of Billerica, and Jacob and Sarah Taylor and Joseph and Elizabeth Taylor, of Concord (heirs of Deacon William Patten) | Thomas Patten of Billerica, their brother | Details | William Patten House Wendy's Food Basket Monarch Diner William D. Mason House 314 Boston Rd |
32/181 (South) |
Dated Dec. 8, acknowledged Dec. 10, recorded Dec. 13, 1731. For 130 pounds to each, the brothers and sisters quitclaim to "our Brother Thomas Patten of Billerica" all their right in "the Estate Real both of Lands and Tenements of Deacon William Patten late of Billerica Decd which he died seized of lying ... within the Limits of the Town of said Billerica." Witnesses Rebekah Farley and Thomas Kidder. With the widows dower bought out the same year (Middlesex South 32/439), Thomas held the whole Patten homestead. Billerica town book 3, pages 298-299.
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| December 1, 1763 | Deed | William Shed | Josiah Brown | as Thomas Patten Jr. | Shedd Family Homestead 38 Concord Rd |
62/86 (South) |
William Shed of Billerica, cordwainer, for 75 pounds bills of credit, sells to Josiah Brown of Billerica, yeoman, "part of my Homestead lying on the East side of the Road that leads to Bedford containing about three acres & an half," bounded westerly on the highway, southerly on Samuel Whiting, east on Capt. Jonathan Bowers deceased, then easterly toward the brook to Nathaniel Davison's land, northerly about five poles, then westerly to the highway "on the north side of the shop," and northerly on Lieut. Jacob Danforth, "together with all the Buildings thereon standing," reserving to himself sixteen feet square at the southwesterly corner. Signed March 20, 1745, witnessed by Thomas Patten Jr. and John White; acknowledged Oct. 17, 1749; not recorded until Dec. 1, 1763. No deed into William Shed is recorded; the lot descends from the 1658 house lot of Daniel Shed through his son Nathan. Billerica town book 6, pages 9-11. Brown sold the house lot to Jacob Richardson in 1781.
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| 1747 | Administration and Division | Estate of Thomas Patten of Billerica, cooper, intestate | William Patten, eldest son (the homestead); Thomas Patten, second son (18 acres); the widow Hannah (later Hannah Stickney) and the other children | Details | William Patten House Tavern at the Corner Samuel Parker House Wendy's Food Basket Monarch Diner William D. Mason House 314 Boston Rd First Baptist Church |
Probate #17031 |
Thomas Patten died in 1747; Jeremiah Abbot, then the widow Hannah, administered. The inventory of Oct. 28, 1747 begins with "the Home Stead About Twenty Seven acres & three quarters with the Buildings thereon standing bounded East & North by the high way west by Concord River & South by the land of Oliver Farmer," 1,100 pounds old tenor, with 18 acres near it by Ensign Sheds land, also running to the river. The accounts of 1749 pay for 132 squares of glass, window frames, boards and clapboards "all used about ye house." The real estate inventory of Feb. 4, 1754 describes "the Homestead Containing about forty one acres Bounded East and north on the Road that leads from Billerica to Chelmsford, west on Concord River, South on the Land of Oliver Farmer ... Together with all the buildings," and the committee settled it on William, the eldest son, the 18 acres north of "the Bridge Lane" going to the second son Thomas. Papers read, pages 2-17.
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| 1748 | Guardianship | Estate of Thomas Patten Jr. of Billerica, deceased (his minor son William) | Deacon William Stickney of Billerica, cordwainer, guardian of William Patten | guardianship of his minor son William | William D. Mason House | Probate #17036 |
On Nov. 25, 1747 Benjamin Thompson, justice of the peace, certified to Judge Samuel Danforth that "William Patten in the Sixteenth year of his age, Son of Thomas Patten Junr. late of Billerica Deceased" had chosen Deacon William Stickney to be his guardian, and that his sister Miriam, in her seventeenth year, had chosen Jacob Danforth. Stickney gave bond on May 23, 1748 in 300 pounds, with Jeremiah Abbot, sadler, as surety, to account for "such Estate as shall come to his Hands" and deliver it to the minor at full age. William, the eldest son, was the heir to whom the homestead was settled in the 1754 division of his father's estate (probate 17031); he held it until his death in 1801.
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| June 28, 1769 | Deed | Thomas Patten of Boston, sadler | Isaac Foster of Billerica, joiner | the 18 acres were part of his estate | Tavern at the Corner Samuel Parker House First Baptist Church |
69/331 (South) |
For 68 pounds 2 shillings 4 pence, "a certain Tract of Land consisting both of upland and Meadow situate in Billerica ... lying on the East side of Concord River it being part of the Estate of Mr. Thomas Patten late of Billerica dec'd containing by estimation eighteen acres more or less bounded Southerly on the highway leading to Chelmsford about eighty poles unto Concord River," westerly on the river, northerly on the heirs of Lieut. John Shed and easterly on the country road, "with all the fences & trees thereon" (no buildings are mentioned). Warranty. Dated April 5, 1756 (witnesses Ephraim Copeland Jr. and Jacob Foster), acknowledged at Boston the same day; recorded June 28, 1769. Billerica town book 6, pages 368-370. The seller was the second son of Thomas Patten (d. 1747), to whom the 1754 division had set off these 18 acres north of the Bridge Lane.
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Recorded is Book/Page at the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds unless noted; Probate # is a Middlesex probate case, Ctf a Land Court certificate of title.