Thomas Patten
Thomas Patten
| Born | 1666-03-22 |
| Died | 1752-09-14 |
| Father | Thomas Patten |
| Mother | Rebecca Paine |
| Spouses |
Hannah Foster |
| Children |
Thomas (b. 1701-10-22)
John (b. 1705-03-29) Joseph (b. 1710-09-26) |
Thomas Patten, called Sergeant Patten, was born on March 22, 1665/6, the eldest son of Thomas Patten (1636-1690), the owner of the saw mill on Content Brook, and his first wife, Rebecca Paine. Under his fathers will of 1690 he received, as eldest son, the second-division lot and its meadows. On December 21, 1699 he married Hannah Foster, a step-daughter of Peter Bracket.
When his brother Nathaniel Patten died in 1718, Thomas Patten and Thomas Ross were the sureties on the administration bond given by the widow, Hannah. For many years three men named Thomas Patten lived in Billerica at once, and the town records tell them apart: when his son died in 1733 the clerk wrote him down as "Thomas Ters," the third, and his nephew Thomas Patten, son of Deacon William, appears as Thomas Patten Jr.
Hannah died on August 18, 1742, aged 73 by Hazen and 75 by her gravestone. Sergeant Patten died on September 14, 1752, at the age of 87 years, 5 months and 27 days, and was buried in the Old South Cemetery. His children were Thomas (1701), who died before him; Nathaniel (1702/3); John (1705), who married Elizabeth Frost and was dismissed to the church in Shrewsbury in 1753; and Joseph (1710), who married Susanna Hill in 1734/5 and whose name disappears from the tax list in 1743.
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Title References
| Date | Type | Grantor | Grantee | Summary | Property | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1718 | Administration, Inventory and Dower Agreement | Estate of Nathaniel Patten of Billerica (1668-1718), intestate | Hannah Patten, widow and administratrix (later Hannah Emerson), and their sons Nathaniel and John Patten | surety on the administration bond of his brother Nathaniels widow | Patten Homestead | Probate #17020 |
Nathaniel Patten died early in 1718. On May 12, 1718 his widow gave bond as administratrix, with Thomas Patten and Thomas Ross. The inventory taken April 23, 1718 by Ephraim Kidder, Enoch Kidder and George Brown lists "the homestead about fifty acres of upland and meadow with the buildings" at 240 pounds; thirty-one acres "part of the first lot in the first part of the 2d division"; four acres on Rocky Hill; "about ninety acres of upland and meadow at Shawshin River" at 140 pounds; a hundred acres at Heath Swamp; thirty-one acres on Recompense Plain; thirty-two acres west of the great river; and swamp lots; with a weaver's loom among the goods. On May 18, 1733 Hannah Emerson, "the Relict Widow of Nathaniel Patton," then wife of Joseph Emerson of Haverhill, agreed with her sons Nathaniel and John Patten on her thirds: "the West end of the Dwelling house throughout," the west end of the barn, most of the orchard south of the house and the pasture from "William French southwest corner of his Houselot (which is a Great Rock by the Highway)," part of the field east of the house by John Marshall, "Six Acres of medow at Shawshin River, lying on the Westerly side of the River ... where the two sons agreed upon a line between themselves," and the Recompense Plain lot; acknowledged May 21 and Oct. 19, 1733 and recorded at the court's order (lib. 19, pp. 392-393). The fifty-acre homestead with William French and John Marshall as neighbours was on Allen Road, not Salem Road; the ninety acres at Shawshin River, divided by the two sons, is where the Salem Road house stands, and the eighteen acres Nathaniel sold John the same month (town book 3, pages 451-453) adjoined "said Pattens own land." Middlesex probate case 17020.
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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.