Summary of the Patrick family Lineage; Magoffin Co., Ky Submitted by: Jim Patrick Date: 5-23-98 USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Files may be printed or copied for personal use only. -- SUMMARY OF PATRICK LINEAGE by Jim Patrick March 31, 1998 Greetings from Texas! Its been so long since I corresponded with most of you that I’m ashamed to say I had to go to Elwood and Forest for your addresses. You are always in my memories of the old days at Grampa’s house when we were all a bit younger...probably the best memories of my youth. Anyway, I’m writing to pass along some information that you may or may not already have. I hope that it will prove of interest to you and your families. Having resolved some months ago to learn what more could be known of our ancestry, I was delighted to find that much of this work has already been accomplished by a number of good folks who are affiliated with the Magoffin County Historical Society in Salyersville, Kentucky. Although I was aware that some research on the Patrick lineage had been performed by this organization in preparation for their 1982 Founder’s Day celebration, I was unprepared for the sheer bulk of the materials available and the amount of detail contained therein. I acquired not only the Society’s two-volume 1982 publication on Patricks, but also a goodly supply of texts involving census records, legal documents, local journals, and cemetery records, as well as indices to most of them. I also had the good fortune to be referred to the extensive works of Dr. L.W. Patrick, of Fairway, Kansas. While researching the Society’s journals, I came across the keynote speech (enclosed) that he gave at the 1982 Founder’s Day celebration, and shortly thereafter I became aware of a book entitled Patrick in Retrospect which he published in 1993. His research throughout the British Isles traces our ancestry to the days when initially we were Vikings, and later as key figures in settling Scotland and England; still later as Protestants in northern Ireland. His visits to the archive centers in England, Scotland, and Ireland have allowed him to assemble our direct lineage, name by name, for nearly the past 600 years. His many thousands of hours of such research place us all in his debt. No famine-Irish are we...our people are Scotch-Irish; landed gentry in the United Kingdom; came to America with the pilgrims; fought with Washington during the Revolutionary War and in every American war thereafter. We scouted the frontiers of those times with General George Rogers Clark...were holders of immense landtracts in Virginia (Patrick County), and later traveled as pioneers in the times of Daniel Boone into the wilderness of eastern Kentucky where again we acquired vast tracts of land in that beautiful country. Many settled there; many others settled for awhile, but moved on by rafts through the Licking, Ohio, and Mississippi rivers to begin the settlement of the West long before the discovery of gold lured others to follow. As extensive as it is, my material only begins to scratch the surface on our Kentucky lineage. While I can now identify nearly every Patrick that ever populated that area as well as most of their basic birth, marriage, death, and burial statistics, I am woefully short on the real-life details associated with many of our more immediate ancestors. Those of you who can help a bit with Squire John, Amos David, or even my grandfather Homer are invited to call me at (281) 689-5345 or write me on the internet (JIM.JANICE@worldnet.att.net). We need to get it on paper. The following represents our direct lineage...there are obviously thousands of distant cousins on both sides of the Atlantic, given the large and healthy families that have been typical of Patrick families throughout our history, but this summary tracks only the immediate male descendency (sorry, ladies...I will do better). I invite you to plug your immediate family members into their appropriate positions on our family tree. Where information is missing, I have left it blank for the time being, but will improve upon it over time...any and all help will be very much appreciated. Again, I hope that this information will be of interest to you and that you will share it with your children and their children...and theirs. Ours is a proud past that should be known and shared with the Patrick generations to come. It matters. Enjoy! Jim Patrick Houston, Texas DIRECT LINEAGE*: (*note: person above is parent of person below.- b.e.) JOHN PATRICK - born 1429 of Ayrshire in Scotland (a notary) - most of the generations through Robert Patrick (b.1705) are the result of research in the Scottish Archives by Dr. Lee W. Patrick of Fairway, Kansas. JOHN PATRICK - born 1460 WILLIAM PATRICK - born 1495; died 1549 JOHN PATRICK - born 1530; sons Hew (Hugh), Robert, James, John, and Alexander. JAMES PATRICK - born 1552, married Agnes Finley, sons Thomas, Hugh, John, James, Robert and William THOMAS KILPATRICK - born 1580; ('kil' commonly used; means "son of"), son John JOHN KILPATRICK - born 1605, married Agnes Dockson, sons James and Robert ROBERT PATRICK - born 1635, son Hugh HUGH PATRICK - born 1678, Edinburgh, Scotland; married Mary Campbell on 24 November, 1704 (daughter of Sheriff Walter Campbell); never came to America, but sons Robert, Hugh, William, and John did in 1726. Son Hugh died in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1778; son William died there also (no date available), son John died in Augusta County, Virginia in 1765; son Robert discussed below: ROBERT PATRICK - born 1705, Edinburgh, Scotland; came to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on August 25, 1725 at age 21; married in 1728 to Elizabeth; owned land on Yellow Breeches Creek, Cumberland County, Pa in 1742; their children played with George Washington as children, and his son James was one of Colonel George Washington’s soldiers at Braddocks defeat. Robert died in1758 in Frederick County, Maryland; children - James (born 1729 - died Kentucky, 105 years old), Hugh (born 1732, died 1814), William (born1734, died 1818), John (born 17336, died ?), Elizabeth (born 1737, died ?) and Jeremiah (discussed below) - most fought with Washington in Revolutionary War. Most old documentation mistakenly identifies Robert’s brother, Hugh, as head of our American family line. JEREMIAH PATRICK - born 1738, Virginia; married Sarah (Sally) Blair; he was given a land grant on the New River in what later became Montgomery County, Virginia (brother HUGH lived on adjoining land); moved to Kentucky around 1813 at age 75, following in the footsteps of his brother James, who had scouted in eastern Kentucky while serving with General George Rogers Clark, and had moved there in 1808. They moved their bare necessities on jolt wagons and horses, as the trail into Kentucky was difficult and nearly impassable. It is believed that Sarah died shortly before the move, as records show that Jeremiah alone sold land in Virginia about that time. They had 14 children; William, Jeremiah Jr., John, Brice, Thomas, Elias, Maston, Polly, Gerusia, Ruth, Sarah, Louisa, Nancy, and Margaret. His grandson Reuben built a cabin for him on his farm on the Middle Fork of the Licking River. Jeremiah went hunting on the last day of his life and collapsed of an acute gastro-intestinal illness. He signaled his grandson, Reuben, by firing three shots from his gun. He died that day in 1822 at age 84. Jeremiah is buried alone in the Dyer cemetery, Middle Fork near Salyersville, Kentucky. A Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) marker was added to his grave in 1947. WILLIAM PATRICK - born 1762, Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, Virginia; married Merrily (Molly) Reins in 1790 in Montgomery County, Virginia; nine children; Reuben, Nancy, William, John, Jeremiah, Jean (Jincy), Richard, Meredith, and Polly; moved to Floyd County (now Magoffin), Kentucky around 1809; settled near the Burning Spring on Burning Fork of the Licking river; served in the War of 1812 - participated in the battle of Norfolk. William was a farmer; he died in Kentucky in 1814 at age 52. I have discovered no record of his burial. Molly apparently died enroute to Kentucky or soon after their arrival; she is lost to history after 1809. I have recently uncovered documentation which refers to her as Annie Rains; her wedding certificate also refers to her as Mary...she signed this certificate as Maraday Rains (William made his mark on this document). REUBEN PATRICK - born July 18, 1791 in Giles County, Virginia; married in 1812 to Charlotte Wilson; ten children; John (Squire John), Rhoda, William, Gilson, Thomas , Claiborne, Jeremiah, Samuel, Emaline, and Elizabeth; moved to Floyd County (now Magoffin), Kentucky shortly thereafter. Reuben was a farmer and spent his whole life on his Middle Fork farm. His grandfather, Jeremiah, lived in a house on that farm. Reuben died August 12, 1845 at age 54, and is buried with Charlotte in the Patrick Cemetery on Dyer Branch of Middle Fork of route 30 near Salyersville, Kentucky. JOHN PATRICK (Squire John) - born August 1, 1813; married Charlotte Patrick (cousin) on August 3, 1838; twelve children; William, Wily , Rebecca, Elizabeth, Amos David (Monk), Mary, Martha, Hamilton, Fanny, Laban, Crittenden, and Amanda; John died at age 92 on May 21, 1905, and is buried with Charlotte in the Berry Patrick Cemetery on lower Middle Fork. Many of John’s sons and nephews served with distinction in the Civil War. I have my grandfather’s original photograph of Squire John in his later years. Details on Squire John seem difficult to come by...I’ll continue to look. AMOS DAVID PATRICK (Monk) - I have found his middle name called 'Davis' in other documents. He was born on September 22, 1845; married Amanda (Mandy) Higgins in 1867; eight children: Noah (died of a high fever at 17), Georganne (unbelievably her first born son, also Noah, was killed in a hunting accident at age 16), Pearl, Katherine (Kate), Nancy (Nan), Jack, Homer, and Fanny. Amos was a logger and farmer. He moved logs from his farm down Middle Fork Creek to the town of Guilford, where the creek joins the Licking river. From there he moved them further downstream to the sawmill in the town of Farmers, Kentucky. He died on March 8, 1924 at age 79, and is buried with Amanda in the Berry Patrick Cemetery on lower Middle Fork. I have obtained a copy of the Magoffin County Census for the year 1860 which shows 15 year old Amos living with his father, Squire John (age 48) and mother Charlotte (age 41), and 10 brothers and sisters, the youngest (Laban) was 1 year old at that time. I have my grandfather’s original portrait of Amos and Amanda. HOMER PATRICK - born April 1, 1886; married Minnie Jackson in 1915 (his brother Jack married Minnie’s sister, Dora); eight children; Carl, Kash, Forest, Martha, Virginia, Elwood, Donald, and Lois Jean. A ninth child, Gladys, died at around age 2. My grandfather spent several years in the US Army as an Artilleryman on the Potomac River near Washington DC; I have a collection of slides of the restored Ft. Washington where he was stationed, including the original bunkhouse where he lived and the original artillery pieces he manned. He was a farmer in Magoffin County, Kentucky and south central Ohio throughout the rest of his life. Grandpa died at the age of 86 on June 4, 1971. He is buried with Minnie (died 1980) and other members of his family in the cemetery at Mowrystown, Ohio. I was privileged to have known my grandfather for 25 years before his death...he was my best buddy, always, as he was to all of his grandchildren. I have never since encountered any man as wise, as patient, or beloved by every member of his family. CARL PATRICK - born January 9, 1916 with a deformed leg which, despite a series of extensive hip operations in the early 1960s, crippled him throughout his life. Dad worked as a machinist at the General Electric jet engine plant in Hamilton, Ohio. He had eight children (married 3 times): Joyce (Joy), Caroline (Sis) , James (Jim), Sunny, Patty, Shirley, Carl (Junior), and Connie. A series of extensive blood clots in his crippled leg hospitalized him in early 1994. He died in February, 1994 at age 78 and is buried in the Mowrystown, Ohio cemetery with his parents and other family members. Dad was an avid, lifelong hunter and fisherman; a first class shot and nature lover. He had a superior memory and could name more members of the various family branches than anyone I know. JAMES C. PATRICK (Jim) - born August 19, 1946 in Wellston, Ohio; grew up on a small farm, where I worked as a farmhand for the owner before and after school, and during summer vacation. I joined the US Army at age18 as a Private and ultimately became a professional soldier; retiring as a Regular Army Lieutenant Colonel after 21 years of service in 1985. I married my High School sweetheart (Janice Leichnam) in Hawaii in 1967 while on R&R during my first tour in Vietnam in 1967. We enjoyed a second honeymoon there when I returned to Vietnam for a second tour in 1969. After completing a BS degree in Geology and a Master’s degree in Contract and Procurement Management, courtesy of my Uncle Sam, I worked evenings as an Associate Professor of Economics with the University of Kentucky while stationed at Ft. Knox, Kentucky. Other military assignments included Asia, Europe, Central America, and several within the United States. I am currently a Director of Equipment Maintenance in charge of 250 employees with Houston’s massive Metropolitan Transit Authority in Houston, Texas. The job is demanding, but interesting as the bus-purchases have taken me to many far-flung places, including Hungary, Germany, Holland, Argentina, Brazil, and Canada. Janice and I look forward to retirement from the transit authority in about 3 years and moving to our farm near Hillsboro, Ohio; a dream we have shared during our 31 years of marriage. My wife and I were blessed in 1969 and 1972 with the birth of our two wonderful children, James and Jennifer, and in 1994 with the birth of our beautiful grandson, Kyle. JAMES L. PATRICK - born June 25, 1969 in Colorado Springs (Ft. Carson), Colorado, Jim married Rebecca Higdon of Florence, Kentucky in 1991. They have one son; James Kyle, and hope for many more. Jim is finishing his 10th year as a regular army Sergeant and is a senior paratrooper. He performed the first nighttime combat parachute jump since World War II into Panama in pursuit of Manuel Noriega in 1990. Less than a year later, he was in the first military unit (82nd Airborne Division) in the Theater of Operations during the Iraq invasion of Kuwait, where he remained for 9 months. Jim was awarded the coveted Combat Infantryman’s Badge (CIB), and the first Combat Paratrooper Badge awarded by the army in nearly 50 years. JAMES K. PATRICK (Kyle) - born November 13, 1994 on the pacific island of Okinawa in the Marine Corps Hospital. Jim and Rebecca were stationed in Japan at the time. Another redhead for our Clan! Daughter of James C. Patrick: JENNIFER MARY PATRICK - born October 26, 1972 in Miami, Florida near Homestead Air Force Base. Jennifer is my nature girl; loves all animals and creatures in the wild...attended Hocking Hills Community College in Ohio, and is currently a Natural Resource Worker (NRW) with the Ohio State Parks System in Cambridge, OH -end-