Lucretia Patterson

 

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Lucretia Patterson
see FAMILY TREE
Born: 02 July 1777 Piermont, Grafton, New Hampshire

 
Married 1st: 28 Feb 1795 in Missouri

Husband 1st: John Shepherd

Husband 2nd: James G. Jones

Died: After 1817
   

 FATHER

Benjamin Patterson

MOTHER

Elizabeth Abigail Safford

HUSBAND

John Shepherd

James G. Jones

CHILDREN with John Shepard or Shepherd

1. Hiram Shepherd
    b. Abt. 1796 New Madrid, MO
    m. 7 Aug 1817 to Linda Candice (Dicey) Markham in Breckinridge Co, KY
    d. After 1868 Arkansas

2. Solomon Shepherd
     b. 01 Jan 1800 Breckinridge Co., KY
    m. 5 Jan 1821 to Nancy Pate in Breckinridge Co., KY
    m. 31 May 1847 to Pleasant Smith in Audain Co MO
    d. 17 Aug 1866 Rall Co., MO

3. John Shepherd
    b. 25 Nov 1802 Breckinridge Co., KY
    m. Jul 1831 to Tennessee McComas in Putnam, IL
    d. 14 Mar 1883 Union Hardin, IA

4. Sophia Shepherd
    b. 1807 Breckinridge Co., KY
    m. 11 Jan 1824 to William E Blanchard in Perry, IN
    m. 28 Jun 1832 to William Doss in Vermillion Co., IN
    d. May 1863 Vermillion Co., IN

5. Benning (Ben) Shepherd 
   
b. 29 Oct 1808 Breckinridge Co., KY
    m. 28 Jul 1835 to Eliza Johnson in Vermillion Co., IN
    d. 11 Apr 1897 Vermillion Co., IN

Lucretia Patterson
by Susan Brooke
April 2023

Lucretia Patterson was born 2 Jul 1777 in Piermont, Grafton, New Hampshire. (1)   When she was about four they moved to Quebec, Canada where they stayed for just a couple of years, moving next to Bradford, PA when she was about six and then to Chenango Forks, NY at age eleven.  Her father was an Indian trader and a Ranger and thus he moved the family to Belpre, OH in 1791, a brand new community on the frontier. Thee were only 13 cdabins.  The Pattersons with their eight children moved into Cabin # 12  and were joined by another three rangers.  
There were a couple of violent encounters with the Indians and one of the roommates in cabin #12 was killed in 1791. (2) The men were off trailing Indians most every day. However, generally it must have been fairly peaceful.  There were reports that some of the young ladies would steal out into the moonlit night air and push a canoe about a miles up the river and then get aboard and drift back down to Belpre singing in the moonlight. (3) Lucretia Patterson was about thirteen.   There was an outbreak of smallpox in 1793 and Challes Patterson, one of Lucretia's brothers, died.  He was 10 years old.  The next year, however, her parents had another child, Sophia, who was born 22 Nov 1794.  One of the rangers living in Cabin # 12 with the Pattersons was John Shepherd, who was about twenty-three in 1791.  Lucretia Patterson was thirteen.
They all left Belpre around 1794, and moved to New Madrid, MO.  Lucretia married John Shepherd 28 Feb 1795 in Missouri. (1) Their first son, Hiram, was born in Missouri about 1796. By 1800 they were in Breckinridge County, KY. (4)  Her husband, John Shepherd, died there ten years later in Jan 1810. Their five children ranged from Hiram, the oldest at age 13, to Ben who was an infant.  In June 1812, her husband's estate paid Lucretia $39 for boarding "One year & three months old (Benning) for one year & six months at 50 cents per week. $39.00" (5)
In 1815 Lucretia married for the 2nd time to James G. Jones. (6)  The recorded deed below distributing land of two of her brothers, confirms that this Lucretia Patterson was the widow of John Shepherd who married James G. Jones in Perry Co., IN. (7)  In that same county, her daughter, Sophia Shepherd, married William Blanchard.  Sometime after their mother's second marriage, Sophia, by then a widow, and her brother Benjamin Shepard moved to Vermillion Co., IN.  Lucretia and her husband, James G Jones, were recorded several times in the land records.  James G Jones and Lucretia of Breckinridge County, KY sold some land in Warrick Co. IN in 1817 and that was the last time she appeared in the records.  (7)

Sources

 

(1) This record of the Patterson Family was found in a folder marked Patterson in the Breckinridge County, KY, Library

Children of Benjamin Patterson and Elizabeth Safford Patterson
2. Lucretia Patererson  (born) July 2, 1777      (died) blank          (married)   John Shephard 2-29-1795

 

(2). Williams History of Washington County, Ohio 1788-1881 pg. 510
"Prowling Indians were sure to be caught by these wary rangers, and hence to a great extent the woods were kept clear of the foe, and the inhabitants were permitted to cultivate their farms in comparative safety.  However, as subsequent events proved, this mode of defense, though measurably effective, was not sufficient. It was on the morning of the twelfth of March, 1791, that Aaron W. Putnam, accompanied by Nathaniel Little, visiting his farm, a half mile below the garrison, for the purpose of milking and feeding his cows, was attacked by Indiana and had a very narrow escape from death.
The second attack by the Indians resulted int he death of one of the spies, Benoni Hulburt, on the twenty-eighth of the following September."



Print of Farmer's Castle found on Wikipedia













Farmer's Castle at Belpre

(3) History of Belpre by C. E. Dickinson, page 48

"The garrison at Belpre contained about twenty young females in the prime of life, with fine persons, agreeable manners, and cultivated minds. A dangerous recreation of the younger girls was to steal out of the Castle at the pleasant moonlight summer evenings, and, taking possession of a canoe, push it silently up the shore of the Ohio for a mile or more, then paddle out into the middle of the stream, and float gently down with the current some favorite singer then struck up a lively song in which they all joined, their voices making sweet melody on the calm waters of the 'Belle riviere' greatly to the delight of the young men and guard on the watch towers, but much to the alarm of their mothers who were always in fear of the Indians."

(4) Bill of Sale from 18 Apr 1800 found in estate records of John Shepard
1801 Tax Record Breckinridge County, KY

(5) Shepherd, John Estate    Breckinridge County Court, Shepherds John, Inventories, Appraisements & Sale Bills 1812 box 1 folder 5

Payment to Lucretia for boarding children

Payment to Lucretia for boarding children
(click to enlarge)

(6) Marriage to James G Jones

Married  2nd: 01 Oct 1815  Perry Co., IN (license issued) Perry Co., IN married 1 Oct. 1815 by Jas. McDaniel, Judge, Perry Co, IN

The next day they were married at St. Augestine
Catholic Church by Fr. Chas. Coomes

(7) Recorded in Deed Book C Breckinridge Co, KY p. 467
 "January 9, 1816, David Curtis and Sophia his wife late Sophia Patterson, Isaac Patterson, of Breckinridge County, and James G Jones and Lucretia his wife late Lucretia Shepherd, widow and relict of John Shepherd, dec'd of the Indiana Territory, to Benjamin Patterson of Breckinridge County, whereas Benning Patterson and Hiram Patterson late of New Madrid County, Missouri Territory, died seized in fee of a tract of land each situated in said New Madrid Territory, Territory of Missouri, the said two tracts being the only lands confirmed and granted to the said Benning or Hiram in the said County of New Madrid, and whereas the said Sophia and Lucretia, sisters of the said Benning and Hiram, and Isaac Patterson, brother of the said Benning and Hiram, are each entitled to 1/6th part of the same tracts as heirs and legal representatives, Now the said David Curtis and Sophia his wife, James G. Jones and Lucretia his wife, and Isaac Patterson, for and in consideration of the $5.00 paid by the said Benjamin Patterson, have sold to the said Benjamin Patterson their undivided 3/6ths parts of the said two tracts of land, to which they may be entitled as heirs and legal representatives of the said Benning and Hiram Patterson. Certified and recorded January 9, 1816." See original documents on page for Benjamin Patterson

(8) James G Jones 

Justice of the Peace in Perry Co., Indiana in 1815
Commissioned coroner of Warrick County IN in Oct 1814

Warrick Co. IN Deed BK A page 138 and 139
5 Sep 1817 
James G Jones and Lucretia his wife of Breckinridge County selling land in Warrick County, IN to Samuel Snyder.

 

Warrick Co Deed BK A page 138
Warrick Deed BK A page 138
Warrick Co., IN Deed BK A page 139
Warrick Deed BK A page 139