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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
no Find-a-Grave GPS Coordinates provided for this cemetery
This grave was the only one recorded at this graveyard site in 1974
This grave was located on Van Meter Road, on the old B. D. Goff farm
Author: James English Vaughn Jr.
Matthew Patton was born in 1730 in Newton-Limavady, Derry, Ulster, Ireland, and he died 03 May 1803 in Clark Co., Kentucky. Patton married Hester Dyer in 1749 in Franklin, Pendleton Co., Virginia. Hester Dyer was born in 1731 in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, and she died 23 October 1803 in Clark Co. Kentucky. Matthew Patton is listed as the Daughters of the American Revolution Ancestor #088914 for his patriotic service in furnishing supplies to the American troops in Virginia. There is evidence that Patton was appointed Lieutenant in the Virginia Militia on 23 November 1753, and that he was promoted to Captain on 21 May 1768, both appointments preceding the American Revolutionary War. However, Matthew Patton’s name is entered in Eckenrode’s “List of Revolutionary War Soldier from Virginia”.
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