Ancestry of
O. Henry
Short Story Writer
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- 3rd Great-grandfather of O. Henry — 6th Generation
- Ahnentafel No:
- 38
- Father:
- James Paterson
- Mother:
- Mary -----
- Birth Date:
- 14 Feb 1707/1708
- Birth Location:
- Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut
- Christening Date:
- Christening Location:
- Death Date:
- 6 Sep 1762
- Death Location:
- Havanna, Cuba
- Burial Date:
- Burial Location:
- Spouse Name:
- Ruth Bird
- Marriage Date:
- 28 Jan 1730/1731
- Marriage Location:
- Child:
Sarah Paterson (Ahnentafel No:19 )
- Notes:
John Paterson died of yellow fever in Havanna.
John Paterson
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Sources for John Paterson
- 1 Connecticut, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999, Hartford, Connecticut, Case #4127, Probate file for John Paterson.
- 2 Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Wethersfield, p. 206, Birth record for John Paterson.
- 3 New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1890, Vol. 21, p. 100.
- 4 Barbour, Lucius Barnes, Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted for Clearfield Co., Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co. (2001), 72.
- 5 Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 2006, Vol. 39, pp. 277-278, Extract of will of Major John Paterson.
- 6 Durrie, Daniel Steele, Steele Family: A Genealogical History of John and George Steele, (Settlers of Hartford, Conn.,) 1635-6, And Their . . ., Albany, New York: Munsell and Rowland (1859), 13.
- 7 Egleston, Thomas, The Life of John Paterson: Major-General in the Revolutionary Army, New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons (1894).
- 8 Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes, Chronicles of a Pioneer School from 1792 to 1833: Being the History of Miss Sarah Pierce and Her Litchfield School, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The University Press (1903), 4.
- 9 Walworth, Reuben H., Hyde Genealogy; or the Descendants in the Female as well as in the Male Lines, from William Hyde, of Norwich (2 vols.), Albany, NY: J. Munsell (1864), 270.