Ancestry of
O. Henry

Short Story Writer

James Paterson

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of O. Henry — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 76 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1664 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Scotland 
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  • Death Date:
  • 2 Dec 1750 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Newington Cemetery, Newington, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary -----
  • Marriage Date:
  • 30 Nov 1704 
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  John Paterson (Ahnentafel No:38 )

• Sources for James Paterson

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Wethersfield, p. 206, Marriage record for James Paterson and Mrs Mary Talcott.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Wethersfield, p. 206, Birth record for son John Paterson.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/06/2021).
  • ⁴ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1890, Vol. 21, p. 100.
  • ⁵ Egleston, Thomas, The Life of John Paterson: Major-General in the Revolutionary Army, New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons (1894), 1-2.
  • ⁶ Tillotson, Edward Sweetser, Wethersfield Inscriptions: A Complete Record of the Inscriptions in the Five Burial Places in the Ancient Town of . . ., Hartford, Connecticut: William F. J. Boardman (1899), 162, Tombstone inscription for James Paterson.
  • ⁷ 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.
  • ⁸ 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.