John Paterson (New York politician)

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John Paterson (often spelled Patterson) (1744 – July 19, 1808) was a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, and a U.S. Congressman from New York.

Early life

Paterson was born in 1744Template:Sfn in either Farmington Template:Sfn or New Britain in the Connecticut Colony.Template:Sfn His mother was Ruth (Bird) Paterson, and his father Colonel John Paterson (1708–1762), was a militia veteran of the French and Indian War, who died during the Siege of Havana.Template:Sfn He graduated from Yale College in 1762, studied law, attained admission to the bar, and practiced in New Britain.Template:Sfn He was a justice of the peace in New Britain until 1774, when he moved to Lenox, Massachusetts.Template:Sfn Paterson was elected to the Lenox board of selectmen and as a town assessor.Template:Sfn The town's proprietor's also chose him to serve as their clerk, which required him to maintain records of land transactions and ownership.Template:Sfn He was elected to represent Lenox in the Massachusetts House of Representatives in both 1774 and 1775.Template:Sfn He also represented Lenox at the 1774 Berkshire Convention, held in Stockbridge, Massachusetts to discuss how to respond to the Boston Port Act.Template:Sfn When the governor dissolved the legislature as pre-revolution tensions continued to rise, the people of Massachusetts formed a provincial Congress.Template:Sfn Paterson was elected as Lenox's representative in both 1774 and 1775.Template:Sfn

American Revolution

When the American Revolution began in April 1775 Paterson was commissioned as a colonel by the Massachusetts Committee of Safety, and he marched with his militia unit to take part in the Siege of Boston.Template:Sfn Paterson's command, the 1st Massachusetts Regiment saw action at the Battle of Bunker Hill.Template:Sfn After the British evacuation of Boston, Paterson's regiment took part in the Invasion of Canada Template:Sfn and the battles of Trenton and Princeton in New Jersey.Template:Sfn On February 21, 1777 Paterson was promoted to brigadier general in the Continental Army.Template:Sfn

During the Saratoga Campaign of 1777 Paterson commanded a brigade of Horatio Gates' army, consisting of the 10th, 11th, 12th, and 14th Massachusetts Regiments, and the 1st Berkshire County Militia Regiment.Template:Sfn

Paterson served under George Washington at the Battle of Monmouth in 1778.Template:Sfn He served primarily in the Hudson Valley of New York until the end of the war.Template:Sfn In September 1783, he received promotion to major general,Template:Sfn and he was discharged in December 1783.Template:Sfn Paterson was one of the last generals to leave active duty at the end of the war.Template:Sfn

While Paterson served in New York in 1782 and 1783, his personal staff included Private Robert Shirtliff of the 4th Massachusetts Regiment, who served as a waiter.Template:Sfn Shirtliff (also spelled Shirtliffe or Shurtleff) was later revealed to be Deborah Sampson, a woman who had disguised herself as a man in order to join the Continental Army.Template:Sfn Rather than reprimand her, as had often been the case with women discovered in the ranks, Paterson provided her with a certificate of honorable discharge, a note with words of encouragement, and money sufficient to pay for travel to her home in Massachusetts.Template:Sfn

In January 1783, Paterson took part in the organizational meeting that created the Society of the Cincinnati, and he was one of the society's charter members.Template:Sfn

Return to Massachusetts

After the war Paterson returned to Massachusetts, where he resumed practicing law, and also served in local offices including town meeting moderator, selectman, fence viewer, tax assessor, and highway surveyor.Template:Sfn In addition, he was the leader of the successful movement to locate the Berkshire County seat in Lenox.Template:Sfn (It was moved to Pittsfield in 1860.)Template:Sfn In 1785, he was again elected to represent Lenox in the state House of Representatives.Template:Sfn In 1786, he was commissioned as a major general in the Massachusetts Militia, and assigned to command the militia's 9th Division.Template:Sfn In 1786 and 1787, Paterson commanded militia units that took part in the quelling of Shays's Rebellion.Template:Sfn

Move to New York

In 1790, Paterson was one of the investors in the Boston Patent, a large land grant in Broome and Tioga Counties, New York.Template:Sfn In 1791, he moved to Lisle, a newly-organized town in Tioga County.Template:Sfn He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1793.Template:Sfn The area of Lisle where Paterson settled was later organized as the town of Triangle; the site of his home and farm was in what is now the village of Whitney Point.Template:Sfn

In 1798, Paterson was appointed judge of the Tioga County Court, and he served until 1806.Template:Sfn When Broome County was organized separately from Tioga in 1806, Paterson was appointed judge of the new county's court.Template:Sfn Template:Sfn

In the late 1700s and early 1800s, Deborah Sampson published a memoir and made a lecture tour in which she gave presentations about her military service.Template:Sfn Her tour took her to New York, and from November to December 1802, she visited Paterson in Lisle.Template:Sfn While she stayed with Paterson, Sampson was able to take part in reunions with other former Massachusetts soldiers who had settled in the area of the Boston Patent.Template:Sfn

In 1802, Paterson was a successful Democratic-Republican candidate for the United States House of Representatives.Template:Sfn He served in the 8th United States Congress (March 4, 1803 – March 3, 1805), and was not a candidate for reelection in 1804.Template:Sfn

Death and burial

Paterson died in Lisle on July 19, 1808.Template:Sfn He was originally interred at Riverside Cemetery in Whitney Point.Template:Sfn In 1892 he was reburied at Church on the Hill Cemetery in Lenox, Massachusetts.Template:Sfn

Family

In 1766, Paterson married Elizabeth Lee.Template:Sfn They were the parents of seven children, including:Template:Sfn

Josiah Lee (1766–1846), who married Clarissa HydeTemplate:Sfn
Hannah (1769–1803), the wife of Azariah EglestonTemplate:Sfn
Polly (1773–1790)Template:Sfn
Ruth (1774–1842), the wife of Ira SeymourTemplate:Sfn
Betsey (1784–1784)Template:Sfn
John Pierce (1787–1842), who married Sally OsbornTemplate:Sfn
Mariah (1790–1865), the wife of Samuel KilbornTemplate:Sfn

Congressman Thomas J. Paterson (1805–1885) and State Senator John E. Paterson (born 1800) were Paterson's grandsons.Template:Sfn Template:Sfn Scientist and academic Thomas Egleston was his great-grandson.Template:Sfn

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