1739/40 - aft 1816
Massachusetts - New Hampshire
Peter -> Richard -> Seth -> Jerediah
Jerediah is the last person in our direct line to be included (as more than a begot) in the wonderful Marie Scalisi/Virginia Ryan article. [“Peter Pattee of Haverhill, Massachusetts: A ‘Journeyman Shoemaker’ and His Descendants” published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register in three parts appearing in October 1992, January and April1993.]
Jerediah Pattee - the Pattees are insistent that the name is Jerediah, although it is often found on documents as Jedediah - was born in Haverhill (Essex County), Massachusetts on January 6, 1739/40. His parents were Seth Pattee and Dorcas Savory. In 1750, the part of Haverhill in which his parents lived became Salem, New Hampshire.
Quoting directly from Scalisi:
‘Jediah Pete’ of Captain [Jacob] Bailey’s Co., Colonel [John] Goff’s Regt. was mentioned in a bill for ‘victualizing’ soldiers who ‘eat at the house of Mr Jonathan Rice innholder in Sudbury on the return from Ft. William Henry after it was in the Frenchs possession in August 1757" (NHSP, 18:531). Misrecorded as “Jedediah Potter,” he served as a private from 5 March to 5 November of that year (N.H. Military History, 183).
He married Hannah Merrill (Scalisi does not give her last name; I got it from somewhere else) sometime before August 31, 1760 because on that date, he and wife Hannah owned the covenant (whatever that means) at the Salem Congregational Church.
In October 1760 their son Savory was born, named after his grandmother. In July 1762, daughter Lavinia was born - and Savory died in October of that year. A second Savory (our next ancestor) was born in 1765, followed by Hannah (1769) named after her mother, Joanna (1771) named after Jerediah’s twin sister, Seth (1774) named after Jerediah’s father, Day Emerson (1776) named after sister Joanna’s husband, who was a minuteman. All these children were born while they were in Massachusetts. The youngest child, Sarah/Sally was born 1780, probably in New Hampshire.
In 1765 (October 7), his father sold him “half of all my homestead lying on the west side of the back river so called . . .”
In 1776 (29 June), he signed the association test (whatever that is) at Londonderry, New Hampshire. During the Revolution, he served in Captain Jonas Kidder's Co., Colonel Moses Nichols's Regiment of Militia which joined the Continental Army at West Point in 1780.
Sometime between 1777 and 1779, he and family moved to Goffstown, New Hampshire. They returned to Salem in 1781, and then back to Goffstown in 1788. He purchased land in Landaff (Grafton County), New Hampshire on 12 March 1788.
He was there for the 1790 census:
1790 New Hampshire, Grafton, Landaff p. 33 (written 42)
Jedediah Petty 212005
2m over 16 (b before 1774) Jerediah, Seth 1774
1m under 16 (b after 1774) Day Emerson 1776
2f wife Hannah, daugher Sarah (1780)
son Savory (1765) not found on this census, but I suspect he was already on his own
daughters Hannah 1771, Joanna 1779, Lavinia 1762 not found, but all were old enough to be married
In 1791, he served as surveyor of highways; in 1796 as surveyor of lumber.
He was on the 1800 census in Bath:
1800 NH Grafton Bath
Jedediah 00001 00001
1m, 1f over 45
He was possibly living with his son Day Emerson in 1810:
1810 NH Grafton Bath 273 stamp 394 written 215 online
Day E Pettee 20011 20011
2m, 2f under 10
1m, 1f 26-45
1m, 1f 45+
Early in 1816, Jerediah and Hannah applied to the town for some assistance of the comforts of this life and on 22 July the Landaff selectmen authorized payment to Walter Parsons “for keeping Jeda Pattee & wife.” On 30 December 1816, they reimbursed Jonathan Poor for supplying shoes, and Joseph Atwood for “clothing he let Jedeh Pattee have.”
I don’t know why it should have been necessary for Jerediah to depend upon the county, especially since his son Day Emerson was supposedly living there until 1856. But as a matter of fact, I have not found any of Jerediah’s sons in New Hampshire after 1810, and I know Savory moved to New York sometime between 1810 and 1820. Perhaps they all moved (I have only found Savory and family in New York though) and Day only came back to New Hampshire later in his life. Who knows?
There is not a lot of information provided in the Scalisi article about Jerediah’s children. I did find a couple of them in the censuses, but I haven’t done much further research.
Savory - died young
18 Oct 1760 - 31 Oct 1762
Lavinia 16 July 1762
Savory - married (1) Tamson Trachey (2) Fanny Knapp - moved to New York (Genesee -> Monroe Co)
17 July 1765 - 1832
- he has a section of his own
Hannah 4 Jan 1769
- perhaps m. Zaccheus Clough
Joanna
21 May 1771 - 2 Jan 1827
m. Phineas Gordon 26 Oct 1791
Seth 30 Oct 1774
1800 New Hampshire, Grafton, Bath
Seth 00100 11100
Day Emerson 28 Dec 1776 - 11 June 1856 (Bath)
m Betsy Eastman 24 Nov 1801
1810 NH Grafton Bath 273 stamp 394 written 215 online
Day E Pettee 20011 20011
Sarah 25 Oct 1780
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