Patrick Family History.

The Patricks emigrated from Scotland in the early 1700's. Robert Patrick emigrated from Edinburgh, Scotland, he married Elizabeth in PA.  Robert & Elizabeth Patrick had a son named James Patrick, James and his siblings may have played with George Washington when they were children, because George Washington's Uncle Lawrence was a neighbor of the Patrick family. James Patrick became a scout for George Washington and was a soldier under George Washington at Braddock's defeat,  James scouted eastern Kentucky while it was still part of Virginia. James Patrick received bounty lands in Tennessee and Kentucky for his services in the Revolutionary War. He applied for a RW pension from Floyd County, Kentucky, when he was 103 years old, he was 106 years old when he died, James signed for the RW pension so he was at least somewhat illiterate, James Patrick is known as the greatest soldier of the Patrick Family.  The Patrick origin goes back a long way, the Patrick's descended from the Norseman/ Vikings who settled in Normandy, Northern France and intermarried with the French woman. The Patrick's came to England with William the Conqueror in 1066 from Normandy, at the battle of Hastings.  The Patrick's lived in Floyd County, Kentucky, which became a part of Magoffin County, when it was formed. James Patrick's son Hugh Patrick married Barbara Bailey, the daughter of Joseph Bailey & Martha "Patsy" Brashears in Floyd County, 1809/12, depends on which book that you are looking at, Hugh Patrick died in Madison County, Arkansas in 1845.  The Brashears were French Huguenots who came to Virginia in he 1630's from England, they had immigrated from France originally (where their name was Brasseur) to England and then to the Colonies, the Brashears were also involved in the American Revolution, James Patrick served four enlistments in the Revolution.

Note:  Alexander Crockett Ritchie's son Isom Ritchie was married to Martha “Patsy" Patrick; she was a descendent of this family.

 
Isom Ritchie & Martha “Patsy” Patrick Ritchie

Isom Ritchie, son of Alexander Crockett Ritchie & Susan Elizabeth Grigsby
married Martha (Patsy) Patrick their children were:
Hiram Ritchie born 1836 in Perry Co, KY married Adeline Queqca.
Gabriel Ritchie born 1837 in Perry c, KY married Polly Prater.
Ephraim Ritchie has born 1839 in Perry Co, KY.  Henry Crockett Ritchie born 1834 in Perry County, KY married Amanda Adeline Dearmore. Henry died in Thecotch, OK; he is buried in the National Cemetery at Fort Smith, Arkansas.
Barbara Ritchie born 1844 in Perry Co, KY married John Davis. 
James Monroe Ritchie born 1846 in Perry Co, KY married Deliah Jane Smith.
Miles Henry Ritchie born 1849 in Perry Co, KY married Vicy Jane Acord born 1857 in Friley Creek, Arkansas, the daughter of William G. Accord and Martha Casey.
Miles Henry Ritchie died in 1917 in Arkansas. 
Malissa Ritchie born 1851 married John Ritchie.
Solomon Ritchie was born 1854 in Arkansas.

Note: The family of Patrick-two of their daughters married sons of Alexander Crockett Ritchie, Isom Ritchie
married Martha Patrick and Hiram Ritchie married Phoebe Patrick

 Hugh & Barbara Patrick

 

Hugh Patrick married Barbara Bailey, the daughter of Joseph Bailey & Martha "Patsy Brashears in Floyd County, 1809/ 1812,  Hugh died in 1845 in Madison County, Arkansas, their children were;

Mary Polly Patrick born 1814 in Estill County, Kentucky, married Richard H. Stufflemean.
Martha Patsy Patrick born 1817 in Kentucky married Isom Ritchie, the son of Alexander Crockett Ritchie & Susan Elizabeth Grigsby. 
William Patrick born 1818 in Kentucky married Catherine Tackett.
William died 1892 in Madison County, Arkansas.
James Patrick born 1820 in Knott County, Kentucky, married Elizabeth Ritchie, the sister of Isom Ritchie.
Phoebe Patrick born in 1821 in Hammond's Gap, Perry County, Kentucky, married Hiram Ritchie, son of Alexander Crockett Ritchie & Susan Elizabeth Grigsby on April 18, 1834, by a Minister named E. Combs. 
Elizabeth Patrick born 1822 in Knott County, Kentucky married (1) James Tackett

Married (2) Robert Reed. 
Nancy Patrick born 1823 in Kentucky married Nicholas Ritchie in 1840, another son of Alexander Crockett Ritchie & Susan Elizabeth Grigsby.
Andrew Jackson Patrick born in 1831, died Aug 20, 1902 at Catoosa, Indian Territory, ( now Tulsa, Oklahoma) married Nancy Watkins, she died in 1862 in Madison County, Arkansas.
2nd marriage, Mary B. Bradburn, she died in 1925 in Catoosa.
Andrew and Mary are buried in Catoosa, Oklahoma.
Meredith “Meridy” Patrick born 1841/1842 married Margaret Gibson July 6, 1865 in Washington County, Arkansas.  Margaret was born in 1849 in Arkansas.  Meredith died at the home of his sister Elizabeth "Bettie" (Patrick) Tackett Reed, near Patrick, Arkansas, on March 27, 1910.

Submitted by Susan Fahnstrom