According to First Families, Old Buncombe, Internet Site:
"Robert and his wife Rebecca, established a home on the site of the present Laura Shuford's home, near the present Swanannoa Elementary School. They owned 1,000 acres of both sides of the Swannanoa River. Robert and Rebecca were Presbyterians and donated the land for the Patton Meeting House (Presbyterian) which is believed to be the first church established west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The couple also donated the land for the Patton Cemetery, located 100 feet east of the Meeting House, and believed to be the first white cemetery in Buncombe County. The Patton Meeting House was later moved about a mile away and became the Swannanoa First Presbyterian Church (Piney Grove). Robert & Rebecca had a family of eight children, 2 sons and 6 daughters. Rebecca Patton died sometime between 1820 and 1830, and is believed to be buried in the Patton Cemetery."
"Elizabeth "Betsy" remembered the 1,000 acre grant of land given to her father, Robert Patton, for his services in the Revolutionary War. It lay untouched in Indian Lands on the Rutherford Fork of the Obion River. Now was the time for it to be put to use. It was possible because in 1818 Andrew Jackson, ever ready to push the Indian tribes further west, had led yet another commission to treaty with the Chikasaw tribe for the sale of west Tennessee plus a large part of western Kentucky. In a meeting near Tuscumbia, Alabama, he bribed the Chicasaw chiefs with a $20,000 gift, in return they sold their land for about four cents an acre.
This gave Robert Patton clear title to his long neglected claim. Davey Crockett and his oldest sons set of to scout the Patton grant. By September 1823, Betsy and Davey and their eight children (Betsy's two by James Patton, Davey's three by Polly Finley, and three born to them, were installed in a log cabin on a plateau above the occasionally flooding Obion River and away from the mosquitoes".
("Ancestors Discovered - The Edmundsons, Tinkles, Wades Wards, Pattons and Some Others", by Charles Edmundson, Memphis, August, 1981)
"Robert and his wife Rebecca, established a home on the site of the present Laura Shuford's home, near the present Swanannoa Elementary School. They owned 1,000 acres of both sides of the Swannanoa River. Robert and Rebecca were Presbyterians and donated the land for the Patton Meeting House (Presbyterian) which is believed to be the first church established west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The couple also donated the land for the Patton Cemetery, located 100 feet east of the Meeting House, and believed to be the first white cemetery in Buncombe County. The Patton Meeting House was later moved about a mile away and became the Swannanoa First Presbyterian Church (Piney Grove). Robert & Rebecca had a family of eight children, 2 sons and 6 daughters. Rebecca Patton died sometime between 1820 and 1830, and is believed to be buried in the Patton Cemetery."
"Elizabeth "Betsy" remembered the 1,000 acre grant of land given to her father, Robert Patton, for his services in the Revolutionary War. It lay untouched in Indian Lands on the Rutherford Fork of the Obion River. Now was the time for it to be put to use. It was possible because in 1818 Andrew Jackson, ever ready to push the Indian tribes further west, had led yet another commission to treaty with the Chikasaw tribe for the sale of west Tennessee plus a large part of western Kentucky. In a meeting near Tuscumbia, Alabama, he bribed the Chicasaw chiefs with a $20,000 gift, in return they sold their land for about four cents an acre.
This gave Robert Patton clear title to his long neglected claim. Davey Crockett and his oldest sons set of to scout the Patton grant. By September 1823, Betsy and Davey and their eight children (Betsy's two by James Patton, Davey's three by Polly Finley, and three born to them, were installed in a log cabin on a plateau above the occasionally flooding Obion River and away from the mosquitoes".
("Ancestors Discovered - The Edmundsons, Tinkles, Wades Wards, Pattons and Some Others", by Charles Edmundson, Memphis, August, 1981)
According to First Families, Old Buncombe, Internet Site:
"Robert and his wife Rebecca, established a home on the site of the present Laura Shuford's home, near the present Swanannoa Elementary School. They owned 1,000 acres of both sides of the Swannanoa River. Robert and Rebecca were Presbyterians and donated the land for the Patton Meeting House (Presbyterian) which is believed to be the first church established west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The couple also donated the land for the Patton Cemetery, located 100 feet east of the Meeting House, and believed to be the first white cemetery in Buncombe County. The Patton Meeting House was later moved about a mile away and became the Swannanoa First Presbyterian Church (Piney Grove). Robert & Rebecca had a family of eight children, 2 sons and 6 daughters. Rebecca Patton died sometime between 1820 and 1830, and is believed to be buried in the Patton Cemetery."
"Elizabeth "Betsy" remembered the 1,000 acre grant of land given to her father, Robert Patton, for his services in the Revolutionary War. It lay untouched in Indian Lands on the Rutherford Fork of the Obion River. Now was the time for it to be put to use. It was possible because in 1818 Andrew Jackson, ever ready to push the Indian tribes further west, had led yet another commission to treaty with the Chikasaw tribe for the sale of west Tennessee plus a large part of western Kentucky. In a meeting near Tuscumbia, Alabama, he bribed the Chicasaw chiefs with a $20,000 gift, in return they sold their land for about four cents an acre.
This gave Robert Patton clear title to his long neglected claim. Davey Crockett and his oldest sons set of to scout the Patton grant. By September 1823, Betsy and Davey and their eight children (Betsy's two by James Patton, Davey's three by Polly Finley, and three born to them, were installed in a log cabin on a plateau above the occasionally flooding Obion River and away from the mosquitoes".
("Ancestors Discovered - The Edmundsons, Tinkles, Wades Wards, Pattons and Some Others", by Charles Edmundson, Memphis, August, 1981)
"Robert and his wife Rebecca, established a home on the site of the present Laura Shuford's home, near the present Swanannoa Elementary School. They owned 1,000 acres of both sides of the Swannanoa River. Robert and Rebecca were Presbyterians and donated the land for the Patton Meeting House (Presbyterian) which is believed to be the first church established west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The couple also donated the land for the Patton Cemetery, located 100 feet east of the Meeting House, and believed to be the first white cemetery in Buncombe County. The Patton Meeting House was later moved about a mile away and became the Swannanoa First Presbyterian Church (Piney Grove). Robert & Rebecca had a family of eight children, 2 sons and 6 daughters. Rebecca Patton died sometime between 1820 and 1830, and is believed to be buried in the Patton Cemetery."
"Elizabeth "Betsy" remembered the 1,000 acre grant of land given to her father, Robert Patton, for his services in the Revolutionary War. It lay untouched in Indian Lands on the Rutherford Fork of the Obion River. Now was the time for it to be put to use. It was possible because in 1818 Andrew Jackson, ever ready to push the Indian tribes further west, had led yet another commission to treaty with the Chikasaw tribe for the sale of west Tennessee plus a large part of western Kentucky. In a meeting near Tuscumbia, Alabama, he bribed the Chicasaw chiefs with a $20,000 gift, in return they sold their land for about four cents an acre.
This gave Robert Patton clear title to his long neglected claim. Davey Crockett and his oldest sons set of to scout the Patton grant. By September 1823, Betsy and Davey and their eight children (Betsy's two by James Patton, Davey's three by Polly Finley, and three born to them, were installed in a log cabin on a plateau above the occasionally flooding Obion River and away from the mosquitoes".
("Ancestors Discovered - The Edmundsons, Tinkles, Wades Wards, Pattons and Some Others", by Charles Edmundson, Memphis, August, 1981)
