William Patten (1605 - 1668)

Biography
William Patten was born in 1605 in Earls Colne, Essex, England and died on 10 Dec 1668 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, North America. In 1635 he arrived in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, North America. He married on 14 Jan 1629/30 in Earls Colne, Essex, England to Mary Digbie ( - 1673).

Facts and Occupation
He was a Herdsman. On 13 Mar 1635/36 "[a]greed with William Patten to keep 100 cattle on the other side of the river for space of seven months," to begin 14 Apr 1636. In May 1645 he became a freeman. On 20 May 1649, 9 Mar 1662/63, 27 Mar 1665, and 11 Mar 1666/67 he was a Fence Viewer in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, North America. On 11 Nov 1667 he was a Surveyor of Highways in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, North America. He was a Deputy from Cambridge, Massachusetts to the Massachusetts Bay General Court, Fence Viewer, Highway Surveyor, proprietor of a 500 acre farm

Lineage
William Patten (1605 - 1668)

m. Mary Digbie ( - 1673)

Thomas Patten (1636 - 1690)

m. Rebecca Paine (1642 - 1684)

Rebecca Patten (1675 - 1751)

m. Dea. Joseph Davis (1669 - 1747)

Elizabeth Davis (1699 - 1737)

m. Jacob French (1696 - 1775)

Elizabeth French (1716 - 1755)

m. Jacob Reed (1726 - 1805)

Isaac Reed (1756 - 1848)

m. Susannah Munroe (1754 - 1828)

William Reed (1785 - 1848)

m. Rebecca Wilson ( - )

Abby Augusta Reed (1825 - 1899)

m. William Nelson Fairbanks (1818 - 1854)

Helen Suzette Fairbanks (1841 - 1921)

m. Frederic Crowninshield (1845 - 1918)

Helen Suzette Crowninshield (1868 - 1941)

m. Carl August de Gersdorff (1865 - 1944)

Chevalier Josephine de Gersdorff (1896 - 1975)

Chevalier Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee (1921 - 2014)

m. Sally Sterling Quinn (b. 1941)

Josiah Quinn Crowninshield Bradlee (b. 1982)