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EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY - 1876
By John Carroll Power

These biographies were submitted by a researcher and evidently abstracted from the 1876 History of Sangamon County, IL. Errors could occur, so one should always verify the correctness by obtaining copies of vitals and performing all necessary research to document what is contained herein.



VAN PATTEN, MINDERT, was born Jan. 20, 1793, in Scoharrie county, New York. Hannah Cooper was born March 13, 1796, in Pennsylvania. They were married Jan. 7, 1815, in Somerset county, New Jersey, and had ten children there. The family moved to Sangamon county, arriving at Springfield August 9, 1838, and soon after moved to what is now Curran township. Of their ten children--

MARY A., born Oct. 3, 1815, in New Jersey, married there to Joseph Rockafellow, came to Sangamon county with her parents, and went to Fairview, Fulton county. They have seven children.

SARAH, born Jan. 26, 1818, in New Jersey, married there to Henry S. Frazee. See his name.

CAROLINE, born Oct. 14, 1820, married in Sangamon county to Ezra C. Lyman. See his name.

AARON, born Nov. 17, 1822, in Somerset county, New Jersey, married in Sangamon county Nov. 28, 1844, to Martha J. Tolley, who was born Jan. 11, 1826. They had seven children. JAMES M., born Sept. 2, 1845. CARRIE M., born Nov. 1, 1848, married Feb. 17, 1870, to Edward T. Bradford. See his name. KATIE S., born March 7, 1851, married Sept. 9, 1870, to Knox L. Cooper. See his name, in the Talbott family sketch. CHARLES M., WILLIAM H., MARY E., and LEIGH R. resides with their mother. Aaron Van Patten died Sept. 12, 1870, in Sangamon county, Illinois, and his widow resides in Lincoln, Illinois.

ELIZABETH, born March 26, 1825, in New Jersey, married in Sangamon county to William Pursell. See his name.

JOHN, born and died in New Jersey, aged four years.

NICHOLAS, born June 28, 1829, in New Jersey, died in Sangamon county, Sept. 24, 1844.

JOHN C., born Jan. 21, 1832, in Somerset county, New Jersey, married in Sangamon county Dec. 28, 1853, to Rachel McCoy. They had six children, two died under four years. EDWIN, FRANK, EZRA and WILLIE live with their parents. Rev. J. C. Van Patten is connected with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He resides one and a half miles south of Farmingdale, Sangamon county, Illinois.

JAMES L., born Sept. 15, 1834, in New Jersey, died in Sangamon county, March 26, 1857.

HANNAH H., born July 15, 1837, in New Jersey, died in Springfield, Illinois.

Mrs. Hannah Van Patten died Jan. 9, 1861, and Mindert Van Patten died Aug. 17, 1861, both in Sangamon county. His death was caused by being thrown from a horse.



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