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- Emigrated in 1801 from Ireland. Settled in WA County PA, moving to Columbiana County in 1818. per History of Columbiana County, Ohio and Representative Citizens.
The Patterson family came originally from Ireland, Grandfather Thomas Patterson and
family emigrating in 1801 and settling first in Washington County, Pennsylvania. In 1818
he removed his family and possessions to Wayne township, Columbiana County, where
he entered land and cleared a good farm.
In 1823 this land came into the possession of James Patterson who cleared and improved it, and the only deed that has ever been executed for this property is the one first made to
Thomas Patterson.
WAYNE TOWNSHIP's CHURCHES.
Bethel Presbyterian Church was organized in 1821, as a branch of the Yellow Creek congregation of Madison township. Rev. James Robertson had preached as early as 1818 within the bounds of that was afterwards Bethel congregation in Wayne township. He conducted public service twice a month, occupying a tent in summer and holding meetings in winter in the homes of the people. The tent was at the first erected in a field on the place afterward owned by Rev. Robert Hays and later near where William Grafton lived. Andrew Adams,Thomas Patterson, James Welch and Richard Gilson were chosen elders at the organization.
Soon after the organization, in 1821, Thomas Patterson gave two acres of land as a site for a church and graveyard, and a hewed-log house of worship was built upon the site occupied up to 1905 by Bethel Church. (assumed to be the Thomas of this biography)
On October 22, 1823, by resolution of the presbytery, the Yellow Creek congregation was divided and it was ordered that that portion of the congregation where the new meeting house was built "be known by the name of Bethel congregation, and that Rev. James Robertson be con sidered the pastor of that congregation." Rev.Mr. Robertson was also instrumental in or ganizing the Bethesda Presbyterian congregation, in Franklin township, and until 1827 preached to both that and Bethel congregations. In 1825 the joint membership of the two churches was 202. Previous to that time there had been revivals in both these churches, and there were large accessions to the membership.
Wayne Twp was early known as a "dry" township, the temperance sentiment always being strong within its borders. A township temperance society was early organized and about the same time one was formed also in connection with Bethel Presbyterian Church.
Page 269, History of Columbiana County (Ensign):
In 1821 a church organization was effected as a branch of the Yellow Creek congregation of Madison township. The early church records having been lost, a list of the original members is not obtainable, but it is known that Andrew Adams, Thomas Patterson, James Welch, and Richard Gilson were the ruling elders chosen at the organintion.
Directly upon that event, it was of course deemed necessary to have a house of worship, and, Thomas Patterson donating two acres of land for a grave-yard and church site, a double-hewed log house was, by the united efforts of the members of the congregation, erected upon the spot
now occupied by Bethel church.
Oct. 22, 1821, in response to a petition of the Bethel congregation, tlte Presbytery of Hartford adopted a resolution as follows:
Resolved,, That the congregation of Yellow Creek be divided. and that that part of the congregation where the new meeting-house is built be known by the nnmeol' Bethel congregation, nnd that Rev.
Jame! Robertson be considered the stated pastor of that congregation."
The name of Bethel was originally chosen in honor of a church of that name in the Pittsburgh Presbytery, and Mr. Robertson, who was called. had all along been preaching for the congregation. [2, 3]
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