Patten, John, 1746-1800

<ul><b>RACES</b>
<li>11/01/1800 DE - Electors Lost 10.34% (-12.64%)</li>
<li>10/07/1800 DE District At Large Lost 46.67% (-6.66%)</li>
<li>10/04/1794 DE District At Large Won 51.32% (+2.64%)</li>
<li>02/14/1794 DE District At Large - Recount Lost 49.63% (-0.74%)</li>
<li>10/02/1792 DE District At Large Won 38.78% (+0.51%)</li>
<li>12/31/1785 DE Continental Congress Won 100.00% (+100.00%)</li>
<li>10/01/1785 DE House - Kent Won 14.29% (+0.00%)</li>
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PATTEN, John, a Delegate and a Representative from Delaware; born in Kent County, Del., April 26, 1746; attended the common schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits; entered the Revolutionary Army as a lieutenant; was promoted to the rank of major; Member of the Continental Congress in 1786; presented credentials as an Anti-Administration Member-elect to the Third Congress and served from March 4, 1793, to February 14, 1794, when he was succeeded by Henry Latimer, who contested his election; elected as a Republican to the Fourth Congress (March 4, 1795-March 3, 1797); was not a candidate for renomination; engaged in farming until his death at ``Tynhead Court,'' near Dover, Del., December 26, 1800; interment in the Presbyterian Churchyard.

<p>Major John Patten (April 26, 1746 – December 26, 1800) was a United States farmer and politician from Dover, in Kent County, Delaware. He was an officer of the Continental Army in the American Revolution, a Continental Congressman, and a member of the Democratic-Republican Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly and as a United States Representative from Delaware.</p>

<p>Patten was born at Tynhead Court, near Dover in the Delaware Colony, son of John Patten and Ann Maxwell. This property was on the present Dover Air Force Base, near the farms of Caesar Rodney and John Dickinson. He was a farmer, who after the American Revolution married Ann Haslet, daughter of the first Colonel of the 1st Delaware Regiment, John Haslet. She died soon thereafter, and he married Mary Miller Loockerman, daughter of the Rev. John Miller and widow of Vincent Loockerman.</p>

<p>Patten was commissioned a first lieutenant in Captain John Caldwell's 2nd Company of the 1st Delaware Regiment at the beginning of the American Revolutionary War. He was soon promoted to captain of the 1st Company and in February 1779 and was promoted to the rank of major. He fought in every major battle from the Battle of Long Island until the Battle of Camden, where the Delaware Regiment suffered grievous losses, and he was taken prisoner. Paroled in 1781, after the fighting was over, he is said to have walked home alone in rags from Charleston, South Carolina.</p>