John Patten
- Born
- 1725
- Died
- 1754
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- cartographer
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John Patten (1725–1754) was a cartographer.
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- 1.Edwin Swift Balch, "Arctic Expeditions Sent from the American Colonies," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 31, No. 4, 1907, pp. 419-428
- 2.Maud M. Hutcheson, "PATTIN, JOHN," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 3, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed March 13, 2025
- 3.[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015028102575&seq= Eavenson, Howard Nicholas. Map Maker & Indian Traders: An Account of John Patten, Trader, Arctic Explorer, and Map Maker; Charles Swaine, Author, Trader, Public Official, and Arctic Explorer; Theodorus Swaine Drage, Clerk, Trader, and Anglican Priest. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1949.]
- 4.Charles Augustus Hanna, The Wilderness Trail: Or, The Ventures and Adventures of the Pennsylvania Traders on the Allegheny Path Volume 2, Putnam's sons, 1911
- 5.[https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Continuation_of_Mr_Rapin_s_History_o/ueU1AAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1 "Extract of a letter from the earl of Albemarle to the earl of Holderness, dated at Paris February 19 (March 1) 1752," in Tindal, Nicolas. The Continuation of Mr. Rapin's History of England: From the Revolution to the Present Times, vol XXI, IXth of the continuation. T. Osborne, 1759]
- 6."Papers Dealing with French Encroachment in America: 1748/49 - 1755," The Loyalist Collection, University of New Brunswick, 2025
- 7.[https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-05-02-0071 "To Benjamin Franklin from William Clarke, 18 March 1754," Founders Online, National Archives, The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 5, July 1, 1753, through March 31, 1755, ed. Leonard W. Labaree. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962, pp. 250–252.]
- 8.Howard N. Eavenson, "Who Made the "Trader's Map"?" The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 65, No. 4 Oct., 1941, pp. 420-438; University of Pennsylvania Press
- 9.[https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-04-02-0158 "From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwallader Colden, 28 February 1753," Founders Online, National Archives, The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 4, July 1, 1750, through June 30, 1753, ed. Leonard W. Labaree. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961, pp. 446–449.]
- 10.The Pennsylvania Gazette, November 15, 1753, Number 1299
- 11.[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Narrative_of_the_Second_Arctic_Expeditio/CB0UAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 Joseph Everett Nourse, ed. Narrative of the Second Arctic Expedition Made by Charles F. Hall: His Voyage to Repulse Bay, Sledge Journeys to the Straits of Fury and Hecla and to King William's Land, and Residence Among the Eskimos During the Years 1864-'69. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1879.]
- 12.Solis-Cohen, B. "Philadelphia's Expeditions to Labrador," Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, 19(2), 1952; pp 148–162
- 13.Patten, John, "A Map of the western parts of the province of Pennsylvania, Virginia, &c. (?, 1753) Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, 3/13/2025
- 14.[https://www.jstor.org/stable/20093259 James P. Myers, "Mapping Pennsylvania's Western Frontier in 1756," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 123, No. 1/2 January - April, 1999, pp. 3-29, University of Pennsylvania Press]
- 15.Samuel Hazard, ed. Pennsylvania Archives, vol. II: 1748. Philadelphia: J. Severns & Company, 1853
- 16.William J. Campbell, "An Adverse Patron: Land, Trade and George Croghan," Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies,, Vol. 76, No. 2, 2009
- 17.William A. Hunter, "Tanaghrisson," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 3, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed March 15, 2021
- 18.Papiers Contrecoeur: Le Conflit Anglo - Français Sur L'Ohio de 1745 à 1756. English translation of documents in the Quebec Seminary by Donald Kent, 1952
- 19.[https://archive.org/details/selectionofgeorg00crogrich/page/n1/mode/2up Croghan, George, A selection of George Croghan's letters and journals relating to tours into the western country--November 16, 1750-November, 1765. Reuben Gold Thwaites, ed. Cleveland, Ohio: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1904]
- 20.[https://lawcat.berkeley.edu/record/1300118 "The examination of Andrew Montour and John Patten taken before the Honorable James Hamilton Esquire Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania." University of California at Berkeley Law Library, online resources]
- 21.[https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-05-02-0065 "Pennsylvania Assembly Committee: Report on the Western Bounds, 7 March 1754," Founders Online, National Archives, The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 5, July 1, 1753, through March 31, 1755, ed. Leonard W. Labaree. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962, pp. 222–229.]
- 22.Eavenson, Howard Nicholas. "Pattin's Map of the Road to Shannopintown," Western Pennsylvania History Magazine, vol. 27, March-June, 1944; pp 21-28
- 23.Williams, Glyndwr. Voyages of Delusion: The Quest for the Northwest Passage. Yale University Press, 2003
- 24.Mark Nuttall, ed. Encyclopedia of the Arctic. Taylor & Francis, 2005.
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