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William Paterson was born December 24, 1745, in County Antrim, Ireland, to Richard Paterson, an Ulster Protestant. [2] Paterson immigrated with his parents to New Castle, Pennsylvania, in 1747. [3] At 14, he began college at Princeton. After graduating, he read law with the prominent lawyer Richard Stockton and was admitted to the bar in 1768.
William Paterson (judge) (1745–1806), United States Founding Father, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and signer of the U.S. Constitution William Paterson (Michigan politician) , Mayor of Flint, Michigan
(1764–1839) husband of Margarita daughter of Philip Schuyler and Katherine Van Rensselaer (a granddaughter of Robert Livingston the Younger). Stephen Rensselaer III was brother-in-law to Alexander Hamilton and Philip Jeremiah Schuyler (1768-1835). Stephen father-in-law from his 2nd marriage was the Governor of New Jersey William Paterson ...
William Paterson (judge) (1745–1806), associate justice of the United States Supreme Court; John M. Patterson (1921–2021), chief justice of a "Special Supreme Court" that tried the case of Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore; Judge Patterson (disambiguation)
William Paterson (judge) (1745–1806), Attorney General of New Jersey Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Attorney General Patterson .
His father, also named Thomas, worked for the Mundy family. His mother, Lucy Green, was a slave of Hugh Newell (1744–1816) of Freehold Township, New Jersey. She was manumitted at age 21 by Newell's will. After moving to Perth Amboy, Peterson married Daphne Reeves, whose mother, Bette, had been a slave on an estate of Andrew Bell in Perth ...
William Paterson (New Jersey lawyer) (1745-1806), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court; William Patterson (New York politician) (1789–1838), U.S. Representative from New York; William Patterson (Ohio politician) (1790–1868), U.S. Representative from Ohio; William Albert Patterson (1841–1917), Canadian Member of Parliament
His maternal grandparents were Cornelia (née Bell) Paterson and William Paterson, the 2nd Governor of New Jersey, U.S. Senator, and later, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States appointed by President George Washington. After a preparatory education, he attended Yale College, graduating in the class of 1824. [6]