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Ed Patterson McNamara
Ed Patterson McNamara is descended from several Pennsylvania families, specifically the Shippens, Burds, and Pattersons, who were instrumental in protecting the PA frontier from Indians and encroaching Marylanders in the time before the Mason-Dixon line was surveyed.
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Ed's Books
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A Box of Stuff: The genealogy and history of the Patterson family of Colonial Pennsylvania presents an accurate historical picture of the family lines that resulted in Ed Patterson. His family and their accomplishments date back to the 1600’s and are are interwoven with and integral to the colonial history of Pennsylvania. Most of his descendants had characters and abilities that directly impacted Pennsylvania history and significantly affected the growth and development of the state. Family members are honored by historical road markers, monuments and an over abundance of manuscripts contained in the Pennsylvania Archives. On top of that, Ed's family was joined by a cast of supporting characters, not in his bloodline but distant uncles, aunts and cousins, who nonetheless also made a contributions to colonial history and to Pennsylvania.
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