Yet More on My Scots Ancestry

I got this from my mom via email today after she saw my post on Tartan Day. So...without further ado, information on the Patillos from whom (among the legion) I am descended.

The name also appears as Pattulock, Pattilloch/Petilloch, Patullo/Pittillo/, Patillo/Patello or Pattullo and means "the foot of the lake". Another possible source for the name may be the village of Pittilloch which is ten miles south-west of Cupar Angue.

They might be descended from the MacLillichs who claim to descend from Angus, the grandson of Somerled, Lord of the Isles. He had a connection to the Campbells of Argyll family. His son Henry says, rearing was "of pious parents who were well situated in the point of religious privileges" and were sufficiently prosperous to educate their children.

In Scotland, where are two places named Pittilloch, one near Freuchie, Fife and one in Glengarg, Perthshire. The first Petillok appears in records in 1295. In 1305, William Patiloch received a grant of land, called Gibliston, from Robert the Bruce and Adam Patilloch got lands at Freuchie in Fifeshire.

Robert Pattillo of Dundee and several other men, joined the King's Archer Guards of Louis VI of France and so distinguished themselves in an insurrection in Gascony that the King promoted Robert with an appointment of Governor of a province. The family coat of arms therefore has an unbent bow resting on a shield, the crest is a maild glove with a rose in hand. The motto "Et decerpta dabunt odorem", And plucked, they will give forth an odor.

During the persecution of the Huguenots, which broke out on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, George escaped from France and made his way to Dundee, Scotland where he found protection among relatives. (This story can't be true as hundreds of years are missing.)

George Patillo M.A. was ordained in 1610 with honors from St. Andrews University. He became Minister of New Tyle and was succeded by his son George in 1663." (From Fasts' "Eccleastical Scotland", Vol. III, Page 456.) George may be descended from William Pittillo, who was twice the Land Provost of Perth, a Burgess with property in 1656 and from George Petullo, chaplain at Dundee, who witnessed a charter in Perth, Scotland in 1525.

According to Fox and Davies, "Guide to Heraldry", other Patillos include: William Pittulloch, a monk who was appointed Minister to Puthven in 1521; John Pattulloch, who was the last Roman Catholic priest at Abbey of Sebroath; Robert Pettilloch, a commissary to Pope Pius II; Robert Pettilloch of Clermont who was ambassador from Scotland to France in 1458; Robert Pattuloch, who was granted land in Sabture, France in 1424; William Petilloch who early in the 14th century was a Scotch Herald. He was made a grant of land from David II, of Scotland, of three husbandlands in Bonjedward. Found in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland for heralds for services at tournaments, dated 1364. (Reference Fox and Davies "Guide to Heraldry"). The Pattillo name may have come from a village, ten miles southwest of Cupar, which was formerly part of property from which territorial name was given, "De Pittilloch".

" George Alexander Pattillo, b. ca. 1720 in Scotland; d. 9 June 1798, Charlotte Co., Va. Married Martha Varner (Varnor, Vernon) of Penn. in Va., 1 July 1757. She was b. 1 Feb. 1735. Came from Dundee, Angus County, Scotland to America with his brother, Henry Pattillo in 1740. George and his younger brother, Henry, had supposedly been in Penn. before moving to Va. They were closely associated with a large group of Scotch-Irish Presbyterians who had emigrated at an earlier date, by way of Penn., to the southern part of Virginia. The group we speak of settled in and around Cub Creek, Charlotte Co., then Lunenburg Co. John CaIdwell seemed to be the leader of this particular group as the area near Cub Creek was known as the "Caldwell Settlement" They helped establish Washington College and now Washington and Lee University and Hampden Sydney College.

It was located near Phenix near the Red Hill home of Patrick Henry. In 1742, the first log church was built as one of the first 6 churches of the first Presbytery of VA and it was used until 1820. The church was established in 1738 on more than 30,000 acres on Cub Creek by the colony of Scotch-Irish. In May 1739, John Caldwell got permission from the Synod of Philadelphia to ask the Governor of Virginia "with suitable instructions in order to procure ther favour of the government of that province to the laying a foundation of our interest in that place and to ask for the Colony Liberty of Conscience and the priviledge of worshiping God in a way
agreeable to the principles of our education."

William Caldwell executed a deed, 2 Apr. 1751, in Lunenburg Co., Va., for the conveyance of one acre of ground on his land for a burial place to thirty-one men in his neighborhood. Among these men whose families we find closely associated with the Pattillo family were David Logan, James Logan, John Middleton, Isaac Vernon (Varner, Varnon) and Henry Pattillo. (Va. Hist. Mag., Vol. XVIII, pp. 40-41)