Descendants
His children include Carlile Pollock Patterson, Thomas H. Patterson, George Ann Patterson - the wife of David Dixon Porter, and perhaps others. Patterson's wife, George Ann Pollock of New Orleans, is worth noting because her parents, George Pollock and Catherine Yates, and her maternal grandparents, Richard Yates and Catherine Brass Yates, all had their portraits painted by Gilbert Stuart in 1793-1794, and all four portraits are in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (Richard Yates and his son-in-law George Pollock were successful merchants in New York, the firm Yates & Pollock, until driven out of business around 1800 as their ships and cargoes were seized by French privateers during the Quasi-War. Pollock moved to New Orleans where his uncle Oliver Pollock, a financier of patriot operations in the Revolution, had been in business. Commodore Patterson's great-great-great-grandson, Edward Sisson, is currently writing a historical novel focusing on this part of Patterson & Pollock's lives). The portrait of Mrs. Richard Yates (Catherine Brass Yates) is particularly famous.
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