Early Life
Patten was born to Benoni and Edith Cole Patten in Vermont on November 14, 1799 and moved to Theresa, New York as a young child. He was the eleventh of thirteen children. He was around 6'1" and of a dark complexion. As a youth, David W. Patten moved to the town of Dundee in eastern Michigan. While there, at the age of twenty-eight he married Phoebe Ann Babcock in 1828. The two had one stillborn child; they had no children live to adulthood. He allied himself with the local Methodist congregation during this time, all the while professing a belief that there was "no true religion on the earth."
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