Robert Peterson
Robert Patterson was born in Ireland in 1781; married Jane Brown. In 1818 they emigrated to the United States, and immediately located within the present limits of this [Washington] township, where he entered 160 acres of land. Their family at this time consisted of three children. Mr. P. lived on this place until the time of his death in 1847: his wife died in 1862. Of this family there is but one left, viz., Margaret, the widow of Freeborn Thompson. She was born in Ireland in 1814. In 1832 she married Freeborn Thompson, who died in 1837. By this union they had two children, Robert P. and Elizabeth E. After the death of her husband Mrs. Thompson returned to the home of her father and has lived there a widow since that time. Her daughter, Elizabeth E., was born in 1835, and married George J. Legg in 1852. There were born to them five children, only two now living, viz, Nora B. and Georgiana. Mr. Legg died in 1859. His widow now resides with her mother, Mrs. Thompson, where she has lived since the death of her husband.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883