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Patience Raiford Coleman Madden Welton
Born 1742? Wayne Co. NC?
Died 1804/8 ?LA or Spanish West Florida

SPOUSE	CHILDREN
John William Coleman m. May 12, 1762 Anson Co. NC b. 1714? Prince George Co. VA d. May 15, 1781 k. Indians ?Illinois Terr.	John Raiford b. Oct 28, 1766 NC d. Dec 11, 1809 New Feliciana Parish, Miss. Terr.	William b. 1768? NC	Judith b. 1771? ?NC d. 1823 The Plains, LA
	Mary b. 1776?	James b. 1779?	? b. late 1781?
Emanuel Madden m. May-Oct 1781 Natchez Dist. b. 1755? d. 1820? MS
John Welton m. Sep 17, 1783 ?Lincoln Co. KY b. d. by 1804	Jane b. 1785? Bayou Sara, Natchez Dist. d. ?Nov 1811 LA
Patience Raiford was the daughter of William and Apsilla Raiford.
Husband John William Coleman came to the Natchez District about 1777 and moved the family there about a year later [Farmer, genealogy.com post].
According to Patience, her husband John Coleman was killed by Indians after he left for the Illinois Territory on May 15, 1781. By Oct of that year, Patience had married the caretaker of Coleman's land, Emanuel Madden [McBee, Book A page 56-9, p. 8-9]. This land was on the Homochitto River near Second Creek about 5 leagues from the Fort at Natchez. It was originally owned by Robert Robinson who had a purchase agreement with Coleman as he lived on it.
As early as Nov 1776 Emanuel Madden owned land near the other end of Second Creek, 10 miles from the Fort of Natchez. About 1788 Emanuel sold 100 arpents (about 84 acres) to a William Ratcliff. In 1804, this land was described as being adjacent to the land that was claimed in 1772 by Absalom Hooper [McBee, p. 53].
1895 Map of Natchez from the Ancestral Trackers website, shows the likely routes of Second Creek and Homochitto River in 1781.
On Oct 28, 1781 Patience presented to the Court of Natchez petitions stating the property of her late husband and requesting that her new husband be appointed guardian of her children. Just four days earlier, on Oct 24, the court had appointed a guardian and taken inventory of the estate of John Holloway, also killed by Indians, and his widow Elizabeth Holloway also pregnant [McBee, Natchez Court Records, Book A, p. 304] However his death was recent and where he was sorking with his son George, at the plantation of Joshua Howard, near or adjoining the Madden plantation on Second Creek. On Nov 22, 1781 Emanuel Madden was appointed guardian of the Coleman children listed, as well as "the child of wh. she declares herself pregnant" [McBee, Book A, pp. 56-9].
Unrecorded Land Claims dated Mar 29, 1804 by Joshua and John Howard, recorded the location of their lands on Second Creek, where John Holloway was killed in 1781 while working there. It referenced a 1776 "plat" that showed "Manuel Madden and John Small with land adjoining" [McBee, Unrecorded Land Claims nos. 1470-1, p. 555].
By Feb 9, 1783 Emanuel is described as "absconded from the district" in a suit against him by Elizabeth Baker claiming that about a year before he stole a horse belonging to her husband [McBee, p. 300].
On May 24, 1784 Emanuel and Patience Madden sold 100 arpents of the land on the Homochitto River, "5 leagues from Fort" witnessed by her son John Coleman, aged 17 [McBee, Book A, p. 25].
In 1785 a James Cole "of own free will and accord" became surety for Patience's son John Coleman (not yet 18) because he came to the District with a William Davenport and did not return with him [McBee, Book B, p. 138].
On May 24, 1786, in a suit brought by the Coleman children, John, William and Judith, "being of sufficient age to choose a curator", the court decreed that Patience was the lawful wife of Manual Madden, even though she claimed on Apr 3, 1786 to be married to John Welton. The court allowed John Welton to be their curator and that the Coleman estate be entrusted to Welton. [McBee, Book E, p. 179].
On Apr 7, 1789, Patience, then married to John Welton, paid $35 to her daughter Judith Coleman, who was the widow of James Baker by Jul 1789, as her share of the estate of her father, "Mr. William Coleman" administered by Patience after Dec 31, 1787. The other four Coleman children each received $35 [McBee, Book D, pp. 142, 253].
Patience and daughter Judith lived together in Bayou Sara for a while after Judith's husband died about 1789. Bayou Sara no longer exists because the Mississippi River now runs through it. In 1820 it was partly in Wilkinson Co. MS (formed in 1802 from a part of Adams Co.) and a part of West Feliciana LA, south of the town of Natchez (see present day map for location of Wilkinson Co. and present day map for location of West Feliciana Parish.
A translation of the Head of Household Index of the 1792 Natchez District Census shows "Emanuel Madden" in SC=Santa Catalina (St. Catherine's Creek) and "Juan Welden" in BS=Bayou Sara [USGenWeb, website].
Daughter Jane Welton married James Patton on Jul 29, 1805, probably in St. Joseph Catholic Church in Baton Rouge LA.
Patience made a will that was recorded in Spanish West Florida in 1804. It says she was the widow of John Coleman and John Welton.
SOURCES: Adams Co. Mississippi Genealogy & History Network, "1792 Census for Natchez District (under Spanish Government control)", 2009, 1792 Census. Aymond, Greg, Holloway Family of Holloway Prairie, internet website, Dec 1999. "Franklin County, MS 1810 Census", abstract from Gillis book, rootsweb website. Documents ... , US Congress, 1815-24] Farmer, Franklin, post on genealogy.com forum, Mar 20, 1999. Franklin Co. Genealogy & Hustory Network, Franklin Co. Mississippi Marriages, website. "John Holloway, 1851", File H-3, on p. 208 of "The MS Cains", website. McBee, Mae Wilson, comp., "Land Claims", in Natchez Court Records, 1767-1805, Book F, p.21. McBee, Mae Wilson, comp., Natchez Court Records, 1767-1805, Greenwood MS, 1953, v. 2, Book A, pp. 25, 56-9, Book D, pp. 142, 253, 300, Book E, pp. 178-9. USGenWeb, Early Southwest Miss. Territory, "Natchez District 1792 Spanish Census Index", Head of Household Index. USGenWeb, Franklin Co. Mississippi, "Franklin County Mississippi Early Settlers", website. Will of Patience Coleman, Spanish West Florida, Feb 16, 1804, in Natchez Court Records, 1767-1805.