Simon was commissioned a 2nd lieut. in Capt. John Van Patten's Co., 2nd Albany Militia in the Revolutionary War. Incidentally, John Van Patten's sword is one of the few relics still extant. Simon married Maria Wendel 7/11/1777 by Rev. Barent Vrooman. Maria was a 2X great granddaughter of Evert Wendel of Albany. The Wendel Family Coat of Arms is in a stained glass window of the Old Albany Dutch Church. According to his great grandson Harmon's bio of 1904 in Lee Co., Ill, "Simon F Van Patten was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and himself and wife assisted in throwing overboard the objectionable cargo of tea into Boston Harbor"! This has never been verified.
He and his wife's fieldstone markers are put here with two of their great grandchildren stones which are also deteriorating. Don Keefer saved them from the Old Van Patten cemetery off Barhydt Rd. in Glenville.
This from the 1821 Schenectady Cabinet:
BY virtue of a w r i t of test. fi. fa. issued out of the supreme
court and to the directed and delivered, against the goods
and chattels; lands and tenements of Simon Van P a t t e n and
Frederick S Van Patten, I have seized and taken and shall
expose to .sale as the l aw directs, at H. Davis'Schenectady
coffee-house, on the twenty-first day of July next 1821, at eleven
o'clock in t h e fore n o o n , all the right and title of the said
Simon and Frederick S. of, in and to all that certain farm,
piece or parcel of land, together with the buildings thereon,
situate in the town of G l e n v i l l e , bounded southerly by John
Haverley and the Mohawk turnpike, easterly by the heirs of
Nicholas Van Patten, northerly by the common lands belonging
to the town of Glenville, westerly by a lane running between
s a i d farm and land of John S. Barheydt and land belonging
to the heirs of Nicholas Van Patten, supposed to contain
about one hundred and twelve acres, and now in the
possession of John B . Van Patten.-Dated June 4, 1821 .
Isaac Riggs, late Sheriff
Simon was originally interred in the Van Patten burial ground, Barhydt Rd., Glenville, located on the property of Edward F. Wurz. His fieldstone was relocated to the Glenville cemetery in 1962 with his wife Maria (Wendell) Van Patten.

Revolutionary War Service - See Hanson's A History of Schenectady During the Revolution, p. 244
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