Patton moved to the Overmountain region of North Carolina. which is now East Tennessee and part of the First District. With help from her husband. Andrew Taylor. a private in the Pennsylvania militia. they started their own gunpowder mill on what became known as Powder Branch. Mary Patton embodied the entrepreneurial spirit that many immigrants who come to America possess. She used this mill to supply gunpowder to militias during the Revolutionary War. Pattons true Tennessee Volunteer spirit showed when she gave over five hundred pounds of gunpowder to the 850 Overmountain Men for the Battle of Kings Mountain during the Revolutionary War.
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Immigrants possess an entrepreneurial spirit.