In 1801, Patton was appointed one of the commissioners for the marking of a land route from the Gulf of Mexico to Natchez, Mississippi.
[3]: 943 in 1810, Patton served as a lieutenant colonel in the Territorial Cavalry,[3]: 243 and in 1819 he was a major general in the Mississippi State Militia.
Patton, with Thomas Hinds and William Lattimore, had made their way up the Pearl River in 1820 in search of a suitable location.
He resided in Winchester, then a beautiful village, which he made a center of political influence, second only to Natchez.
He was a man of courtly manners, a fine writer and impressive speaker; was elected Lieutenant-Governor and would have attained the highest honor of the State, but for his premature death.