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.
[2] Patton was one of a three-member commission that selected Jackson, Mississippi as the site for the state capitol.
Patton, with Thomas Hinds and William Lattimore, had made their way up the Pearl River in 1820 in search of a suitable location.
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.