Patrick, son of Hugh Scallon and Mary McCauley, was born around the Ederney area of County Fermanagh in 1789. He served as an officer in the British army, spending most of his time in British North America - including during the War of 1812. During that time he met his wife, Mary Gilman, while stationed in Halifax, Nova Scotia. For his years of service he received, in 1820, a land grant for a farm on Craig's Road near what would become Saint Sylvester in Quebec - the farm being immediately next to farms belonging to his two brothers, John and Hugh Jr. With the Saint Sylvester area not yet being developed, he and Mary settled up north along the St. Lawrence River in the parish of St. Nicolas. They had two daughters: Mary Ann (Cassidy) and Elizabeth (Doyle). Patrick would become a Justice of the Peace (he served as foreman of the jury for the coroner's inquest of the well-publicized death of Robert Corrigan in 1855). By 1852 Patrick and Mary were living on their Saint Sylvester farm. She died in 1863 and he died in 1865, being buried in the Saint Sylvester parish cemetery in town - where his father had been buried.
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| Date of Birth | 1st Jan 1789 | |
| Date of Death | 26th Dec 1865 | |
