John Fitzpatrick

The evidence is he is clearly named in his father's probated will, plus y-DNA of his descendants as well, subclades match this father. He was the son of Thomas and Jane Fitzpatrick, proven by a well-documented paper trail and y-DNA. DNA doesn't lie. The subclades unique to each generation tells the story.

His descendants match DNA with all the other descendants of the Fitzpatricks, so he does belong in the Fitzpatrick Family.

'Historical sketches of Kentucky (1847) - Collins

The First Exploring Party was headed by Capt. Thomas Bullitt, (see page 17, vol. i.) which, on July 8, 1773, pitched camp above the old mouth of Beargrass creek: and continued for about six weeks exploring and surveying lands in what are now Jefferson and Bullitt counties. Of this party, as we gather from sundry depositions, were Col. James Harrod (who founded Harrodsburg), John Smith (who was living in Woodford county as late as 1823), Isaac Hite (still living in Jefferson county in 1792), James Sodnusky (who lived to old age in Bourbon co.), Abraham Haptonstall (still living in Jefferson CO. in 1814), James Douglass (one of the most prominent of the early surveyors and who settled in Bourbon co.), Ebenezer Severns, John Fitzpatrick, and others. They were joined, afterwards, about August 3d, by Hancock Taylor (a celebrated surveyor, killed by Indians), Matthew Bracken (after whom Bracken creek and county were named), and Jacob Drennon (who gave name to Drennon Springs, in Henry county) — from the McAfee company up the Kentucky river, when they parted company, July 31, 1773.
July, 1773 - Happening one day at the lower Blue Licks, they discovered two white men. Approaching them with due caution, they found them friendly, and learned that they had wandered without guns and food thus far into the country, their canoe having been upset in a squall on the Ohio. Fitzpatrick and Hendricks (so these strangers were named) were invited by Kenton to join his station near Washington. Hendricks acceded to the proposal, but Fitzpatrick insisted upon returning to Virginia. Accordingly Kenton and Williams (having left Hendricks at the Licks) accompanied Fitzpatrick to the Ohio, gave him a gun, and took leave of him on the other side from where Maysville now stands.
http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalsketch00colluoft/historical...

Irish pioneers in Kentucky : a series of articles published in the Gaelic American

According to Collins, "the first visitors to Boone County were the McAfee brothers, George Croghan, James McCoun, Joseph Drennon, William Bracken and John Fitzpatrick, who arrived there in July, 1773."
The first surveys in Bracken County were made by Bullitt and Fitzpatrick in 1773, and by John Doran in 1774. This was on Locust Creek.
http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924028846074/cu31924028846074_djv...

Kentucky ancestors, Volume 3, Kentucky Historical Society. Genealogical Committee

John Fitzpatrick is believed to have been married twice and had a large family ...
http://books.google.com/books?ei=YBzFTsmCOeKuiQfhu-WMDg&ct=result&i...