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Date sent: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 15:43:04 -0700
From: Patti <pswanson(a)cfl.rr.com>
Subject: Desc. of Alexander, 15th Colquhoun Clan Chieftan, son Adam, son Robert, etc.
> NY, MA USA
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Surnames: Colquhoun, Calhoun, Colhoun, Cunningham, Crowl, Hinds,
Selby, Kent, Perry, Pitcher, Sawyer, Van Etten, Swazy, Preston,
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The following Calhoun lines are direct descendents of Alexander, fifteenth Colquhoun Clan
chieften (573-1617) through his son, Adam, grandson, Robert, and Great Grandson, William
Campbell Colquhoun (Calhoun).
Among William Campbell Colhoun's children were Rev. Alexander Colhoun, Great
Grandfather of John Caldwell Calhoun of South Carolina (Senator + Vice President), and
William Colhoun, born in 1664.
William Colhoun and his wife Alice Cunningham (?) had eleven children born in Strabane,
Ireland, between 1690 + 1710. Several migrated to America, among them Samuel, born in
1692, who migrated to Massachusetts with wife and first child John born 1714 between 1714
and 1722. They appear to have settled in Shrewsbury, where their later children were
born:
James (1722), Alexander (1724), Samuel Jr. (1726, William (1728), and Mary (1736).
The family evidently moved to Petersham, Massachusetts after Mary was born. James bought
land in Petersham in 1759 (recorded in 1766). From subsequent deeds, he evidently died in
1785 or 1786. Subsequent land transfers involving his widow, Elizabeth Crowl Colhoon,
indicate that James and Elizabeth had at least three sons: James, John, and Gard(I)ner.
Later records in New York indicate a younger son, Joel.
The younger James was born in Petersham in 1764, according to Revolutionary War pension
records, and served in various regiments 1782 - 1784. In 1787 he married Susa (Susannah)
Hinds of Greenwich. Their Children were:
James (1788 - 1791)
Elizabeth (1789-1791)
Tabithy (b. 1791, married Dyer Selby)
James, Jr. (b.1792)
Elizabeth (b.1794)
Wilbert (b.1796)
Erastus (1798 - 1802)
Samuel (b.1800, married Orpha Kent)
Unnamed infant (1802)
Susannah died in 1802, subsequent to birth of unnamed infant. James remarried, to Mary
Perry, in 1803. Their children also born in Petersham were:
Sandford (b.1803)
Susan (b. 1803)
Marry (1806 â 1817)
Margeretta (1807 - 1832)
In 1808, James and Mary Calhoun moved to Wayne County, New York. Additional children born
there were:
Sampson (1809 - 1841)
Elerta (or Eleeta) (b. 1811)
Jacob (b. 1813)
Judith (b. 1817)
Erestos (b. 1819, married Lucinda, lived in Palmyra, NY)
Marry (b. 1820)
John Hancock (b. 1822)
Sanford married Fanny M. and evidently had children:
Julyett, Myron, Mary, and Charles. They lived in Walworth and later Palmyra, Wayne County.
Charles was a Civil War veteran and died in 1929, buried in Sodus, Wayne County. Various
descendents of Myron remained in Wayne County.
Samuel, born 1800 lived and died in Wayne County with wife Orpha Kent. They had at least
five children:
James Kent (1827 - 1863) who married Catherine Pitcher
George (1837- 1877), who married Roxie A. and had at least two children, Hattie and
Willard.
Helen (1834 - 1884), who married Jackson Sawyer.
? ( ) Who married ? Van Etten, and whose children were Charles C. and Francis M.
Van Etten.
? ( ), Who married a Mr. Swazy.
James Kent Calhoun (1827 - 1863) and wife Catherine had two children, James Kent Calhoun
(1863 - 1943) and Mary Elizabeth ("Libbie"). Libbie married John Wrightson
Preston and had a son, Hugh Preston Calhoun (1880 - 1884).
The younger James Kent Calhoun married, first, Alice Duffield Browne and, second, Blanche
Hurtford. Four children were born of each marriage, with the eight children having a total
of twenty-one children. This family still centered in Glencoe, now numbers over one
hundred and is scattered across the country.
For more detailed information, contact:
Richard F. Calhoun
13310 River Road
Potomac, Maryland 20854
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