BEGATS AND BEQUEATHALS

Or, Subtitled: Perhaps a long way to Tipperary, but not a long way from Elaghbeg to Monfad

In this posting, I’d like to return to a thread I mentioned but did not follow in my previous posting about Catherine Montgomery Colhoun, wife of Patrick Colhoun – the immigrant ancestors of the Calhoun family that settled on the Long Cane in South Carolina in February 1756. This thread has to do with connections between a Ewing family and the Montgomery and Colhoun/Calhoun families. The thread I’ve just linked notes that a journal kept by Patrick and Catherine’s grandson Alexander Noble (son of John Noble and Mary Calhoun) states that on 5 January 1771, as he prepared to return to South Carolina after a trip to see his Montgomery cousins in Virginia, Alexander left “William Ewens titels” with his “Cousen John Mountgomery.” That is, on his trip from South Carolina to Virginia from 10 December 1770 to 18 January 1771, a trip discussed in the posting linked above, Alexander Noble had arranged to sell William Ewing land his family still owned in Augusta County, Virginia, and he had left the title to that land with his cousin John Montgomery, delegating John to make this land sale.