Tag: Alexander Ewing

Some Notes on Montgomery-Ewing Connections: Alexander Ewing of Burt Parish, County Donegal, and Cecil County, Maryland, and Montgomerys of Augusta (Later Wythe) County, Virginia

July 5, 2024

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 … More Some Notes on Montgomery-Ewing Connections: Alexander Ewing of Burt Parish, County Donegal, and Cecil County, Maryland, and Montgomerys of Augusta (Later Wythe) County, Virginia

Catherine, Wife of Patrick Colhoun, Immigrant Ancestor of the South Carolina Long Cane Calhoun Family: Notes on Her Reputed Montgomery Ancestry

June 13, 2024

I began my recent posting about Patrick Colhoun, Catherine Montgomery’s husband and immigrant progenitor of the Calhoun family that settled in the Long Cane region of South Carolina in February 1756, by stating that not a great deal is known with certainty about Patrick. In that posting, I tried to pinpoint what is known with … More Catherine, Wife of Patrick Colhoun, Immigrant Ancestor of the South Carolina Long Cane Calhoun Family: Notes on Her Reputed Montgomery Ancestry

Samuel Kerr Green (1790-1860): Arkansas Territory Records, 1821-1833, and Brief Sojourn in Arkansas, 1821-2

July 25, 2023

Or, Subtitled: “Civilization had at last come to Arkansas. So overjoyed were the inhabitants that the community celebrated the first publication of the Arkansas Gazette with a barrel of whiskey” As I ended the previous posting, I told you that, having brought the story of Samuel Kerr Green up to 1830, when he ended his … More Samuel Kerr Green (1790-1860): Arkansas Territory Records, 1821-1833, and Brief Sojourn in Arkansas, 1821-2

Samuel Kerr Green (1790-1860) — The South Carolina and Tennessee Years

July 10, 2023

Or, Subtitled: “Young Men on the Make” in Early Nashville Samuel Kerr Green, father of Ezekiel Samuel Green (1824/5 – 1900/1910), was born in 1790 in Pendleton District (later Anderson County), South Carolina. As previous postings have noted (and here), Samuel is enumerated on the 1850 federal census in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, along with … More Samuel Kerr Green (1790-1860) — The South Carolina and Tennessee Years