I’m grateful to Brian Anton for recommending this blog and my research regarding Patrick Colhoun/Calhoun, progenitor of the American branch of the Calhoun family to which Vice-President John Caldwell Calhoun belongs. In his latest posting on his first-rate Genealogy of the Calhoun Family blog, Brian states,
Please note an important correction I’ve just made of my previous posting about Patrick Colhoun, immigrant ancestor of the Calhoun family that settled in the Long Cane region of the South Carolina upcountry in 1756. That posting discusses and has digital images of what I believe – the posting provides my reasons for concluding this … More Note Important Correction of Previous Posting about Patrick Colhoun
About Patrick Colhoun, the immigrant ancestor and father of Ezekiel Calhoun and his siblings Mary (Noble), James, William, and Patrick Calhoun, not a great deal is known with certainty. What researchers have thought they’ve known over the years has often turned out to be wrong, as such scant documentary evidence as we now have about … More Patrick Colhoun of County Donegal, Ireland (Died 1740/1, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania): Immigrant Progenitor of the South Carolina Long Cane Calhoun Family
BEGATS AND BEQUEATHALS 