Tag: Gilbert C. Rice

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

Patrick Colhoun of County Donegal, Ireland (Died 1740/1, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania): Immigrant Progenitor of the South Carolina Long Cane Calhoun Family

June 1, 2024

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