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Hugh Montgomery (abt. 1720? – 1779) of Philadelphia and Rowan and Wilkes County, North Carolina: Some Notes

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Tombstone of Hugh Montgomery, photo by NCGenSeeker — see Find a Grave memorial page of Hugh Montgomery, the Old English cemetery, Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina, created by Patsy Hunt

Or, Subtitled: When Facts Clash with Longstanding Family Stories — The Need for Sound, Collaborative Genealogical Research to Complement DNA Studies

This posting is not meant to be a comprehensive account of the life of Hugh Montgomery who died in Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina, on 23 December 1779, and of the documents that tell that life story.[1] What I’m primarily interested in as I look at aspects of Hugh’s life here and of the documents that chronicle those aspects is twofold: first, because there are indicators that Hugh may have been a relative of my own Montgomery ancestor, Catherine Montgomery Colhoun (1684-1760) and of her likely brother James Montgomery (abt. 1690-1756) of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and Augusta County, Virginia, I’m interested in examining any documentation I can find for Hugh’s early life and regarding his Irish origins, which may connect to the Irish roots of Catherine and James. And, second, since Hugh’s life has been overlaid by myths for many years and sound documentation about his early life is sparse, I want to see if it’s possible to separate fact from fiction in accounts of Hugh’s life prior to his settling in Rowan County, North Carolina, in 1765.

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

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Tombstone of Catherine Calhoun, Long Cane massacre site in McCormick County, South Carolina, near Troy in Greenwood County, photo by David Gillespie

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 certainty, and to sort fact from the abundant fiction that has passed down in accounts of the early days of this family in America, including the claim that his name was James or James Patrick, when it was, in fact, plain Patrick.

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