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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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Ezekiel Colhoun, Son of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean/Jane Ewing: New Information Added to Previous Posting

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Loose-papers estate file of Hugh Calhoun, Abbeville County, South Carolina, box 18, pkg. 287

I’ve just added a few new pieces of information to my previous posting discussing Ezekiel Colhoun, son of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean/Jane Ewing, and wanted to draw readers’ attention to this new material. As I worked last week on organizing my information about Patrick Colhoun, immigrant progenitor of the Calhoun family of the Long Cane settlement in the South Carolina upcountry, I did some research regarding a Hugh Calhoun who seems to be related to the family of Patrick Colhoun, and who died in Abbeville County, South Carolina, in 1799.

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

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Close-up of Patrick Colhoun’s signature in John Tillotson, The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury (London, 1727), held by South Carolina Department of Archives and History

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 Patrick has emerged. A case in point is the longstanding tradition that this immigrant ancestor was named James Calhoun and not Patrick. As Brian Anton explains in an excellent must-read article at his Genealogy of the Calhoun Family site, for quite some time there was confusion due to a persistent tradition, including among some members of the Calhoun family itself, that the given name of the immigrant ancestor was James – when the sparse documentation that has survived for this immigrant progenitor now shows he was named Patrick.[1]

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Children of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean/Jane Ewing: Ezekiel Colhoun and Jane Calhoun Stedman

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The Statutes at Large of South Carolina: Containing the acts from 1786, exclusive, to 1814, inclusive, arranged chronologically (Columbia: Johnson, 1839), p. 495

In a previous posting, I discussed the difficulties I encounter as I try to pinpoint when the last three children of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean/Jane Ewing were born. As I note in that posting and previous ones linked in that same posting, I am confident that Ezekiel’s will names his sons and daughters – in separate lists, sons in one list, daughters in another – by order of birth. Ezekiel’s son Ezekiel is named following Patrick and would have been Ezekiel Calhoun’s last son, and Jean/Jane is named after her sister Catherine and would have been Ezekiel Calhoun’s last daughter.

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Children of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean/Jane Ewing: Patrick Calhoun (1752/5 – 1827)

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Tombstone of Eleanor Pickens Calhoun, photo by genielady2012 – see Find a Grave memorial page of Ellen B. Pickens Calhoun, Oak Grove cemetery, Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky, created by Trey Thompson

Or, Subtitled: “Here is my account of how and why all those folks went to Livingston Co. Ky.”

As I begin this posting, I have to be candid and say that working on the last three children of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean or Jane Ewing has proven very difficult, and I’m by no means sure that I have a reasonably full snapshot of their lives. The information I can find about them is sparse, and much that is stated about them in articles and trees published conventionally and online is totally undocumented and often, in my view, woefully incorrect.

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Children of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean/Jane Ewing: Catherine Calhoun (abt. 1751 – 1803) and Husband Alexander Noble

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18 December 1779 letter of Major Alexander Noble to General William Moultrie, in Preston Davie Collection, 1560-1903, collection 3406, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, available digitally

Or, Subtitled: “I am your Obedient Hbl Servt. Alexdr. Noble Majr”

Establishing Catherine’s Birthdate

As a previous posting notes, the will that Catherine Calhoun’s father Ezekiel Calhoun made on 3 September 1759 in Granville (later Abbeville) County, South Carolina, appears to name his sons and daughters by their order of birth, with the sons listed separately from the daughters.[1] Ezekiel’s will lists Catherine after her sisters Mary and Rebecca. Rebecca’s date of birth, 18 November 1745, appears on her tombstone in Old Stone Church cemetery at Clemson in Pickens County, South Carolina.[2] The next child in the family of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean or Jane Ewing is thought to have been their son John Ewing Colhoun, who was born in either 1749 or 1752, as we’ve seen.

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Children of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean/Jane Ewing: John Ewing Colhoun (1749 [or 1752] – 1802)

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Portrait of John Ewing Colhoun, from U.S. Senate Historical Office, at Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, “Colhoun, John Ewing, 1749-1802”

Or, Subtitled: “In the confidence of his Country, he filled at the time of his death the high Station of Senator of the United States”

John E. Colhoun’s Birth and Early Life

John Ewing Colhoun, son of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean or Jane Ewing, was born in 1749 or 1752. His tombstone in his Keowee Heights family cemetery now located on land owned by Clemson University’s Experimental Forest gives the 1752 birthdate: the inscription on the tombstone (which will be given in full later in my posting(s) about John), reads,[1]

He was born in the year 1752 and died on the 26th of October 1802.

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Children of Andrew Pickens and Rebecca Calhoun: Rebecca (Noble), Catherine (Hunter), and Joseph

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Said to be a photo of Joseph Pickens, from an unknown source, uploaded by Ancestry user lamarstyle to “D L S Family Tree,” with a note that the photo is found at John Dickinson’s website Southern Anthology: Families on the Frontiers of the Old South, which says the photo is from Ancestry

Or, Subtitled: “Mrs. Hunter seems mortified at the asperity shown by Mr. Hillhouse, in consequence of his furnishing the ball-supper”

This posting is the last installment in a series of postings discussing the children of Andrew Pickens and Rebecca Calhoun of Abbeville County and Pendleton District, South Carolina. This series began with a posting about Andrew and Rebecca’s first six children, which was followed with a posting about their next three children.

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Children of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean/Jane Ewing: Rebecca Calhoun (1745-1814) and Husband Andrew Pickens

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Tombstone of Rebecca Calhoun Pickens, photo by Deleted User — see Find a Grave memorial page of Rebecca Calhoun Pickens, Old Stone Church cemetery, Clemson, Pickens County, South Carolina, created by Jimmy Gilstrap, maintained by C. LATTA

Or, Subtitled: “She was through life religious & charitable, died humbly relying on the mercy of her Redeemer”

In the two previous postings (here and here), I shared information about Ezekiel Calhoun, who was born about 1720 in County Donegal, Ireland, came with his parents Patrick Colhoun and Catherine Montgomery to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1733, and then moved with his siblings and their widowed mother before October 1745 to Augusta County, Virginia. As the linked postings state, about 1742 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Ezekiel married Jean (also called Jane) Ewing, who was, Margaret Ewing Fife thinks, the daughter of Patrick and Mary Ewing of County Donegal, Ireland, and Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.[1]

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