William CAHOONE, R-M269

1633 - 1675  (41 years)

• Name	William CAHOONE  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Suffix	R-M269
  Birth	26 Jun 1633	Tullichewan, Dunbartonshire, Strathclyde, Scotland, United Kingdom   [5, 6, 7]
  Gender	Male
  Death	24 Jun 1675	Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA   [5, 7]
  Burial	Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States of America   [5]
  Person ID	I10233	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	30 Sep 2024

  
  

  Family	Deliverance (BOSWORTH OR PECK?),   b. 4 Aug 1638, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA d. 9 Dec 1727, Block Island, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, USA (Age 89 years)
  Marriage	26 Jun 1662	Block Island, Newport, Rhode Island, USA   [7, 8]
  Children	1. Mary CAHOON,   b. 1664, Block Island, Newport, Rhode Island, United States d. 6 Aug 1678, Rhode Island, United States (Age 14 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Angus COHOON,   b. 1667, Block Island, Newport, Rhode Island, USA d. 30 Apr 1696, Cahoons Creek, Nansemond County, Virginia, USA (Age 29 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. William CAHOON,   b. 30 Apr 1669, Block Island, Newport, Rhode Island, USA d. 30 Apr 1702, Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States (Age 33 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Nathaniel COHOON,   b. 2 Feb 1674, Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA d. 25 Feb 1731, Colchester, New London, Connecticut, USA (Age 57 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. James CAHOON, R-FT4101,   b. 15 Feb 1673, Block Island, Newport, Rhode Island, United States d. 18 Nov 1747, New Kent, Delaware, USA (Age 74 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Joseph CAHOONE, R-FT4101,   b. 3 Aug 1665, Bristol, Bristol, Rhode Island, USA d. 30 Apr 1722, Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States (Age 56 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   7. Capt. John CAHOON, R-FT4101,   b. 9 Mar 1673, Block Island, Newport, Rhode Island, USA d. 25 Dec 1715, Bladen, North Carolina, United States (Age 42 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F2415	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Sep 2024

  
  

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• Notes

  He is not the son of any Colquhoun we know of via YDNA evidence. His first common ancestor to Rev. Alexander's group is abt. 4200 years back in time way before surnames or the earliest known Kirkpatrick/Coluhoun. Here is how he compares to the top He cannot be the son of Sir John of Luss if his father's death date and his birthdate are verified as they occur a year apart. He is considered the first Scottish Cahoon/Calhoun emigrant to the American colonies as a prisoner of war captured in the Battle of Dunbar in Sep. of 1750. He arrived in Lynn, Massachusetts in Nov. of 1750 on the ship Unity and was sold toron Works in Lynn. (Southern Families) Here is an account of that voyage on the Unity at http://www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/articles/unity.html#.YkX9YCjMKMo "The 'Unity' On 3 Sep 1650, the English defeated the Scots at the Battle of Dunbar. There were 4000 dead, 10,000 captured, and 4000 more escaped. After being captured, they were marched from Durham to Newcastle. They were given very little to eat. Between the march and lack of food, many died along the way. Disease was rampant. Some men were shot because they either could not or would not march. When they reached their destination, they happened upon a field of cabbage. They ate all of it, which of course made them even sicker than they already were.&lt/line&gt&ltline /&gt&ltline&gtThe surviving Scots presented the English with a problem. Holding such a large number of prisoners could be costly. However, letting them go could prove to be very dangerous. One week after the battle, the Council of State, which was England's governing body, decided to turn the problem over to the committee and informed Sir Arthur Hasenlrigge, that he could deposed of as many of the Scots as he felt proper to work in the coal mines.&lt/line&gt&ltline /&gt&ltline&gtWith that authority Hasslrigge sent forty men to work as indentures servants at the salt works at Shields. He then sold another forty men as general laborers and set up a trade of Linen Cloth, twelve prisoners became weavers. While this was going on, the Council had received several petitions from persons, who wished to transport the Scots overseas. On September 16Th, the secretary, Gualter Frost, was ordered to confer with the petitioners, to terms under which they would undertake the project. John Becx and Joshua Foote conferred with their partners, the Undertakers of the Iron Works. Three days later, Hasseltigge was directed to deliver 150 prisoners to New England, with conditions that these men were well and sound and free of wounds because Hasslrigge, was concerned that these men were all infected, They were sent to London by water. By October 23rd, the council was ordered to stop the project until is was confirmed that the Scots were not being sent anywhere where they could be dangerous. So the Scots waited in the Thames, for passage to New England. November 11th, (1650), the Council issued sailing orders to the Unity. There were 150 Scots who were were sent to New England on The Unity and arrived at Lynn, Massachusetts. (William Cahoon is on the ships manifest) Augustine Walker, the ships master who had settled in Charlestown, 1640, had , which was where the Unity had been built by shipwright, Benjamin Gilman, weighed anchor more than likely right away, after receiving his orders. The trip from London to Boston, which normally took six weeks and was mostly likely unpleasant. The conditions in which Becx and Foote, took the Scots was a commercial venture . They planned to sell each man for between 20 and 30 pounds, which would have made them a considerable profit, since they only paid five pounds for each man. The ship Unity, that delivered the prisoners from Dunbar, lost a lot on the way and threw them overboard due to death scurvy. They arrived in Boston in December.

  
  

• Sources

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