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- According to 3 descendants of this James Patrick Calhoun and their YDNA tests at FTDNA, this James Patrick is in a grouping by himself. He is not related to any other Calhoun/Colquhoun group as of 2022 out of 378 current Calhoun/Kirkpatrick testers.
His once expected to be brother, Hugh Colquhoun of PA, is not his brother. Hugh match a very large group of Colquhouns that include Rev. Alexander Colquhoun born, 1662, Alexander Colquhoun XV, b. 1573 and Robert Colquhoun, d. abt 1408.
Because of his association with that ancient Colquhoun line that includes many, it suggests he was fathered by someone other than a Colquhoun and that his mother was a Colquhoun explaining his birth at Crosh House.
He is often referred to as James Patrick Calhoun in various family tree. He is listed as Patrick in the administration of his estate as follows: South Carolina Genealogies, Volume 1, page 284, by A. S. Salley. It was reported that Mr. George Edson, editor of The Stewart Clan, discovered the records of administration of estate of Patrick Calhoun, with wife named as Catherine, father of four sons who were in Augusta County, Virginia in 1746 to 1756. Inventory was made in 1741, listing plantation and crops, four horses, a goat, six cows, five young cattle, nineteen sheep, swine, wagon, gears, plows, irons, tools and household goods, total of 152 pounds and 5 shillings. Catherine, the widow, renounced the right of administration in favor of Ezekial and William Calhoun. A bond was signed by Ezekial, William, John Noble and James Mitchell, all of Lancaster County. This was accepted by the court May 4, 1743 and settlement was made by May 4, 1744.
James Calhoun arrived in the colonies in 1733 according to the book by Charles A. Hanna, The Scotch-Irish. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1995. Volume I. Page: 54 along with his wife and six children.
His descendants soon moved to the waters of Kenawha in Wythe Co., Virginia according to "Colonial Familes". This matches with info on the James McCall family that was on the same ship in 1733 that arrived in Philadelphia. "James McCall and all of his sons were all soldiers in the Revolution. James (McCall) was probably born in 1721 in County Donegal, Ulster, Ireland. He arrived in Philadelphia, PA in 1733 accompanied by his (non-genetic) brothers: William and Thomas and sister Elizabeth; cousins: Francis and Thomas; along with James Harris and his family and James Calhoun and his family.
The three families settled in Conachcocheque Creek, PA and later moved to New River or Little Kenhoway in the western part of Virginia where there remained for a number of years. James McCall was living in Wythe Co., VA in 1756 when the French Indian War broke out. Believing the wilds of the mountainous Virginia to be unsafe for their family, James and his wife Janet Harris McCall (daughter of James Harris above) moved to Mecklenburg, NC in 1756. (James McCall Jr. removed to the Calhoun Settlement in SC in 1771.)"
Perhaps descendants of James and Catherine Calhoun's descendants took the same route too as the article mentions that they moved from Pennsylvania (Chester, Lancaster, Cumberland PA, to Augusta 1746 to Wythe Co., VA.) to the Carolinas together. His descendants were driven from this Virginia territory after Bradock's defeat in 1755 and established Calhoun settlement in Abbeville, SC.
Disaster again struck in 1760 when according to Colonial Families of the U.S., James, the eldest son and his mother were slain in the Long Cane Creek Massacre. Other sources says it's James' mother and wife who were slain. In any case, Catherine Montgomery Calhoun's aged gravestone proves that his wife was killed by Indians in Feb. of 1760. Colonial Families lists his children as James of Pennsylvania, William, John, Catherine and Ezekial who died in 1662 in SC. "Colonial Families of the US" states that he descends through a much different branch of Calhouns than Hugh Calhoun. However, Colonial Families is the one that traces James Patrick Calhoun back through the same ancient Colquhouns as the rest of his originally thought to be brothers starting with Humphrey Colquhoun (1350-1406). At this point, we don't know which is correct.
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1688 - 1741 (52 years)
