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- This Patrick has now been verified as BigY E-FTA41789. That means he is a relative of Hugh Calhoun and a brother or cousin of him. It also means they ARE NOT sons of Rev. Alexander Colhoun as only 3 persons tested out of 450+ testers are descendants of Rev. Alexander by proven 1st hand documentation and a totally different BigY haplogroup than the rest of the testers. What that means is 99% of Americans that traced their ancestry through Rev. Alexander Colhoun were incorrect. I wonder how many years it will take for all those trees to be corrected. (2024)
He is often referred to as James Patrick Calhoun in various family trees. 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.
Patrick 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. He was probably incorrectly called James in this book.
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 Patrick 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 Patrick and Catherine Calhoun's descendants took the same route too as the article mentions that they moved from Pennsylvania (Chester which had a section that became Lancaster which had a section that became Cumberland Co. 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). From BigY DNA at FTDNA, we now know this is absolutely incorrect. Patrick and Hugh are related and have the same male ancestor a few generations back called haplogroup E-FTA41789. They are cousins at minimum.
We know from this haplogroup that Patrick and Hugh Calhoun branch off from a common ancestor with other E-M35 haplogroup testers from "The Chiefs of Colquhoun" with a common ancestor b. abt. 1350. That is likely to be Robert Colquhoun b. bef. 1330 married to Isabella, the Fair Maid of Luss. Her name has recently been found in early latin charters by Tiffany McCarter Evans.
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Bef 1687 - 1741 (> 54 years)
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